Shifter vs Changer - What's the difference?
shifter | changer |
One who, or that which, shifts or changes.
(dated) One who plays tricks or practices artifice; a cozener.
(nautical) An assistant to the ship's cook in washing, steeping, and shifting the salt provisions.
(engineering) An arrangement for shifting a belt sidewise from one pulley to another.
(engineering, textiles) A wire for changing a loop from one needle to another, as in narrowing, etc.
(cycling) A component used by the rider to control the gearing mechanisms and select the desired gear ratio, usually connected to the derailleur by a mechanical actuation cable.
A spanner with an adjustable jaw size.
(Webster 1913)
English agent nouns
As nouns the difference between shifter and changer
is that shifter is one who, or that which, shifts or changes while changer is someone or something who changes things.shifter
English
Noun
(en noun)- 'Twas such a shifter that, if truth were known, Death was half glad when he had got him down. — Milton.