Muzzle vs Nozzle - What's the difference?
muzzle | nozzle |
The protruding part of many animal's head which includes nose, mouth and jaws; snout
The mouth or the end for entrance or discharge of a gun, pistol etc., that the bullet emerges from as opposed to the breech.
A device used to prevent animal from biting or eating, which is worn on its snout.
(chiefly, Scotland) A piece of the forward end of the plow-beam by which the traces are attached; bridle
(obsolete, historical) An openwork covering for the nose, used for the defense of the horse, and forming part of the bards in the 15th and 16th centuries.
To bind or confine an animal's mouth by putting a muzzle, as to prevent it from eating or biting.
* Bible, Deuteronomy xxv. 4
(figuratively) To restrain (from speaking, expressing opinion or acting); gag, silence, censor.
* 1919 , :
(obsolete) To veil, mask, muffle.
(obsolete) To fondle with the closed mouth; to nuzzle.
To bring the muzzle or mouth near.
* (rfdate) Sir R. L'Estrange
As nouns the difference between muzzle and nozzle
is that muzzle is the protruding part of many animal's head which includes nose, mouth and jaws; snout while nozzle is a short tube, usually tapering, forming the vent of a hose or pipe.As a verb muzzle
is to bind or confine an animal's mouth by putting a muzzle, as to prevent it from eating or biting.muzzle
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* muzzle blast * muzzle brake * muzzle compensator * muzzle energy * muzzleloader * muzzleloading * muzzle velocityVerb
(muzzl)- Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.
- Man is brow-beaten, leashed, muzzled , masked, and lashed by boards and councils, by leagues and societies, by church and state.
- The bear muzzles and smells to him.
