different between permeate vs odor

English

Etymology

From Latin perme?tus, participle of perme?re (“to pass through”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p??mi?e?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p?mi?e??t/

Verb

permeate (third-person singular simple present permeates, present participle permeating, simple past and past participle permeated)

1. (transitive) To pass through the pores or interstices of; to penetrate and pass through without causing rupture or displacement; applied especially to fluids which pass through substances of loose texture

2. (transitive) To enter and spread through; to pervade.
   • 1922, William Shackleton, Shackleton's diaries January 4, 1922

     The old smell of dead whale permeates everything. It is a strange and curious place.

   • 1854, Saint Anselm, translated by Sidney Norton Deane, Proslogium and Monologium/Monologium/Chapter 14

     ...it is clear that this Being itself, is what supports and surpasses, includes and permeates all other things.

Translations

Noun

permeate

1. A watery by-product of milk production.
2. Liquid that has passed through a filtration system.

References

• permeate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• permeate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Italian

Verb

permeate

1. second-person plural present indicative of permeare
2. second-person plural imperative of permeare
3. feminine plural of permeato

Latin

Verb

perme?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of perme?

English

Alternative forms

• odour

Etymology

From Middle English odour, borrowed from Anglo-Norman odour, from Old French odor, from Latin odor.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???.d?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?o?.d?/
  • (US)
• Rhymes: -??d?(r)
• Homophone: oater (some dialects)

Noun

odor (countable and uncountable, plural odors) (American spelling)

1. Any smell, whether fragrant or offensive.

   Synonyms: scent, perfume; see also Thesaurus:smell

   • 1895, H. G. Wells, The Time Machine Chapter X

     Now, I still think that for this box of matches to have escaped the wear of time for immemorial years was a strange, and for me, a most fortunate thing. Yet oddly enough I found here a far more unlikely substance, and that was camphor. I found it in a sealed jar, that, by chance, I supposed had been really hermetically sealed. I fancied at first the stuff was paraffin wax, and smashed the jar accordingly. But the odour of camphor was unmistakable.

2. (figuratively) A strong, pervasive quality.
3. (figuratively, uncountable) Esteem.

   Synonyms: esteem, repute

4. (now rare) Something which produces a scent; incense, a perfume.

Usage notes

The term odo(u)r often has a negative connotation. Preferred terms for a pleasant odor are fragrance, scent, and aroma.

Derived terms

• in bad odor
• odorous
• odorously
• odorousness

Translations

See also

• aroma

Anagrams

• Rood, door, ordo, rood

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o?dor/
• Hyphenation: o?dór

Noun

odor m (invariable)

1. Apocopic form of odore

Anagrams

• doro, d'oro, dorò, ordo, rodo, rodò

Latin

Alternative forms

• od?s

Etymology

Via rhotacism from Old Latin od?s (plural: od?ses), from Proto-Indo-European *h?ed-.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?o.dor/, [??d??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?o.dor/, [???d??r]

Noun

odor m (genitive od?ris); third declension

1. A smell, perfume, stench.
2. (figuratively) Inkling, suggestion.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

• od?r?
• od?ror

Descendants

References

• odor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• odor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• odor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• odor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Middle English

Noun

odor

1. Alternative form of odour

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese odor (displacing collateral form olor), from Latin odor, od?ris, from Old Latin od?s, from Proto-Indo-European *h?ed- (“to smell, stink”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?.?ðo?/, /o.?ðo?/, /u.?ðo?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /o.?do?/, /o.?do?/
• Hyphenation: o?dor

Noun

odor m (plural odores)

1. odour; smell

   Synonyms: cheiro, aroma

Romanian

Etymology

From Serbo-Croatian odor

Noun

odor n (plural odoare)

1. treasure

Declension

Venetian

Alternative forms

• udor

Etymology

From Latin odor, od?rem. Compare Italian odore.

Noun

odor m (plural odori) or odor m (plural oduri)

1. smell, stink