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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
moisture
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
little
▪ He licked it, the tip, little mouth oozing moisture, feeling the smoothness on the tongue.
■ NOUN
content
▪ It is closely related to peat and has a relatively low carbon content and high moisture content.
▪ Modifications in curd treatment result in cheeses that are different in moisture content, body and texture, and flavor and aroma.
▪ The moisture content of wood may be determined simply by weighing a small sample before and after oven drying.
▪ The low moisture content and salt content are preservative; hence, they are less perishable than the sausages previously described.
▪ Up to about 25 percent moisture content the whole of the water in wood is held in association with the hydroxyls in the cell walls.
▪ The churned product is salted and worked to the legal moisture content.
▪ As with conventionally grown grains, millers will accept samples with a 2 % admixture and moisture content of 14 %.
▪ The moisture content of a range of samples was measured at 9-14 %, using a Protimeter TimberMini moisture meter.
soil
▪ This amount is called the soil moisture deficit.
▪ To encourage a fuller hedge, increase the organic matter in the soil, water, then mulch to conserve soil moisture.
▪ Sometimes the rainfall in winter is barely enough to cancel out the soil moisture deficit.
▪ Nevertheless, grazing greatly exacerbates the water-loss impact of annual grasses on oak recruitment by further reducing soil moisture through compaction.
▪ Such cropmarks occur because soil moisture deficiency in gravel subsoils shows up the earlier features.
▪ This shows that slope form and soil moisture status are particularly influential in determining erosion rates.
▪ Depending on the presence of soil moisture, they are absent from very dry ground and vary in structure according to wetness.
■ VERB
absorb
▪ Cretans who like their salt to run smoothly add a few grains of rice to absorb moisture.
▪ When wood absorbs moisture, its fibers swell.
▪ Egg whites absorb moisture, and more is not always better.
▪ Cotton sheets breathe, absorb moisture, and create less static electricity, which gives you a more comfortable rest.
▪ You can not put uncooked grains of rice in a bread dough and expect them to absorb enough moisture to soften.
allow
▪ This allows it to gather moisture should it become lost; its mouth remains wet and the string is wet too.
▪ The thin permeable skin allows moisture to flow into the animal rather than out of it.
▪ The cover over the top allows the moisture which comes off the food to stay beneath the oil and seal it.
▪ It saves a few pence but it is a weak point that could allow moisture to penetrate.
evaporate
▪ This gets the oil hot enough to evaporate any moisture that reacts to form acids in the engine.
▪ The heat sets the crust and quickly evaporates the surface moisture, crisping the crust.
▪ Evaporation through pores starts at the surface with water being continuously drawn out and evaporating as a moisture gradient comes into being.
hold
▪ They act as a barrier, holding in moisture.
▪ I noticed that the tent had been designed to hold moisture inside; my hand got wet looking for the boots.
▪ The natural properties of Mint Balm help to hold moisture so you can achieve a firm hold without stiffness.
▪ Tangerines and navel oranges may hold their moisture longer by leaving stems attached to the fruit.
▪ The air holds moisture like a cloth.
▪ Mulch: Material such as grass clippings or wood chips put down to discourage weeds and hold in moisture.
prevent
▪ It also prevents food losing moisture.
▪ Coat each hair with a fine translucent film which smooths down the rough surface &038; seals the hair to prevent moisture loss.
retain
▪ After we reach 3O, our skin becomes drier and thinner, and retains less moisture.
▪ It's no longer as efficient at retaining this crucial moisture.
▪ The salt retains the extracted moisture, thus inhibiting the growth of bacteria which require moisture to flourish in the food.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Moisture is essential for keeping your skin fresh and youthful.
▪ All plants require constant moisture when first planted.
▪ In the summer, temperatures rose to 90 or 100 degrees, and the air was constantly heavy with moisture.
▪ Nearby ditches and walls affect the moisture content of the soil.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As the sun bakes out the last moisture from the mud, the mucus turns to parchment.
▪ Do we need to be concerned about moisture formation with the new cabinets?
▪ He began to sweat, a weird cold extrusion of moisture that began to trickle down his face.
▪ In other words, might the level of moisture you feel be contributing to the arousal you are building?
▪ Mulch plants each spring with straw to conserve moisture and keep weeds in check.
▪ Pat dry with paper towels removing all moisture.
▪ The golden iridescence of Cassida and its allies is produced by a film of moisture beneath the surface cuticle.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Moisture

Moisture \Mois"ture\, n. [Cf. OF. moistour, F. moiteur.]

  1. A moderate degree of wetness.
    --Bacon.

  2. That which moistens or makes damp or wet; exuding fluid; liquid in small quantity.

    All my body's moisture Scarce serves to quench my furnace-burning heat.
    --Shak.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
moisture

mid-14c., from Old French moistour "moisture, dampness, wetness" (13c., Modern French moiteur), from moiste (see moist).

Wiktionary
moisture

n. 1 A moderate degree of wetness. 2 That which moistens or makes damp or wet; exuding fluid; liquid in small quantity. 3 (context medicine English) Skin moisture noted as dry, moist, clammy, or diaphoretic as part of the skin signs assessment.

WordNet
moisture

n. wetness caused by water; "drops of wet gleamed on the window" [syn: wet]

Wikipedia
Moisture

Moisture refers to the presence of a liquid, especially water, often in trace amounts. Small amounts of water may be found, for example, in the air ( humidity), in foods, and in various commercial products. Moisture also refers to the amount of water vapour present in the air.

Usage examples of "moisture".

Every external wall or enclosing wall of habitable rooms or their appurtenances or cellars which abuts against the earth shall be protected by materials impervious to moisture to the satisfaction of the district surveyor.

Crimson clover has highest adaptation to the States east of the Allegheny Mountains and west of the Cascades, but will also grow in the more Central States south, in which moisture is abundant.

This important plant holds the soils of riparian habitats and also creates fertile micro-climates, adapting its shape and behavior to the amount of moisture it can get and to the elevation in which it grows, which relates then to the temperature that it must endure.

Thus we are told that earth cannot have concrete existence without the help of some moist element--the moisture in water being the necessary adhesive--but admitting that we so find it, there is still a contradiction in pretending that any one element has a being of its own and in the same breath denying its self-coherence, making its subsistence depend upon others, and so, in reality, reducing the specific element to nothing.

The only way to water the crops was to somehow extract enough moisture from the airsome was available, but difficult to isolate, especially with very small natural temperature changes in the Maracandan atmosphere.

As she entered the familiar channel between Amygdaloid Island and Belle Isle, and saw the ranger station snugged up safe from storms at the foot of the moss-covered cliff, she allowed herself one short dream of cholla cactus and skies without milky veils of moisture, of a sun with fire to it and food hotter even than that.

The re-crystallised and pure salt is used for preparing the anhydrous sulphate, which is used for detecting moisture in gases.

The forest was dominated by plants that could extract moisture from the air: Lichen coated the gnarled bark of the araucaria trees, and even the low magnolia shrubs dripped with moss.

The assayer, however, uses the sample which he has dried for his moisture-determination, as the dry ore on which he makes his other assays, and no variation in moisture would influence the other and more important determinations.

They walk in the middle of winter with their poor little toes pinched into a miniature slipper, incapable of excluding as much moisture as might bedew a primrose.

Perhaps in a while--a month or two--a certain shoot in the topmost branch would take the hint and the uneven flow of moisture up through the cambium layer would nudge it away from that upward reach and persuade it to continue the horizontal passage.

The clogging moisture seemed to brood over the accursed earth, like some foul bird with deadly menace in wings and beak.

It is the only British species belonging to the Cruciferous order of plants, and flourishes best on the walls of old buildings, flowering nearly all the summer, though scantily supplied with moisture.

He had put down some acres of cabbage for spring feed for his small flock during the lambing season, but a cruciferous crop asks for moisture.

Raising its creamy cymes of blossoms in every ditch where there is a little moisture.