Perfume vs Pong - What's the difference?
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A pleasant smell; the scent, odor, or odoriferous particles emitted from a sweet-smelling substance; a pleasant odor; fragrance; aroma.
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*:Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume ; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.
A substance created to provide a pleasant smell or one which emits an agreeable odor.
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, title= To apply perfume to; to fill or impregnate with a perfume; to scent.
(networking) A packet that is replying to a ping, and thereby indicating the presence of a host.
(UK, Australia, New Zealand, slang) A stench, a bad smell.
* 1992 , , Volume 1, 2011, Read How You Want,
* 1998 , Catherine Fox, Heaven?s Scent'', '' ,
* 2000 , Susan Sallis, 2011,
* 2009 , Martin Fine, The Devil?s Fragrance ,
(UK, Australia, New Zealand, slang) To stink, to smell bad.
* 1997 , , David M. E. Roskies (translator and editor), Stop Thief!'', ''Black Clouds Over the Isle of Gods and Other Modern Indonesian Short Stories ,
* 2009 , Susan Brocker, Saving Sam , HarperCollins, New Zealand,
* 2010 , Robin Easton, Naked in Eden: My Adventure and Awakening in the Australian Rainforest ,
* 2011 , , We?ll Sing at Dawn , 2012, eBook, Headline Publishing,
As nouns the difference between perfume and pong
is that perfume is a pleasant smell; the scent, odor, or odoriferous particles emitted from a sweet-smelling substance; a pleasant odor; fragrance; aroma while pong is a packet that is replying to a ping, and thereby indicating the presence of a host.As verbs the difference between perfume and pong
is that perfume is to apply perfume to; to fill or impregnate with a perfume; to scent while pong is to stink, to smell bad.As a proper noun Pong is
an early video game from Atari, resembling ping-pong, in which two players control paddles and attempt to intercept a ball.perfume
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Noun
(en noun) (wikipedia)Nicole Vulser
Perfume manufacturers must cope with the scarcity of precious supplies, passage=The perfume industry is facing a major problem: maintaining constant levels of quality is crucial, but it is increasingly difficult to obtain a regular supply of all the necessary natural ingredients.}}
Synonyms
* (pleasant smell) aroma, fragrance, scent * (substance providing a pleasant smell) fragrance, scentDerived terms
* perfumelike * perfumeyVerb
(perfum)References
* ----pong
English
Etymology 1
From ping, via the pairing of .Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
Probably from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)page 109,
- She sniffed, squiffing up her nose. ‘What a pong ! Do they all smell like this?’
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- I can remember calling round once and when she answered the door I was greeted by an unmistakable, noxious pong . “I can smell gas!”
- I said. “Oh, have I left the ring on?” she asked vaguely.
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- ‘I see what you mean about the pong . I couldn?t smell it on myself but I can smell it on you!’
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- If you want to empty a crowded room strong body pong will usually do the trick.
Verb
(en verb)page 97,
- On she walked at a crawling pace, ponging of sweat, drops of mucus and blood falling between her feet.
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- The place ponged , like the smell of stale cat pee.
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- “That toothless bloke ponged . Couldn?t you smell him? He smelled like a bloody pub floor at closing time.”
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- and this evening, Eileen Perkins?s daughter Rita ponged with the smell of cheap carbolic soap, after a late-afternoon visit to the public baths down Hornsey Road.