Questions about example sentences with, and the definition and usage of "Powder"

A: Powder is very dry, like sand. Instant hot chocolate, instant coffee, sugar, or chalk dust are all examples of powder.

A: A powder keg is a barrel like container used to hold gunpowder for firearms

A: It is an expression for when you didn't expect something to happen. So you might say something along the lines of, 'Well, powder me in sugar and call me a donut'. Or you could also use the laid back variation and say, 'Well, pour some sugar on me and call me a donut.'

A: Please wipe the powder off your face.
Don't forget to powder your nose.
We mixed the grain into a fine powder.
Powdered sugar is great!

She likes whole wheat flour.
Flour is the first ingredient in our recipe.

A: I use curry powder when I make curry.
what kind of curry powder do you use to make Indian curry.

A: so dust is what u find in your room if you don't clean it for a long time while powder can be used as an ingredient in a recipe = baking powder or when babies have an irritation you usually apply baby powder. So powder is kind of a general word that is very versatile while the other one is used to indicate something that is covered with dirt.

ex.
- I haven't used my bycicle for a while, now it's full of dust.
- I need to clean my room, there's so much dust in here!

- I need to find the baking powder otherwhise my cake will not rise.
- To make hot chocolate I need to buy cocoa powder .

A: "Powder" is used for everything else like this. We call snow, drugs, cooking ingredients, and cleaning substances that look like this "powders."

Sometimes we use both the same ways. Example: "He crushed the rock into dust." or "He crushed the rock into powder." both work.

But usually dust = the stuff that is dirty, and powder = everything else.

A: They are both extremely small, but dust is kinda dirty, on the ground or....in the air

A: They're pretty much the same thing

A: Ointment - thick smooth substance that you put on sore or injured skin

Powder - a soft dry substance that looks like dust or sand


Baby, curry, dusting, talcum powder

An antiseptic, effective ointment.
To apply the ointment 3 times a day

A: Yes you can! They both have the same meaning — “try to” is just a casual, natural way to phrase the sentence.

A: 1. If you add the more powder, it makes a more pungent coffee./ If you add more powder, it makes a more pungent tasting coffee. (Pungent can refer to taste or smell. You can specify one, if you want)
2. The pungent odor is hitting my/our/their nostrils. (you need to say who owns the nostrils)
3. This perfume is too pungent. I like a mild fragrance.
4. This pickle gives off a pungent aroma of garlic. (a room can be filled with an aroma, but a pickle can't. It is the source of the aroma, but it is not filled with it. Also, aroma is almost always a pleasant fragrance. If you don't find garlic pleasant, use "odor")

A: You wouldn't really use pungent that often as a word. Except to say 'there was a really pungent odour coming out of that room' or similar, to mean a really strong smell, and most of the time to mean a bad smell.
Instead the most natural way to say these things would be:

1. it tastes stronger. there will be a stronger coffee taste.

2. hitting my nostrils, irritating my nostrils.

3. is too strong, I prefer milder fragrances.

4. with a pungent aroma, or a strong odour/scent

A: thank you!

A: Do you have something to stir it with?
Do you have something to stir with?

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A: ahhhh.. powder caking can be technically described as:

unwanted agglomeration
uncontrolled build up
unexpected adhesion

but a more people friendly way of describing powder caking can be:

lumping
hardening

I hope that helps :)

A: Sprinkle some powder in the curry to add some flavor.