Upholder vs Backer - What's the difference?
upholder | backer | Related terms |
someone who upholds something
(obsolete) a dealer in secondhand furniture and clothes; an upholdster
English words with consonant pseudo-digraphs
(phonetics) (back)
:: /e?/ This diphthong is a glide from mid front tongue position toward a higher, backer position similar to that of /?/.
English agent nouns
Upholder is a related term of backer.
As nouns the difference between upholder and backer
is that upholder is someone who upholds something while backer is baker.upholder
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Noun
(en noun)backer
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Adjective
(head)- Martin J. Ball and Nicole Müller (2005), Phonetics for communication disorders , p. 174: