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Dewed vs Dewet - What's the difference?

dewed | dewet |

As verbs the difference between dewed and dewet

is that dewed is past tense of dew while dewet is to undergo or cause the rupture of a thin liquid film on a liquid or solid substrate.

dewed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (dew)
  • English palindromes ----

    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.

    Anagrams

    * ----

    dewet

    English

    Verb

    (dewett)
  • (fluid mechanics, nanoscience) To undergo or cause the rupture of a thin liquid film on a liquid or solid substrate
  • * {{quote-journal, 2004, Rada A. Pushkarova & Roger D. Horn, Surface forces measured between an air bubble and a solid surface in waterstar, open, Colloids and Surfaces A, volume=261, doi=10.1016/j.colsurfa.2004.10.132
  • , passage=It is well known that air bubbles attach to hydrophobic surfaces; in other words, such surfaces are partially dewetted by water.}}
  • To remove moisture from
  • * {{quote-journal, 1995, Luis Cisneros-Zevallos et al., Mechanism of Surface White Discoloration of Peeled (Minimally Processed) Carrots During Storage, Journal of Food Science citation
  • , passage=To obtain normal surface moisture, the peeled carrots were dewetted by centrifuging with a salad spinner.}}

    See also

    * (Dewetting)

    Anagrams

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