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Smog vs Pollution - What's the difference?

smog | pollution |

As a verb smog

is (smyga).

As a noun pollution is

the act of polluting or the state of being polluted, especially the contamination of the environment by harmful substances.

smog

English

Noun

(-)
  • A noxious mixture of particulates and gases that is the result of urban air pollution

    • Derived terms

    * smoggy

    Verb

    (smogg)
  • (informal) To get a smog check; to check a vehicle or have it checked for emissions.
    • If the car is more than five years old, you'll have to have it smogged before you can register it.

    See also

    * smaze

    Anagrams

    * ----

    pollution

    English

    (wikipedia pollution)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of polluting or the state of being polluted, especially the contamination of the environment by harmful substances.
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  • Something that pollutes; a pollutant.
  • (archaic) Physical defilement.
  • (medicine, obsolete) The emission of semen at other times than in sexual intercourse.
  • * 1839 , Robley Dunglison, Medical Lexicon'', Blanchard, page 492 defines ''POLLUTION as:
    • The excretion of seminal liquor or sperm, at other times than during coition. When occasioned by a voluntary act it is called, simply, Pollution'' or ''Masturbation'' (q.v.); when excited, during sleep, by lascivious dreams, it takes the name ''Noctur'nal pollution, Exoneiro'sis, Oneirog'mos, Oneirog'onos, Gonorrhœ'a dormien'tium, G. oneirog'onos, G. Vera, G. libidino'sa, Proflu'vium Sem'inis, Spermatorrhœ'a, Paronir'ia salax, Night pollution.

    Synonyms

    * soilage * (masturbation) self-pollution

    Antonyms

    * conservation * purity

    Derived terms

    * air pollution * light pollution * noise pollution * self-pollution * soil pollution * water pollution

    Related terms

    * polluter