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Powder vs Pulverulent - What's the difference?

powder | pulverulent |

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.

As a verb powder

is to reduce to fine particles; to pound, grind, or rub into a powder.

As an adjective pulverulent is

pulverulent.

powder

English

Alternative forms

* powdre (obsolete)

Noun

  • 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):
    • Grind their bones to powder small.
  • A mixture of fine dry, sweet-smelling particles applied to the face or other body parts, to reduce shine or to alleviate chaffing.
  • * 1912 , :
    • 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.
  • An explosive mixture used in gunnery, blasting, etc.; gunpowder.
  • (informal) Light, dry, fluffy snow.

    • 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 powder

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To reduce to fine particles; to pound, grind, or rub into a powder.
  • To sprinkle with powder, or as with powder.
    • to powder the hair
  • * (rfdate) :
    • A circling zone thou seest / Powdered with stars.
  • To be reduced to powder; to become like powder.
    • Some salts powder easily.
  • To use powder on the hair or skin.
    • She paints and powders .
  • To sprinkle with salt; to corn, as meat.

    • Synonyms

    * (to reduce to fine particles) pound, grind, comminute, pulverize, triturate

    See also

    * (wikipedia) English intransitive verbs English transitive verbs

    pulverulent

    English

    Alternative forms

    * pulverulentous * pulverulous

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Consisting]] of, covered with, or [[disintegrate, disintegrating into a fine powder; powdery; dusty.
  • *1900 , , Love and Mr. Lewisham , ch. 15,
  • *:The first pulverulent snows told that Christmas was at hand.
  • *2004 , (Geoffrey Brock. trans.), The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana , ISBN 9780156030434, p. 120,
  • *:If a cellar prefigures the underworld, an attic promises a rather threadbare paradise, where the dead bodies appear in a pulverulent glow.

    • Related terms

    * pulverulence * pulverulently

    References

    *" pulverulent" at OneLook® Dictionary Search .