The difference between Teaser and Trailer

When used as nouns, teaser means one who teases or pokes fun, whereas trailer means someone who or something that trails.


Trailer is also verb with the meaning: to load on a trailer or to transport by trailer.

check bellow for the other definitions of Teaser and Trailer

  1. Teaser as a noun:

    One who teases or pokes fun.

  2. Teaser as a noun:

    A person or thing that teases (textile treatment).

  3. Teaser as a noun:

    A short film or quote meant to draw an audience to a film or show, usually as a preliminary for its main advertising.

  4. Teaser as a noun (UK, dialect):

    A kind of gull, the jaeger.

  5. Teaser as a noun (electrical):

    A shunt winding on field magnets for maintaining their magnetism when the main circuit is open.

  6. Teaser as a noun:

    The stoker of a glassworks furnace.

  7. Teaser as a noun (theatre):

    A short horizontal curtain used to mask the flies and frame the top of the inner stage opening, adjustable to the desired height.

  1. Trailer as a noun:

    Someone who or something that trails.

  2. Trailer as a noun:

    Part of an object which extends some distance beyond the main body of the object.

    Examples:

    "synonyms: appendage attachment appendix extension extrusion"

    "the trailer of a plant"

  3. Trailer as a noun:

    An unpowered wheeled vehicle, not a caravan or camper, that is towed behind another, and used to carry equipment, etc, that cannot be carried in the leading vehicle.

    Examples:

    "At the end of the day, we put the snowmobiles back on the trailer."

  4. Trailer as a noun (US):

    A furnished vehicle towed behind another, and used as a dwelling when stationary; a caravan; a camper.

    Examples:

    "We drove our trailer to Yellowstone Park."

  5. Trailer as a noun (US):

    A prefabricated home that could be towed to a new destination, but typically is permanently left in an area designated for such homes.

    Examples:

    "The young couple′s first home was in a trailer."

  6. Trailer as a noun (chiefly, US, media):

    A preview of a film, video game or TV show.

    Examples:

    "The trailer for that movie makes it seem like it would be fun."

  7. Trailer as a noun:

    A short blank segment of film at the end of a reel, for convenient insertion of the film in a projector.

  8. Trailer as a noun (computing):

    The final record of a list of data items, often identified by a key field with an otherwise invalid value that sorts last alphabetically (e.g., “ZZZZZ”) or numerically (“99999”); especially common in the context of punched cards, where the final card is called a trailer card.

    Examples:

    "The linked list terminates with a trailer record."

  9. Trailer as a noun (networking):

    The last part of a packet, often containing a check sequence.

    Examples:

    "The encapsulation layer adds an eight-byte header and a two-byte trailer to each packet."

  1. Trailer as a verb:

    To load on a trailer or to transport by trailer.

    Examples:

    "The engine wouldn't run any more so we had to trailer my old car to the wrecking yard."