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Enamel vs Vanish - What's the difference?

enamel | vanish |

As nouns the difference between enamel and vanish

is that enamel is an opaque, glassy coating baked onto metal or ceramic objects while vanish is (phonetics) the brief terminal part of a vowel or vocal element, differing more or less in quality from the main part.

As verbs the difference between enamel and vanish

is that enamel is to coat or decorate with enamel while vanish is to become invisible or to move out of view unnoticed.

enamel

English

(wikipedia enamel)

Noun

  • An opaque, glassy coating baked onto metal or ceramic objects.
  • A coating that dries to a hard, glossy finish.
  • The hard covering on the exposed part of a tooth.
  • Verb

  • To coat or decorate with enamel.
  • To variegate with colours, as if with enamel.
  • * Milton
  • Oft he [the serpent] bowed / His turret crest and sleek enamelled neck.
  • To form a glossy surface like enamel upon.
  • to enamel''' card paper; to '''enamel leather or cloth
  • To disguise with cosmetics, as a woman's complexion.
  • Derived terms

    * enamelware * porcelain enamel * tooth enamel * vitreous enamel

    Anagrams

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    vanish

    English

    Verb

    (es)
  • To become invisible or to move out of view unnoticed.
  • *
  • *:The Bat—they called him the Bat. Like a bat he chose the night hours for his work of rapine; like a bat he struck and vanished , pouncingly, noiselessly; like a bat he never showed himself to the face of the day.
  • (lb) To become equal to zero.
  • :The function f(x)=x2 vanishes at x=0.
  • Synonyms

    * disappear

    Derived terms

    * vanishing spray

    Noun

    (vanishes)
  • (phonetics) The brief terminal part of a vowel or vocal element, differing more or less in quality from the main part.
  • a as in ale ordinarily ends with a vanish of i as in ill.
    o as in old ordinarily ends with a vanish of oo as in foot.
    (Rush)

    See also

    * glide (Webster 1913)