different between viewer vs writer

English

Etymology

From Middle English vewer; equivalent to view +? -er.

Noun

viewer (plural viewers)

1. Someone who views a spectacle; an onlooker or spectator.
   • 2010, Antonio Saggio, A Secret van Gogh: His Motif and Motives, ?ISBN, 11:

     This sensation of an object becoming alive is a characteristic that, I believe, seizes all viewers of a van Gogh. The Bible goes beyond being a simple still-life object to become a living thing, an expression of strength, an existence that emanates from itself, beyond the painting surface to participate in our very lives.

2. Someone who watches television.
3. Any optical device used to view photographic slides.
4. (computing) A program that displays the contents of a file.
5. (mining, historical) The manager of a colliery, who directs its workings and ventilation.

Derived terms

• underviewer

Translations

Anagrams

• re-view, review

Middle English

Noun

viewer

1. Alternative form of vewer

English

Etymology

From Middle English writer, writere, from Old English wr?tere (“draughtsman; painter; writer; scribe; copyist”) and ?ewritere (“writer; composer”), equivalent to write +? -er and writ +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??a?.t?/, [???a?t??]
• (US) IPA^(key): /??a?.t??/, [???????]
• Rhymes: -a?t?(?)
• Homophone: rider (in some accents)

Noun

writer (plural writers)

1. A person who writes, or produces literary work.
2. Anything that writes or produces output.
   • 2001, Cay S. Horstmann, Gary Cornell, Core Java 2: Fundamentals (page 715)

     If the writer is set to autoflush mode, then all characters in the buffer are sent to their destination whenever println is called.

3. (finance) The seller of an option.
4. (historical) A clerk of a certain rank in the service of the East India Company, who, after serving a certain number of years, became a factor.
5. (Scotland) An ordinary legal practitioner in Scottish country towns.
6. (US) A petty officer in the United States navy who keeps the watch-muster and other books of the ship.

   Synonyms: ship writer, ship's writer

Synonyms

• author
• See also Thesaurus:writer

Derived terms

Related terms

• write
• writing

Translations

Anagrams

• rewrit, werrit

Middle English

Alternative forms

• wryter, writere, wrytter, wrytere, wrijtere

Etymology

From Old English wr?tere; can be synchronically analysed as writen +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?wri?t?r(?)/

Noun

writer (plural writers)

1. A draughtsman, or copyist; one who notes down the words of another.
2. A record-keeper or annalist; one who records significant events.
3. A writer or author; one who writes.
4. (rare) One who produces a translation.

Related terms

• writen

Descendants

• English: writer
• Scots: writer

References

• “wr?ter(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-30.