Triter vs Trier - What's the difference?
triter | trier |
(trite)
Worn out; hackneyed; used so many times that it is no longer interesting or effective (often in reference to a word or phrase).
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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.
One who tries; one who makes experiments or examines anything by a test or standard.
An instrument used for sampling something.
* 2009 , Stephanie Clark, ?Michael Costello, ?Floyd Bodyfelt, The Sensory Evaluation of Dairy Products (page 145)
One who tries judicially.
(legal) A person appointed by law to try challenges of jurors; a trior.
(obsolete) That which tries or approves; a test.
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
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- 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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(en) (wikipedia trite)Noun
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(en noun)- (Boyle)
- 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.
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