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MOIST
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Slightly wet
Example:
eyes moist with tears
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
wet (covered or soaked with a liquid such as water)
Derivation:
moistness (a slight wetness)
Context examples:
Because our equator bears the brunt of this sunshine, warm moist air rises (through convection) more freely there, which fuels towering thunderstorms that produce lightning.
(Juno Solves 39-Year Old Mystery of Jupiter Lightning, NASA)
Injury to tissues caused by contact with dry heat, moist heat, flames, chemicals, electricity, friction or radiant and electromagnetic energy.
(Burn, Food and Drug Administration)
A condition in which Candida albicans, a type of yeast, grows out of control in moist skin areas of the body.
(Candidiasis, NCI Dictionary)
I am tenderhearted by nature, and have found my eyes moist many a time over the scream of a wounded hare.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The moist air is typically applied at increased atmospheric pressure and the process is restricted to objects that can withstand high temperature and pressure.
(Moist Heat or Steam Sterilization, NCI Thesaurus)
A sterilization process that uses moist air at high temperatures to kill microorganisms.
(Moist Heat or Steam Sterilization, Food and Drug Administration)
It may help stop bleeding, form new blood vessels, keep the skin moist, and relieve pain and itching.
(Collagen/Aloe Vera/Vitamin E/Lidocaine Topical Hydrogel, NCI Dictionary)
Scientists have developed a new explanation: rapid vegetation changes related to climate fluctuations between arid and moist climates and the resulting extensive wildfires of the time.
(Big dinosaurs steered clear of the tropics, NSF)
At that point, however, as it happens, there is a broadish ditch, moist at the bottom.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Go to a mountainous area, perhaps covered with lots of powdered snow where you will see crocus lift their little heads up through the snow or moist soil.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
