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What is the difference between blister and wart?

blister | wart |

As nouns the difference between blister and wart

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 wart is a type of deformed growth occurring on the skin caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV).

As a verb blister

is to cause blisters to form.

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.
  • *
  • To criticise severely.
  • To break out in blisters.

    • Derived terms

    * blistery * blood blister

    Synonyms

    * vesicate

    Anagrams

    * * ----

    wart

    English

    (wikipedia wart)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (pathology) A type of deformed growth occurring on the skin caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV).
  • Any similar growth occurring in plants or animals, such as the parotoid glands in the back of toads.
  • (computing, programming, slang, derogatory) Any of the prefixes used in Hungarian notation.
  • * 1998 , "Chris Ahlstrom", Hungarian notation'' (on newsgroup ''microsoft.public.vc.language )
    • Hungarian warts suck big time! If you need them, your functions are too big and your class interface is much too fat.
  • * 2002 , "Linonut", Computer Science'' (on newsgroup ''comp.os.linux.advocacy )
    • Far easier to not use warts in the first place. Even if a wart is present, you still have to verify the variable's declaration anyway, if you're a diligent maintenance programmer.

    Derived terms

    * genital wart * Peruvian wart * plantar wart * wall wart * warthog * warty * warts and all * warty toad

    See also

    * verruca ----