Volatile vs Virgin - What's the difference?
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(physics) evaporating or vaporizing readily under normal conditions.
(of a substance, informal) explosive.
(of a price etc) variable or erratic.
(of a person) quick to become angry or violent.
fickle.
temporary or ephemeral.
(of a situation) potentially violent.
(computing, of a variable) having its associated memory immediately updated with any changes in value.
(computing, of memory) whose content is lost when the computer is powered down
(obsolete) Passing through the air on wings, or by the buoyant force of the atmosphere; flying; having the power to fly.
A person who has never had sexual intercourse, or sometimes, one who has never engaged in any sexual activity at all.
(informal) One who has never used or experienced a specified thing.
Any of several species of gossamer-winged butterflies of the family Lycaenidae.
A female insect producing eggs from which young are hatched, though there has been no fecundation by a male; a parthenogenetic insect.
In a state of virginity; chaste, not having had sexual intercourse.
* (and other bibliographic particulars) Milton
* 1913 , (DH Lawrence), Sons and Lovers , Penguin 2006, p. 294:
* 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 314:
Of a physical object, untouched.
* (and other bibliographic particulars) Shakespeare
Not yet cultivated, explored, or exploited by humans or humans of certain civilizations.
Of olive oil, obtained by mechanical means, so that the oil is not altered.
Of mixed drinks, not containing alcohol.
As adjectives the difference between volatile and virgin
is that volatile is evaporating or vaporizing readily under normal conditions while virgin is in a state of virginity; chaste, not having had sexual intercourse.As a noun virgin is
a person who has never had sexual intercourse, or sometimes, one who has never engaged in any sexual activity at all.As a proper noun Virgin is
mary, the mother of Jesus.volatile
English
(wikipedia volatile)Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* volatility * volatile memoryvirgin
English
(wikipedia virgin)Noun
(en noun)- I've never eaten tofu before – you could say I'm a tofu virgin .
Synonyms
* (person who has never had sexual intercourse) maiden (dated; used of a woman only''), unicorn bait (qualifier), virgo intacta (''medical term; used of a woman only ), vestalAdjective
(-)- Innocence and virgin modesty / That would be wooed, and unsought be won.
- He was now about twenty-three years old, and, though still virgin , the sex instinct that Miriam had over refined for so long now grew particularly strong.
- Helvidius took the plain meaning of scripture to say that Jesus patently had brothers and sisters, so therefore his mother, Mary, had enjoyed a normal family life rather than remaining perpetually virgin .
- the white cold virgin snow upon my heart
- virgin''' prairie'', ''a '''virgin ecosystem'', ''virgin forest
- The virgin lands of the Americas were awaiting the Europeans.
- a virgin daiquiri