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Moistness vs Exudate - What's the difference?

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In obsolete terms the difference between moistness and exudate

is that moistness is moisture while exudate is to exude.

As nouns the difference between moistness and exudate

is that moistness is the property of being moist while exudate is a fluid that has exuded from somewhere; especially one that has exuded from a pore of an animal or plant.

As a verb exudate is

to exude.

moistness

English

Noun

(-)
  • The property of being moist.
  • (obsolete) Moisture.
  • *, II.12:
  • *:The moistnesse which the roote of a tree suckes becomes a trunke, a leafe, and fruite: And the aire being but one, applied unto a trumpet, becommoth diverse in a thousand sorts of sounds.

    • exudate

    English

    (wikipedia exudate)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A fluid that has exuded from somewhere; especially one that has exuded from a pore of an animal or plant.
  • *1861 Stephen Jennings Goodfellow - Lectures on the Diseases of the Kidney, Generally Known as Brights Disease, and Dropsy
  • *:The whitish lines of exudate seem at times to penetrate even between the straight tubes . . .
  • *2005 Selma Tibi - The Medicinal Use of Opium in Ninth-century Baghdad
  • *:When this is done, one should leave the poppy for some time, then return to it and gather any further exudate .

    • Verb

    (exudat)
  • (obsolete) To exude.
    • (Sir Thomas Browne)