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Dewing
name, noun, verb
Definitions
Proper Noun
- 1 A surname.
Noun
- 1 The formation of dew. uncountable
"[…] the dewing of a metal plate when breathed upon, the dewing of the outside of a glass when very cold water is poured into it, […]"
- 2 Other condensation (of water vapor or other gases) physically analogous to dew formation. uncountable
"The fact remains that, for a given gas composition, it is the metal temperature that determines whether or not dewing (and hence corrosion) takes place."
Verb
- 1 present participle and gerund of dew form-of, gerund, participle, present
- 2 To remove wings or a wing from. transitive
"the seed with wings attached withstood storage very significantly better than dewinged seed."
Etymology
de- + wing
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