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Executor vs Corrosive - What's the difference?

executor | corrosive |

As nouns the difference between executor and corrosive

is that executor is a person who carries out some task while corrosive is that which has the quality of eating or wearing away gradually.

As an adjective corrosive is

eating away; having the power of gradually wearing, hanging, or destroying the texture or substance of a body; as the corrosive action of an acid.

executor

English

Alternative forms

* executour (obsolete)

Noun

(wikipedia executor) (en noun)
  • A person who carries out some task.
  • (label) Someone appointed by a testator to administer a will; an administrator.
  • (obsolete) An executioner.
  • * 1599 , , I. ii. 203:
    • The sad-eyed justice, with his surly hum, / Delivering o'er to executors pale / The lazy yawning drone.

    Related terms

    * dative executor * execute * executrix

    corrosive

    English

    (wikipedia corrosive)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Eating away; having the power of gradually wearing, hanging, or destroying the texture or substance of a body; as the corrosive action of an acid.
  • Having the quality of fretting or vexing.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Care is no cure, but corrosive .
  • destroying or undermining something gradually

    • Related terms

    * corrosively * corrosiveness * corrosivity * corrode

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • That which has the quality of eating or wearing away gradually.
  • Any solid, liquid or gas capable of irreparably harming living tissues or damaging material on contact.