Purveyor vs Spreader - What's the difference?
purveyor | spreader |
Someone who supplies what is needed, especially food.
(historical, UK) An officer who provided provisions for the king's household.
(obsolete) A procurer; a pimp.
An object or person who spreads.
A spacer or device for keeping two objects apart.
A device used to spread bulk material.
A knife or spatula used to distribute a substance such as butter or jelly.
(nautical) A horizontal athwartships spar attached to the mast of a sailboat in order to extend the shrouds away from the mast.
A machine for combining and drawing fibers of flax to form a sliver preparatory to spinning.
The moving platform of a container crane.
As nouns the difference between purveyor and spreader
is that purveyor is someone who supplies what is needed, especially food while spreader is an object or person who spreads.purveyor
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Alternative forms
* purveyour (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- Anthropologists are the purveyors of dangerous ideas.
- (Addison)
Synonyms
* grocerspreader
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Noun
(en noun)- James put grass seed on the lawn with a seed spreader .
- Ellen used a spreader to butter her bagel.