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Developer vs Tester - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between developer and tester

is that developer is a person or entity engaged in the creation or improvement of certain classes of products while tester is a canopy over a bed.

developer

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person or entity engaged in the creation or improvement of certain classes of products.
  • A real estate developer; a person or company who prepares a parcel of land for sale, or creates structures on that land.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author= Chico Harlan
  • , volume=189, issue=2, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Japan pockets the subsidy … , passage=Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion."}}
  • A film developer; a person who uses chemicals to create photographs from photograph negatives.
  • A liquid used in the chemical processing of traditional photos.
  • A software developer; a person or company who creates or modifies computer software.
  • Synonyms

    * (person or company who writes computer software) programmer

    Anagrams

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    tester

    English

    Etymology 1

    Probably from (etyl) testre, from (etyl) testa.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A canopy over a bed.
  • *1603 , (John Florio), translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays , III.13:
  • *:And I could as hardly spare my gloves as my shirt, or forbeare washing of my hands both in the mornng and rising from the table, or lye in a bed without a testerne and curtaines about it, as of most necessary things.
  • * Walpole
  • No testers to the bed, and the saddles and portmanteaus heaped on me to keep off the cold.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
  • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=1 citation , passage=The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. […]  The bed was the most extravagant piece.  Its graceful cane half tester rose high towards the cornice and was so festooned in carved white wood that the effect was positively insecure, as if the great couch were trimmed with icing sugar.}}
  • Something that overhangs something else; especially a canopy or soundboard over a pulpit.
  • *1851 , (Herman Melville), (Moby Dick) , :
  • With our shaggy jackets drawn about our shoulders, we now passed the Tomahawk from one to the other, till slowly there grew over us a blue hanging tester of smoke, illuminated by the flame of the new-lit lamp.

    Etymology 2

    From .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who administers a test.
  • A device used for testing.
  • (Australia, slang, obsolete) A punishment of 25 lashes (strokes of a whip) across a person?s back.1987 , , 1996, paperback, ISBN 1-86046-150-6, Chapter 12.
  • A sample of perfume available in a shop for customers to try before they buy.
  • Synonyms
    * (punishment) Botany Bay dozen

    Etymology 3

    For (testern), (teston), from (etyl) teston, from (etyl) teste the head, the head of the king being impressed upon the coin. See (tester) a covering, and compare (testone), (testoon).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An old French silver coin.
  • (UK, slang, dated) A sixpence.
  • Synonyms
    * (sixpence) teston, tizzy

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