Zapped vs Zapper - What's the difference?

zapped | zapper |

As a verb zapped

is (zap).

As a noun zapper is

(colloquial) a remote control for a television.

zapped

English

Verb

(head)

(zap)

zap

English

Noun

(en noun)

(colloquial) A sound made by a sudden release of electricity or some similar energy.

(colloquial) An electrical shock.

You might feel a little zap touching a metal doorknob when the air is dry.

Verb

(zapp)

To make a zapping sound.

To use a remote control to repeatedly change channels on a television.

To strike (something or someone) with electricity or energy, as by shooting.

They spent the whole movie zapping bad guys into oblivion.

To damage (especially electronics) with electrostatic discharge.

I think they zapped the processor.

To heat (something) in a microwave oven.

If it's not warm in the middle, zap it some more.

To delete or discard (electronic media).

They zapped a lot of files before realizing they had not backed up lately.

To further energize or charge (magnetic material).

They zapped my motor's magnets.

Descendants

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Interjection

(en-interj)!

Representing the sound or action of a zap.

Then the computer went zap and I lost all my work.

zapper

English

Noun

(en noun)

(colloquial) A remote control for a television.

The news is starting on the other channel; hand me the zapper .

A device that electrocutes ("zaps") with a high voltage, e.g. a bug zapper.

(figuratively, by extension) Anything that exterminates.

* 1989 , Microtimes (volume 6, page 140)

If games are your life, the choice of a joystick is desperately important. Casual alien-zappers can get by with the cheapest generic Taiwanese clone-stick

* 2009 , Jeffrey Bernstein, Liking the Child You Love

You are going to go from being a toxic-thought overreactor to a toxic-thought zapper .