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Milky vs Turbid - What's the difference?

milky | turbid |

As adjectives the difference between milky and turbid

is that milky is resembling milk in color or consistency while turbid is having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear; -- used of liquids of any kind.

milky

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Resembling milk in color or consistency.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • pails high foaming with a milky flood
  • * Arbuthnot
    • milky juice
  • (color science, informal) Of the black in an image, appearing as dark gray rather than black.
  • (colloquial) Cowardly.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Has friendship such a faint and milky heart?
  • (obsolete) Yielding milk.
  • * Roscommon
    • milky mothers

    turbid

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear; -- used of liquids of any kind.
    • turbid''' water''; '''''turbid wine

    Synonyms

    * (having the lees or sediment disturbed) confused, cloudy, disordered, disturbed, roiled

    Derived terms

    * turbidity

    Related terms

    * disturb * perturb * trouble * turbine * turbulence * turbulent

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