Switcher vs Shifter - What's the difference?
switcher | shifter |
One who or that which switches.
* 1984 , John Martin Robinson, The latest country houses (page 32)
A switchmode power supply.
(rail transport, US) A railway locomotive used for shunting; a shunter.
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 switcher and shifter
is that switcher is one who or that which switches while shifter is one who, or that which, shifts or changes.switcher
English
Noun
(wikipedia switcher) (en noun)- They all love frugality and conservation; they are manic savers of bits of string and switchers -off of lights.
Synonyms
*shunter (British)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.