Petter vs Setter - What's the difference?
petter | setter |
(rare) One who pets.
* 1953 , Ernest Watson Burgess, Paul Wallin, Engagement and marriage
* 2007 , George Philip, Cowboy life: the letters of George Philip
One who sets something, especially a typesetter
A long-haired breed of gundog ().
* {{quote-book, year=1931, author=
, title=The Norwich Victims
, chapter=7/2 (volleyball) The player who is responsible for setting]], or [[pass, passing, the ball to teammates for an attack.
(computing, programming) A function used to modify the value of some property of an object, contrasted with the getter.
(sports, in combinations) A game or match that lasts a certain number of sets
* {{quote-news
, year=2012
, date=June 29
, author=Kevin Mitchell
, title=Roger Federer back from Wimbledon 2012 brink to beat Julien Benneteau
, work=the Guardian
One who hunts victims for sharpers.
One who adapts words to music in composition.
A shallow seggar for porcelain.
(UK, dialect, transitive) To cut the dewlap (of a cow or ox), and insert a seton, so as to cause an issue.
(Webster 1913)
As nouns the difference between petter and setter
is that petter is (rare) one who pets while setter is one who sets something, especially a typesetter.As a verb setter is
(uk|dialect|transitive) to cut the dewlap (of a cow or ox), and insert a seton, so as to cause an issue.petter
English
Noun
(en noun)- ... 36) are good sports 37) have a good sense of humor 38) are not sissies 39) do not try to neck on the first date 40) are not routine petters ...
- I was always a petter of my horses, teaching them to do some minor tricks.
setter
English
Etymology 1
Noun
(en noun)- The exam was so hard we assumed the question setter must have been in a bad mood.
- Some crossword setters work for various newspapers under different pseudonyms.
- She has a spaniel and a red setter .
citation, passage=The two Gordon setters came obediently to heel. Sir Oswald Feiling winced as he turned to go home. He had felt a warning twinge of lumbago.}}
citation, page= , passage=It was desperately close until all but the closing moments, and for that we had the 32nd-ranked Benneteau to thank for bringing the fight out in Federer, whose thirst for these long battles has waned over the past couple of years. For a player regarded by many as the greatest of all time his record in completed five-setters is ordinary: now 20 wins, 16 losses. }}
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