Distempers vs Varnish - What's the difference?
distempers | varnish |
(distemper)
(veterinary medicine, pathology) A viral disease of animals, such as dogs and cats, characterised by fever, coughing and catarrh.
(archaic) A disorder of the humours of the body; a disease.
* 1719- (Daniel Defoe), (Robinson Crusoe)
A water-based paint.
* , chapter=10
, title= A painting produced with this kind of paint.
To temper or mix unduly; to make disproportionate; to change the due proportions of.
To derange the functions of, whether bodily, mental, or spiritual; to disorder; to disease.
* Buckminster
To deprive of temper or moderation; to disturb; to ruffle; to make disaffected, ill-humoured, or malignant.
* Coleridge
To intoxicate.
* Massinger
To paint using distemper.
To mix (colours) in the way of distemper.
A type of paint with a solvent that evaporates to leave a hard, transparent, glossy film.
Anything resembling such a paint; glossy appearance.
* Macaulay
(by extension) A deceptively showy appearance.
* Shakespeare
To apply varnish.
To cover up with varnish.
To gloss over a defect.
As verbs the difference between distempers and varnish
is that distempers is (distemper) while varnish is to apply varnish.As a noun varnish is
a type of paint with a solvent that evaporates to leave a hard, transparent, glossy film.distempers
English
Verb
(head)distemper
English
Noun
(wikipedia distemper) (en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.}}
Verb
(en verb)- (Chaucer)
- (Shakespeare)
- The imagination, when completely distempered , is the most incurable of all disordered faculties.
- distempered spirits
- The courtiers reeling, / And the duke himself, I dare not say distempered , / But kind, and in his tottering chair carousing.
- to distemper colors with size
Conjugation
(en-conj-simple)varnish
English
Noun
(es)- the varnish of the holly and ivy
- And set a double varnish on the fame / The Frenchman gave you.
