Powder vs Crumb - What's the difference?
powder | crumb |
The fine particles to which any dry substance is reduced by pounding, grinding, or triturating, or into which it falls by decay; dust.
* (rfdate) (William Shakespeare):
A mixture of fine dry, sweet-smelling particles applied to the face or other body parts, to reduce shine or to alleviate chaffing.
* 1912 , :
An explosive mixture used in gunnery, blasting, etc.; gunpowder.
(informal) Light, dry, fluffy snow.
To reduce to fine particles; to pound, grind, or rub into a powder.
To sprinkle with powder, or as with powder.
* (rfdate) :
To be reduced to powder; to become like powder.
To use powder on the hair or skin.
To sprinkle with salt; to corn, as meat.
A small piece which breaks off from baked food (such as cake, biscuit or bread).
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*(Bible), (w) xvi. 21
*:desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table
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*:At twilight in the summer there is never anybody to fear—man, woman, or cat—in the chambers and at that hour the mice come out. They do not eat parchment or foolscap or red tape, but they eat the luncheon crumbs .
(lb) A bit, small amount.
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The soft internal portion of bread, surrounded by crust.
*Old song
*:Dust unto dust, what must be, must; / If you can't get crumb , you'd best eat crust.
A mixture of sugar, cocoa and milk, used to make industrial chocolate.
(lb) A nobody, worthless person.
(lb) A body louse.
To cover with crumbs.
To break into crumbs or small pieces with the fingers; to crumble.
As nouns the difference between powder and crumb
is that powder is the fine particles to which any dry substance is reduced by pounding, grinding, or triturating, or into which it falls by decay; dust while crumb is a small piece which breaks off from baked food (such as cake, biscuit or bread).As verbs the difference between powder and crumb
is that powder is to reduce to fine particles; to pound, grind, or rub into a powder while crumb is to cover with crumbs.powder
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Alternative forms
* powdre (obsolete)Noun
- Grind their bones to powder small.
- She was redolent of violet sachet powder, and had warm, soft, white hands, but she danced divinely, moving as smoothly as the tide coming in.
Derived terms
* Atlas powder * baking powder * Bolivian marching powder * powder blue * powder burn * powder down * powder-down feather * powder-down patch * powder hose * powder hoy * powder magazine * powder mine * powder monkey * powder post * powder puff * powder room * take a powderVerb
(en verb)- to powder the hair
- A circling zone thou seest / Powdered with stars.
- Some salts powder easily.
- She paints and powders .
Synonyms
* (to reduce to fine particles) pound, grind, comminute, pulverize, trituratecrumb
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(wikipedia crumb)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (crumbled food) crumbling * (small amount) see also .Derived terms
* crumber * crumble * crumby, crummy * breadcrumbVerb
- to crumb bread