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Soot vs Smokefall - What's the difference?

soot | smokefall |

As nouns the difference between soot and smokefall

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 smokefall is the close of the day before nightfall, when fog comes.

As a verb soot

is to cover or dress with soot.

soot

English

(wikipedia soot)

Noun

(-)
  • Fine black or dull brown particles of amorphous carbon and tar, produced by the incomplete combustion of coal, oil etc.

    • Synonyms

    * lampblack

    See also

    * carbon black

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cover or dress with soot.
    • to soot land
    (Mortimer)

    Anagrams

    *

    smokefall

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The close of the day before nightfall, when fog comes.
  • * 1935: T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets , "Burnt Norton" (possible neologism)
    • The moment in the draughty church at smokefall
  • The soot fallout from a cloud of smoke.
  • * 1985: T.S. Ledley and S.L. Thompson, Potential effect of nuclear war smokefall on sea ice (apparent neologism)
    • The largest sea ice perturbations are generated by smokefall in spring.
  • An artificial waterfall of smoke for shows; a smoke fall.

    • See also

    * crepuscule * dusk * evenfall * gloaming * nightfall * soot fallout * sunset * twilight English compound words