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Flaw vs Smirch - What's the difference?

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Flaw is a related term of smirch.


As nouns the difference between flaw and smirch

is that flaw is (obsolete) a flake, fragment, or shiver or flaw can be a sudden burst or gust of wind of short duration while smirch is dirt.

As verbs the difference between flaw and smirch

is that flaw is to add a flaw to, to make imperfect or defective while smirch is to.

flaw

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) flawe, .

Noun

(en noun)
  • (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.
    • There is a flaw in that knife.
    That vase has a flaw .
  • * Shakespeare
    • This heart / Shall break into a hundred thousand flaws .
  • A defect, fault, or imperfection, especially one that is hidden.
  • * South
    • Has not this also its flaws and its dark side?
  • A defect or error in a contract or other document which may make the document invalid.
    • a flaw in a will, in a deed, or in a statute
    Synonyms
    * See also
    Derived terms
    * tragic flaw

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To add a flaw to, to make imperfect or defective.
  • To become imperfect or defective.

    • Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sudden burst or gust of wind of short duration.
  • * Milton
    • Snow, and hail, and stormy gust and flaw .
  • * Tennyson
    • Like flaws in summer laying lusty corn.
  • A storm of short duration.
  • A sudden burst of noise and disorder; a tumult; uproar; a quarrel.
  • * Dryden
    • And deluges of armies from the town / Came pouring in; I heard the mighty flaw .

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    smirch

    English

    Etymology 1

    Attested since the 15th Century .

    Noun

  • Dirt
  • * 1998 , Michael Foss, People of the First Crusade , page 6, ISBN 1559704551.
  • *:Too often, in the years between 800 and 1050, the everyday sun declined through the smirch of flame and smoke of a monastery or town robbed and burnt.
  • (of a reputation) Stain
  • * 2008 , W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk , page 33, ISBN 1604502061.
  • *:there were some business transactions which savored of dangerous speculation, if not dishonesty; and around it all lay the smirch of the Freedmen's Bank.

    • Verb

    (es)
  • To .
  • * 1600 , Scene III
    • CELIA. I'll put myself in poor and mean attire,
    And with a kind of umber smirch my face;
    The like do you; so shall we pass along,
    And never stir assailants.
    Synonyms
    * besmirch * soil
    Derived terms
    * besmirch

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    Etymology 2

    Meld of smear and chirp
  • A chirp of radiation power from an astronomical body that has a smeared appearance om its plot in the time-frequency plane (usually associated with massive bodies orbiting supermassive black holes)
  • *2003 , B. S. Sathyaprakash, BF Schutz, "Templates for stellar mass black holes falling into supermassive black holes", Classical and Quantum Gravity , volume 20, no. 10
  • *:The strain h''(''t'') produced by a smirch in LISA is given by ''h''(''t'') = −-''A''(''t'')cos[(''t'') + ?(''t )]
  • *2005 , John M. T. Thompson, Advances in Astronomy: From the Big Bang to the Solar System , page 133, ISBN 1860945775.
  • *:By observing a smirch , LISA offers a unique opportunity to directly map the spacetime geometry around the central object and test whether or not this structure is in accordance with the expectations of general realtivity.

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