Deader vs Reader - What's the difference?
deader | reader |
(figuratively, humorous) (dead); or at least more evidently dead.
* 1920 , Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan the Untamed [http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=131150698&tag=Burroughs,+Edgar+Rice,+1875-1950:+Tarzan+the+Untamed,+1920&query=deader&id=BurUnta]
* 1920 , Sinclair Lewis, Main Street [http://books.google.com/books?vid=0KTdN_6ZVqc1HOWGlanRBZU&id=66VaLHf1LY4C&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=deader&as_brr=1]
(figurative or humorous, informal) One who is deceased, or will shortly become so.
* 1887 , Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet [http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=text&offset=278572930&textreg=1&query=deader&id=DoyScar]
*:"No, nor drink. And Mr. Bender, he was the fust to go, and then Indian Pete, and then Mrs. McGregor, and then Johnny Hones, and then, dearie, your mother."
*:"Then mother's a deader too," cried the little girl, dropping her face in her pinafore and sobbing bitterly.
*:"Yes, they all went except you and me...
A person who reads a publication.
A person who recites literary works, usually to an audience.
A proofreader.
(chiefly, British) A university lecturer below a professor.
Any device that reads something.
A book of exercises to accompany a textbook.
A literary anthology.
A lay or minor cleric who reads lessons in a church service.
A newspaper advertisement designed to look like an news article rather than a commercial solicitation.
As nouns the difference between deader and reader
is that deader is (figurative or humorous|informal) one who is deceased, or will shortly become so while reader is (religion) a person who is not ordained but is appointed to lead most services in the anglican church.As an adjective deader
is (figuratively|humorous) (dead); or at least more evidently dead.deader
English
Adjective
(head)- He was deader than a dead dog's bone buried down a blind alley off a dead-end street in a ghost town. Man, he was dead.
- Oldwick drew the pistol from his shirt. "If he has made up his mind to kill me," he thought. "I can't see that it will make any difference in the long run whether I infuriate him or not. The beggar can't kill me any deader in one mood than another."
- The days of pioneering, of lassies in sunbonnets, and bears killed with axes in piney clearings, are deader now than Camelot...
Noun
(en noun)- I could tell he was a deader by the way his eyes were glazed over; there was no life left in those eyes.
reader
English
Noun
(en noun)- a card reader''''', ''a microfilm '''reader