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Secco vs Arid - What's the difference?

secco | arid |

As a verb secco

is .

As an adjective arid is

very dry.

secco

English

Adjective

(-)
  • (art) dry
    • Secco painting, or painting in secco, is painting on dry plaster, as distinguished from fresco painting, on wet or fresh plaster.
  • (music) dry – sparse accompaniment, staccato, without resonance
    • (Webster 1913) ----

    arid

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj) (wikipedia arid)
  • Very dry.
  • Describing a very dry climate. Typically defined as less than 25 cm or 10 inches of rainfall annually.
  • Devoid of value.

    • Quotations

    * 1956 — , The City and the Stars , p 37 *: Such occupations might have seemed arid to those who did not possess the intellect to appreciate their subtleties.

    See also

    * semiarid

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