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Bister vs Blister - What's the difference?

bister | blister |

As nouns the difference between bister and blister

is that bister is while blister is a small bubble between the layers of the skin that contains watery or bloody fluid and is caused by friction and pressure, burning, freezing, chemical irritation, disease or infection.

As a verb blister is

to cause blisters to form.

bister

English

Noun

(head)
  • Anagrams

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    blister

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia blister) (en noun)
  • A small bubble between the layers of the skin that contains watery or bloody fluid and is caused by friction and pressure, burning, freezing, chemical irritation, disease or infection.
  • * Grainger
  • Painful blisters swelled my tender hands.
  • A swelling on a plant.
  • (medicine) Something applied to the skin to raise a blister; a vesicatory or other applied medicine.
  • (Dunglison)
  • * 1819 , Lord Byron, Don Juan , I.168:
  • 'T is written in the Hebrew Chronicle, / How the physicians, leaving pill and potion, / Prescribed, by way of blister , a young belle, / When old King David's blood grew dull in motion, / And that the medicine answered very well [...].
  • A bubble, as on a painted surface.
  • (roofing) An enclosed pocket of air, which may be mixed with water or solvent vapor, trapped between impermeable layers of felt or between the membrane and substrate.
  • A type of pre-formed packaging made from plastic that contains cavities
  • blister card
    blister pack

    Synonyms

    * bleb

    Derived terms

    * blister pack

    Verb

  • To cause blisters to form.
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  • To criticise severely.
  • To break out in blisters.
  • Derived terms

    * blistery * blood blister

    Synonyms

    * vesicate

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