Dew vs Raindrop - What's the difference?
dew | raindrop |
(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 single droplet of rainwater that has just fallen or is falling from the sky.
* 1902 , (John Muir), "":
* 1969', Hal David (lyricist), “”.
As nouns the difference between dew and raindrop
is that dew is moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc in the morning, resulting in drops while raindrop is a single droplet of rainwater that has just fallen or is falling from the sky.As a verb dew
is to wet with, or as if with, dew; to moisten.As an acronym DEW
is distant Early Warning.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
* ----raindrop
English
Noun
(en noun)- It is all so fine and orderly that it would seem that not only had the clouds and streams been kept harmoniously busy in the making of it, but that every raindrop sent like a bullet to a mark had been the subject of a separate thought, so sure is the outcome of beauty through the stormy centuries.
