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Snubber vs Slubber - What's the difference?

snubber | slubber |

As nouns the difference between snubber and slubber

is that snubber is a device used to suppress ("snub") voltage transients in electrical systems, pressure transients in fluid systems, or excess force or rapid movement in mechanical systems while slubber is a person who, or a machine which, slubs.

As a verb slubber is

to do hastily, imperfectly, or sloppily.

snubber

English

(wikipedia snubber)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A device used to suppress ("snub") voltage transients in electrical systems, pressure transients in fluid systems, or excess force or rapid movement in mechanical systems.
  • (rare) One who snubs.

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    slubber

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To do hastily, imperfectly, or sloppily.
  • * 1597 , , Merchant of Venice , act 2, sc. 8,
    • Slubber not business for my sake, Bassanio,
    But stay the very riping of the time.
  • To daub; to stain; to cover carelessly.
  • * Milton
    • There is no art that hath more slubbered with aphorisming pedantry than the art of policy.
  • To slobber.
  • * 1914 , , Mutiny of the Elsinore , ch. 33:
    • It grows colder, and grayer, and penguins cry in the night, and huge amphibians moan and slubber .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who, or a machine which, slubs.

    • References

    * Oxford English Dictionary , second edition (1989) * Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary (1987-1996)

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