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Soot vs Sout - What's the difference?

soot | sout |

As nouns the difference between soot and sout

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or dull brown particles of amorphous carbon and tar, produced by the incomplete combustion of coal, oil etc while sout is obsolete form of lang=en.

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

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    sout

    English

    Noun

    • (Spenser)
    (Webster 1913) ----