Scavenger vs. Sweeper

Scavengernoun

Someone who scavenges, especially one who searches through rubbish for food or useful things.

Scavengernoun

An animal that feeds on decaying matter such as carrion.

Scavengernoun

A street sweeper.

Scavengernoun

A child employed to pick up loose cotton from the floor in a cotton mill.

Scavengernoun

(chemistry) A substance used to remove impurities from the air or from a solution.

Scavengerverb

(archaic) To scavenge.

Scavengerverb

(archaic) To clean the rubbish from a street, etc.

Scavengernoun

A person whose employment is to clean the streets of a city, by scraping or sweeping, and carrying off the filth. The name is also applied to any animal which devours refuse, carrion, or anything injurious to health.

Scavengernoun

a chemical agent that is added to a chemical mixture to counteract the effects of impurities

Scavengernoun

someone who collects things that have been discarded by others

Scavengernoun

any animal that feeds on refuse and other decaying organic matter

Scavenger

Scavengers are animals that consume dead organisms that have died from causes other than predation or have been killed by other predators. While scavenging generally refers to carnivores feeding on carrion, it is also a herbivorous feeding behavior.

Sweepernoun

One who sweeps floors or chimneys.

Sweepernoun

A detector (for mines).

Sweepernoun

Any of the small, tropical marine perciform fishes of the family Pempheridae, typically with deeply keeled, compressed bodies and large eyes.

Sweepernoun

(football) A defender who is the last line of defence before the goalkeeper.

Sweepernoun

(curling) A person who sweeps the ice ahead of the rock in play.

Sweepernoun

(cricket) A batsman who plays sweep shots.

Sweepernoun

(cricket) A fielding position along the boundary; a fielder in this position.

Sweepernoun

A tree that has fallen over a river with branches extending into the water.

Sweepernoun

A carpet sweeper.

Sweepernoun

A vacuum cleaner.

Sweepernoun

A group of students tasked at cleaning the homeroom after class dismissal.

Sweepernoun

One who, or that which, sweeps, or cleans by sweeping; a sweep; as, a carpet sweeper.

Sweepernoun

an employee who sweeps (floors or streets etc.)

Sweepernoun

a cleaning device with revolving brushes that pick up dirt as the device is pushed over a carpet

Sweepernoun

little-known nocturnal fish of warm shallow seas with an oblong compressed body

Sweeper

Sweepers are small, tropical marine (occasionally brackish) perciform fish of the family Pempheridae. Found in the western Atlantic Ocean and Indo-Pacific region, the family contains about 26 species in two genera.