maintenance vs powder

maintenance

noun
  • The natural process which keeps an organism alive. 

  • Child support. 

  • Actions performed to keep some machine or system functioning or in service. 

  • A tort and (in some jurisdictions) an offence committed when a third party who does not have a bona fide interest in a lawsuit provides help or acquires an interest to a litigant's lawsuit. 

  • Alimony, a periodical payment or a lump sum made or ordered to be made to a spouse after a divorce. 

  • Money required or spent to provide for the needs of a person or a family. 

powder

noun
  • A mixture of fine dry, sweet-smelling particles applied to the face or other body parts, to reduce shine or to alleviate chaffing. 

  • An explosive mixture used in gunnery, blasting, etc.; gunpowder. 

  • The fine particles which are the result of reducing a dry substance by pounding, grinding, or triturating, or the result of decay; dust. 

verb
  • To sprinkle with powder, or as if with powder. 

  • To turn into powder; to become powdery. 

  • To depart suddenly; to "take a powder". 

  • To use powder on the hair or skin. 

  • To reduce to fine particles; to pound, grind, or rub into a powder. 

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