What's the difference between soaker and waterspout?

Soaker


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, soaks.
  • (n.) A hard drinker.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Look closer, though, and you'll see Super Soakers pre-pumped by runners, and Daisy Dukes with their top buttons carefully, carelessly undone.
  • (2) Do they just want to shoot you with a super-soaker?'

Waterspout


Definition:

  • (n.) A remarkable meteorological phenomenon, of the nature of a tornado or whirlwind, usually observed over the sea, but sometimes over the land.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In Lucian's A True Story , from the 2nd century AD, the author and his fellow travellers are blown through space to the Moon by a giant Atlantic waterspout.

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