Mildew vs Dew - What's the difference?
mildew | dew |
A growth of minute powdery or webby fungi, whitish or of different colors, found on various diseased or decaying substances.
To taint with mildew.
* 1605 , , (William Shakespeare), act 3 scene 4
To become tainted with mildew.
* 1851 ,
(uncountable) moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc in the morning, resulting in drops.
(countable, but see usage notes) an instance of a such moisture settling on plants, etc.
(uncountable) Any moisture from the atmosphere condensed by cool bodies upon their surfaces.
(figurative) Anything that falls lightly and in a refreshing manner.
* Shakespeare
An emblem of morning, or fresh vigour.
* Longfellow
To wet with, or as if with, dew; to moisten.
* A. B. Saxton
As nouns the difference between mildew and dew
is that mildew is a growth of minute powdery or webby fungi, whitish or of different colors, found on various diseased or decaying substances while dew is moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc in the morning, resulting in drops.As verbs the difference between mildew and dew
is that mildew is to taint with mildew while dew is to wet with, or as if with, dew; to moisten.As an acronym DEW is
distant Early Warning.mildew
English
Noun
(-)See also
* mould, moldVerb
(en verb)- He mildews the white wheat.
- His bald purplish head now looked for all the world like a mildewed skull.
dew
English
(wikipedia dew)Noun
- There was a heavy dew this morning.
- The golden dew of sleep.
- The dew of his youth.
Usage notes
* Although the countable sense is still used, the plural form is now archaic or poetic only.Synonyms
* (moisture settling on plants) (obsolete)Verb
(en verb)- The grasses grew / A little ranker since they dewed them so.
