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Towel vs Catamaran - What's the difference?

towel | catamaran |

As nouns the difference between towel and catamaran

is that towel is a cloth used for wiping, especially one used for drying anything wet, as a person after a bath while catamaran is a raft consisting of two or more logs tied together.

As a verb towel

is to hit with a towel.

towel

English

Noun

(wikipedia towel) (en noun)
  • A cloth used for wiping, especially one used for drying anything wet, as a person after a bath.
  • Derived terms

    * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l), (l), (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l)

    Verb

  • To hit with a towel.
  • To dry by using a towel.
  • He got out of the shower and toweled himself dry.
  • (UK, dialect, obsolete) To beat with a stick.
  • Derived terms

    * (l), (l) (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

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    catamaran

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A raft consisting of two or more logs tied together.
  • A raft used on the St Lawrence River by lashing two ships together.
  • A small rectangular raft used in dockyards to protect the hulls of large ships.
  • A twin-hulled ship or boat
  • (colloquial) A quarrelsome woman; a scold.
  • Derived terms

    * cat (diminutive)

    Coordinate terms

    * monohull * multihull * outrigger canoe * twinhull