Domestic vs Softpaste - What's the difference?
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Of or relating to the home.
* 1994 , George Whitmore, Getting Rid of Robert'' in ''Violet Quill :
Of or relating to activities normally associated with the home, wherever they actually occur.
(of an animal) Kept by someone, for example as a farm animal or a pet.
* 1890 , US Bureau of Animal Industry, Annual report v 6/7, 1889/90
Internal to a specific country.
* 1996', Robert O. Keohane, Helen V. Milner, ''Internationalization and '''Domestic Politics :
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= A house servant; a maid; a household worker.
* Mary Romero, Maid in the U.S.A. - New standards of cleanliness increased the workload for domestic s.
A domestic dispute, whether verbal or violent
* 2005:' Bellingham-Whatcom County Commission Against Domestic Violence, ''Domestic Violence in Whatcom County'' (read on the Whatcom County website at on 20 May 2006) - The number of “verbal ' domestic s” (where law enforcement determines that no assault has occurred and where no arrest is made), decreased significantly.
(of ceramics) Having a body formulation that combines clay and frit, mainly used in the production of decorative figures and domestic wares in eighteenth-century Europe; also sometimes applied to other soft porcelains such as bone china.
As adjectives the difference between domestic and softpaste
is that domestic is of or relating to the home while softpaste is (of ceramics) having a body formulation that combines clay and frit, mainly used in the production of decorative figures and domestic wares in eighteenth-century europe; also sometimes applied to other soft porcelains such as bone china.As a noun domestic
is a house servant; a maid; a household worker.domestic
English
(wikipedia domestic)Alternative forms
* domestick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- “Dan’s not as domestic as you," I commented rather nastily.
- It shall be the duty of any owner or person in charge of any domestic animal or animals.
- The proportion of international economic flows relative to domestic ones.
Boundary problems, passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.}}