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Brisk vs Mordant - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between brisk and mordant

is that brisk is full of liveliness and activity; characterized by quickness of motion or action; lively; spirited; quick while mordant is having or showing a sharp or critical quality; biting; caustic; sarcastic; keen; severe.

As verbs the difference between brisk and mordant

is that brisk is to make or become lively; to enliven; to animate while mordant is to subject to the action of, or imbue with, a mordant.

As a noun mordant is

any substance used to facilitate the fixing of a dye to a fibre; usually a metallic compound which reacts with the dye using chelation.

brisk

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • Full of liveliness and activity; characterized by quickness of motion or action; lively; spirited; quick.
    • We took a brisk walk yesterday.
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  • Full of spirit of life; effervescing, as liquors; sparkling; as, brisk cider.
  • Stimulating or invigorating.
    • This morning was a brisk fall day. It wasn't cold enough for frost, but you wanted to keep moving.
  • Abrupt, curt in one's manner or in relation to others.
  • * 1919 ,
    • Her manner was brisk, and her good-breeding scarcely concealed her conviction that if you were not a soldier you might as well be a counter-jumper.

    See also

    * brusque

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make or become lively; to enliven; to animate.

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    mordant

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having or showing a sharp or critical quality; biting; caustic; sarcastic; keen; severe.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any substance used to facilitate the fixing of a dye to a fibre; usually a metallic compound which reacts with the dye using chelation.
  • * 1964', ''In dyeing two mediums are required, the colouring matter and the '''mordant which fixes the dye in the wool.'' — , ''English Industries of the Middle Ages , p. 208.
  • Any corrosive substance used in etching.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To subject to the action of, or imbue with, a mordant.
    • Mordant these goods for dyeing.

    See also

    * (wikipedia "mordant") * mordent

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