Dormant vs Mordant - What's the difference?
dormant | mordant |
Inactive, sleeping, asleep, suspended.
* Burke
(heraldry) In a sleeping posture; distinguished from couchant.
Having or showing a sharp or critical quality; biting; caustic; sarcastic; keen; severe.
Any substance used to facilitate the fixing of a dye to a fibre; usually a metallic compound which reacts with the dye using chelation.
* 1964', ''In dyeing two mediums are required, the colouring matter and the '''mordant which fixes the dye in the wool.'' — , ''English Industries of the Middle Ages , p. 208.
Any corrosive substance used in etching.
To subject to the action of, or imbue with, a mordant.
As adjectives the difference between dormant and mordant
is that dormant is inactive, sleeping, asleep, suspended while mordant is having or showing a sharp or critical quality; biting; caustic; sarcastic; keen; severe.As a noun mordant is
any substance used to facilitate the fixing of a dye to a fibre; usually a metallic compound which reacts with the dye using chelation.As a verb mordant is
to subject to the action of, or imbue with, a mordant.dormant
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Alternative forms
* dormaunt (obsolete)Adjective
(-)- Grass goes dormant during the winter, waiting for spring before it grows again.
- The bank account was dormant ; there had been no transactions in months.
- This volcano is dormant but not extinct.
- It is by lying dormant a long time, or being very rarely exercised, that arbitrary power steals upon a people.
- a lion dormant
Antonyms
* active * active, extinctExternal links
* * *Anagrams
* ----mordant
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Adjective
(en adjective)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- Mordant these goods for dyeing.