What's the difference between coaster and trivet?

Coaster


Definition:

  • (n.) A vessel employed in sailing along a coast, or engaged in the coasting trade.
  • (n.) One who sails near the shore.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This a time when these crucial policies, central to everyone’s lives and the future of the nation, have been on a roller coaster ride through years of political disruption.
  • (2) Thus for many, the IVF-ET procedures were like an emotional roller coaster on which they experienced a wide range of feelings during a brief period of time.
  • (3) The sweeping shape is reminiscent of melted roller coaster ride, or as one Twitter user put it: "It looks like congealed intestines".
  • (4) The reality is that life’s a roller coaster – up and down, backwards and forwards, with everyone moving at different speeds.
  • (5) Gift shops were selling artists' posters, greeting cards, mugs and coasters for a fraction of the price.
  • (6) Then, in an unrelated incident two weeks after the shooting, the town's famous Grade II listed roller-coaster, which featured in an episode of Only Fools and Horses, was subject to a major arson attack that destroyed almost a third of its frame.
  • (7) But this leaves a roller-coaster in spending with cuts in the first three years and then a splurge at the end of the next parliament.
  • (8) But it is the hosts who seem more anxious ahead of a potentially roller-coaster match against opponents of reliably relentless energy and craft.
  • (9) We glimpse the record player amid stacks of coasters, magazines and empty cigarette cartons.
  • (10) A news helicopter hovered overhead, along with a swarm of television news trucks in what is ordinarily a tranquil meadow in a large, wooded section within sight of a roller coaster at the Kings Dominion amusement park along Interstate 95.
  • (11) The diagnosis of a malignant brain tumor can thrust a patient and family onto an emotional roller coaster.
  • (12) Purchase whale-stamped coasters, decorative fish, or seashell trays made from bamboo—proceeds go to the Monterey Bay Aquarium .
  • (13) Then there are the plates, the coasters, the Christmas ornaments.
  • (14) The coaster is touted as the tallest steel-hybrid roller coaster in the world.
  • (15) The news comes after a roller-coaster week for the president, who disappointed many with a lacklustre performance in the first presidential debate against Mitt Romney , before Friday brought encouraging news on the jobs front .
  • (16) A second fear survey which contained duplicate items from the first was administered to the same students in a laboratory setting prior to watching videotaped scenes of fish, rats, mice and a shorter roller coaster ride.
  • (17) Days after the roller-coaster was torched, two men strolled into the Tivoli arcade, one of the few remaining on the seafront, and doused its slot machines in petrol before setting them on fire, causing £500,000 of damage.
  • (18) That means the markets will go up and down like a roller coaster, and it will be hard to hold on.
  • (19) Tea is served on souvenir coasters from Manchester, the city she represents in parliament, and to which she returns each Friday.
  • (20) The roller-coaster is on prime land just behind Margate's sea front where a number of other buildings have been torched in mysterious circumstances.

Trivet


Definition:

  • (n.) A tree-legged stool, table, or other support; especially, a stand to hold a kettle or similar vessel near the fire; a tripod.
  • (n.) A weaver's knife. See Trevat.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To improvise a stove-top steamer, fill a large pan with a 5-6cm of water and place a trivet or an inverted saucer in it (to keep the pudding basin from touching the base of the pan).
  • (2) Serves 4-6 2 medium oranges, zested 125g unsalted butter, soft 125g dark brown soft sugar 2 large eggs 5-7cm root ginger, grated 3 tsp ground ginger 75g stem ginger, roughly chopped 125g plain flour 1½ tsp baking powder 1 Prepare a steamer (improvised, if necessary, using a trivet or metal pastry cutter in the bottom of a large, lidded saucepan), heating a few centimetres of water in it over a medium heat.
  • (3) Owl trivet: take to the charity shop along with the spool-size Japanese owl that blinks his eyes and softly hoots when you plug him into your computer.

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