Maker vs Shaper - What's the difference?
maker | shaper |
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:
(obsolete, legal) Someone who signs a cheque or promissory note, thereby becoming responsible for payment.
One who shapes.
A machine tool in which a single-point cutting tool mounted on a reciprocating ram is traversed across the workpiece linearly. Shapers can generate various shapes, but were most especially employed in generating flat surfaces and keyways. The shaper is nowadays obsolescent, most of its applications being served by milling machines.
(surfing) A person who designs and builds surfboards.
As nouns the difference between maker and shaper
is that maker is while shaper is one who shapes.As a verb maker
is .maker
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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.
Derived terms
* brushmaker * homemaker * troublemaker * widow-makerAnagrams
* * English agent nouns ----shaper
English
Noun
(en noun) (wikipedia shaper)- the shaper of one's fortunes
- The secret of those old shapers died with them. — Lowell.
- He apprenticed with several notable Southern California shapers before packing his bags for Hawaii — Tom Linker [http://www.longboard.net/jl_sfriedman.html]