Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The fine black particles, chiefly composed of carbon, produced by incomplete combustion of coal, oil, wood, or other fuels.
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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.
from 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 obsolete Sweet.
- transitive verb To cover or dress with soot; to smut with, or as with, soot.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Fine black or dull brown
particles ofamorphous carbon andtar , produced by the incompletecombustion ofcoal ,oil etc. - verb transitive To
cover ordress with soot.
from 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
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Hutchinson snuffed the smoky candle and reflectively rubbed the soot from the wick between thumb and forefinger.
THE FAITH OF MEN 2010
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He said that, as shocked passengers emerged from the tunnel covered in soot, one of them "quite angrily" said there had been fatalities on the train.
7/7 inquest told of King's Cross confusion after Piccadilly line blast Karen McVeigh 2010
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A third man on the tracks, covered in soot and dirt and with all but his boxer shorts blown off by the blast, had been staring into space, he said.
7/7 inquest: Survivor breaks down as he recalls struggle to help Aldgate injured Karen McVeigh 2010
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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.
HUFFPOST HILL - OCTOBER 25TH, 2010 The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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They were just covered in soot, their hair was all over the place, you just basically saw the whites of their eyes.
Daily Star's creepy lapse in taste Roy Greenslade 2010
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The three back-to-back episodes of the original seven-part Daleks story, in soot-and-chalk black and white, with William Hartnell sleepwalking through the script, correcting his own fluffed lines as he goes, was slow stuff.
Whoctor Do « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog 2008
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The villagers think the experiment has failed but Scundoo is very clever: He asks everybody raise to raise their hands above their heads and every hand is blackened with soot from the iron pot — every hand except Sime's.
“And must I. . .who am weary, travel always your trail until I die?” 2008
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You know, I was usually covered in soot when I was a kid, and everything was in black and white, the factory chimneys and smoke and all that, and when I looked on the screen it was the same thing.
Ballardian » Escaping the gaze: A review of John Foxx's Tiny Colour Movies 2008
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Traditionally Samichlaus would come along with his (politically incorrect) friend Schmutzli ( 'schmutz' meaning dirt - usually this was a person covered in soot).
December 2008 2008
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Traditionally Samichlaus would come along with his (politically incorrect) friend Schmutzli ( 'schmutz' meaning dirt - usually this was a person covered in soot).
Laser eyes 2008
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