Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A salt or ester of acetic acid.
- n. Cellulose acetate or any of various products, especially fibers, derived from it.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In chem., a salt formed by the union of acetic acid with a base.
Wiktionary
- n. organic chemistry Any salt or ester of acetic acid.
- n. cellulose acetate
- n. A transparent sheet used for overlays.
- n. A disc of aluminium covered in a wax used to make demonstration copies of a phonograph record.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Chem.) A salt formed by the union of acetic acid with a base or positive radical.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a salt or ester of acetic acid
- n. a fabric made from fibers of cellulose acetate
Etymologies
- Latin acetum ("vinegar"), from acere ("to be sour"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The brothers worked on the development of cellulose acetate, which is used in the production of film and made into textiles.”
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“It is the second active ingredient, (E, E) - 9,11-tetradecadien-1-yl acetate, that is the wild card.”
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“Radioactivity levels in cholesterol in aortic tissue were significantly higher than in rats given labelled acetate alone.”
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“Together with harmonicat Billy Boy Arnold, Bo had started writing original songs, and they eventually cut a dub acetate of two of Bo's strongest, "I'm A Man" and "Dirty Motherf*cker", which they hawked around”
“My own favourite was ethyl acetate, which is safe, inoffensive, and has several advantages, as long as the bottle and fluid are kept free from moisture.”
“~Uranium Nitrate~, UO_ {2} (NO_ {3}) _ {2}. 6H_ {2} O. -- This salt is very soluble in water and is sometimes used instead of the acetate, which is somewhat difficult to dissolve.”
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“It also would produce acetic acid and ethyl acetate, which is used in paint and nail polish.”
“A. fermentans converts cellulose into acetate, which is in turn made into methyl halides by the engineered yeast.”
“EVA stands for ethylene and vinyl acetate, which is the foam rubber of the shoe.”
“The active ingredient in non-acetone nail polish removers is ethyl acetate which is much less toxic to children than acetone.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘acetate’.
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SCIE - EU nomenclature
All the scientific words found in the official EU nomenclature. For the screening I used Vocabgrabber of the Visual Thesaurus.
abdominal, absorbent, accelerator, accumulator, acebutolol, acetamide, acetanilide, acetate, acetic acid, acetone, acetous, acetyl and 1171 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
veal, valve, used, yak, wax, wan, teak, vat, vas, strip, use, strap and 4515 more...
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5000 FREE SAT Words
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 229 more...
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reginaterra's Words
purl, blow, squish, andean, generality, adaptation, lush, pack, filter, acquiesce, abstraction, sweet and 508 more...
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Sweet Smoke of Rhetoric
The ones with which I flavor my speech, and the ones I love to find peppered in literature.
perspicacious, acerbic, vituperation, loquacious, castigate, vitriolic, scintillating, provenance, frolic, attendant, pursuant, epistemology and 313 more...
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the omnibus
preponderance, idioglossia, acumen, heteronym, flux, anacoluthon, metonymy, impetus, constellation, exegesis, revelatory, cloistered and 877 more...
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1906 Railway Cipher Code
Terms from the Standard Cipher Code of the American Railway Association, 1906. The terms were shorthand for common phrases used in telegraphic communications between station agents and Railway Asso...
abetting, abdominal, abiology, ablative, abnormal, abominate, aboveboard, abrasive, absinth, abstinent, accursed, acetate and 212 more...
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New words, not to be confused with th...
maladroit, aphasia, delphinium, bromide, greenhorn, just deserts, loth, supplanted, steeplechase, steeple, annex, vestments and 236 more...
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Fabrics
Woven, knit and tatted fabrics. Other kinds of cloth, such as tapa and chamois are not included.
shikii, shantung, cotton, linen, tweed, wool, velour, velvet, velveteen, gabardine, chenille, silk and 550 more...
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Fabrications
cotton, wool, silk, polyester, microfiber, corduroy, flannel, gabardine, quilt, linen, tapestry, nylon and 65 more...
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Groundskeeper Willy's Atred
saturate, deviate, opiate, pirate, palmate, pinnate, originate, pileate, vascillate, oscillate, castigate, acetate and 19 more...
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Hacbarton's Words
cranberry, driven, exploitate, glorious, vicious, acetate, sing-a-long, resonate, vision, assonance, wicked, darling and 6 more...
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Words I recollect from my days in the...
yoke, epilett, gored, dart, piping, culottes, interlining, cord, eyelet, selvedge, puffed, laced and 8 more...
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purefoppery's Words
contrariwise, flagellum, barbiturate, spheroid, prolate, probate, acetate, perturbatrix, tortfeasor, locutory
Tweets
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hernesheir Shorthand for "you can deliver here following freight to relieve accumulation". --1906 US Railway Association Standard Cipher Code. Jan 19, 2013