Squeegee vs Sweeper - What's the difference?
squeegee | sweeper |
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.
To clean with a squeegee.
One who sweeps floors or chimneys
A detector (for mines)
A small, tropical marine perciform fish of the family , typically with deeply keeled, compressed bodies and large eyes.
(football) A defender who is the last line of defence before the goalkeeper
(curling) A person who sweeps the ice ahead of the rock in play.
(cricket) A batsman who plays sweep shots
(cricket) A fielding position along the boundary; a fielder in this position
A tree that has fallen over a river with branches extending into the water.
* ..tree will be hanging over the water about canoe level (a sweeper )..
* So named because they can sweep passengers from a boat, they can also capsize a canoe, especially when paddlers lean too far away from the sweeper ..
As nouns the difference between squeegee and sweeper
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 sweeper is one who sweeps floors or chimneys.As a verb squeegee
is to clean with a squeegee.squeegee
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(en noun)See also
* (wikipedia)Verb
See also
* squeegee merchant * squeegee mopsweeper
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