different between spammer vs ratchet

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æm?(r)

Etymology 1

From spam +? -er.

Noun

spammer (plural spammers)

1. (computing, Internet) Someone who sends spam.

Translations

Etymology 2

Blend of space +? hammer

Noun

spammer (plural spammers)

1. A spring-loaded mechanical hammer specially adapted to be used in microgravity.

Danish

Etymology 1

Borrowing from English spammer.

Noun

spammer c (singular definite spammeren, plural indefinite spammere)

1. (computing, Internet) Someone who sends spam, a spammer.

Inflection

Etymology 2

See spamme.

Verb

spammer

1. present of spamme

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English spammer. Equivalent to spammen +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sp?.m?r/
• Hyphenation: spam?mer

Noun

spammer m (plural spammers)

1. A spammer.

French

Etymology 1

Borrowing from English spammer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spa.mœ?/

Noun

spammer m (plural spammers)

1. (computing, Internet) Someone who sends spam, a spammer.

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spa.me/

Verb

spammer

1. (computing, Internet) To spam.

Conjugation

Synonyms

• (a spammer) spammeur

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?spame?/, [?spa.me?]

• IPA^(key): /es?pame?/, [es?pa.me?]

Noun

spammer m (plural spammeres)

1. spammer

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??æt??t/
• Rhymes: -æt??t

Etymology 1

From French rochet (“bobbin, spindle, ratchet”), from Italian rocchetto (“spool, ratchet”).

Alternative forms

• rachet (archaic)

Noun

ratchet (plural ratchets)

1. A pawl, click, or detent for holding or propelling a ratchet wheel, or ratch, etc.
2. A mechanism composed of a ratchet wheel, or ratch and pawl.
3. A ratchet wrench.
4. (by extension) A procedure or regulation that goes in one direction, usually up.
5. A noisemaker or musical instrument where sound is generated by a board striking against a rotating gear. See gragger, raganella.

Translations

Verb

ratchet (third-person singular simple present ratchets, present participle ratcheting, simple past and past participle ratcheted)

1. (transitive) To cause to become incremented or decremented.

2. (intransitive) To increment or decrement.

Translations

Etymology 2

Possibly a variant (representing a Southern or specifically Louisianan pronunciation) of wretched.

Adjective

ratchet (comparative more ratchet, superlative most ratchet)

1. (US, slang) Ghetto; unseemly, indecorous.

Derived terms

• ratchetness

Anagrams

• chatter, traceth