Fume vs Bristle - What's the difference?
fume | bristle | Related terms |
A gas or vapour/vapor that smells strongly or is dangerous to inhale. Fumes are solid particles formed by condensation from the gaseous state, e.g. metal oxides from volatilized metals. They can flocculate and coalesce. Their particle size is between 0.1 and 1 micron. (A micron is one millionth of a metre)
* T. Warton
A material that has been vaporized from the solid state to the gas state and re-coalesced to the solid state.
Rage or excitement which deprives the mind of self-control.
Anything unsubstantial or airy; idle conceit; vain imagination.
* Francis Bacon
The incense of praise; inordinate flattery.
* Burton
To emit fumes.
* Milton
* Roscommon
To expose something (especially wood) to ammonia fumes in order to produce dark tints.
To feel or express great anger.
* Dryden
* Sir Walter Scott
To be as in a mist; to be dulled and stupefied.
* Shakespeare
To pass off in fumes or vapours.
* Cheyne
A stiff or coarse hair.
The hair or straws that make up a brush, broom, or similar item.
To rise or stand erect, like bristles.
* Sir Walter Scott
To appear as if covered with bristles; to have standing, thick and erect, like bristles.
* Thackeray
* Macaulay
To be on one's guard or raise one's defenses; to react with fear, suspicion, or distance.
* Shakespeare
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Fume is a related term of bristle.
As a verb fume
is to.As a proper noun bristle is
(slang|humorous) bristol, england (in imitation of the local dialect).fume
English
Noun
(en noun)- Don't stand around in there breathing the fumes while the adhesive cures.
- the fumes of new shorn hay
- the fumes of passion
- (South)
- a show of fumes and fancies
- to smother him with fumes and eulogies
Verb
(fum)- where the golden altar fumed
- Silenus lay, / Whose constant cups lay fuming to his brain.
- He's still fuming about the argument they had yesterday.
- He frets, he fumes , he stares, he stamps the ground.
- Her mother did fret, and her father did fume .
- Keep his brain fuming .
- Their parts are kept from fuming away by their fixity.
Usage notes
* In the sense of strong-smelling or dangerous vapor, the noun is typically plural, as in the example. ----bristle
English
Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
*Verb
(bristl)- His hair did bristle upon his head.
- the hill of La Haye Sainte bristling with ten thousand bayonets
- ports bristling with thousands of masts
- Now for the bare-picked bone of majesty / Doth dogged war bristle his angry crest.
Engineers of a different kind, passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.}}
- to bristle a thread