What is the difference between pollutant and pollution?
pollutant | pollution |
A foreign substance that makes something dirty, or impure, especially waste from human activities.
The act of polluting or the state of being polluted, especially the contamination of the environment by harmful substances.
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, chapter=1 Something that pollutes; a pollutant.
(archaic) Physical defilement.
(medicine, obsolete) The emission of semen at other times than in sexual intercourse.
* 1839 , Robley Dunglison, Medical Lexicon'', Blanchard, page 492 defines ''POLLUTION as:
As nouns the difference between pollutant and pollution
is that pollutant is a foreign substance that makes something dirty, or impure, especially waste from human activities while pollution is the act of polluting or the state of being polluted, especially the contamination of the environment by harmful substances.pollutant
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(wikipedia pollutant)Noun
(en noun)pollution
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(wikipedia pollution)Noun
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- The excretion of seminal liquor or sperm, at other times than during coition. When occasioned by a voluntary act it is called, simply, Pollution'' or ''Masturbation'' (q.v.); when excited, during sleep, by lascivious dreams, it takes the name ''Noctur'nal pollution, Exoneiro'sis, Oneirog'mos, Oneirog'onos, Gonorrhœ'a dormien'tium, G. oneirog'onos, G. Vera, G. libidino'sa, Proflu'vium Sem'inis, Spermatorrhœ'a, Paronir'ia salax, Night pollution.