Stringer vs Stinger - What's the difference?
stringer | stinger |
Someone who threads something; one who makes or provides strings, especially for bows.
* Ascham
Someone who leads someone along.
A horizontal timber that supports upright posts, or supports the hull of a vessel
A freelance correspondent not on the regular newspaper staff, especially one retained on a part-time basis to report on events in a particular place.
(surfing) Wooden strip running lengthwise down the centre of a surfboard, for strength.
A hard-hit ball.
(fishing) A cord or chain, sometimes with additional loops, that is threaded through the mouth and gills of caught fish.
A pallet or skid used when shipping LTL [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Less-Than-Truckload_(LTL)_Shipping] freight. A platform typically constructed of timber or plastic designed such that freight may be stacked on top, able to be lifted by a forklift.
(obsolete) A libertine; a wencher.
A pointed portion of an insect or arachnid used for attack.
Anything that is used to sting, as a means of attack.
* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter IV
Anything, such as an insult, that stings mentally or psychologically
a cocktail of brandy and
A device used by police and military forces consisting of a portable bed of nails to puncture car tires.
A minor neurological injury of the spine characterized by a shooting or stinging pain down one arm, followed by numbness and weakness.
A station identifier on television or radio played between shows.
A scene shown on films or television shows after the credits.
(slang) A nonlethal grenade using rubber instead of shrapnel, more commonly called a sting grenade.
(slang) A final note played at the end of a military march.
(slang, television and film) An extension cord.
As nouns the difference between stringer and stinger
is that stringer is someone who threads something; one who makes or provides strings, especially for bows while stinger is a pointed portion of an insect or arachnid used for attack.stringer
English
Noun
(en noun)- Be content to put your trust in honest stringers .
- Line up the 1/2 template with the stringer (or draw a center line) — Stephen Pirsch [http://www.surfersteve.com/shaping.htm]
- Janice pulled the bluegill out of the water and added it to her stringer .
- (Beaumont and Fletcher)
Anagrams
*stinger
English
Noun
(en noun)- The thing stopped then and looked at me a moment as much as to say: "Why this thing has a stinger ! I must be careful." And then it reached out its long neck and opened its mighty jaws and grabbed for me; but I wasn't there.