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Cramp vs Getter - What's the difference?

cramp | getter |

As nouns the difference between cramp and getter

is that cramp is a painful contraction of a muscle which cannot be controlled while getter is getter.

As a verb cramp

is (of a muscle) to contract painfully and uncontrollably.

cramp

English

(wikipedia cramp)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A painful contraction of a muscle which cannot be controlled.
  • * Sir T. More
    • The cramp , divers nights, gripeth him in his legs.
  • That which confines or contracts; a restraint; a shackle; a hindrance.
  • * L'Estrange
    • A narrow fortune is a cramp to a great mind.
  • * Cowper
    • crippling his pleasures with the cramp of fear
  • A clamp for carpentry or masonry.
  • A piece of wood having a curve corresponding to that of the upper part of the instep, on which the upper leather of a boot is stretched to give it the requisite shape.

    • Derived terms

    * brain cramp * cramp ring * writer's cramp

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (of a muscle) To contract painfully and uncontrollably.
  • To prohibit movement or expression.
    • You're cramping my style.
  • * Layard
    • The mind may be as much cramped by too much knowledge as by ignorance.
  • To restrain to a specific physical position, as if with a cramp.
    • You're going to need to cramp the wheels on this hill.
  • * Ford
    • when the gout cramps my joints
  • To fasten or hold with, or as if with, a cramp.
  • (by extension) To bind together; to unite.
  • * Burke
    • The fabric of universal justice is well cramped and bolted together in all its parts.
  • To form on a cramp.
    • to cramp boot legs

    References

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    getter

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who gets.
  • * 1838 , William Evans, ?Thomas Evans, The Friends' Library
    • rich men and the eager getters of this world
  • (computing, programming) A function used to retrieve the value of some property of an object, contrasted with the setter.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=2002 , author=James Steven Perry , title=Java Management Extensions , chapter=2 , isbn=0596002459 , page=47 , passage=A proper getter must return the type of its attribute.}}
  • (sciences) A material which is included in a vacuum system or device for removing gas by sorption.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1979 , author=G. L. Weissler and Robert Warner Carlson , title=Vacuum Physics and Technology , chapter=5 , isbn=0124759149 , pages=194-195 , passage=Titanium has become the preferred getter for general vacuum-pumping applications because of its relatively high vapor pressure characteristic and its broad spectrum chemical reactivity.}}

    Derived terms

    * go-getter * vote getter

    Synonyms

    * (computing) accessor

    See also

    * setter

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (sciences) To remove gas by sorption.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=2003 , author=John F. O'Hanlon , title=A Users Guide to Vacuum Technology , chapter=14 , isbn=0471270520 , page=247 , passage=Many reactive metals rapidly pump large quantities of active gases because they getter (react with) the gases.}}

    Synonyms

    * get ----