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.