West vs Damp - What's the difference?
west | damp |
One of the four principal compass points, specifically 270°, conventionally directed to the left on maps; the direction of the setting sun at an equinox.
Situated or lying in or toward the west; westward.
(meteorology) Of wind: from the west.
Of or pertaining to the west; western.
From the West; occidental.
Towards the west; westwards.
To move to the west; (of the sun) to set.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.prologue:
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 a proper noun west
is the western]] world; the regions, primarily situated in the western [[hemisphere|hemisphere, whose culture is derived from europe.As a noun damp is
steam.west
English
(wikipedia west)Noun
(-)Derived terms
* north-northwest * northwest * south-southwest * southwest * west by north * west by south * wester * westerly * western * westerner * westing * westward * westwardly * westwardsCoordinate terms
* (compass point) east, north, southAdjective
Adverb
(-)Verb
(en verb)- Foure times his place he shifted hath in sight, / And twice has risen, where he now doth West', / And ' wested twice, where he ought rise aright.
Anagrams
* * 1000 English basic words ----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.