Volcano vs. Slap — What's the Difference?

A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface. On Earth, volcanoes are most often found where tectonic plates are diverging or converging, and most are found underwater.

A sharp blow made with the open hand or with a flat object; a smack.

An opening in the earth's crust from which lava, ash, and hot gases flow or are ejected during an eruption.

The sound of such a blow.

A similar opening on the surface of another celestial object.

A sharp insult

A usually cone-shaped mountain formed from the materials issuing from such an opening.

To strike with the palm of the hand or a flat object

A vent or fissure on the surface of a planet (usually in a mountainous form) with a magma chamber attached to the mantle of a planet or moon, periodically erupting forth lava and volcanic gases onto the surface.

To cause to strike forcefully and loudly

A kind of firework producing an upward plume of sparks.

To put or place quickly or carelessly

To erupt; to burst forth

To subject to a legal obligation, such as a fine or court order

A mountain or hill, usually more or less conical in form, from which lava, cinders, steam, sulphur gases, and the like, are ejected; - often popularly called a burning mountain.

To impose (a legal obligation) on someone

A fissure in the earth's crust (or in the surface of some other planet) through which molten lava and gases erupt

To strike or beat with the force and sound of a slap

A mountain formed by volcanic material

Directly and with force

(countable) A blow, especially one given with the open hand, or with something broad and flat.

(countable) A sharp percussive sound like that produced by such a blow.

The percussive sound produced in slap bass playing.

Makeup; cosmetics.

An eye-catching sticker used in street art.

(transitive) To give a slap to.

(transitive) To cause something to strike soundly.

(intransitive) To strike soundly against something.

To be excellent.

(transitive) To place, to put carelessly.

To impose a penalty, etc. on (someone).

To play slap bass on (an instrument).

Exactly, precisely

A blow, esp. one given with the open hand, or with something broad.

To strike with the open hand, or with something broad.

With a sudden and violent blow; hence, quickly; instantly; directly.

A blow from a flat object (as an open hand)

The act of smacking something; a blow delivered with an open hand

Hit with something flat, like a paddle or the open hand;

Directly;