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Hotpress vs Mangle - What's the difference?

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Hotpress is a related term of mangle.


As verbs the difference between hotpress and mangle

is that hotpress is to apply both heat and mechanical pressure to something, especially as part of a laundry process while mangle is to change, mutilate or disfigure by cutting, tearing, rearranging etc.

As a noun mangle is

a hand-operated device with rollers, for wringing laundry.

hotpress

English

Verb

(es)
  • to apply both heat and mechanical pressure to something, especially as part of a laundry process

    • Derived terms

    * hotpressed

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    mangle

    English

    (wikipedia mangle)

    Verb

    (mangl)
  • To change, mutilate or disfigure by cutting, tearing, rearranging etc.
  • * Milton
    • mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • when they are disposed to mangle a play or novel
  • (archaic) To wring laundry.
  • (computing) To modify (an identifier from source code) so as to produce a unique identifier for internal use by the compiler, etc.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A hand-operated device with rollers, for wringing laundry.
  • The mangle attached to wringer washing machines, often called the wringer.

    • Derived terms

    * put through the mangle

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