Taint vs Pollution - What's the difference?
taint | pollution |
A (l), (l) or (l), especially in (l)
A mark of (l), especially on one's (l); blemish
(obsolete) tincture; hue; colour
(obsolete) infection; corruption; deprivation
To (l) or (l) (something) with an external (l), either (l) or (l).
* Shakespeare
To (l) (food) by (l).
To be infected or corrupted; to be touched by something corrupting.
* Shakespeare
To be affected with incipient putrefaction.
A (l) with a (l), which fails of its intended (l).
An (l) done to a (l) in an encounter, without its being broken; also, a breaking of a lance in an encounter in a (l) or unscientific manner.
To damage, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner.
* Massinger
To hit or touch lightly, in tilting.
* Ld. Berners
To thrust ineffectually with a lance.
(slang) The (l).
* 2000 June 17, "Marc Newman" (username), "
* 2005 July 14, "Noodles Jefferson" (username), "
* 2010 February 22, "Duchamanos" (username), "
The act of polluting or the state of being polluted, especially the contamination of the environment by harmful substances.
* {{quote-book, year=2006, author=, title=Internal Combustion
, chapter=1 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:
As nouns the difference between taint and pollution
is that taint is a contamination, decay or putrefaction, especially in food while pollution is the act of polluting or the state of being polluted, especially the contamination of the environment by harmful substances.As a verb taint
is to contaminate or corrupt (something) with an external agent, either physically or morally.taint
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) tingere, tinctum via (etyl) teint (past participle of )Noun
(en noun)- He had inherited from his parents a scrofulous taint , which it was beyond the power of medicine to remove. — Macaulay.
Verb
(en verb)- His unkindness may defeat my life, / But never taint my love.
- I cannot taint with fear.
- Meat soon taints in warm weather.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) . Compare with attaint.Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- Do not fear; I have / A staff to taint , and bravely.
- They tainted each other on the helms and passed by.
Etymology 3
Reportedly from the phrase “ your balls and 'tain't your ass”.Noun
(en noun)Re: Americas are overated", in talk.politics.guns, Usenet :
- Sorry you feel that way. But since your mother sucks cocks in hell if I go there I won't be rotting.....I'll be on line right behind you hoping to get another good head job from your Mom or Sister....if you can remember which is which.......(Moms the one with the beard on her taint )
Re: My Wife's Raw Comments", in rec.sport.pro-wrestling, Usenet :
- Even her taint
's raw?
Re: Huck Finn 2010-anyone going?", in rec.sport.disc, Usenet :
- Did you know that guy has absolutely no tan lines? He'll show his taint to prove it!
Anagrams
* (l), (l), (l)pollution
English
(wikipedia pollution)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=If successful, Edison and Ford—in 1914—would move society away from the
- 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.
