Soot vs Pain - What's the difference?
soot | pain |
Fine black or dull brown particles of amorphous carbon and tar, produced by the incomplete combustion of coal, oil etc.
(countable, and, uncountable) An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation, resulting from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; hurt.
(uncountable) The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress; sadness; grief; solicitude; disquietude.
(countable) An annoying person or thing.
(uncountable, obsolete) Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty.
Labour; effort; pains.
To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture.
To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.
(obsolete) To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.
As nouns the difference between soot and pain
is that soot is fine black or dull brown particles of amorphous carbon and tar, produced by the incomplete combustion of coal, oil etc while pain is .As a verb soot
is to cover or dress with soot.As an adverb pain is
towards, in/to the direction of.soot
English
(wikipedia soot)Noun
(-)Synonyms
* lampblackSee also
* carbon blackAnagrams
*pain
English
Noun
- The greatest difficulty lies in treating patients with chronic pain .
- I had to stop running when I started getting pains in my feet.
- In the final analysis, pain is a fact of life.
- The pain of departure was difficult to bear.
- Your mother is a right pain .
- You may not leave this room on pain of death.
- Interpose, on pain of my displeasure. — Dryden
- We will, by way of mulct or pain , lay it upon him. — Bacon
Usage notes
* Adjectives often used with "pain": mild, moderate, severe, intense, excruciating, debilitating, acute, chronic, sharp, dull, burning, steady, throbbing, stabbing, spasmodic, etc.Synonyms
* (an annoying person or thing) pest * See alsoAntonyms
* pleasureHyponyms
* agony * anguish * pang * neuropathic pain * nociceptive pain * phantom pain * psychogenic painDerived terms
* pain in the arse * pain in the ass * pain in the back * pain in the bum * pain in the butt * pain in the neck * painkiller * painyVerb
(en verb)- The wound pained him.
- It pains me to say that I must let you go.