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Smell vs Nidor - What's the difference?

smell | nidor |

As nouns the difference between smell and nidor

is that smell is a sensation, pleasant or unpleasant, detected by inhaling air (or, the case of water-breathing animals, water) carrying airborne molecules of a substance while nidor is the smell of burning animals, especially of burning animal fat.

As a verb smell

is to sense a smell or smells.

smell

English

Noun

  • A sensation, pleasant or unpleasant, detected by inhaling air (or, the case of water-breathing animals, water) carrying airborne molecules of a substance.
    • I love the smell of fresh bread.
  • * 1908 , (Kenneth Grahame), (The Wind in the Willows)
    • The penetrating smell' of cabbage reached the nose of Toad as he lay prostrate in his misery on the floor, and gave him the idea for a moment that perhaps life was not such a blank and desperate thing as he had imagined. But still he wailed, and kicked with his legs, and refused to be comforted. So the wise girl retired for the time, but, of course, a good deal of the ' smell of hot cabbage remained behind, as it will do, and Toad, between his sobs, sniffed and reflected, and gradually began to think new and inspiring thoughts: of chivalry, and poetry...
  • (physiology) The sense that detects odours.

    • Usage notes

    * Adjectives often applied to "smell": sweet, good, nice, great, pleasant, fresh, fragrant, bad, foul, unpleasant, horrible, terrible, awful, nasty, disgusting, funny, strange, odd, sour, funky, metallic, stinky, rotten, rancid, putrid, rank, fishy.

    Synonyms

    * (sensation) ** (pleasant) aroma, fragrance, odor/odour, scent ** (unpleasant) odor/odour, niff (informal), pong (informal), reek, stench, stink, whiff (informal) * (sense) olfaction (in technical use), sense of smell * See also

    Verb

  • To sense a smell or smells.
  • To have a particular smell, whether good or bad; if descriptive, followed by "like" or "of".
  • * , chapter=8
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=Philander went into the next room
  • (without a modifier) To smell bad; to stink.
  • (figurative) To have a particular tincture or smack of any quality; to savour.
  • * (John Milton)
    • Praises in an enemy are superfluous, or smell of craft.
  • (obsolete) To exercise sagacity.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • To detect or perceive; often with out .
  • * Shakespeare
    • I smell a device.
  • (obsolete) To give heed to.
  • * Latimer
    • From that time forward I began to smell the Word of God, and forsook the school doctors.

    Usage notes

    The sense "to smell bad, stink" is considered by some to be an incorrect substitute for stink.

    Synonyms

    * (sense a smell or smells) detect, sense * (have the smell of) (all followed by'' like''' ''or'' ' of ) ** (pleasant) ** (unpleasant) pong (informal), reek, stink, whiff (informal)

    Derived terms

    * code smells * sense of smell (see olfaction) * smell a rat * smell blood * smell like a rose * smell of an oily rag * smell test * smell the barn * smelly * wake up and smell the coffee

    See also

    * anosmia * sense

    References

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    Anagrams

    * English irregular verbs 1000 English basic words

    nidor

    English

    Noun

    (nidor)
  • The smell of burning animals, especially of burning animal fat.
  • * 1743 , Thomas Stackhouse, A Compleat Body of Speculative and Practical Divinity , edition 3 (London), page 524:
    • The First-fruits'' were a common Oblation to their Deities; but the chief Part of their Worship consisted in ''sacrificiing'' Animals : And this they did out of a real Persuasion, that their Gods were pleased with their Blood, and were nourished with the ''Smoke'', and Nidor of them; and therefore the more costly, they thought them the more acceptable, for which Reason, they stuck not sometimes to regale them with ''human Sacrifices.
  • * 1896 , Daniel Waterland, A Review of the Doctrine of the Eucharist , page 623:
    • Elsewhere to blood, smoke, and nidor , he opposes purity of thought, sincerity of affection,
  • * 1997 , Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon :
    • The smell, at some times of year sensible for Miles, of Sheep, and wool-fat, and that queasy Nidor of Lambs baking in ovens meant for bread
  • (nonstandard) Any smell.
  • * 2007 , Samuel F. Pickering, Autumn spring , page 28:
    • For her part Vicki smells little, not even the nidor of antifreeze at the stock car races at Lake Doucette.
  • * 2008 , Edgar Wallace, Devil Man , page 9:
    • The long, yellow face was framed in side whiskers; there hung about him the nidor of stale cigar smoke.
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