Soot
[sʊt]
Definition
(n.) 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.
(v. t.) To cover or dress with soot; to smut with, or as with, soot; as, to soot land.
(a.) Alt. of Soote
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Crock.
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Definition
n. the black powder condensed from smoke.—ns. Soot′erkin a fabulous birth induced by the Dutch women sitting huddled over their stoves—hence anything fruitless or abortive; Soot′flake a smut of soot; Soot′iness.—adj. Soot′y consisting of or like soot.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
If you see soot in your dreams, it means that you will meet with ill success in your affairs. Lovers will be quarrelsome and hard to please.
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Examples
- I found the reason of the mud was that I carried so much water it passed over into the stack, and this washed out all the accumulated soot. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It is a small room, nearly black with soot, and grease, and dirt. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- That some unburned carbon is present in a flame is shown by the fact that whenever a cold object is held in the flame, it becomes smoked or covered with soot. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- If the quantity of air is insufficient, the carbon particles remain unburned and form soot. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- It was half full of exceedingly fine soot, which floated out and filled the room completely. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Coal and tar and soot are good illustrations of objects which absorb all the light which falls upon them. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- If a cold object is held in the bright flame of an ordinary gas jet, it becomes covered with soot, or particles of unburned carbon. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The night-watchman, Alfred Swanson, took care of this curious plant, which consisted of a battery of petroleum lamps that were forced to burn to the sooting point. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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