Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A synthetic rubber made from the polymerization of butadiene and sodium.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. a synthetic rubber made by copolymerizing butadiene with another substance such as acrylonitrile or styrene.
WordNet 3.0
- n. made by polymerizing butadiene
Etymologies
- Originally a trademark. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“I had tea and my friend had buna, the Amharic word for coffee.”
“The modern common use word for beech is "buna," incidentally.”
“- Ey Allah'n Resul, buna karlk bize ne va'd ediyorsunuz?”
“Ona verdiiniz sz tutmak, kendisine muhalefet edenlere kar gelmek hususunda azminiz kuvvetli ve salam ise buna bir diyecek yoktur.”
“Lehono balemi ba rena bao ba bego ba buna makgolo-kgolo a mabele, ba tlatša dišego, ba bitšwa balemi potlana; ka gobane mmušo wa kgethollo o ba tšeetše mašemo a bona, dikgomo le ditonki tšeo ba bego ba lema ka tšona; (Betterment schemes) molawana woo ke wona wa go tliša bolwetši bja tlala le bodidi.”
Speech by Makwena Lydia Ngwenya during the debate on Environmental & Land Affairs budget vote
“Numai de a trăi, te bucuri de viata, buna si piese de rău de ea.”
“Exersise de a găsi un sens pozitiv în toate situaţiile, indiferent dacă în ceva să se ridice mai sus sau ceva reafirmând o caracterizare buna a naturii, constituie un stimulent pentru îmbunătăţirea personale.”
“Keith Devlin ideonexus: Cea mai bună armă de o dictatură este secretul, dar cea mai buna arma a unei democraţii ar trebui să fie arma de deschidere.”
“In any case, he remembers the Slothrop surveillance being assigned to a newly created "Sparte IV" under Vermittlungsstelle W. Sparte I was handling nitrogen and gasoline, II dyes, chemicals, buna rubber, pharmaceuticals, III film and fibers.”
“Each piston rod is manufactured from stainless steel, with a micro-finished cylinder bore featuring buna-nitrile and aquathane sealing elements to prevent both leakage and the ingress of contaminants, while the monobloc housing is produced from anodised aluminium, providing a relatively lightweight, tough and corrosion-resistant unit that is sealed to IP67 standard.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘buna’.
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1001 ways to caffeinate
Coffee has been in the news recently; several long-term studies have concluded coffee almost certainly helps prevent type 2 diabetes, liver disease, basal cell carcinoma and possibly Parkinson’s. ...
flat white, black coffee, breve, ristretto, espresso, doppio, tripplo, depth charge, eiskaffee, caffè latte, café au lait, galão and 228 more...
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Polymers
"Any of numerous natural and synthetic compounds of usually high molecular weight consisting of up to millions of repeated linked units, each a relatively light and simple molecule."
-...cellulose, diamond, feldspar, nucleic acids, proteins, quartz, rubber, starch, wool, polyethylene, polypropylene, laminarin and 58 more...
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Coffee House
Coffee, and coffee related stuff. I did spend few hours in The Net with this and now I am up to my neck with "coffee".. I probably return to this list. Later.
coffi, crappuccino, cappuccino, kaffe, caffè, kohv, espresso, kahva, qahva, masbout, gehve, buna and 118 more...
Tweets
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lea Word for coffee in Ethiopia. Also... "Ethiopia has more than 70 ethnic groups speaking over 200 languages. As a result, coffee is described as Bunna (in Amharic), Bun (in Tigrigna), Buna (in Oromiya), Bono (in Kefficho), Kawa (in Guragigna). Some consider that these and other names of coffee were derived from the Kafa or Buno districts of Ethiopia where coffee originated."
Source: http://www.yebbo.com/merkato/coffee.htm Mar 7, 2009