The difference between Rat and Traitor
When used as nouns, rat means a medium-sized rodent belonging to the genus rattus, whereas traitor means someone who violates an allegiance and betrays their country.
When used as verbs, rat means to betray someone and tell their secret to an authority or an enemy, whereas traitor means to act the traitor toward.
Traitor is also adjective with the meaning: traitorous.
check bellow for the other definitions of Rat and Traitor
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Rat as a noun (zoology):
A medium-sized rodent belonging to the genus Rattus.
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Rat as a noun (informal):
A term indiscriminately applied to numerous members of several rodent families (e.g. voles and mice) having bodies longer than about 12 cm, or 5 inches.
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Rat as a noun (informal):
A person who is known for betrayal; a scoundrel; a quisling.
Examples:
"What a rat, leaving us stranded here!"
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Rat as a noun (informal):
An informant or snitch.
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Rat as a noun (informal):
A scab: a worker who acts against trade union policies.
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Rat as a noun (slang):
A person who routinely spends time at a particular location.
Examples:
"Our teenager has become a mall rat."
"He loved hockey and was a devoted rink rat."
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Rat as a noun (UK, north-west, _, London, slang, vulgar):
Vagina.
Examples:
"Get your rat out."
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Rat as a noun:
A wad of shed hair used as part of a hairstyle.
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Rat as a verb (usually with “on” or “out”):
To betray someone and tell their secret to an authority or an enemy; to turn someone in, bewray.
Examples:
"He ratted on his coworker."
"He is going to rat us out!"
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Rat as a verb (of a dog, etc.):
To kill rats.
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Rat as a noun (regional):
A scratch or a score.
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Rat as a noun (nautical, regional):
A place in the sea with rapid currents and crags where a ship is likely to be torn apart in stormy weather.
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Rat as a verb (regional):
To scratch or score.
Examples:
"He ratted a vertical line on his face with a pocket knife."
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Rat as a verb (regional, rare, obsolete):
To tear, rip, rend.
Examples:
"'Ratted to shreds."
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Traitor as a noun:
Someone who violates an allegiance and betrays their country; someone guilty of treason; one who, in breach of trust, delivers their country to an enemy, or yields up any fort or place entrusted to his defense, or surrenders an army or body of troops to the enemy, unless when vanquished
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Traitor as a noun:
Someone who takes arms and levies war against their country; or one who aids an enemy in conquering his country.
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Traitor as a noun:
Hence, one who betrays any confidence or trust.
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Traitor as a verb:
To act the traitor toward; to betray; to deceive.
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Traitor as an adjective:
traitorous
Examples:
"rfquotek Spenser"
"rfquotek Alexander Pope"