Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of a class of organic compounds corresponding to the inorganic salts and formed from an organic acid and an alcohol.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as compound ether (which see, under ether).
Wiktionary
- n. organic chemistry A compound most often formed by the condensation of an alcohol and an acid, with elimination of water. It contains the functional group carbon-oxygen double bond joined via carbon to another oxygen atom.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Chem.) An ethereal salt, or compound ether, consisting of an organic radical united with the residue of any oxygen acid, organic or inorganic; thus the natural fats are
esters of glycerin and the fatty acids, oleic, etc.
WordNet 3.0
- n. formed by reaction between an acid and an alcohol with elimination of water
Etymologies
- From German Essig-Äther "acetic acid ethyl ester". (Wiktionary)
- German, short for Essigäther : Essig, vinegar (from Middle High German ezzich, from Old High German ezzīh, from Latin acētum; see ak- in Indo-European roots) + Äther, ether (from Latin aethēr; see ether). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Then tell me if amino adenosine triacid ester is a genome.”
“Bradford: Then tell me if amino adenosine triacid ester is a genome.”
“Bradord: Then tell me if amino adenosine triacid ester is a genome.”
“The reason why the Cori ester is found only in washed muscle is that with the washing water an enzyme is removed, i.e. a protein substance with a special catalytic effect, which moves phosphoric acid from one end of the sugar molecule, the 1-position to the opposite, the previously known 6-position.”
“Mr. Oehler said that the cost of CleanStim will fall once it catches on and Halliburton can buy larger volumes of ingredients, such as maltodextrin, a sweetener and shower-gel component, and organic ester, which is found in liquid egg products and hairspray.”
The Wall Street Journal: Edible Ingredients Used to Drill for Gas
“The drug can only be released when it detaches from the PLA polymer chain, which occurs gradually by a reaction called ester hydrolysis.”
“Dalcetrapib belongs to a class of drug known as CETP inhibitors, which are designed to change cholesterol ester transfer protein activity to raise HDL cholesterol.”
“I spoke to Gavin Sacks at Cornell about this and, while I would never attempt to speak for Gavin, he said that there is not a minerality ester in wine chemistry -- nothing to indicate we know what we're talking about when we refer to a wine's "minerality.”
“But if there is no corresponding ester in wine to confirm our experience, where does it come from?”
“IR3535, the imposingly named biopesticide registered in the United States in 1999, is shorthand for an ethyl ester, a complicated organic compound.”
The Huffington Post: Bill Chameides: Keeping the Skeeters Off
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ester’.
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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"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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Words build meanings from origins( et...
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2046 more...
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Salt and Pepper
long pepper, pepper, salt, salt and pepper, Salt-n-Pepa, Salt Lake City, peppercorn, rock salt, sea salt, salt tax, salt marsh, peppermint and 71 more...
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slumry's Words
cattywampus, ingratiate, lackadaisical, exactitude, exfoliate, fulminate, circumnavigation, circuitous, debride, sidle, sequester, chicory and 1002 more...
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Aequoria's list
affect, deleterious, nuance, pliant, verbatim, pertinent, latter, municipality, provincial, voyeuristic, circumlocution, wane and 798 more...
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Damieng's Words
lupine, sapor, boz imp, imp, ovine, saracen, haberdashery, tiebar, shill, cutler, cutaway, lucite and 218 more...
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learning
A list of words whose meanings I am learning, either because a) I don't know the meaning b) I know the meaning, but could stand to better appreciate certain inflections or secondary meanings or c) ...
louche, educe, loam, cob, sclerotic, palliate, axial, syndicalist, ecumenical, sally, fatuous, parvenu and 1381 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3250 more...
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Reesetee reset
Words formed from the letters in "reesetee". (See comments about "teetee" on Still more bird wirds; also see comments at retree.)
settee, retree, stresses, erse, resee, serest, tsetse, tresses, tester, street, reset, rest and 32 more...
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Beer Words
My favorite words associated with beer & beer tasting.
adjunct, gueuze, diacetyl, flocculate, ester, grist, lagering, mouthfeel, publican, vinous, wort, wheatwine and 3 more...
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kittykate's Words
ester, alacrity, soupcon, morsel, tread, trefoil, poignant, panoply
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