Scalper vs Scaler - What's the difference?
scalper | scaler |
One who scalps, or removes the scalp of another.
* 2013 , M. Elise Marubbio, ?Eric L. Buffalohead, Native Americans on Film: Conversations, Teaching, and Theory
(US) One who scalps tickets to popular entertainment events: buying them in advance and then selling them (e.g. online or just outside the venue of the event), often at inflated prices
(finance) A person on an open outcry exchange trading floor who buys and sells rapidly for his or her own account, aiming to buy from a seller and a little later sell to a buyer, making a small profit from the difference (roughly the amount of the bid/offer spread, or less).
An electronic circuit that aggregates many signals into one.
An electronic or computer system that adjusts the size of a signal or graphic to fit on a screen etc.
One who .
A tool or device for scaling fish.
As a noun scalper
is one who scalps, or removes the scalp of another.As a verb scaler is
to scald.scalper
English
Noun
(en noun)- Denouncing representations of hostile Indians as vicious scalpers of innocent settlers
- We could see three different scalpers moving through the crowd outside the arena, each muttering the characteristic refrain: “Need any tickets?”
