Sticky vs Sodden - What's the difference?
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Able or likely to stick.
Potentially difficult to escape from.
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(computing, informal, of a setting) Persistent.
(computing, of a window) Appearing on all virtual desktops.
(Internet, of threads on a bulletin board) Fixed at the top of the list of topics or threads so as to keep it in view.
(Internet, of a website) Compelling enough to keep visitors from leaving.
Of weather, hot and windless and with high humidity, so that people feel sticky from sweating.
A sticky note, such as a post-it note.
(manufacturing) A small adhesive particle found in wastepaper.
A sweet dessert wine.
(Internet, bulletin boards) to fix a thread at the top of the list of topics or threads so as to keep it in view.
Soaked or drenched with liquid; soggy, saturated.
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(figuratively) Drunk; stupid as a result of drunkenness.
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To drench, soak or saturate.
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To become soaked.
Sticky is a related term of sodden.
As adjectives the difference between sticky and sodden
is that sticky is able or likely to stick while sodden is soaked or drenched with liquid; soggy, saturated.As verbs the difference between sticky and sodden
is that sticky is (internet|bulletin boards) to fix a thread at the top of the list of topics or threads so as to keep it in view while sodden is to drench, soak or saturate.As a noun sticky
is a sticky note, such as a post-it note.sticky
English
Adjective
(er)- Is this tape sticky enough to stay on that surface?
- This is a sticky situation. We could be in this for weeks if we're not careful.
Roll up, roll up! The Amazing Salmond will show a Scotland you won't believe", The Guardian , 8 September 2014:
- Salmond studied medieval Scottish history as well as economics at university so he cannot say he has not had fair warning – it was even more turbulent and bloody than England at that time – and plenty of Scotland's kings and leaders came to a sticky end.
- We should make the printing direction sticky so the user doesn't have to keep setting it.
- A woman has come to me with the complaint that her website is not "sticky" - 70% of the visits last 30 seconds or less.
Derived terms
* stickily * stickiness * sticky-backed plastic * sticky bit * sticky fingers * sticky wicket * sticky noteSee also
* tackyNoun
(stickies)- Her desk is covered with yellow stickies .
Verb
sodden
English
Adjective
(en adjective)page 702,
- It is found, indeed, that meat, roa?ted by a fire of peat or turf, is more ?odden than when coal is employed for that purpo?e.
page 460,
- The outfalls are choked, the dams are perforated by crabs or broken down by floods, and soon the ground becomes more and more sodden .
- A miraculous desert rain. We slog, dripping, into As Safi, Jordan. We drive the sodden mules through wet streets. To the town’s only landmark. To the “Museum at the Lowest Place on Earth.”
page 60,
- With this profession of faith, the doctor, who was an old jail-bird, and was more sodden than usual, and had the additional and unusual stimulus of money in his pocket, returned to his associate and chum in hoarseness, puffiness, redfacedness, all-fours, tobacco, dirt, and brandy.
page 79,
- I would have done too, but alcohol makes me so ill that I couldn't (I mention this to make it clear that I don't claim any moral superiority over my more sodden colleagues).
Derived terms
* soddenly * soddennessVerb
(en verb)- But as I lay asleep the top had been pressed off the box, and the tinder got loose in my pocket; and though I picked the tinder out easily enough, and got it in the box again, yet the salt damps of the place had soddened it in the night, and spark by spark fell idle from the flint.
