Damp vs Cold - What's the difference?

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Damp is a related term of cold.

As nouns the difference between damp and cold

is that damp is steam while cold is a condition of low temperature.

As an adjective cold is

(label) having a low temperature.

As an adverb cold is

while at low temperature.

damp

English

Adjective

(er)

Being in a state between dry and wet; moderately wet; moist.

:* O'erspread with a damp sweat and holy fear -

The lawn was still damp so we decided not to sit down.

The paint is still damp , so please don't touch it.

(obsolete) Pertaining to or affected by noxious vapours; dejected, stupified.

* 1667 , John Milton, Paradise Lost , Book 1, ll. 522-3:

All these and more came flocking; but with looks / Down cast and damp .

Synonyms

* (l) * (l)/(l)

Derived terms

* dampen * dampness

Noun

Moisture; humidity; dampness.

(archaic) Fog; fogginess; vapor.

* Milton

Night with black air / Accompanied, with damps and dreadful gloom.

(archaic) Dejection or depression.

* Joseph Addison

Even now, while thus I stand blest in thy presence, / A secret damp of grief comes o'er my soul.

* J. D. Forbes

It must have thrown a damp over your autumn excursion.

(archaic, or, historical, mining) A gaseous product, formed in coal mines, old wells, pits, etc.

Derived terms

* afterdamp * blackdamp * chokedamp * damp sheet * firedamp * stinkdamp * whitedamp

Verb

(en verb)

(archaic) To dampen; to render damp; to moisten; to make humid, or moderately wet; as, to damp cloth.

(archaic) To put out, as fire; to depress or deject; to deaden; to cloud; to check or restrain, as action or vigor; to make dull; to weaken; to discourage.

To suppress vibrations (mechanical) or oscillations (electrical) by converting energy to heat (or some other form of energy).

:* To damp your tender hopes -

:* Usury dulls and damps all industries, improvements, and new inventions, wherein money would be stirring if it were not for this slug -

:* How many a day has been damped and darkened by an angry word! -

:* The failure of his enterprise damped the spirit of the soldiers. -

:* Hollow rollers damp vibration. - [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb3238/is_200004/ai_n7935204]

Anagrams

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cold

English

Adjective

(er)

(label) Having a low temperature.

(label) Causing the air to be cold.

(label) Feeling the sensation of coldness, especially to the point of discomfort.

Unfriendly, emotionally distant or unfeeling.

* 2011 April 23, (Doctor Who), series 6, episode 1, (The Impossible Astronaut):

RIVER SONG (upon seeing the still-living DOCTOR, moments after he made her and two other friends watch what they thought was his death): This is cold'. Even by your standards, this is ' cold .

Dispassionate, not prejudiced or partisan, impartial.

Completely unprepared; without introduction.

Unconscious or deeply asleep; deprived of the metaphorical heat associated with life or consciousness.

(label) Perfectly, exactly, completely; by heart.

(label) Cornered, done for.

(label) Not pungent or acrid.

* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)

cold plants

(label) Unexciting; dull; uninteresting.

* (Ben Jonson) (1572-1637)

What a deal of cold business doth a man misspend the better part of life in!

* (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)

The jest grows cold when it comes on in a second scene.

Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) only feebly; having lost its odour.

(label) Not sensitive; not acute.

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

Smell this business with a sense as cold / As is a dead man's nose.

Distant; said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed. Compare warm'' and ''hot .

(label) Having a bluish effect; not warm in colour.

Synonyms

* chilled, chilly, freezing, frigid, glacial, icy, cool * (of the weather) (qualifier) brass monkeys, nippy, parky, taters * (of a person or animal) * (unfriendly) aloof, distant, hostile, standoffish, unfriendly, unwelcoming * (unprepared) unprepared, unready * See also

Antonyms

* (having a low temperature) baking, boiling, heated, hot, scorching, searing, torrid, warm * (of the weather) hot (See the corresponding synonyms of (hot).) * (of a person or animal) hot (See the corresponding synonyms of (hot).) * (unfriendly) amiable, friendly, welcoming * (unprepared) prepared, primed, ready

Derived terms

* as cold as charity * as cold as ice, cold as ice * as cold as the grave, cold as the grave * blow hot and cold * brass monkeys * bring someone out in a cold sweat * coldness * cold-blooded * cold call * cold case * cold cash * cold comfort * cold cream * cold cuts * cold-eyed * cold feet/get cold feet * cold fish * cold front * * cold-hearted * cold one * cold-read * cold reading * cold snap * cold start * cold storage * cold store * cold sweat * cold turkey * cold war * cold-weld * come in from the cold * freezing cold * get cold feet * give someone the cold shoulder * in cold blood * in the cold light of day * leave someone cold * leave someone out in the cold * make someone's blood run cold * stone-cold * throw cold water on

Noun

(en noun)

A condition of low temperature.

Come in, out of the cold .

(medicine) A common, usually harmless, viral illness, usually with congestion of the nasal passages and sometimes fever.

I caught a miserable cold and had to stay home for a week.

Synonyms

* (low temperature) coldness * (illness) common cold, coryza, head cold

Derived terms

* bitter cold * brass monkey weather * catch cold * catch one's death of cold * cold sore * cold virus * common cold * head cold

Coordinate terms

* freeze, frost

Adverb

(en adverb)

While at low temperature.

''The steel was processed cold .

Without preparation.

The speaker went in cold and floundered for a topic.

With finality.

I knocked him out cold .

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Anagrams

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