Tester vs Maker - What's the difference?
tester | maker |
A canopy over a bed.
*1603 , (John Florio), translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays , III.13:
*:And I could as hardly spare my gloves as my shirt, or forbeare washing of my hands both in the mornng and rising from the table, or lye in a bed without a testerne and curtaines about it, as of most necessary things.
* Walpole
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=1 Something that overhangs something else; especially a canopy or soundboard over a pulpit.
*1851 , (Herman Melville), (Moby Dick) , :
A person who administers a test.
A device used for testing.
(Australia, slang, obsolete) A punishment of 25 lashes (strokes of a whip) across a person?s back.1987 , , 1996, paperback, ISBN 1-86046-150-6, Chapter 12.
A sample of perfume available in a shop for customers to try before they buy.
Someone who makes; a person or thing that makes or produces something.
(usually, capitalized and preceded by the) God.
A poet.
* 2000 , , The Book of Prefaces , Bloomsbury 2002, p. 9:
(obsolete, legal) Someone who signs a cheque or promissory note, thereby becoming responsible for payment.
As nouns the difference between tester and maker
is that tester is a canopy over a bed or tester can be a person who administers a test or tester can be an old french silver coin while maker is .As a verb maker is
.tester
English
Etymology 1
Probably from (etyl) testre, from (etyl) testa.Noun
(en noun)- No testers to the bed, and the saddles and portmanteaus heaped on me to keep off the cold.
citation, passage=The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. […] The bed was the most extravagant piece. Its graceful cane half tester rose high towards the cornice and was so festooned in carved white wood that the effect was positively insecure, as if the great couch were trimmed with icing sugar.}}
- With our shaggy jackets drawn about our shoulders, we now passed the Tomahawk from one to the other, till slowly there grew over us a blue hanging tester of smoke, illuminated by the flame of the new-lit lamp.
Etymology 2
From .Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (punishment) Botany Bay dozenEtymology 3
For (testern), (teston), from (etyl) teston, from (etyl) teste the head, the head of the king being impressed upon the coin. See (tester) a covering, and compare (testone), (testoon).Synonyms
* (sixpence) teston, tizzyReferences
Anagrams
* * * English agent nouns ----maker
English
Noun
(en noun)- It is refreshing to read how makers find great allies in the past to help them tackle the present. It helps us to see that literature is a conversation across boundaries of nation, century and language.
