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Bustle vs Distemper - What's the difference?

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Bustle is a related term of distemper.


As nouns the difference between bustle and distemper

is that bustle is an excited activity; a stir while distemper is (veterinary medicine|pathology) a viral disease of animals, such as dogs and cats, characterised by fever, coughing and catarrh.

As verbs the difference between bustle and distemper

is that bustle is to move busily and energetically with fussiness (often followed by about ) while distemper is to temper or mix unduly; to make disproportionate; to change the due proportions of.

bustle

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An excited activity; a stir.
  • * 1748 . David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 34.
    • we are, perhaps, all the while flattering our natural indolence, which, hating the bustle of the world, and drudgery of business seeks a pretence of reason to give itself a full and uncontrolled indulgence
  • (computing) A cover to protect and hide the back panel of a computer or other office machine.
  • (historical) A frame worn underneath a woman's skirt, typically only protruding from the rear as opposed to the earlier more circular hoops.

    • Derived terms

    * hustle and bustle

    Verb

  • To move busily and energetically with fussiness (often followed by about ).
    • The commuters bustled about inside the train station.
  • *, II.3.6:
    • I was once so mad to bussell abroad, and seek about for preferment […].
  • To teem or abound (usually followed by with''); to exhibit an energetic and active abundance (of a thing). ''See also bustle with .
    • The train station was bustling with commuters.

    Synonyms

    * (to move busily) flit, hustle, scamper, scurry * (to exhibit an energetic abundance) abound, brim, bristle, burst, crawl, swell, teem

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    Anagrams

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    distemper

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia distemper) (en noun)
  • (veterinary medicine, pathology) A viral disease of animals, such as dogs and cats, characterised by fever, coughing and catarrh.
  • (archaic) A disorder of the humours of the body; a disease.
  • * 1719- (Daniel Defoe), (Robinson Crusoe)
  • A water-based paint.
  • * , chapter=10
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.}}
  • A painting produced with this kind of paint.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To temper or mix unduly; to make disproportionate; to change the due proportions of.
    • (Chaucer)
  • To derange the functions of, whether bodily, mental, or spiritual; to disorder; to disease.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • * Buckminster
    • The imagination, when completely distempered , is the most incurable of all disordered faculties.
  • To deprive of temper or moderation; to disturb; to ruffle; to make disaffected, ill-humoured, or malignant.
  • * Coleridge
    • distempered spirits
  • To intoxicate.
  • * Massinger
    • The courtiers reeling, / And the duke himself, I dare not say distempered , / But kind, and in his tottering chair carousing.
  • To paint using distemper.
  • To mix (colours) in the way of distemper.
    • to distemper colors with size

    Conjugation

    (en-conj-simple)