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Damp vs Sodden - What's the difference?

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In transitive terms the difference between damp and sodden

is that damp is to suppress vibrations (mechanical) or oscillations (electrical) by converting energy to heat (or some other form of energy) while sodden is to drench, soak or saturate.

As adjectives the difference between damp and sodden

is that damp is being in a state between dry and wet; moderately wet; moist while sodden is soaked or drenched with liquid; soggy, saturated.

As verbs the difference between damp and sodden

is that damp is to dampen; to render damp; to moisten; to make humid, or moderately wet; as, to damp cloth while sodden is to drench, soak or saturate.

As a noun damp

is moisture; humidity; dampness.

As an abbreviation DAMP

is Deficits in Attention, Motor coordination and Perception.

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

    See also

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    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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    sodden

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Soaked or drenched with liquid; soggy, saturated.
  • * 1810 , , Volume XII, 4th Edition, page 702,
    • It is found, indeed, that meat, roa?ted by a fire of peat or turf, is more ?odden than when coal is employed for that purpo?e.
  • * 1895 February, James Rodway, Nature's Triumph'', '' , page 460,
    • The outfalls are choked, the dams are perforated by crabs or broken down by floods, and soon the ground becomes more and more sodden .
  • * 2014, (Paul Salopek), Blessed. Cursed. Claimed. , National Geographic (December 2014)[http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text]
    • A miraculous desert rain. We slog, dripping, into As Safi, Jordan. We drive the sodden mules through wet streets. To the town’s only landmark. To the “Museum at the Lowest Place on Earth.”
  • (figuratively) Drunk; stupid as a result of drunkenness.
  • * 1857 , , 1899, Reprint Edition, page 60,
    • With this profession of faith, the doctor, who was an old jail-bird, and was more sodden than usual, and had the additional and unusual stimulus of money in his pocket, returned to his associate and chum in hoarseness, puffiness, redfacedness, all-fours, tobacco, dirt, and brandy.
  • * 2010 , , The Cameron Delusion , page 79,
    • I would have done too, but alcohol makes me so ill that I couldn't (I mention this to make it clear that I don't claim any moral superiority over my more sodden colleagues).

    Derived terms

    * soddenly * soddenness

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To drench, soak or saturate.
  • * 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
    • But as I lay asleep the top had been pressed off the box, and the tinder got loose in my pocket; and though I picked the tinder out easily enough, and got it in the box again, yet the salt damps of the place had soddened it in the night, and spark by spark fell idle from the flint.
  • To become soaked.