Blister vs Corn - What's the difference?
blister | corn |
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
A swelling on a plant.
(medicine) Something applied to the skin to raise a blister; a vesicatory or other applied medicine.
* 1819 , Lord Byron, Don Juan , I.168:
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
To cause blisters to form.
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To criticise severely.
To break out in blisters.
(British, uncountable) The main cereal plant grown for its grain in a given region, such as oats in parts of Scotland and Ireland, and wheat or barley in England and Wales.
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* {{quote-book, 1909, Johann David Wyss (Susannah Mary Paull, translator), The Swiss Family Robinson, page=462, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=0gUCAAAAQAAJ
, passage= I found that we had nearly a hundred bushels of corn , including wheat, maize, and barley, to add to our store.}}
(US, Canada, Australia, uncountable) Maize, a grain crop of the species Zea mays .
* {{quote-book, 1809, Edward Augustus Kendall, Travels Through the Northern Parts of the United States
, passage=The planting or sowing of maize, exclusively called corn , was just accomplished on the Town Hill, when I reached it.}}
A grain or seed, especially of a cereal crop.
A small, hard particle.
* Bishop Hall:
* Beaumont and Fletcher:
(US, Canada) To granulate; to form a substance into grains.
(US, Canada) To preserve using coarse salt, e.g. corned beef
(US, Canada) To provide with corn (typically maize; or, in Scotland, oats) for feed.
To render intoxicated.
A type of callus, usually on the feet or hands.
* Shakespeare
(US, Canada) Something (e.g. acting, humour, music, or writing) which is deemed old-fashioned or intended to induce emotion.
* 1975 , Tschirlie, Backpacker magazine,
* 1986 , Linda Martin and Kerry Segrave, Women in Comedy? ,
* 2007 , Bob L. Cox, Fiddlin' Charlie Bowman: an East Tennessee old-time music pioneer and his musical family ,
(uncountable) short for corn snow . A type of granular snow formed by repeated melting and re-freezing, often in mountain spring conditions.
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In transitive terms the difference between blister and corn
is that blister is to criticise severely while corn is to render intoxicated.As nouns the difference between blister and corn
is that 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 while corn is the main cereal plant grown for its grain in a given region, such as oats in parts of Scotland and Ireland, and wheat or barley in England and Wales.As verbs the difference between blister and corn
is that blister is to cause blisters to form while corn is to granulate; to form a substance into grains.blister
English
Noun
(wikipedia blister) (en noun)- Painful blisters swelled my tender hands.
- (Dunglison)
- '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 [...].
- blister card
- blister pack
Synonyms
* blebDerived terms
* blister packVerb
Derived terms
* blistery * blood blisterSynonyms
* vesicateAnagrams
* * ----corn
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (m), from (etyl) , and (etyl) (m).Noun
(en-noun)citation
- He paid her the nominal fee of two corns of barley.
- corn of sand
- a corn of powder
Derived terms
* corn bunting * cornflour * cornmeal * cornstarch * peppercorn * sweetcornSee also
(other words for grain) * barley * cereal * grain * maize * oats * rye * wheatVerb
(en verb)- to corn gunpowder
- Corn the horses.
- ale strong enough to corn one
Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m) (modern (etyl) (m)). (wikipedia corn)Noun
(en noun)- Welcome, gentlemen! Ladies that have their toes / Unplagued with corns , will have a bout with you.
Synonyms
* clavusHyponyms
* callusEtymology 3
This use was first used in 1932, as corny, something appealing to country folk.Noun
(-)- He had a sharp wit, true enough, but also a good, healthy mountaineer's love of pure corn , the slapstick stuff, the in-jokes that get funnier with every repetition and never amuse anybody who wasn't there.
- There were lots of jokes on the show and they were pure corn , but the audience didn't mind.
- The bulk of this humor was pure corn , but as hillbilly material it was meant to be that way.