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Rash vs. Volatile — What's the Difference?

Rash vs. Volatile — What's the Difference?

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Rash

A rash is a change of the human skin which affects its color, appearance, or texture. A rash may be localized in one part of the body, or affect all the skin.

Volatile

Evaporating readily at normal temperatures and pressures.

Rash

Resulting from or acting with ill-considered haste or boldness.

Volatile

Capable of being readily vaporized.

Rash

A visible lesion or group of lesions on the skin, caused by any of numerous factors including infectious agents, drugs, and allergies.
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Volatile

Tending to vary often or widely, as in price
The ups and downs of volatile stocks.

Rash

An outbreak of many instances within a brief period
A rash of burglaries.

Volatile

Inconstant; fickle
A flirt's volatile affections.

Rash

Acting too quickly without considering the consequences and risks; not careful; hasty.
Rash words spoken in the heat of debate

Volatile

Lighthearted; flighty
In a volatile mood.

Rash

Of corn or other grains: so dry as to fall out of the ear with handling.

Volatile

Ephemeral; fleeting.

Rash

Requiring swift action; pressing; urgent.

Volatile

Tending to violence; explosive
A volatile situation with troops and rioters eager for a confrontation.

Rash

Taking effect quickly and strongly; fast-acting.

Volatile

Flying or capable of flying; volant.

Rash

(archaic) rashly

Volatile

(Computers) Of or relating to memory whose data is erased when the memory's power is interrupted.

Rash

An area of inflamed and irritated skin characterized by reddened spots that may be filled with fluid or pus; also, preceded by a descriptive word , an illness characterized by a type of rash.
He came out in a rash because of an allergy.
She applied rash cream on herself to reduce the irritation.
A wet cloth should help with the rash on your arm.

Volatile

(physics) Evaporating or vaporizing readily under normal conditions.

Rash

(figuratively)

Volatile

Explosive.

Rash

An irregular distribution or sprinkling of objects resembling a rash (sense 1).

Volatile

(of a price etc) Variable or erratic.

Rash

An outbreak or surge in problems; a spate, string, or trend.
There has been a rash of vandalism lately.

Volatile

(of a person) Quick to become angry or violent.
A volatile man

Rash

(historical) Chiefly preceded by a descriptive word: a fabric with a smooth texture woven from silk, worsted, or a mixture of the two, intended as an inferior substitute for silk.
Cloth rash
Silk rash

Volatile

Fickle.

Rash

(obsolete) A soft crackling or rustling sound.

Volatile

Temporary or ephemeral.

Rash

(transitive)

Volatile

(of a situation) Potentially violent.

Rash

To forcefully move or push (someone or something) in a certain direction.

Volatile

Having its associated memory immediately updated with any changes in value.

Rash

To break (something) forcefully; to smash.

Volatile

Whose content is lost when the computer is powered down

Rash

To emit or issue (something) hastily.

Volatile

(obsolete) Passing through the air on wings, or by the buoyant force of the atmosphere; flying; having the power to fly.

Rash

(rare) Usually followed by up: to prepare (something) with haste; to cobble together, to improvise.

Volatile

A chemical or compound that changes into a gas easily.

Rash

(intransitive)

Volatile

(programming) A variable that is volatile, i.e. has its associated memory immediately updated with any change in value.

Rash

To move forcefully, hastily, or suddenly; to dash, to rush.

Volatile

Passing through the air on wings, or by the buoyant force of the atmosphere; flying; having the power to fly.

Rash

Of rain: to fall heavily.

Volatile

Capable of wasting away, or of easily passing into the aëriform state; subject to evaporation.

Rash

Chiefly followed by against, at, or upon: to collide or hit.

Volatile

Fig.: Light-hearted; easily affected by circumstances; airy; lively; hence, changeable; fickle; as, a volatile temper.
You are as giddy and volatile as ever.

Rash

Chiefly followed by away, down, off, out, etc.: to pluck, pull, or rip (something) violently.

Volatile

A winged animal; wild fowl; game.

Rash

To hack, slash, or slice (something).

Volatile

A volatile substance; a substance that changes readily from solid or liquid to a vapor;
It was heated to evaporate the volatiles

Rash

(rare) Chiefly followed by out: to scrape or scratch (something); to obliterate.

Volatile

Evaporating readily at normal temperatures and pressures;
Volatile oils
Volatile solvents

Rash

To pull off or pluck violently.

Volatile

Liable to lead to sudden change or violence;
An explosive issue
A volatile situation with troops and rioters eager for a confrontation

Rash

To slash; to hack; to cut; to slice.
Rashing off helms and riving plates asunder.

Volatile

Marked by erratic changeableness in affections or attachments;
Fickle friends
A flirt's volatile affections

Rash

To prepare with haste.

Volatile

Tending to vary often or widely;
Volatile stocks
Volatile emotions

Rash

A fine eruption or efflorescence on the body, with little or no elevation.

Rash

An inferior kind of silk, or mixture of silk and worsted.

Rash

Sudden in action; quick; hasty.

Rash

Requiring sudden action; pressing; urgent.
I scarce have leisure to salute you,My matter is so rash.

Rash

Esp., overhasty in counsel or action; precipitate; resolving or entering on a project or measure without due deliberation and caution; opposed to prudent; said of persons; as, a rash statesman or commander.

Rash

Uttered or undertaken with too much haste or too little reflection; as, rash words; rash measures.

Rash

So dry as to fall out of the ear with handling, as corn.
Was never known a more adventurous knight.
Her rash hand in evil hourForth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she eat.
If any yet be so foolhardyTo expose themselves to vain jeopardy;If they come wounded off, and lame,No honor's got by such a maim.

Rash

Any red eruption of the skin

Rash

A series of unexpected and unpleasant occurrences;
A rash of bank robberies
A blizzard of lawsuits

Rash

Imprudently incurring risk;
Do something rash that he will forever repent

Rash

Marked by unthinking boldness; with defiant disregard for danger or consequences;
Foolhardy enough to try to seize the gun from the hijacker
Became the fiercest and most reckless of partisans
A reckless driver
A rash attempt to climb the World Trade Center

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