Found 3 items, similar to Soot.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: soot
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: soot
soot
n : a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally
of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink
[syn:
carbon black,
lampblack,
smut]
v : coat with soot
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Soot
Soot
\Soot\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Sooted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Sooting.]
To cover or dress with soot; to smut with, or as with, soot;
as, to soot land. --Mortimer.
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Soot
\Soot\, Soote
\Soot"e\, a. [See
Sweet.]
Sweet. [Obs.]
“The soote savour of the vine.” --Chaucer.
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Soot
\Soot\ (? or ?; 277), n. [OE. sot, AS. s?t; akin to Icel.
s?t, Sw. sot, Dan. sod, OD. soet, Lith. s?dis; cf. Gael.
suith, Ir. suth.]
A black substance formed by combustion, or disengaged from
fuel in the process of combustion, which rises in fine
particles, and adheres to the sides of the chimney or pipe
conveying the smoke; strictly, the fine powder, consisting
chiefly of carbon, which colors smoke, and which is the
result of imperfect combustion. See
Smoke.
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