Creator vs Shifter - What's the difference?
creator | shifter |
Something or someone which creates or makes something.
(religion) The deity that created the world.
One who, or that which, shifts or changes.
(dated) One who plays tricks or practices artifice; a cozener.
(nautical) An assistant to the ship's cook in washing, steeping, and shifting the salt provisions.
(engineering) An arrangement for shifting a belt sidewise from one pulley to another.
(engineering, textiles) A wire for changing a loop from one needle to another, as in narrowing, etc.
(cycling) A component used by the rider to control the gearing mechanisms and select the desired gear ratio, usually connected to the derailleur by a mechanical actuation cable.
A spanner with an adjustable jaw size.
(Webster 1913)
English agent nouns
As a proper noun creator
is (religion) a god who created the universe.As a noun shifter is
one who, or that which, shifts or changes.creator
English
(Creator deity)Alternative forms
* creatour (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- Kenneth E. Iverson was the creator of APL.
Usage notes
* Usually capitalized as Creator when referring to a specific deity.Anagrams
* English agent nouns ----shifter
English
Noun
(en noun)- 'Twas such a shifter that, if truth were known, Death was half glad when he had got him down. — Milton.