Curdle vs Density - What's the difference?
curdle | density |
(ambitransitive) To form curds so that it no longer flows smoothly; to cause to form such curds. (usually said of milk)
(ambitransitive) To clot or coagulate; to cause to congeal, such as through cold. (metaphorically of blood)
* 1814, Sir Walter Scott, Waverley
To cause a liquid to spoil and form clumps so that it no longer flows smoothly
* 1836, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers
(physics) A measure of the amount of matter contained by a given volume.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author=Kevin Heng
, title= (senseid)The ratio of one quantity to that of another quantity.
(senseid)The probability that an event will occur, as a function of some observed variable.
As a verb curdle
is (ambitransitive) to form curds so that it no longer flows smoothly; to cause to form such curds (usually said of milk).As a noun density is
(physics) a measure of the amount of matter contained by a given volume.curdle
English
Verb
(curdl)- Too much lemon will curdle the milk in your tea.
- "Vich Ian Vohr," it said, in a voice that made my very blood curdle , "beware of to-morrow!"
- It is enough,' said the agitated Mr. Slurk, pacing to and fro, 'to curdle the ink in one's pen, and induce one to abandon their cause for ever.'
Derived terms
* curdledAnagrams
*density
English
(wikipedia density)Noun
(densities)Why Does Nature Form Exoplanets Easily?, volume=101, issue=3, page=184, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=In the past two years, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has located nearly 3,000 exoplanet candidates ranging from sub-Earth-sized minions to gas giants that dwarf our own Jupiter. Their densities range from that of styrofoam to iron.}}
