Kiln vs Clamp - What's the difference?
kiln | clamp |
An oven or furnace or a heated chamber, for the purpose of hardening, burning, calcining or drying anything; for example, or preserving tobacco.
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A brace, band, or clasp for strengthening or holding things together.
A mass of bricks heaped up to be burned; or of ore for roasting, or of coal coking.
A piece of wood (batten) across the grain of a board end to keep it flat, as in a breadboard.
A heavy footstep; a tramp.
(intransitive) To fasten in place or together with (or as if with) a clamp .
* 1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula) Chapter 21
To tread heavily or clumsily; to clump or clomp.
* Thackeray
To hold or grip tightly.
To modify a numeric value so it lies within a specific range.
(UK, obsolete, transitive) To cover (vegetables, etc.) with earth.
As nouns the difference between kiln and clamp
is that kiln is an oven or furnace or a heated chamber, for the purpose of hardening, burning, calcining or drying anything; for example, firing ceramics, curing or preserving tobacco while clamp is a brace, band, or clasp for strengthening or holding things together.As verbs the difference between kiln and clamp
is that kiln is to bake in a kiln while clamp is to fasten in place or together with (or as if with) a clamp.kiln
English
* (wikipedia "kiln")Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=One typical Grecian kiln' engorged one thousand muleloads of juniper wood in a single burn. Fifty such ' kilns would devour six thousand metric tons of trees and brush annually.}}
Anagrams
* linkReferences
*Krueger, Dennis (December 1982). "Why On Earth Do They Call It Throwing?" Studio Potter Vol. 11, Number 1.
Verb
(en verb)- When making pottery we need to allow the bisque to dry before we kiln it.
clamp
English
Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* clover clamp * nipple clampVerb
(en verb)- As we burst into the room, the Count turned his face, and the hellish look that I had heard described seemed to leap into it. His eyes flamed red with devilish passion. The great nostrils of the white aquiline nose opened wide and quivered at the edge, and the white sharp teeth, behind the full lips of the blood dripping mouth, clamped together like those of a wild beast.
- The policeman with clamping feet.