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Planer vs Placer - What's the difference?

planer | placer |

As nouns the difference between planer and placer

is that planer is planner while placer is placer (mineral deposit).

As a proper noun planer

is .

planer

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (plane)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A woodworking tool which smooths a surface or makes one surface of a workpiece parallel to the tool's bed.
  • A large machine tool in which the workpiece is traversed linearly (by means of a reciprocating bed) beneath a single-point cutting tool. (Analogous to a shaper but larger and with the workpiece moving instead of the tool.) Planers can generate various shapes, but were most especially used to generate large, accurate flat surfaces. The planer is nowadays obsolescent, having been mostly superseded by large milling machines.
  • (archaic, printing) A wooden block used for forcing down the type in a form, and making the surface even.
    • (Hansard)

    Synonyms

    * * thickness planer

    See also

    * planner

    Anagrams

    * ----

    placer

    English

    (wikipedia placer)

    Etymology 1

    From .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who places or arranges something.
    • (Spenser)
  • (slang) One who deals in stolen goods; a fence.2011', Jonathon Green, ''Crooked Talk: Five Hundred Years of the Language of Crime'', page 104— The 20th-century '''''buyer''''' is self-explanatory, while the '''''placer is a middle-man who places stolen goods with a purchaser.
    • Synonyms
    * (one who places) * (dealer in stolen goods) fence, receiver

    Etymology 2

    From .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (ethology, sheep, Australia, New Zealand) A lamb whose mother has died and which has transferred its attachment to an object, such as a bush or rock, in the locality.
  • * 1951 , , Problems of Infancy and Childhood , Volume 4, page 101,
    • This is a “placer ” sheep, as it is called. The prerequisites to this condition are that the young sheep must be still nursing, but must have begun to nibble grass. It must be the young of a mother that has been somewhat isolated, away from the corral and away from the herd, by herself out on the prairie. Now, when the mother dies, the lamb remains close to the mother?s body.
  • * 1971 , American Society of Animal Science. Journal of Animal Science , Volume 32, Pages 601-1298, page 1281,
    • In Australia “placer ” lambs are also destroyed, for these too are of little use; they will return constantly to one place, not staying with the flock.
    See also
    * cade, poddy * imprinting

    Etymology 3

    From American (etyl) placer, from earlier placel, apparently from obsolete (etyl) placel.

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (mining) alluvial; occurring in a deposit of sand or earth on a river-bed or bank, particularly with reference to precious metals such as gold or silver
  • * 1995 , Paul T. Craddock, Early Metal Mining and Production , page 110:
    • Placer gold comes from the weathering of the primary veins releasing the gold to be transported by water action and concentrated in gravel or sand beds.
  • * 2002 , Philip Ball, The Elements: A Very Short Introduction , Oxford 2004, page 46:
    • Since time immemorial, people found that they could extract the gold from placer deposits by sifting the fine-grained material through a mesh: the technique of panning.
  • * 2008 , Tanyo Ravicz, Of Knives and Men'', ''Alaskans , page 77,
    • He still ran a placer mine in the Interior.

    References

    Anagrams

    * * English agent nouns ----