Lander vs Pander - What's the difference?
lander | pander |
A spacecraft, particularly a probe, designed to set down on the surface of another celestial body.
A person who waits at the mouth of the shaft to receive the kibble of ore.
(slang) An illegal immigrant.
A person who furthers the illicit love-affairs of others; a pimp or procurer, especially when male. (Later panderer.)
* 1992 , Moncrieff/Kilmartin/Enright, translating Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way , Folio Society 2005, p. 190:
An offer of illicit sex with a third party.
An illicit or illegal offer, usually to tempt.
(by extension) One who ministers to the evil designs and passions of another.
* Burke
To offer illicit sex with a third party; to pimp.
To tempt with, to appeal or cater to (improper motivations etc.); to assist in the gratification of.
As a proper noun lander
is .As a noun pander is
a person who furthers the illicit love-affairs of others; a pimp or procurer, especially when male (later panderer).As a verb pander is
to offer illicit sex with a third party; to pimp.lander
English
Noun
(en noun)Anagrams
* ----pander
English
Alternative forms
* pandarNoun
(en noun)- It was not only the brilliant phalanx of virtuous dowagers, generals and academicians with whom he was most intimately associated that Swann so cynically compelled to serve him as panders .
- Those wicked panders to avarice and ambition.
Verb
(en verb)- His latest speech simply seems to pander to the worst instincts of the electorate.