Crucible vs. Equipment — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Crucible and Equipment
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Definitions
Crucible
A crucible is a ceramic or metal container in which metals or other substances may be melted or subjected to very high temperatures. While crucibles were historically usually made from clay, they can be made from any material that withstands temperatures high enough to melt or otherwise alter its contents.
Equipment
The act of equipping or the state of being equipped
Responsible for the rapid equipment of the troops.
Crucible
A vessel made of a refractory substance such as graphite or porcelain, used for melting and calcining materials at high temperatures.
Equipment
Something with which a person, organization, or thing is equipped
The athletes keep their equipment in the locker room.
Crucible
An extremely difficult experience or situation; a severe test or trial
"the emotional crucible of a wartime deployment" (Kristin Henderson).
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Equipment
The rolling stock especially of a transportation system.
Crucible
A place, time, or situation in which different social forces or intellectual influences come together and cause new developments
"Macroeconomics ... was cast in the crucible of the Depression" (Peter Passell).
Equipment
The mental and emotional resources of an individual
Doesn't have the equipment to cope.
Crucible
(chemistry) A cup-shaped piece of laboratory equipment used to contain chemical compounds when heating them to very high temperatures.
Equipment
The act of equipping, or the state of being equipped, as for a voyage or expedition.
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Crucible
A heat-resistant container in which metals are melted, usually at temperatures above 500°C, commonly made of graphite with clay as a binder.
Equipment
Any items used in equipping something or someone, for example things needed for an expedition or voyage.
We need more gardening equipment if we want to properly landscape our yard, not just a rake and some gloves.
The sports shop sells different kits of famous clubs, and equipment from all kind of sports.
Crucible
The bottom and hottest part of a blast furnace; the hearth.
Equipment
The male genitalia.
Crucible
(figuratively) A very difficult and trying experience, that acts as a refining or hardening process.
Trial by fire
Equipment
The act of equipping, or the state of being equipped, as for a voyage or expedition.
The equipment of the fleet was hastened by De Witt.
Crucible
A vessel or melting pot, composed of some very refractory substance, as clay, graphite, platinum, and used for melting and calcining substances which require a strong degree of heat, as metals, ores, etc.
Equipment
Whatever is used in equipping; necessaries for an expedition or voyage; the collective designation for the articles comprising an outfit; equipage; as, a railroad equipment (locomotives, cars, etc. ; for carrying on business); horse equipments; infantry equipments; naval equipments; laboratory equipments.
Armed and dight,In the equipments of a knight.
Crucible
A hollow place at the bottom of a furnace, to receive the melted metal.
Equipment
An instrumentality needed for an undertaking or to perform a service
Crucible
A test of the most decisive kind; a severe trial; as, the crucible of affliction.
Crucible
A vessel made of material that does not melt easily; used for high temperature chemical reactions
