Flaw vs Abrasion - What's the difference?
flaw | abrasion |
(obsolete) A flake, fragment, or shiver.
(obsolete) A thin cake, as of ice.
A crack or breach, a gap or fissure; a defect of continuity or cohesion.
* Shakespeare
A defect, fault, or imperfection, especially one that is hidden.
* South
A defect or error in a contract or other document which may make the document invalid.
A sudden burst or gust of wind of short duration.
* Milton
* Tennyson
A storm of short duration.
A sudden burst of noise and disorder; a tumult; uproar; a quarrel.
* Dryden
The act of abrading, wearing, or rubbing off; the wearing away by friction.
(obsolete) The substance thus rubbed off; debris.
(geology) The effect of mechanical erosion of rock, especially a river bed, by rock fragments scratching and scraping it.
An abraded, scraped, or worn area.
(medicine) A superficial wound caused by scraping; an area of skin where the cells on the surface have been scraped or worn away.
(dentistry) The wearing away of the surface of the tooth by chewing.
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In obsolete terms the difference between flaw and abrasion
is that flaw is a thin cake, as of ice while abrasion is the substance thus rubbed off; debris.As a verb flaw
is to add a flaw to, to make imperfect or defective.flaw
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) flawe, .Noun
(en noun)- There is a flaw in that knife.
- That vase has a flaw .
- This heart / Shall break into a hundred thousand flaws .
- Has not this also its flaws and its dark side?
- a flaw in a will, in a deed, or in a statute
Synonyms
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* tragic flawEtymology 2
Noun
(en noun)- Snow, and hail, and stormy gust and flaw .
- Like flaws in summer laying lusty corn.
- And deluges of armies from the town / Came pouring in; I heard the mighty flaw .
