Fume vs Fizz - What's the difference?
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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
An emission of a rapid stream of bubbles.
The sound of such an emission.
A carbonated beverage.
To emit bubbles.
To make a rapid hissing or bubbling sound.
To shoot or project something moving at great velocity.
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To travel at a great velocity, producing a sound caused by the speed.
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As nouns the difference between fume and fizz
is that fume is 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 while fizz is an emission of a rapid stream of bubbles.As verbs the difference between fume and fizz
is that fume is to emit fumes while fizz is to emit bubbles.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. ----fizz
English
Noun
(es)- I poured a cola and waited for the fizz to settle down before topping off the glass.
- Evan sat back in the hot tub and listened to the relaxing fizz and pops produced by the eruption of bubbles.
- Nathan ordered an orange fizz from the soda jerk at the counter.
Synonyms
* (emission of bubbles) effervescence, foam, froth, head * (sound of bubbles) bubble, fizzle, hiss, sputter * (carbonated beverage) pop, seltzer, soda, tonicVerb
- the fizzing fuse of a bomb
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