different between foundry vs squeezer

English

Alternative forms

• foundery (dated)

Etymology

From French fonderie.

Pronunciation

• enPR: foun'dr?, IPA^(key): /fa?nd?i/
• Rhymes: -a?nd?i

Noun

foundry (countable and uncountable, plural foundries)

1. A facility that melts metals in special furnaces and pours the molten metal into molds to make products. Foundries are usually specified according to the type of metal dealt with: iron foundry, brass foundry, etc.
2. The act, process, or art of casting metals; founding.
3. A semiconductor fabrication plant in the microelectronics industry.

Synonyms

• (semiconductor fabrication plant): fab

Derived terms

• type foundry

Translations

Further reading

• foundry on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• foundry (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

squeeze +? -er

Noun

squeezer (plural squeezers)

1. Something that squeezes.

   I made juice with a lemon squeezer.

2. A piece of foundry apparatus for shaping a ball of puddled iron.
3. A playing card that has its value shown in a corner such that a closely arranged hand may be studied (originally designed for poker but now standard).
4. (slang, US, Canada) A hand job, an instance of male masturbation, or manual sex performed on a man.
   • 2014, Letterkenny Problems:

     "You were playing Buckhunter at the bar last night and your game was so tight a gal offered to give you a squeezer in the parking lot."

   • 2019, Letterkenny (TV series):

     "Twenty-five one-armed squeezers sounds like a lot of unnecessary strain on the heart."

Derived terms

• lemon squeezer
• mop squeezer