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Dew vs Roration - What's the difference?

dew | roration |

As an acronym dew

is distant early warning.

As a noun roration is

a falling of dew.

dew

English

(wikipedia dew)

Noun

  • (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.
    • There was a heavy dew this morning.
  • (uncountable) Any moisture from the atmosphere condensed by cool bodies upon their surfaces.
  • (figurative) Anything that falls lightly and in a refreshing manner.
  • * Shakespeare
    • The golden dew of sleep.
  • An emblem of morning, or fresh vigour.
  • * Longfellow
    • 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)
  • To wet with, or as if with, dew; to moisten.
  • * A. B. Saxton
    • The grasses grew / A little ranker since they dewed them so.

    Related terms

    * dew point

    Anagrams

    * ----

    roration

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A falling of dew.
    • With dawn we see the mark of yesternight’s roration .
  • * 1810 : James Kennedy, Glenochel: A Descriptive Poem in Two Volumes , volume 1, page 50
    • That in the bland rorations calm
    ?Their luscious redolence receive,
    And, with a still, ambrosial balm,
    ?Aromatize the breath of eve.

    Related terms

    * (l) (obsolete)

    References

    * The Universal Etymological English Dictionary'' (1727), volume II of ''
    ??A Falling of Dew. * “ ro?ration²]” listed in the [2nd Ed.; 1989