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Moisture vs Fluid - What's the difference?

moisture | fluid |

As nouns the difference between moisture and fluid

is that moisture is a moderate degree of wetness while fluid is any substance which can flow with relative ease, tends to assume the shape of its container, and obeys Bernoulli's principle; a liquid, gas or plasma.

As an adjective fluid is

of or relating to fluid.

moisture

English

Noun

(wikipedia moisture) (en-noun)
  • A moderate degree of wetness.
  • :(Francis Bacon)
  • That which moistens or makes damp or wet; exuding fluid; liquid in small quantity.
    • All my body’s moisture Scarce serves to quench my furnace-burning heat. -
  • (medicine) Skin moisture noted as dry, moist, clammy, or diaphoretic as part of the skin signs assessment.

    • Related terms

    * moist * moisten * moisturise, moisturize * moisturiser, moisturizer

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    fluid

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia fluid)
  • (physics) Any substance which can flow with relative ease, tends to assume the shape of its container, and obeys Bernoulli's principle; a liquid, gas or plasma.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-03
    • , author=Frank Fish, George Lauder , title=Not Just Going with the Flow , volume=101, issue=2, page=114 , magazine= citation , passage=An extreme version of vorticity is a vortex . The vortex is a spinning, cyclonic mass of fluid , which can be observed in the rotation of water going down a drain, as well as in smoke rings, tornados and hurricanes.}}

    Derived terms

    * amber fluid * brake fluid * fluid mechanics

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (not comparable) Of or relating to fluid.
  • In a state of flux; subject to change.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Boundary problems , passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.}}
  • Moving smoothly, or giving the impression of a liquid in motion.
  • (of an asset) Convertible into cash.

    • Related terms

    * fluctuate * fluency * fluent * flux

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