Sweeper vs Cleaner - What's the difference?
sweeper | cleaner |
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 ..
A person whose occupation is to clean floors, windows and other things.
A device that cleans, such as the vacuum cleaner.
A cleaning detergent.
(in the plural) A professional laundry or dry cleaner (business).
(clean)
As nouns the difference between sweeper and cleaner
is that sweeper is one who sweeps floors or chimneys while cleaner is a person whose occupation is to clean floors, windows and other things.As an adjective cleaner is
comparative of clean.sweeper
English
Noun
(en noun)Basic Essentials Canoe Paddling, 3rd - Page 62
River Running: Canoeing, Kayaking, Rowing, Rafting - Page 102
See also
minesweeperAnagrams
*cleaner
English
Etymology 1
(clean) (agent noun)Noun
(en noun)- I'll have to take this shirt to the cleaners .
