Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Biology Having a latticelike structure or appearance: clathrate foliage.
- adj. Chemistry Of or relating to inclusion complexes in which molecules of one substance are completely enclosed within the crystal structure of another.
- n. Chemistry A clathrate compound, such as urea.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In botany and zoology, latticed; divided like latticework; specifically, in entomology, clathrose. Also clathroid.
Wiktionary
- adj. biology having a lattice-like structure
- adj. chemistry of an inclusion complex in which molecules of one compound are enclosed within the crystal structure of another
- n. chemistry a clathrate compound
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Bot.) Shaped like a lattice; cancellate.
- adj. (Zoöl.) Having the surface marked with raised lines resembling a lattice, as many shells.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. designating or relating to a compound in which one component is physically enclosed within the crystal structure of another
- adj. having a latticelike structure pierced with holes or windows
Etymologies
- Latin clāthrātus, past participle of clāthrāre, to furnish with a lattice, from clāthrī, clātra, lattice, from Greek klēithra, pl. of klēithron, door bar, from kleiein, to close. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Methane hydrate is a form of water ice that contains a large amount of methane within its crystal structure, called a clathrate hydrate.”
Think Progress » Noonan: If Global Warming Is Real, Blame The Scientists
“That's called a clathrate --- Latin for a "cage, trellis, or grating" -- and all kinds of things can be held in there.”
“Another method involves exchanging the methane molecules in the "clathrate" structure with carbon dioxide.”
“The clathrate gun hyopthesis has received attention lately, although it's been benevolently referred to as a "methane burp" rather than an apocalyptic release of methane that hammered in the nails of past mass extinctions.”
The Huffington Post: Scott Thill: We've Entered the Age of Mass Extinction
“Although not related to Prof Ryskin's "Methane Driven Oceanic Eruption", the clathrate gun hypothesis works on the basis that rises in sea temperatures can trigger the sudden release of methane from methane clathrate compounds buried in seabeds and permafrost.”
The Huffington Post: DK Matai: Gulf Oil Gusher: Methane, Climate & Dead Zones
“The methane itself is a powerful greenhouse gas and this leads to further temperature rises and methane clathrate destabilisation -- in effect initiating a runaway process as irreversible, once started, as the firing of a gun.”
The Huffington Post: DK Matai: Gulf Oil Gusher: Methane, Climate & Dead Zones
“There is stronger evidence that runaway methane clathrate breakdown may have caused drastic alteration of the ocean environment and the atmosphere of earth on a number of occasions in the past.”
The Huffington Post: DK Matai: Gulf Oil Gusher: Methane, Climate & Dead Zones
“Güllük et al. 1998 also rebutted Jaworowski on contamination, stating that Jaworowski et al. 1992, 1994 suggested that CO2 measurements may be subject to fractionation due to clathrate formation and destruction.”
“Just a bit is from evaporating clathrate so far but remember the nature of the exponential…….”
Scientist Discusses Latest Report of Rising Global Temperatures | Universe Today
“As the polar ground thaws and the sea beds warm the subsurface clathrate starts to melt.”
Scientist Discusses Latest Report of Rising Global Temperatures | Universe Today
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘clathrate’.
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Rats
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Specifically
Being a list of words which have "specifically" in their definitions.
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
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New words to learn.
Words I needed to look up.
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Gone, But Not Forgotten...Yet
Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816)
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Good Words
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Meshed or Latticed
Adjectives meaning meshed or latticed
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euphonic logorrhea
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Miscellany, pt. c
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Just Plain Weird.
Something about these words doesn't look or feel right. And yet... they're strangely appealing.
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Lolita
Words to remember from Nabokov's "Lolita"
lurid, limned, concordance, puerility, variorum, perspicacious, exigency, acrostic, solipsism, mnemosyne, involution, fatidic and 227 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...
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Words I Learned on FreeRice.com
A place for me to keep all these weird words, whether I guessed them correctly or not.
pennoncel, serval, tautological, redact, ganef, candent, shaitan, bifid, osteal, ensiform, helve, ecdysis and 100 more...
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nfrank's Words
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Tweets
Looking for tweets for clathrate.
hernesheir "Claim has been received; will have prompt attention", in railroad telegraphers' abbreviated shorthand. --US Railway Association, Standard Cipher Code, 1906. Jan 21, 2013
sratsrat citation, .....they were aware of clathrates, naturally occurring cagelike clusters of atoms that trap other atoms within them.5-Aug-08,NYTimes Science,p. D4,A Problem of Bubbles Frames an Olympic Design. Aug 6, 2008