Stain vs Pollution - What's the difference?
stain | pollution | Synonyms |
A discoloured spot or area.
A blemish on one's character or reputation.
A substance used to soak into a surface and colour it.
A reagent or dye used to stain microscope specimens so as to make some structures visible.
To discolour something
To taint or tarnish someone's character or reputation
* Milton
To coat a surface with a stain
To treat a microscope specimen with a dye
To cause to seem inferior or soiled by comparison.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
* Spenser
The act of polluting or the state of being polluted, especially the contamination of the environment by harmful substances.
* {{quote-book, year=2006, author=, title=Internal Combustion
, 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:
Stain is a synonym of pollution.
As nouns the difference between stain and pollution
is that stain is while pollution is the act of polluting or the state of being polluted, especially the contamination of the environment by harmful substances.stain
English
(wikipedia stain)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* (l) * Giemsa stain * Leishman stain * Romanowsky stain * Wright-Giemse stain * Wright's stainVerb
(en verb)- to stain the hand with dye
- armour stained with blood
- Of honour void, / Of innocence, of faith, of purity, / Our wonted ornaments now soiled and stained .
- to stain wood with acids, coloured washes, paint rubbed in, etc.
- the stained glass used for church windows
- She stains the ripest virgins of her age.
- that did all other beasts in beauty stain
Anagrams
* ----pollution
English
(wikipedia pollution)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=If successful, Edison and Ford—in 1914—would move society away from the
- 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.