What's the difference between damp and smudge?

Damp


Definition:

  • (n.) Moisture; humidity; fog; fogginess; vapor.
  • (n.) Dejection; depression; cloud of the mind.
  • (n.) A gaseous product, formed in coal mines, old wells, pints, etc.
  • (superl.) Being in a state between dry and wet; moderately wet; moist; humid.
  • (superl.) Dejected; depressed; sunk.
  • (n.) To render damp; to moisten; to make humid, or moderately wet; to dampen; as, to damp cloth.
  • (n.) 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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Of great influence on the results of measurements are preparation and registration (warm-up-time, amplification, closeness of pressure-system, unhurt catheters), factors relating to equipment and methods (air-bubbles in pressure-system, damping by filters, continuous infusion of the micro-catheter, level of zero-pressure), factors which occur during intravital measurement (pressure-drop along the arteria pulmonalis, influence of normal breathing, great intrapleural pressure changes, pressure damping in the catheter by thrombosis and external disturbances) and last not least positive and negative acceleration forces, which influence the diastolic and systolic pulmonary artery pressure.
  • (2) These two quantities were used to calculate the damping factor.
  • (3) Children still received an education, it was just that increasing numbers did so in damp and dilapidated buildings.
  • (4) Bloody odd combination but those Orange Foam Headphones would blast those magnificent records into my developing brain over and over again" chernypyos – Björk's Human Behavior and Sinead O'Connor's Fire On Babylon: "bjork's 'human behavior' and sinead o'connor's "fire on babylon" oddly stick in my head from that one evening walking in the woods, breathing the damp air, and feeling pleasantly invisible" Pyromancer – REM – Automatic for the People Blood Sugar Sex Magic Pearl Jam - Vs RATM's first album Portishead Maxinquaye by Tricky Manic Street Preachers – Gold Against the Soul Smashing Pumpkins, Siamese Dream "I used to go to the local library and take out a CD (50p for 3 weeks!
  • (5) The frequency distribution of the natural, damped and resonance frequencies of the second-order activities was found to show one, two or three modes in each frequency range of the delta, theta and beta rhythms in ninety normal adult EEGs.
  • (6) vittatus eggs laid on damp mud were placed in dry rockpools for 10 weeks and kept dry for a further 6 weeks in the laboratory.
  • (7) It’s a damp squib, a bit of a nothing result,” a leading energy analyst said of a report that is widely expected to endorse provisional findings released in March , and recommend price controls on prepayment meters and setting up a customer database to help rival suppliers target customers stuck on expensive default tariffs.
  • (8) Performing this reaction in H2 18O gave [18O]dps(ATCGTC) (a pentamer containing an 18O-labeled 5'-phosphorothioate) which was converted to [18O]dAMPS with nuclease P1.
  • (9) The damping time of the acceleration wave also had a negative correlation with age.
  • (10) The former time-pattern displays a fast rise and an exponential decay, while the latter exhibits a damped sine wave.
  • (11) Studies of activity levels indicate that tsetse flies should aggregate in damp situations where the activity levels is minimal, whereas in practice the flies are distributed throughout the whole of gradient.
  • (12) In response to dynamic forces the platform showed a resononance frequency of about 50 Hz, with a damping factor of 0.15.
  • (13) 4-DAMP (4-diphenylacetoxy N-methylpiperidine; a M3-receptor antagonist), strongly inhibited the ACh-induced constrictions.
  • (14) 4-Diphenylacetoxy-1:1-dimethyl cyclohexane (carbo-4-DAMP) is the carbon analogue of 4-diphenylacetoxy-N-methylpiperidine (4-DAMP) methiodide.
  • (15) Posture control performance was quantified in three variables (swiftness, stiffness, damping).
  • (16) The first 2 ms of these transients were described by a linear model in which the fibre is regarded as a rod composed of infinitesimally small, identical segments containing a mass, one undamped elastic element and in the case of relaxed fibres two damped elastic elements in series, or in the case of activated fibres three such elastic elements in series.
  • (17) This would implicate the existence of a dynamic control through which the sensory system may register and damp the pressure response.
  • (18) Trying to solve those problems by closing the borders is like trying to deal with rising damp by bolting your front door Trying to solve those problems by closing the borders is like trying to deal with rising damp by bolting your front door.
  • (19) Response is dependent upon the external impulse plus system inertia, damping and stiffness.
  • (20) In humans, ethanol produces a slow damped oscillation in the steady electrical potential of the eye, which is generated primarily by the RPE.

Smudge


Definition:

  • (n.) A suffocating smoke.
  • (n.) A heap of damp combustibles partially ignited and burning slowly, placed on the windward side of a house, tent, or the like, in order, by the thick smoke, to keep off mosquitoes or other insects.
  • (n.) That which is smeared upon anything; a stain; a blot; a smutch; a smear.
  • (v. t.) To stifle or smother with smoke; to smoke by means of a smudge.
  • (v. t.) To smear; to smutch; to soil; to blacken with smoke.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The most common microscopic features included dense marrow fibrosis or "scar" formation, a sprinkling of lymphocytes in a relative absence of other inflammatory cells (especially histiocytes), and smudged, nonresorbing necrotic bone flakes.
  • (2) Peripheral blood smears from old NZB mice show an increase in circulating lymphocytes and "smudged" or ruptured cells, often seen in human CLL.
  • (3) On light microscopy, "rosette" and "smudge" cells were seen in these cases, and two patterns of virus particle distribution in infected cells were seen ultrastructurally.
  • (4) With Kitade sporting teased hair, dark, smudged makeup, ropes and an arm piercing, it's safe to assume her music will also take a turn for the darker.
  • (5) Smudging of Z-bands and diffuse dilatation of the sarcoplasmic reticulum, although occasionally diffuse and massive, were often found in otherwise normal muscle fibres and were rarely observed in severely atrophic ones.
  • (6) Renal tubular cells exhibit eccentric nuclei, with smudged chromatine, and round, refringent cytoplasmic vacuoles.
  • (7) The occurrence of smudge, as it is often called, is not very common, but is brought to the attention of most jewelers from time to time.
  • (8) Inkjet tends to be cheaper than laser, but the ink can smudge.
  • (9) There are dark smudges under her eyes, and she looks both wound up with adrenaline, and exhausted.
  • (10) Four distinct but aspecific patterns of omental pathology were identified with CT: omental caking; finely infiltrated fat with a "smudged" appearance; discrete nodules; cystic masses.
  • (11) Autopsy revealed an extensive necrotizing bronchiolitis and alveolitis with frequent "smudge cells."
  • (12) The sharp stick is now there and a little while ago I found myself high up it, wondering at a 60-mile-wide sweep in which I could see Southend-on-Sea in one direction and Ascot in the other, or, rather, smudges I was told were these pleasure grounds of poor and rich.
  • (13) It was the first of the khamseen , a dust-filled wind that sweeps in from the Sahara each spring, blurring the streets and skies into a single ochre smudge.
  • (14) A sheet of paper filled with statistics, A certificate with smudged footprints, A tiny bracelet engraved "Girl, Smith."
  • (15) We conclude that in the presence of smudge cells, leukocyte counts can be made as reliably by automated methods as by pipette and chamber technics.
  • (16) The overheating of the instruments is considered to be the main cause and the plastic materials smudges and unstable fixing of the diamond grains--as accompanying causes.
  • (17) It was histopathologically demonstrated that necrobiotic tubular cells had inclusion-bearing cells of three types: "smudge cells," Cowdry A intranuclear inclusion cells, and full-type intranuclear-containing cells.
  • (18) The smears showed cells containing nuclear inclusions with radiated strands ("rosette" cells), large homogeneously-staining nuclei ("smudge" cells) and nuclei with a "honeycomb" appearance.
  • (19) The classic appearance is that of milk of calcium, seen as linear, curvilinear, or teacup-shaped particles on horizontal-beam lateral views and as ill-defined smudges on vertical-beam craniocaudal views.
  • (20) Other presentations include milk of calcium within microcysts in a unilateral, clustered distribution; milk of calcium within macrocysts; sandlike calcifications (discrete particles rather than smudges on craniocaudal view) within cysts of various sizes; and rarely, milk of calcium within the lipid cysts of either fat necrosis or galactoceles.