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Beaker vs Beckon - What's the difference?

beaker | beckon |

As nouns the difference between beaker and beckon

is that beaker is a flat-bottomed vessel, with a lip, used as a laboratory container while beckon is a sign made without words; a beck.

As a verb beckon is

(ambitransitive) to wave and/or to nod to somebody with the intention to make the person come closer.

beaker

English

(wikipedia beaker)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A flat-bottomed vessel, with a lip, used as a laboratory container.
  • A drinking vessel without a handle, sometimes for the use of children.
  • A mug.

    • Synonyms

    * (drinking vessel without a handle) glass (2nd definition)

    Derived terms

    * beaker people

    Anagrams

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    beckon

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (ambitransitive) To wave and/or to nod to somebody with the intention to make the person come closer.
  • * Dryden
    • His distant friends, he beckons near.
  • * Shakespeare
    • It beckons you to go away with it.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sign made without words; a beck.
  • * Bolingbroke
    • At the first beckon .