Ephemeral vs Vanish - What's the difference?
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Lasting for a short period of time.
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(biology) Existing for only one day, as with some flowers, insects, and diseases.
(geology, of a body of water) Usually dry, but filling with water for brief periods during and after precipitation.
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To become invisible or to move out of view unnoticed.
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*: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.
(phonetics) The brief terminal part of a vowel or vocal element, differing more or less in quality from the main part.
As nouns the difference between ephemeral and vanish
is that ephemeral is something which lasts for a short period of time 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 an adjective ephemeral
is lasting for a short period of time.As a verb vanish is
to become invisible or to move out of view unnoticed.ephemeral
English
(wikipedia ephemeral)Synonyms
* (short-lived) ephemeronAdjective
(en adjective)- Esteem, lasting esteem, the esteem of good men, like himself, will be his reward, when the gale of ephemeral popularity shall have gradually subsided.
- sentences not of ephemeral , but of eternal, efficacy
- It was during an access of this kind that I suddenly left my home, and bending my steps towards the near Alpine valleys, sought in the magnificence, the eternity of such scenes, to forget myself and my ephemeral , because human, sorrows.
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- The graben constitutes a depositional basin and a topographic low, underlain by Cretaceous shales, in which volcanic debris accumulated in ephemeral lakes and streams in Oligocene and early Miocene time.
Synonyms
* (lasting for a short period of time) temporary, transitory, fleeting, evanescent, momentary, short-lived, short, volatile * See alsoAntonyms
* (lasting for a long period of time) permanent, eternal, everlasting, timeless.Derived terms
* ephemerallyExternal links
* *vanish
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Verb
(es)Synonyms
* disappearDerived terms
* vanishing sprayNoun
(vanishes)- 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.
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