Dew vs Exudate - What's the difference?
dew | exudate | Related terms |
(uncountable) moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc in the morning, resulting in drops.
(countable, but see usage notes) an instance of a such moisture settling on plants, etc.
(uncountable) Any moisture from the atmosphere condensed by cool bodies upon their surfaces.
(figurative) Anything that falls lightly and in a refreshing manner.
* Shakespeare
An emblem of morning, or fresh vigour.
* Longfellow
To wet with, or as if with, dew; to moisten.
* A. B. Saxton
A fluid that has exuded from somewhere; especially one that has exuded from a pore of an animal or plant.
*1861 Stephen Jennings Goodfellow - Lectures on the Diseases of the Kidney, Generally Known as Brights Disease, and Dropsy
*:The whitish lines of exudate seem at times to penetrate even between the straight tubes . . .
*2005 Selma Tibi - The Medicinal Use of Opium in Ninth-century Baghdad
*:When this is done, one should leave the poppy for some time, then return to it and gather any further exudate .
(obsolete) To exude.
Dew is a related term of exudate.
As an acronym dew
is distant early warning.As a noun exudate is
a fluid that has exuded from somewhere; especially one that has exuded from a pore of an animal or plant.As a verb exudate is
(obsolete) to exude.dew
English
(wikipedia dew)Noun
- There was a heavy dew this morning.
- The golden dew of sleep.
- The dew of his youth.
Usage notes
* Although the countable sense is still used, the plural form is now archaic or poetic only.Synonyms
* (moisture settling on plants) (obsolete)Verb
(en verb)- The grasses grew / A little ranker since they dewed them so.
Anagrams
* ----exudate
English
(wikipedia exudate)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(exudat)- (Sir Thomas Browne)
