Tiger vs Timer - What's the difference?
tiger | timer |
Panthera tigris , a large predatory mammal of the cat family, indigenous to Asia.
# A male tiger.
A servant in livery, who rides with his master or mistress.
* 1843 , '', book 2, ch. XVII, ''The Beginnings
A leopard.
* 1907 , Sir Percy Fitzpatrick, Jock of the Bushveld , Longmans 1976 ed., ISBN 0582161231, page 251:
(US, slang) A person who is very athletic during sexual intercourse.
* 2010 , Jeff Wilser, The Maxims of Manhood
(figurative) A ferocious, bloodthirsty person.
* Shakespeare
(US, colloquial) A kind of growl or screech, after cheering.
A pneumatic box or pan used in refining sugar.
(Webster 1913)
Someone or something which times.
A device used to measure amounts of time.
Any electronic function that causes a device to be able to do something automatically after a preset amount of time.
As nouns the difference between tiger and timer
is that tiger is (soccer) someone connected with , as a fan, player, coach etc while timer is someone or something which times.As a proper noun tiger
is a town in georgia.tiger
English
(wikipedia tiger)Alternative forms
* tigre (obsolete) * tyger (dated)Noun
(en noun)- (Dickens)
- The doom of Fate was, Be thou a Dandy! Have thy eye-glasses, opera-glasses, thy Long-Acre cabs with white-breeched tiger , thy yawning impassivities, pococurantisms; fix thyself in Dandyhood, undeliverable; it is thy doom.
- Jim remarked irrelevantly that tigers were 'schelms' and it was his conviction that there were a great many in the kloofs round about.
- Don't Tell your roommate that you heard the walls shaking all night, and it sounds like he's a real tiger in the sack.
- As for heinous tiger , Tamora.
- three cheers and a tiger
