Wane vs Damp - What's the difference?
wane | damp |
A gradual diminution in power, value, intensity etc.
* 1853 , , "Bartleby, the Scrivener," in Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories'', New York: Penguin, 1968; reprinted 1995 as ''Bartleby , ISBN 0146000129, p. 3,
* 1913 , Michael Ott, The Catholic Encyclopedia , "",
The lunar phase during which the sun seems to illuminate less of the moon as its sunlit area becomes less visible from Earth.
* 1926 , ",
(literary) The end of a period.
* 1845 , ,
(woodworking) A rounded corner caused by lack of wood, often showing bark.
* 2002 , Peter Ross, Appraisal and Repair of Timber Structures ,
(label) To progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity etc.; to decline.
* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
* Sir (Josiah Child) (1630-1699)
* 1851 , (Herman Melville), (Moby-Dick) , :
* 1902 , (John Masefield), "":
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(label) Said of light that dims or diminishes in strength.
* 1894 , (Algernon Charles Swinburne), :
Said of the Moon as it passes through the phases of its monthly cycle where its surface is less and less visible.
* 1866 , (Sabine Baring-Gould), Curious Myths of the Middle Ages , "":
(label) Said of a time period that comes to an end.
* 1894 , (Algernon Charles Swinburne), "":
To decrease physically in size, amount, numbers or surface.
* 1815 , (Walter Scott), (Guy Mannering) , chapter XIX:
* {{quote-web, date=2012-08-30, author=Ann Gibbons, site=Science Now
, title= To cause to decrease.
* 1797 , (Anna Seward),
Being in a state between dry and wet; moderately wet; moist.
:* O'erspread with a damp sweat and holy fear -
(obsolete) Pertaining to or affected by noxious vapours; dejected, stupified.
* 1667 , John Milton, Paradise Lost , Book 1, ll. 522-3:
Moisture; humidity; dampness.
(archaic) Fog; fogginess; vapor.
* Milton
(archaic) Dejection or depression.
* Joseph Addison
* J. D. Forbes
(archaic, or, historical, mining) A gaseous product, formed in coal mines, old wells, pits, etc.
(archaic) To dampen; to render damp; to moisten; to make humid, or moderately wet; as, to damp cloth.
(archaic) To put out, as fire; to depress or deject; to deaden; to cloud; to check or restrain, as action or vigor; to make dull; to weaken; to discourage.
To suppress vibrations (mechanical) or oscillations (electrical) by converting energy to heat (or some other form of energy).
:* To damp your tender hopes -
:* Usury dulls and damps all industries, improvements, and new inventions, wherein money would be stirring if it were not for this slug -
:* How many a day has been damped and darkened by an angry word! -
:* The failure of his enterprise damped the spirit of the soldiers. -
:* Hollow rollers damp vibration. - [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb3238/is_200004/ai_n7935204]
As nouns the difference between wane and damp
is that wane is a gradual diminution in power, value, intensity etc or wane can be (scotland|slang) a child or wane can be (chiefly|northern england|and|scotland|obsolete) a house or dwelling while damp is steam.As a verb wane
is (label) to progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity etc; to decline.wane
English
Etymology 1
The noun is derived from (etyl) ("-ig" being a derivatem suffix, "-er" the suffix of comparatives).Noun
(en noun)- In the morning, one might say, his face was of a fine florid hue, but after twelve o'clock, meridian -- his dinner hour -- it blazed like a grate full of Christmas coals; and continued blazing -- but, as it were, with a gradual wane -- till six o'clock, PM, or thereabouts; after which, I saw no more of the proprietor of the face, [...].
- His influence which was on the wane during the reign of Joseph II grew still less during the reign of Leopold II (1790-2).
- It was very dark, for although the sky was clear the moon was now well in the wane , and would not rise till the small hours.
- The situation of the Venetian party in the wane of the eighteenth century had become extremely critical.
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- Sapwood, or even bark, may appear on the corners, or may have been cut off, resulting in wane , or missing timber.
Synonyms
* decrease, declineUsage notes
* When referring to the moon or a time period, the word is found mostly in prepositional phrases like (term) or (term).Verb
(wan)- You saw but sorrow in its waning form.
- Land and trade ever will wax and wane together.
- I have sat before the dense coal fire and watched it all aglow, full of its tormented flaming life; and I have seen it wane at last, down, down, to dumbest dust.
- And in the cool twilight when the sea-winds wane
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- The skies may hold not the splendour of sundown fast; / It wanes into twilight as dawn dies down into day.
- The fall of Jack, and the subsequent fall of Jill, simply represent the vanishing of one moon-spot after another, as the moon wanes .
- Fast as autumn days toward winter: yet it seems//Here that autumn wanes not, here that woods and streams
- The snow which had been for some time waning , had given way entirely under the fresh gale of the preceding night.
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- (Ben Jonson)
Letter to Mrs Childers of Yorkshire:
- Proud once and princely was the mansion, ere a succession of spendthrifts waned away its splendour.
Antonyms
* waxDerived terms
* wax and waneEtymology 2
From (etyl) wean.Alternative forms
* wain, waine, weanEtymology 3
From (etyl) , of unclear origins, compare wont.Alternative forms
* wone (Southern England)Anagrams
* * * ----damp
English
Adjective
(er)- The lawn was still damp so we decided not to sit down.
- The paint is still damp , so please don't touch it.
- All these and more came flocking; but with looks / Down cast and damp .
Synonyms
* (l) * (l)/(l)Derived terms
* dampen * dampnessSee also
*Noun
- Night with black air / Accompanied, with damps and dreadful gloom.
- Even now, while thus I stand blest in thy presence, / A secret damp of grief comes o'er my soul.
- It must have thrown a damp over your autumn excursion.
