Cooler vs Fountain - What's the difference?
cooler | fountain |
(countable) anything which cools
(countable) an insulated bin or box used with ice or freezer packs to keep food or beverages cold while picnicking or camping
(US, countable, or, uncountable) a mixed drink, especially one served chilled
(US, slang) a prison
(poker, colloquial) A cold deck.
(countable) a bouncer or door man
(cool)
(label) A spring, natural source of water.
An artificial, usually ornamental, water feature (usually in a garden or public place) consisting of one or more streams of water originating from a statue or other structure.
The structure from which an artificial fountain can issue.
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A reservoir from which liquid can be drawn.
A source, origin of a flow (e.g. of favors, of knowledge).
A juggling pattern typically done with an even number of props where each prop is caught by the same hand that thows it.
(label) A roundel barry wavy argent and azure.
(label) A soda fountain.
To flow or gush as if from a fountain.
* (Tom Reamy), Blind Voices
As nouns the difference between cooler and fountain
is that cooler is (countable) anything which cools while fountain is (label) a spring, natural source of water.As an adjective cooler
is (cool).As a verb fountain is
to flow or gush as if from a fountain.cooler
English
Noun
- If acid things were used only as coolers , they would not be so proper in this case. — Arbuthnot.
- They served wine coolers in the afternoon.
- "About a year or so back we had him in the cooler on a Mann Act rap." - "The Big Sleep", by Raymond Chandler
Synonyms
* car fridge * cool bag, cool box (UK) * chilly bin (New Zealand) * esky (Australia) * ice chest * bouncerAdjective
(head)- He looks cooler when he's dressed in shorts.
Derived terms
* cooler heads will prevailAnagrams
* ----fountain
English
Noun
(en noun)“Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=Ep./4/2
Synonyms
* fount * wellspringDerived terms
* fountainlet * fountain pen * fountainhead * drinking fountain * soda fountain * water fountainVerb
(en verb)- The fireflies swept toward him from all directions, in streams and rivers and currents of light, a vortex a hundred yards across, spiraling into the brighter center. They met over his supine body like ocean breakers, cascading, fountaining into the air.