Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A thick, viscous, or coagulated mass or lump, as of blood.
- n. A clump, mass, or lump, as of clay.
- n. A compact group: a clot of automobiles blocking the tunnel's entrance.
- v. To form into a clot or clots; coagulate.
- v. To cause to form into a clot or clots. See Synonyms at coagulate.
- v. To fill or cover with or as if with clots.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A clod.
- n. A hill.
- n. A dull, stupid man; a clodpoll.
- n. A concrete or coagulated mass of soft or fluid matter: as, a clot of blood or of cream.
- n. A clump.
- To coagulate, as soft or fluid matter, into a thick inspissated mass; become concrete: as, milk or blood clots.
- To form into clots.
- To cause to coagulate; make or form into clots.
- To cover with clots; mat together by clots, as of blood.
- n. A dialectal variant of clote. Compare clot-bur.
Wiktionary
- n. A solidified mass of blood.
- n. A silly person.
- v. intransitive To form into a clot or mass
- v. transitive To cause to clot or form into a mass
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A concretion or coagulation; esp. a soft, slimy, coagulated mass, as of blood; a coagulum.
- v. To concrete, coagulate, or thicken, as soft or fluid matter by evaporation; to become a cot or clod.
- v. To form into a slimy mass.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a lump of material formed from the content of a liquid
- v. change from a liquid to a thickened or solid state
- v. cause to change from a liquid to a solid or thickened state
- v. turn into curds
- v. coalesce or unite in a mass
Etymologies
- See clout. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Old English clott, lump. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“When the clot is dissolved or no further improvement can be made, the medication is stopped and the catheter is removed.”
“Quick clot is realy cool stuff but it has an expiration date.”
“The quick clot is good stuff, they make it in different sizes now which helps.”
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“The final step is fibrin clot formation, in which a sticky, thread-like substance called fibrin forms a tight mesh over the platelet plug, binding it together.”
“In addition, elinogrel is being developed as both an intravenous drug and a pill, allowing it to be used for both patients with immediate blockages as well as for long-term clot prevention, said Mardi Dier, Portola's chief financial officer.”
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“With CSVT the clot is in a vein that is carrying blood from the brain back to the heart.”
“This moving clot is often called an embolus or embolism.”
“Because if she did, it'd look like a heart attack or some brain clot, and nobody would ever know the abyss of horror I had in the last moments of a life ended prematurely because I thought I was too smart to believe in ghosts.”
“A blood clot occurs when blood changes from a liquid to a solid form.”
“It wasn't a bull's-eye, though, because the medical establishment contacted Randy soon after and said, "Do you realize that a clot is the actual opposite of a hemorrhage?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘clot’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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BIOL - the brain
ruptured blood ve..., clot, pressure on a blo..., tumor, brain region, comprehension of ..., production of mea..., autonomic nervous..., conservation of t..., catecholamine, arousal, regulation of sleep and 564 more...
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Browning words of cotton - often stic...
words that meander or have a partial dimension:
words that "catch on": peano curves: fractalitescotton, clue, filament, filaria, filum, filovirus, clod, cloud, peano curve, alveoli, nuance, noil and 122 more...
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Lillyjames's Words
uncategorized words that I enjoy
replete, unabashed, dauntless, ubiquitous, fanged, blush, flush, murmur, mercurial, dishevelled, decrepit, raven and 146 more...
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junestag's Words
postmodernism, cat, fish, rabbit, dell, coffee, elearning, mazda, php, mysql, flash, blogger and 755 more...
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End in -ot
Just what it says. Words that end in -ot.
wainscot, ascot, marmot, jot, ocelot, spot, blot, scot, lot, shot, dot, snot and 219 more...
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ash
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abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abide, abject, abjure and 4874 more...
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GRE Words
abacus, abate, abdicate, abdomen, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abide, abjure, abraded, abrasion, abrogate and 198 more...
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four-letter words starting with 'c'
clap, claw, cast, cart, cork, cord, care, cram, corn, cusp, cure, curt and 85 more...
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writing keywords
"yvonne i can always tell which submissions you've written because you love to use the same words"
blush, bruised, angle, parenthesis, tint, slim, passing, curve, sprawl, tender, clot, slightly and 17 more...
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bad
chunk, pump, meatspace, pulp, clot, chub, chubby, thighs, gnocchi, cookie, plump, thick and 3 more...
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Gross Words
Words that are gross.
fester, moist, pustules, ferment, ooze, clot, chunky, crusty, salivate
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