Derider vs Decider - What's the difference?
derider | decider |
A person, divinity, or authoritative text which decides.
* 1667 , anon., "George Fox digg'd out of his burrowes, or An offer of disputation on fourteen proposalls...". John Foster, Boston, pp. 89-90:
* 1758 , Aaron Leaming and Jacob Spicer, The grants, concessions, and original constitutions of the province of New-Jersey , Philadelphia, p. 680:
* 1885 , Friedrich Delitzsch, "General Notes: The Religion of the Kassites," Hebraica , vol 1 no 3 (Jan), p. 190:
* 1967 , , "How Decisions are Caused," The Journal of Philosophy, vol 64 no 5, 15 Mar, p. 151:
* 2006 April 18, , White House press conference, Washington, DC:
(chiefly, British, sports) An event or action which decides the outcome of a contested matter.
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* 2007 Feb. 10 (event)'',
(computing) A Turing machine that halts regardless of its input.
As nouns the difference between derider and decider
is that derider is a person who derides or mocks while decider is a person, divinity, or authoritative text which decides.decider
English
Noun
(en noun)- This written and revealed will of God I said was the Judge and Decider of all Questions.
- The Determination of his Majesty, who is the only proper decider of this Matter.
- The god Adar, which, with its two oft-occurring idiographs Bar and Nin-ib, is preferably designated as the "Decider " (Entschneider ).
- Although the decider may know any of the principles in the sequence, he cannot know every such principle.
- "I'm the decider , and I decide what is best."
Liverpool show of unity recalls old magic''Guardian Sport :
- . . . when the Welshman laid on the 74th-minute decider .
France aim to end four years of regret with seven-week sacrifice, ''Guardian Sport :
- France will meet Ireland again in the probable decider for their World Cup pool.