Soot

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  • noun. The fine black particles, chiefly composed of carbon, produced by incomplete combustion of coal, oil, wood, or other fuels.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To mark, cover, or treat with soot.
  • Middle English forms of sweet.
  • noun. A black substance formed by combustion, or disengaged from fuel in the process of combustion, rising in fine particles and adhering to the sides of the chimney or pipe conveying the smoke.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. 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.
  • adjective. Sweet.
  • transitive verb. To cover or dress with soot; to smut with, or as with, soot.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Fine black or dull brown particles of amorphous carbon and tar, produced by the incomplete combustion of coal, oil etc.
  • verb. To cover or dress with soot.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink
  • verb. coat with soot
    • Word Usage
    "While rain will remove rocket exhaust soot from the lower atmosphere, carbon particles will remain in the stratosphere, according to a paper to be published in the scientific journal Geophysics Research Letters."
    cross-reference
    carbon black  soot-cancer  
    Equivalent
    soote  
    Form
    sooted  sooting  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    atomic number 6  c  carbon  coat  surface  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Foot  afoot  caput  foot  pussyfoot  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    ash  chalk  charcoal  cinder  dirt  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Sweet  air pollution  alluvion  alluvium  ash  
    variant
    smoke  
    verb-form
    sooted  sooting  soots  
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