Masker vs Maker - What's the difference?
masker | maker |
(transitive, now, chiefly, dialectal) To render giddy or senseless
:(Holland)
* 2000 , Paul Salzman, Early Modern Women's Writing :
(intransitive, now, chiefly, dialectal) To be bewildered.
(transitive, now, chiefly, dialectal) To choke; stifle.
(transitive, now, chiefly, dialectal) To decay; rust.
One who wears a mask; one who appears in disguise at a masquerade.
* 1842 , (Edgar Allan Poe), ‘The Masque of the Red Death’:
That which masks (noise in a signal, etc.).
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.
As nouns the difference between masker and maker
is that masker is one who wears a mask; one who appears in disguise at a masquerade while maker is someone who makes; a person or thing that makes or produces something.As a verb masker
is to render giddy or senseless.masker
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . More at (l). (got)Verb
(en verb)- He is so, for he is not one that sets forth to the wars with great resolutions and hopes, and returns with maskered fears, and despairs; neither is he like those that take more care, and are more industrious to get gay clothes, and fine feathers, [...]
Synonyms
* (render giddy) confuse, bewilder, stupefyEtymology 2
From .Noun
(en noun)- But to the chamber which lies most westwardly of the seven, there are now none of the maskers who venture; for the night is waning away […].
Quotations
* (English Citations of "masker")Anagrams
* * * ----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.