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Effuse vs Resolvent - What's the difference?

effuse | resolvent |

As verbs the difference between effuse and resolvent

is that effuse is to emit; to give off while resolvent is .

As an adjective effuse

is poured out freely; profuse.

As a noun effuse

is (obsolete) effusion; loss.

effuse

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Poured out freely; profuse.
  • * Barrow
    • So should our joy be very effuse .
  • Disposed to pour out freely; prodigal.
    • (Young)
  • (botany) Spreading loosely, especially on one side.
    • an effuse inflorescence
  • (zoology) Having the lips, or edges, of the aperture abruptly spreading, as in certain shells.

    • Verb

    (effus)
  • to emit; to give off
  • (figuratively) to gush; to be excitedly talkative and enthusiastic about something
  • To pour out like a stream or freely; to cause to exude; to shed.
  • * Milton
    • With gushing blood effused .
  • to leak out through a small hole

    • Derived terms

    * effuser

    Noun

  • (obsolete) effusion; loss
  • * Shakespeare
    • Much effuse of blood.
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    resolvent

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Able to resolve (separate) the constituents of a mixture

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any substance or material able to resolve the constituents of a mixture; a solvent.
  • (medicine) That which has power to disperse inflammatory or other tumours; a discutient; anything which aids the absorption of effused products.
    • (Coxe)
  • (mathematics) An equation upon whose solution the solution of a given problem depends.
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