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Maker vs Baker - What's the difference?

maker | baker |

As nouns the difference between maker and baker

is that maker is someone who makes; a person or thing that makes or produces something while baker is a person who bakes and sells bread, cakes and similar items.

As a proper noun Baker is

{{surname|A=An|occupational|from=occupations}} for a baker, or owner of a communal oven.

maker

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Someone who makes; a person or thing that makes or produces something.
  • (usually, capitalized and preceded by the) God.
  • A poet.
  • * 2000 , , The Book of Prefaces , Bloomsbury 2002, p. 9:
  • It is refreshing to read how makers find great allies in the past to help them tackle the present. It helps us to see that literature is a conversation across boundaries of nation, century and language.
  • (obsolete, legal) Someone who signs a cheque or promissory note, thereby becoming responsible for payment.
  • Derived terms

    * brushmaker * homemaker * troublemaker * widow-maker

    Anagrams

    * * English agent nouns ----

    baker

    English

    (wikipedia baker)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who bakes and sells bread, cakes and similar items.
  • * {{quote-book, year=2006, author=
  • , title=Internal Combustion , chapter=2 citation , passage=But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries.  By the 1200s, brewers and bakers , tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.}}
  • A portable oven for baking.
  • Synonyms

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    Derived terms

    * baker foot * baker's * baker's dozen * baker's itch * baker's salt * * bakery * sergeant baker

    See also

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    Anagrams

    * * English agent nouns ----