Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Solid carbon dioxide that sublimates at -78.5°C (-110°F) and is used primarily as a coolant.
Wiktionary
- n. Carbon dioxide frozen in the solid state, used especially as a cooling agent and for the production of fog-like special effects. It sublimes at -78.5°C (-109.3°F) at normal atmospheric pressure.
WordNet 3.0
- n. solidified carbon dioxide; dry ice sublimates at -78.5 C and is used mainly as a refrigerant
Etymologies
- A genericised trademark of Prest Air Devices (Wiktionary)
- Originally a trademark. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
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ENVI - Collocations DEFG
An extract from the "Zold Tolmacs" project, a HU-EN environmental dictionary compiled by Robert Gulyas in 2000.
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EN - redundancies, tautologies and pl...
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Words for ice and snow
Environmental Ice and Snow
(excluding all the food ice)ice, icicle, frazil, frasil, sleet, slush, snow, flurry, snowfall, freeze, flash-freeze, quick-freeze and 618 more...
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trademark
all of these are from 7 English
dictionaries and Macquarie dictionary
I havent listed capitalized ones yet
but Viagra would be one and common
words like sterling a sub-machi...agene, adware, airbus, alnico, amberina, amarone, apiezon, aspirin, atebrin, atebrine, autocue, autoharp and 774 more...
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Genericide
Trademarks that have lost their character as indicators of source to become a general term for a product or service.
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