SOOT - 11 definitions found
soot n 1: a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink [syn: carbon black, lampblack, soot, smut, crock] v 1: coat with soot Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) soot I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English sōt; akin to Old Irish suide soot, Old English sittan to sit Date: before 12th century a black substance formed by combustion or separated from fuel during combustion, rising in fine particles, and adhering to the sides of the chimney or pipe conveying the smoke; especially the fine powder consisting chiefly of carbon that colors smoke II. transitive verb Date: 1602 to coat or cover with soot Oxford English Reference Dictionary
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary soot Soot is black powder which rises in the smoke from a fire and collects on the inside of chimneys. ... a wall blackened by soot. N-UNCOUNT English Explanatory Dictionary soot sut n. & v. --n. a black carbonaceous substance rising in fine flakes in the smoke of wood, coal, oil, etc., and deposited on the sides of a chimney etc. --v.tr. cover with soot. [OE sot f. Gmc] Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 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. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 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. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Soot \Soot\, Soote \Soot"e\, a. [See Sweet.] Sweet. [Obs.] ``The soote savour of the vine.'' --Chaucer. Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms soot n. Crock, black dust. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 117 Moby Thesaurus words for "soot": air pollution, alluvion, alluvium, ash, ashes, attritus, bedarken, begrime, bemire, bemud, besmirch, besmoke, black, blacken, blackening, blacking, blackwash, blot, blotch, bran, brand, burnt cork, calx, carbon, carbon black, charcoal, cinder, clinker, coal, coke, coom, cork, cosmic dust, crow, crumb, crumble, darken, denigrate, deposition, deposits, diluvium, dinge, dirt, dirty, dirty up, draff, dregs, dross, dust, dust ball, ebon, ebonize, ebony, efflorescence, ember, fallout, farina, feces, filings, flour, froth, fume, gas black, grime, grits, groats, grounds, ink, jet, kittens, lampblack, lava, lees, lint, loess, meal, melanize, mire, moraine, muck, muck up, mud, muddy, murk, night, nigrify, offscum, oversmoke, pitch, powder, precipitate, precipitation, pussies, raspings, raven, reek, sawdust, scoria, scum, sediment, settlings, shade, shadow, silt, sinter, slag, slime, sloe, smirch, smoke, smudge, smut, smutch, stove black, sublimate, sullage, tar |
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