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Triter vs Trier - What's the difference?

triter | trier |

As an adjective triter

is (trite).

As a proper noun trier is

a city in rhineland-palatinate, germany, on the banks of the moselle river.

triter

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (trite)
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    trite

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Worn out; hackneyed; used so many times that it is no longer interesting or effective (often in reference to a word or phrase).
  • * 2007 , Danielle Corsetto, '' Girls with Slingshots: 267
  • McPedro the cactus: How to woo a woman! On yehr fahrst date, don’t bring her cut flowers! That’s inhumane! And trite !
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    Etymology 2

    (en) (wikipedia trite)

    Noun

    (-)
  • A denomination of coinage in ancient Greece equivalent to one third of a stater.
  • , a genus of spiders, found in Australia, New Zealand and Oceania, of the family Salticidae.
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    trier

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who tries; one who makes experiments or examines anything by a test or standard.
  • (Boyle)
  • An instrument used for sampling something.
  • * 2009 , Stephanie Clark, ?Michael Costello, ?Floyd Bodyfelt, The Sensory Evaluation of Dairy Products (page 145)
  • The judge should grasp the butter trier firmly in hand and insert the sampling device as near as possible to the center of the butter sample.
  • One who tries judicially.
  • (legal) A person appointed by law to try challenges of jurors; a trior.
  • (Burrill)
  • (obsolete) That which tries or approves; a test.
  • (Shakespeare)

    Derived terms

    * trier of fact

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