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Tettered vs Settered - What's the difference?

tettered | settered |

As verbs the difference between tettered and settered

is that tettered is past tense of tetter while settered is past tense of setter.

tettered

English

Verb

(head)
  • (tetter)

  • tetter

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of various pustular skin conditions.
  • *, II.3.2:
  • *:Angelus Politianus had a tetter in his nose continually running, fulsome in company, yet no man so eloquent and pleasing in his works.
  • *1973 , Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow :
  • *:She works at St. Veronica’s hospital, lives nearby at the home of a Mrs. Quoad, a lady widowed long ago and since suffering a series of antiquated diseases—greensickness, tetter , kibes, purples, imposthumes and almonds in the ears, most recently a touch of scurvy.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To affect with tetter .
  • * 1603 , '', Act 1, Scene 5, 1998, Kathleen O. Irace (editor), ''The First Quarto of Hamlet , page 50,
  • And all my smooth body, barked and tettered over.
  • * 1987 , James L Calderwood, Shakespeare & the Denial of Death , page 134,
  • Most deaths are ugly, pathetic events, and Shakespeare must have seen his share of them in bodies tettered by the pox, made noseless by syphilis, or festering blackly from the plague.
  • * 2009 , Adam Thorpe, Hodd , 2010, page 284,
  • I bent down to touch him, for my revulsion had gone, and had been replaced by a great love and sorrow; and thus I wept upon his form, that was cold like a corpse's, its wasted brawn tettered all over with sores and encrustations that were not the botches and whelks of leprosy — though e'en then I would have embraced him, as St Hugh of Lincoln kissed many a leper for the good of his own spirit!

    settered

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (setter)

  • setter

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who sets something, especially a typesetter
  • The exam was so hard we assumed the question setter must have been in a bad mood.
    Some crossword setters work for various newspapers under different pseudonyms.
  • A long-haired breed of gundog ().
  • She has a spaniel and a red setter .
  • * {{quote-book, year=1931, author=
  • , title=The Norwich Victims , chapter=7/2 citation , passage=The two Gordon setters came obediently to heel. Sir Oswald Feiling winced as he turned to go home. He had felt a warning twinge of lumbago.}}
  • (volleyball) The player who is responsible for setting]], or [[pass, passing, the ball to teammates for an attack.
  • (computing, programming) A function used to modify the value of some property of an object, contrasted with the getter.
  • (sports, in combinations) A game or match that lasts a certain number of sets
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2012 , date=June 29 , author=Kevin Mitchell , title=Roger Federer back from Wimbledon 2012 brink to beat Julien Benneteau , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=It was desperately close until all but the closing moments, and for that we had the 32nd-ranked Benneteau to thank for bringing the fight out in Federer, whose thirst for these long battles has waned over the past couple of years. For a player regarded by many as the greatest of all time his record in completed five-setters is ordinary: now 20 wins, 16 losses. }}
  • One who hunts victims for sharpers.
  • (Shakespeare)
  • One who adapts words to music in composition.
  • A shallow seggar for porcelain.
  • (Ure)
    Derived terms
    * English setter * Gordon setter * Irish red and white setter * Irish setter * red setter
    Synonyms
    * (computing) mutator
    See also
    * getter
    References
    * OED2

    Etymology 2

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (UK, dialect, transitive) To cut the dewlap (of a cow or ox), and insert a seton, so as to cause an issue.
  • (Webster 1913)

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