different between scald vs infuse

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /sk?ld/; (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /sk?ld/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /sk??ld/, /sk?ld/
• Rhymes: -??ld

Etymology 1

From Middle English scalden, from Old Northern French escalder (Old French eschalder, French échauder), from Late Latin excaldare (“bathe in hot water”), from Latin ex- (“off, out”) + calidus (“hot”)

Verb

scald (third-person singular simple present scalds, present participle scalding, simple past and past participle scalded)

1. To burn with hot liquid.

   to scald the hand

   • 1605, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of King Lear, IV. vii. 48:

     Mine own tears / Do scald like molten lead.

   • 1656, Abraham Cowley, Davideis

     Here the blue flames of scalding brimstone fall.

2. (cooking) To heat almost to boiling.

   Scald the milk until little bubbles form.

Translations

Noun

scald (plural scalds)

1. A burn, or injury to the skin or flesh, by hot liquid or steam.

Translations

Etymology 2

Alteration of scall or scalled.

Noun

scald (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Scaliness; a scabby skin disease.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.vii:

     Her craftie head was altogether bald, / And as in hate of honorable eld, / Was ouergrowne with scurfe and filthy scald […].

Adjective

scald (comparative more scald, superlative most scald)

1. (obsolete) Affected with the scab; scabby.
2. (obsolete) Paltry; worthless.

Synonyms

• (scabby): roynish, scurvy; see also Thesaurus:scabby
• (paltry): contemptible, miserable, trashy; see also Thesaurus:despicable

Etymology 3

Noun

scald (plural scalds)

1. Alternative form of skald
   • ?, Walter Scott, Saxon War Song

References

Anagrams

• DACLs, S.D. Cal., clads

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [skald]

Verb

scald

1. first-person singular present indicative of sc?lda
2. first-person singular present subjunctive of sc?lda

English

Etymology

From Middle English infusen, from Latin infusus, from infundo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?fjuz/
• Rhymes: -u?z

Verb

infuse (third-person singular simple present infuses, present participle infusing, simple past and past participle infused)

1. (transitive) To cause to become an element of something; to insert or fill.
2. (transitive) To steep in a liquid, so as to extract the soluble constituents (usually medicinal or herbal).
   • 1806-1831, John Redman Coxe, The American Dispensatory

     One scruple of the dried leaves is infused in ten ounces of warm water.

3. (transitive) To inspire; to inspirit or animate; to fill (with).
4. (transitive) To instill as a quality.
   • c. 1720, Jonathan Swift, An Essay on Modern Education

     Why should he desire to have qualities infused into his son, which himself never possessed, or knew, or found the want of, in the acquisition of his wealth?

5. (intransitive) To undergo infusion.
6. (transitive) To make an infusion with (an ingredient); to tincture; to saturate.

   • if you infuse Rubarb for an hour ; and crush it well , it will purge better , and bind the Body less after the pur?ing , than if it stood Twenty four hours

7. (transitive, obsolete) To pour in, as a liquid; to pour (into or upon); to shed.
   • 1668, John Denham, The Progress of Learning

     That strong Circean liquor cease t'infuse.

Related terms

• infusion
• suffuse

Translations

See also

• fuse

References

• 1902 Webster's International dictionary.
• 1984 Consise Oxford 7th ed.

French

Adjective

infuse

1. feminine singular of infus

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -uze

Verb

infuse

1. third-person singular past historic of infondere

infuse

1. feminine plural of infuso

Latin

Participle

?nf?se

1. vocative masculine singular of ?nf?sus