Distemper vs. Emulsion — What's the Difference?

Canine distemper.

An emulsion is a mixture of two or more liquids that are normally immiscible (unmixable or unblendable) owing to liquid-liquid phase separation. Emulsions are part of a more general class of two-phase systems of matter called colloids.

Feline panleukopenia.

A fine dispersion of minute droplets of one liquid in another in which it is not soluble or miscible

An illness or disease; an ailment

A type of paint used for walls, consisting of pigment bound in a synthetic resin which forms an emulsion with water

Ill humor; testiness.

Paint with emulsion

Disorder or disturbance, especially of a social or political nature.

A suspension of small globules of one liquid in a second liquid with which the first will not mix

A process of painting in which pigments are mixed with water and a glue-size or casein binder, used for flat wall decoration or scenic and poster painting.

A photosensitive coating, usually of silver halide grains in a thin gelatin layer, on photographic film, paper, or glass.

The paint used in this process.

A stable suspension of small droplets of one liquid in another with which it is immiscible.

A painting made by this process.

(chemistry) A colloid in which both phases are liquid.

To put out of order.

(photography) The coating of photosensitive silver halide grains in a thin gelatine layer on a photographic film.

(Archaic) To unsettle; derange.

Any liquid preparation of a color and consistency resembling milk; as: (a) In pharmacy, an extract of seeds, or a mixture of oil and water united by a mucilaginous substance. (b) In photography, a liquid preparation of collodion holding salt of silver, used in the photographic process.

To mix (powdered pigments or colors) with water and size.

(chemistry) a colloid in which both phases are liquids;

To paint (a work) in distemper.

A light-sensitive coating on paper or film; consists of fine grains of silver bromide suspended in a gelatin

A viral disease of animals, such as dogs and cats, characterised by fever, coughing and catarrh.

(archaic) A disorder of the humours of the body; a disease.

A glue-based paint.

(countable) A painting produced with this kind of paint.

To temper or mix unduly; to make disproportionate; to change the due proportions of.

To derange the functions of, whether bodily, mental, or spiritual; to disorder; to disease.

To deprive of temper or moderation; to disturb; to ruffle; to make disaffected, ill-humoured, or malignant.

To intoxicate.

To paint using distemper.

To mix (colours) in the way of distemper.

To temper or mix unduly; to make disproportionate; to change the due proportions of.

To derange the functions of, whether bodily, mental, or spiritual; to disorder; to disease.

To deprive of temper or moderation; to disturb; to ruffle; to make disaffected, ill-humored, or malignant.

To intoxicate.

To mix (colors) in the way of distemper; as, to distemper colors with size.

An undue or unnatural temper, or disproportionate mixture of parts.

Severity of climate; extreme weather, whether hot or cold.

A morbid state of the animal system; indisposition; malady; disorder; - at present chiefly applied to diseases of brutes; as, a distemper in dogs; the horse distemper; the horn distemper in cattle.

Morbid temper of the mind; undue predominance of a passion or appetite; mental derangement; bad temper; ill humor.

Political disorder; tumult.

A preparation of opaque or body colors, in which the pigments are tempered or diluted with weak glue or size (cf. Tempera) instead of oil, usually for scene painting, or for walls and ceilings of rooms.

Any of various infectious viral diseases of animals

An angry and disagreeable mood

Paint made by mixing the pigments with water and a binder

A painting created by distemper

A method of painting in which the pigments are mixed with water and a binder; used for painting posters or murals or stage scenery

Paint with distemper