Powder vs Ponder - What's the difference?
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The fine particles to which any dry substance is reduced by pounding, grinding, or triturating, or into which it falls by decay; dust.
* (rfdate) (William Shakespeare):
A mixture of fine dry, sweet-smelling particles applied to the face or other body parts, to reduce shine or to alleviate chaffing.
* 1912 , :
An explosive mixture used in gunnery, blasting, etc.; gunpowder.
(informal) Light, dry, fluffy snow.
To reduce to fine particles; to pound, grind, or rub into a powder.
To sprinkle with powder, or as with powder.
* (rfdate) :
To be reduced to powder; to become like powder.
To use powder on the hair or skin.
To sprinkle with salt; to corn, as meat.
To wonder, to think of deeply.
To consider (something) carefully and thoroughly; to chew over, to mull over.
* Bible, Proverbs iv. 26
(obsolete) To weigh.
As verbs the difference between powder and ponder
is that powder is to reduce to fine particles; to pound, grind, or rub into a powder while ponder is to wonder, to think of deeply.As a noun powder
is the fine particles to which any dry substance is reduced by pounding, grinding, or triturating, or into which it falls by decay; dust.powder
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Alternative forms
* powdre (obsolete)Noun
- Grind their bones to powder small.
- She was redolent of violet sachet powder, and had warm, soft, white hands, but she danced divinely, moving as smoothly as the tide coming in.
Derived terms
* Atlas powder * baking powder * Bolivian marching powder * powder blue * powder burn * powder down * powder-down feather * powder-down patch * powder hose * powder hoy * powder magazine * powder mine * powder monkey * powder post * powder puff * powder room * take a powderVerb
(en verb)- to powder the hair
- A circling zone thou seest / Powdered with stars.
- Some salts powder easily.
- She paints and powders .
Synonyms
* (to reduce to fine particles) pound, grind, comminute, pulverize, triturateponder
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Verb
(en verb)- I have spent days pondering the meaning of life.
- Ponder the path of thy feet.