Raver vs Eager - What's the difference?
raver | eager |
A person who attends rave parties, or who belongs to that subculture.
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A person who raves or rants.
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(obsolete) Sharp; sour; acid.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) Sharp; keen; bitter; severe.
* Shakespeare
* Shakespeare
(rfc-sense) Excited by desire in the pursuit of any object; ardent to pursue, perform, or obtain; keenly desirous; hotly longing; earnest; zealous; impetuous; vehement.
* Keble
* Hawthorne
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=19 Brittle; inflexible; not ductile.
* John Locke
(comptheory) Not employing lazy evaluation; calculating results immediately, rather than deferring calculation until they are required.
As nouns the difference between raver and eager
is that raver is a person who attends rave parties, or who belongs to that subculture while eager is (tidal bore).As an adjective eager is
(obsolete) sharp; sour; acid.raver
English
Noun
(en noun)iPod is a DJ," Time , 10 Oct.:
- The life of a superstar DJ sounds like one endless party. You get to travel the world, perform for thousands of scantily clad ravers , and earn a stack of money.
eager
English
(Webster 1913)Etymology 1
From (etyl) eger, from (etyl) egre (French aigre), from (etyl) ; see acid, acerb, etc. Compare vinegar, alegar.Adjective
(er)- like eager droppings into milk
- eager words
- a nipping and an eager air
- When to her eager lips is brought / Her infant's thrilling kiss.
- a crowd of eager and curious schoolboys
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- Gold will be sometimes so eager , as artists call it, that it will as little endure the hammer as glass itself.
- an eager algorithm