different between cauter vs canter

English

Etymology

From French cautère, Latin cauterium, from Ancient Greek ?????? (kaut?r), variant of ??????? (kaust?r, “cauterizing apparatus”), from ???? (kaí?, “burn”)). Compare caustic, cautery.

Noun

cauter (plural cauters)

1. A hot iron for searing or cauterizing.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of John Minsheu to this entry?)

Anagrams

• acture, acuter, curate

Romanian

Etymology

From French cautère, from Latin cauterium.

Noun

cauter n (plural cautere)

1. cautery

Declension

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kænt?(?)/
• Rhymes: -ænt?(?)

Etymology 1

Short for Canterbury pace, from the supposed easy pace of medieval pilgrims to Canterbury.

Noun

canter (plural canters)

1. A gait of a horse between a trot and a gallop, consisting of three beats and a "suspension" phase, where there are no feet on the ground. Also describing this gait on other four legged animals.
2. A ride on a horse at such speed.

Translations

Verb

canter (third-person singular simple present canters, present participle cantering, simple past and past participle cantered)

1. (intransitive) To move at such pace.
2. (transitive) To cause to move at a canter; to ride (a horse) at a canter.

Derived terms

• in a canter, at a canter

Translations

Etymology 2

cant +? -er

Noun

canter (plural canters)

1. One who cants or whines; a beggar.
2. One who makes hypocritical pretensions to goodness; one who uses canting language.

Anagrams

• Cretan, carnet, centra, creant, nectar, recant, tanrec, trance

Latin

Verb

canter

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of cant?

Norman

Etymology

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Verb

canter

1. (nautical) to list
2. (reflexive) to lean

Old French

Etymology

Latin cant?.

Verb

canter

1. (Northern dialect) Alternative form of chanter

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ts, *-tt are modified to z, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

Picard

Etymology

From Old French canter, northern variant of Old French chanter, from Vulgar Latin *cant?.

Verb

canter

1. to sing

   Ej vouroè prinde ed ches lchons por aprinde à canter conme i feut.

   I would like to take some lessons to learn to sing correctly.

Conjugation