Sander vs Pander - What's the difference?
sander | pander |
A person employed to sand wood.
A machine to mechanize the process of sanding.
(railway) A device which spreads sand on the rails in wet, snowy or icy conditions to improve traction.
(archaic) Previously a small device resembling a saltshaker but containing sand that was shaken over a document to remove excess ink.
A person who furthers the illicit love-affairs of others; a pimp or procurer, especially when male. (Later panderer.)
* 1992 , Moncrieff/Kilmartin/Enright, translating Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way , Folio Society 2005, p. 190:
An offer of illicit sex with a third party.
An illicit or illegal offer, usually to tempt.
(by extension) One who ministers to the evil designs and passions of another.
* Burke
To offer illicit sex with a third party; to pimp.
To tempt with, to appeal or cater to (improper motivations etc.); to assist in the gratification of.
As nouns the difference between sander and pander
is that sander is a person employed to sand wood while pander is a person who furthers the illicit love-affairs of others; a pimp or procurer, especially when male. (Later panderer..As a verb pander is
to offer illicit sex with a third party; to pimp.sander
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(en noun)Derived terms
* random orbital sander * belt sanderAnagrams
* *pander
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Alternative forms
* pandarNoun
(en noun)- It was not only the brilliant phalanx of virtuous dowagers, generals and academicians with whom he was most intimately associated that Swann so cynically compelled to serve him as panders .
- Those wicked panders to avarice and ambition.
Verb
(en verb)- His latest speech simply seems to pander to the worst instincts of the electorate.