Tappet vs Tapet - What's the difference?

tappet | tapet |


As nouns the difference between tappet and tapet

is that tappet is a lever or projection which is moved by some other piece, as a cam, or intended to tap or touch something else, in order to produce change or regulate motion while tapet is a decorative wall-hanging; a hanging cloth or piece of tapestry.

tappet

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A lever or projection which is moved by some other piece, as a cam, or intended to tap or touch something else, in order to produce change or regulate motion.

    • Synonyms

    * follower * lifter

    See also

    * (wikipedia "tappet")

    tapet

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A decorative wall-hanging; a hanging cloth or piece of tapestry.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.xi:
    • in those Tapets weren fashioned / Many faire pourtraicts, and many a faire feate [...].
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