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Getter vs Tetter - What's the difference?

getter | tetter |

As nouns the difference between getter and tetter

is that getter is getter while tetter is any of various pustular skin conditions.

As a verb tetter is

to affect with tetter .

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 ----

    tetter

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of various pustular skin conditions.
  • *, II.3.2:
  • *:Angelus Politianus had a tetter in his nose continually running, fulsome in company, yet no man so eloquent and pleasing in his works.
  • *1973 , Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow :
  • *:She works at St. Veronica’s hospital, lives nearby at the home of a Mrs. Quoad, a lady widowed long ago and since suffering a series of antiquated diseases—greensickness, tetter , kibes, purples, imposthumes and almonds in the ears, most recently a touch of scurvy.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To affect with tetter .
  • * 1603 , '', Act 1, Scene 5, 1998, Kathleen O. Irace (editor), ''The First Quarto of Hamlet , page 50,
    • And all my smooth body, barked and tettered over.
  • * 1987 , James L Calderwood, Shakespeare & the Denial of Death , page 134,
    • Most deaths are ugly, pathetic events, and Shakespeare must have seen his share of them in bodies tettered by the pox, made noseless by syphilis, or festering blackly from the plague.
  • * 2009 , Adam Thorpe, Hodd , 2010, page 284,
    • I bent down to touch him, for my revulsion had gone, and had been replaced by a great love and sorrow; and thus I wept upon his form, that was cold like a corpse's, its wasted brawn tettered all over with sores and encrustations that were not the botches and whelks of leprosy — though e'en then I would have embraced him, as St Hugh of Lincoln kissed many a leper for the good of his own spirit!