Dryer vs Incubator - What's the difference?
dryer | incubator |
A household appliance that removes the water from clothing by accelerating evaporation, usually though heat and a tumbling motion.
An electric hair dryer.
Any other device, household or industrial, designed to remove water, or humidity.
(US)
(chemistry) Any apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a reaction.
(medicine) An apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a newborn baby.
An apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for the hatching of eggs.
A place to maintain the culturing of bacteria at a steady temperature.
(business) A support programme for the development of entrepreneurial companies.
* 2006 , Philip N. Cooke, Creative Industries in Wales: Potential and Pitfalls (page 34)
As nouns the difference between dryer and incubator
is that dryer is a household appliance that removes the water from clothing by accelerating evaporation, usually though heat and a tumbling motion while incubator is any apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a reaction.As an adjective dryer
is an alternative spelling of lang=en.dryer
English
(wikipedia dryer)Alternative forms
* drierEtymology 1
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (household appliance for drying clothing) clothes dryer * (hair dryer)Hyponyms
* (other drying device) dehumidifierEtymology 2
Adjective
(head)Anagrams
* English agent nounsincubator
English
Noun
(en noun)- So the question that is commonly asked is, why put a media incubator in a media desert and have it managed by a civil servant? This gets to the heart of the institutional support problem in Wales.