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Beaker vs Billow - What's the difference?

beaker | billow |

As nouns the difference between beaker and billow

is that beaker is a flat-bottomed vessel, with a lip, used as a laboratory container while billow is a large wave, swell, surge, or undulating mass of something, such as water, smoke, fabric or sound.

As a verb billow is

to surge or roll in billows.

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

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    billow

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A large wave, swell, surge, or undulating mass of something, such as water, smoke, fabric or sound
  • * Cowper
    • whom the winds waft where'er the billows roll
  • * 18?? , :
    • And the brooklet has found the billow / Though they flowed so far apart.
  • * 1922 , :
    • Have the swirling sands engulfed them, on a noon of storm when the desert rose like the sea, and rolled its tawny billows on the walled gardens of the green and fragrant lands?

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To surge or roll in billows
  • * 1920 , , The Understanding Heart , Chapter II:
    • During the preceding afternoon a heavy North Pacific fog had blown in … Scudding eastward from the ocean, it had crept up and over the redwood-studded crests of the Coast Range mountains,
  • To swell out or bulge

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