Dewed vs Dewet - What's the difference?
dewed | dewet |
(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
(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
, passage=To obtain normal surface moisture, the peeled carrots were dewetted by centrifuging with a salad spinner.}}
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
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dew
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(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
* ----dewet
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