Eprouvette vs. Mortar
Difference Between Eprouvette and Mortar
Eprouvettenoun
A one-piece, fixed-elevation mortar formerly used to test the strength of gunpowder.
Mortarnoun
A vessel in which substances are crushed or ground with a pestle.
Mortarnoun
A machine in which materials are ground and blended or crushed.
Mortarnoun
A portable, usually muzzleloading cannon used to fire shells at low velocities, short ranges, and high trajectories.
Mortarnoun
A shell fired by such a cannon.
Mortarnoun
Any of several similar devices, such as one that shoots life lines across a stretch of water.
Mortarnoun
A short, usually stationary, muzzleloading cannon used from the 1700s to early 1900s to fire large round shells at low velocities, short ranges, and high trajectories.
Mortarnoun
Any of various bonding materials used in masonry, surfacing, and plastering, especially a mixture of cement or lime, sand, and water that hardens in place and is used to bind together bricks or stones.
Mortarverb
To bombard with mortar shells.
Mortarverb
To plaster or join with mortar.
Mortarnoun
(uncountable) A mixture of lime or cement, sand and water used for bonding building blocks.
Mortarnoun
A muzzle-loading, indirect fire weapon with a tube length of 10 to 20 calibers and designed to lob shells at very steep trajectories.
Mortarnoun
(countable) A hollow vessel used to pound, crush, rub, grind or mix ingredients with a pestle.
Mortarverb
(transitive) To use mortar or plaster to join two things together.
Mortarverb
(transitive) To pound in a mortar.
Mortarverb
To fire a mortar (weapon).
Mortarnoun
a muzzle-loading high-angle gun with a short barrel that fires shells at high elevations for a short range
Mortarnoun
used as a bond in masonry or for covering a wall
Mortarnoun
a bowl-shaped vessel in which substances can be ground and mixed with a pestle
Mortarverb
plaster with mortar;
mortar the wall
