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Squeegee vs Spreader - What's the difference?

squeegee | spreader |

As nouns the difference between squeegee and spreader

is that squeegee is a tool consisting of a rubber blade at right angles to a handle, used for spreading, pushing or wiping liquid material on, across or off a surface, especially when cleaning glass, eg the windscreen of a vehicle or a shop window, to remove soapy water while spreader is an object or person who spreads.

As a verb squeegee

is to clean with a squeegee.

squeegee

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A tool consisting of a rubber blade at right angles to a handle, used for spreading, pushing or wiping liquid material on, across or off a surface, especially when cleaning glass, eg the windscreen of a vehicle or a shop window, to remove soapy water.
  • (slang) A person who cleans the windscreen of a vehicle stopped in traffic then demands payment from the driver.
  • (printing) A tool used in silk-screen printing for forcing the ink through the stencil and thus printing the desired image.

    • See also

    * (wikipedia)

    Verb

  • To clean with a squeegee.

    • See also

    * squeegee merchant * squeegee mop

    spreader

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An object or person who spreads.
  • A spacer or device for keeping two objects apart.
  • A device used to spread bulk material.
    • James put grass seed on the lawn with a seed spreader .
  • A knife or spatula used to distribute a substance such as butter or jelly.
    • Ellen used a spreader to butter her bagel.
  • (nautical) A horizontal athwartships spar attached to the mast of a sailboat in order to extend the shrouds away from the mast.
  • A machine for combining and drawing fibers of flax to form a sliver preparatory to spinning.
  • The moving platform of a container crane.

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