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Serer vs Serger - What's the difference?

serer | serger |

As nouns the difference between serer and serger

is that serer is an individual of the Serer people while serger is a type of sewing machine designed to produce an overlock stitch and to cut the fabric as it stitches.

As an adjective serer

is comparative of sere.

As a proper noun Serer

is a West African ethnic group found in Senegal, the Gambia and Mauritania.

serer

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (sere)

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    sere

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Without moisture.
  • * 1798 , (Samuel Taylor Coleridge), (The Rime of the Ancient Mariner) , part 5:
    • The roaring wind! it roar'd far off,
    It did not come anear;
    But with its sound it shook the sails
    That were so thin and sere .
  • * 1868 , (Henry Lonsdale), The Worthies of Cumberland , volume concerning Sir J. R. G. Graham, chapter 1, page 1:
    • …whilst the recitation of Border Minstrelsy, or a well-sung ballad, served to revive the sere and yellow leaf of age by their refreshing memories of the pleasurable past.
  • * 1984 , (Vernor Vinge), (The Peace War) , chapter 37:
    • The grass was sere and golden, the dirt beneath white and gravelly.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An intermediate stage in an ecosystem prior to advancing to the point of being a climax community.
    • Synonyms
    * seral community

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) serre

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) claw; talon
    • (Chapman)
    (Webster 1913)

    See also

    * sear

    Anagrams

    * ----

    serger

    English

    (Overlock)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (sewing) A type of sewing machine designed to produce an overlock stitch and to cut the fabric as it stitches.
  • * 2008 , Shannon Okey, The Pillow Book: Over 25 Simple-to-Sew Patterns for Every Room and Every Mood , page 31,
    • If using a serger' instead of a sewing machine, remember to eliminate or otherwise take into account the seam allowances given to each pattern, or you may end up with a larger pillow than expected.' Sergers , which create a series of overlapping stitches on the actual edge of the fabric, cutting away the excess, do not require seam allowances.
  • * 2008 , Madlyn Easley, Quick and Easy Window Treatments: 15 Easy-Sew Projects that Build Skills, Too , page 20,
    • If you have a serger , you can use it to finish fabric edges so they don't ravel, but the zigzag stitch on your regular machine works well, too.
  • * 2010 , Cait London, Instinctive Male , page 158,
    • With that, Mikhail sat down to place spools of thread on the serger , studying the directions and clearly dismissing her.

    Synonyms

    * (type of sewing machine) overlock machine

    Related terms

    * serge