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Starter vs Snack - What's the difference?

starter | snack |

As nouns the difference between starter and snack

is that starter is someone who starts something while snack is a light meal.

As a verb snack is

to eat a light meal.

starter

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Someone who starts something.
    • a starter on a journey
  • # The person who starts a race by firing a gun or waving a flag
  • # (baseball) A starting pitcher.
  • Something that starts something.
    • It's small, but it's a good starter house.
  • # An electric motor that starts an internal combustion engine
  • # A device that initiates the flow of high voltage electricity in a fluorescent lamp
  • # A yeast culture used to start a fermentation process
  • The first course of a meal, consisting of a small, usually savoury, dish.
  • (team sports) A player in the lineup of players that a team fields at the beginning of a game.
  • A dog that rouses game.

    • Synonyms

    * (first course of a meal) hors d’oeuvre

    Anagrams

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    snack

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A light meal.
  • An item of food eaten between meals.
    • Derived terms
    * snack bar * snack food * snacker * snackette * snackery * snackless * snacky
    See also
    * munchies

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to eat a light meal
  • to eat between meals
    • Derived terms
    * snack down

    Etymology 2

    See snatch (transitive verb).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A share; a part or portion.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • At last he whispers, "Do, and we go snacks ."
    (Webster 1913)

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