Perambulator vs Delineator - What's the difference?
perambulator | delineator |
(British) A baby carriage; a pram.
* 1919:
One who perambulates.
A surveyor's instrument for measuring distances, consisting of a wheel that rolls over the ground, along with a clockwork apparatus and a dial plate upon which the distance travelled is shown by an index.
One who, or that which, delineates.
A perambulator which records distances and delineates a profile, as of a road.
(Webster 1913)
As nouns the difference between perambulator and delineator
is that perambulator is (british) a baby carriage; a pram while delineator is one who, or that which, delineates.perambulator
English
Noun
(en noun)- That will be all this afternoon," he said to the nurse, who got up with the baby and decanted it into a ''perambulator'' which was standing in the fairway.