Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of three isomeric phenols, C7H8O, used in resins and as a disinfectant.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A phenol having the formula C7H8O, occurring in coal- and wood-tar. When pure it forms a colorless crystalline mass. Also
cresylic acid and cressol.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) Any one of three metameric substances, CH3.C6H4.OH, homologous with and resembling phenol. They are obtained from coal tar and wood tar, and are colorless, oily liquids or solids. [Called also
cresylic acid .]
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun chemistry either of the three
isomeric phenols derived fromtoluene : ortho-, meta- or para-methylphenol
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of three poisonous colorless isomeric phenols; derived from coal or wood tar; used as a disinfectant
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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A declining dollar may even worsen our trade deficit in the short run, as it will increase the dollar price of many articles we no longer have any choice but to import, foreign competition having wiped out all domestic suppliers of items as prosaic as fabric suitcases and as sophisticated as the epoxy cresol novolac resins used in computer chips.
Ian Fletcher: Currency Revaluation Won't Fix America's Trade Mess Ian Fletcher 2011
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A declining dollar may even worsen our trade deficit in the short run, as it will increase the dollar price of many articles we no longer have any choice but to import, foreign competition having wiped out all domestic suppliers of items as prosaic as fabric suitcases and as sophisticated as the epoxy cresol novolac resins used in computer chips.
Ian Fletcher: Currency Revaluation Won't Fix America's Trade Mess Ian Fletcher 2011
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"Dark chocolate reduced the urinary excretion of the stress hormone cortisol and catecholamines and partially normalized stress-related differences in energy metabolism (glycine, citrate, trans-aconitate, proline, β-alanine) and gut microbial activities (hippurate and p-cresol sulfate)."
How dark chocolate helps ease emotional stress - latest scientific evidence 2009
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Their flavor has an unusual medicinal or barnyard note thanks to cresol, as well as more common bready and brothy aromas from simple sulfur compounds methional, dimethyl sulfide.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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It often has musty and horse-stable notes, probably from the prolonged fermentation of the fruit layer skatole, cresol.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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Their flavor has an unusual medicinal or barnyard note thanks to cresol, as well as more common bready and brothy aromas from simple sulfur compounds methional, dimethyl sulfide.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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It often has musty and horse-stable notes, probably from the prolonged fermentation of the fruit layer skatole, cresol.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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Solution of cresol and soap (powerful disinfectant used for floors and other surfaces).
Chapter 5 1994
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- Do not confuse with pure cresol, without soap (see remarks).
Chapter 4 1993
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- Concentrated solution (containing 50% cresol and 50% liquid soap) to be DILUTED before use
Chapter 4 1993
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