Steamer vs Boiler - What's the difference?
steamer | boiler |
(cookware) A cooking appliance that cooks by steaming.
A vessel in which articles are subjected to the action of steam, as in washing, and in various processes of manufacture.
A vessel propelled by steam; a steamship or steamboat.
A steam-powered road locomotive; a traction engine.
A wetsuit which has long sleeves and long legs.
A dish of steamed clams.
Any species of the duck genus Tachyeres , of which all four species occur in South America, and three are flightless.
(Australia, food, obsolete) A food made by cooking diced meat very slowly in a tightly sealed pot, with a minimum of flavourings, allowing it to steam in its own juices; popular circa 1850 but apparently no longer so by the 1900s .
* “Melville”, Australia'', quoted in 1864''', Edward Abbott, ''The English and Australian Cookery Book: Cookery for the Many, as Well as for the ‘Upper Ten Thousand’'', London, in turn quoted in '''1998 , Colin Bannerman, et al., ''Acquired Tastes: Celebrating Australia?s Culinary History , (publisher), ISBN 0-642-10693-2, page 14,
(obsolete) A steam fire engine, a fire engine consisting of a steam boiler and engine, and pump which is driven by the engine, combined and mounted on wheels (Webster 1913).
(horse racing) A horse whose odds are decreasing (becoming shorter) because bettors are backing it.
(UK, crime, slang) Member of a youth gang who engages in robbing and escaping as a large group.
(UK, sex, slang) Oral sex performed on a man.
(UK, slang) A homosexual man with a preference for passive partners.
(UK, crime, slang) A prostitute's client.
(US, gambling, slang) A gambler who increases a wager after losing.
(UK, Scotland, slang) A drinking session.
An apparatus that generates heat (usually by burning fuel) and uses it to heat circulating water (or sometimes another liquid) in a closed system that is then used for space heating, swimming pool heating, or domestic hot water or industrial processes.
Less commonly , a hot water heater.
(approximate definition'') A fuel burning apparatus in which water is boiled to produce steam for space heating, power generation, or industrial processes.
(''more precisely'') An apparatus in which a heat source other than a hot liquid or steam (most commonly burning fuel, exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine or gas turbine, waste heat from a process, solar energy or electricity) is used to boil water (or ''rarely another liquid), under pressure to provide steam (or other gas) for use as a heat source in calorifiers, heat exchangers or heat emitters, or for use directly for humidification, in an industrial process, or to power steam turbines.
A kitchen vessel for steaming or boiling food.
(UK, informal) A tough old chicken only suitable for cooking by boiling.
(rare, informal) Boilerplate.
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As nouns the difference between steamer and boiler
is that steamer is (cookware) a cooking appliance that cooks by steaming while boiler is (tank-type) water heater.steamer
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Noun
(en noun)- Of all the dishes ever brought to table, nothing equals that of the steamer .
Synonyms
* (homosexual man) see * (sense, prostitute's client) see * (drinking session) bender, binge, carouse, piss-upDerived terms
* Cleveland steamer * steamer chairSee also
* (Tachyeres)References
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*boiler
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Etymology 1
Noun
(en noun)(''more precisely'') An apparatus in which a heat source other than a hot liquid or steam (most commonly burning fuel, exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine or gas turbine, waste heat from a process, solar energy or electricity) is used to boil water (or ''rarely another liquid), under pressure to provide steam (or other gas) for use as a heat source in calorifiers, heat exchangers or heat emitters, or for use directly for humidification, in an industrial process, or to power steam turbines.
Derived terms
(terms derived from boiler) * boil * boiled * boilerplate * boiler room * boiling * boiling plate * donkey boiler * double boiler * steam boilerSee also
* steam generator * water heaterEtymology 2
Shortening ofNoun
Re: Forms4 boilerplate accessible?", in comp.databases.oracle, Usenet :
- While it appears the FRM40_TEXT table is the answer, saving a form with boiler text does not seem to insert into this table.
Re: Why don't more people hate Bush?", in alt.politics.democrats and other newsgroups, Usenet :
- Note that Stuart Grey makes the assertion: "I think rationally on all subjects.", and then proceeds to use the standard boiler tactics and phrases of the people WHO instigate conflict and war.
Re: NRA vs Bar Assoc over guns in cars", in tx.guns, Usenet :
- Nearly every employer in my field has similar terms (they all come out of a legal boiler mill somewhere).
Re: Mail merge to PDF", in microsoft.public.access, Usenet :
- Just aligning all the paragraphs of '
boiler text' is tedious but trying to insert values in alignment is impossible!
