Scald vs Blister - What's the difference?
scald | blister |
To burn with hot liquid.
* 1605 , , IV. vii. 48:
* Cowley
(cooking) To heat almost to boiling.
(obsolete) Scaliness; a scabby skin disease.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , I.vii:
*, II.12:
(obsolete) Affected with the scab; scabby.
* 1599 , , III. i. 110:
(obsolete) Paltry; worthless.
* 1598 , , V. ii. 215:
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A small bubble between the layers of the skin that contains watery or bloody fluid and is caused by friction and pressure, burning, freezing, chemical irritation, disease or infection.
* Grainger
A swelling on a plant.
(medicine) Something applied to the skin to raise a blister; a vesicatory or other applied medicine.
* 1819 , Lord Byron, Don Juan , I.168:
A bubble, as on a painted surface.
(roofing) An enclosed pocket of air, which may be mixed with water or solvent vapor, trapped between impermeable layers of felt or between the membrane and substrate.
A type of pre-formed packaging made from plastic that contains cavities
To cause blisters to form.
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To criticise severely.
To break out in blisters.
As verbs the difference between scald and blister
is that scald is to burn with hot liquid while blister is to cause blisters to form.As nouns the difference between scald and blister
is that scald is a burn, or injury to the skin or flesh, by hot liquid or steam while blister is a small bubble between the layers of the skin that contains watery or bloody fluid and is caused by friction and pressure, burning, freezing, chemical irritation, disease or infection.As an adjective scald
is affected with the scab; scabby.scald
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl),Verb
(en verb)- to scald the hand
- Mine own tears / Do scald like molten lead.
- Here the blue flames of scalding brimstone fall.
- Scald the milk until little bubbles form.
Etymology 2
Alteration of (scall).Noun
(-)- Her craftie head was altogether bald, / And as in hate of honorable eld, / Was ouergrowne with scurfe and filthy scald .
- Some heale Horses, some cure men, some the plague, some the scald .
Adjective
(en adjective)- and let us knog our / prains together to be revenge on this same scald , scurvy, / cogging companion,
- Saucy lictors / Will catch at us like strumpets, and scald rhymers / Ballad us out o' tune.
Etymology 3
Noun
(en noun)- A war song such as was of yore chanted on the field of battle by the scalds of the yet heathen Saxons. — Sir Walter Scott.
Anagrams
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blister
English
Noun
(wikipedia blister) (en noun)- Painful blisters swelled my tender hands.
- (Dunglison)
- 'T is written in the Hebrew Chronicle, / How the physicians, leaving pill and potion, / Prescribed, by way of blister , a young belle, / When old King David's blood grew dull in motion, / And that the medicine answered very well [...].
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