Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. That cannot undergo mixing or blending: immiscible elements.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Not miscible; incapable of being or becoming mixed, as oil and water.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Not capable of being mixed or mingled.
- adj. (Chem.) Not miscible; forming two distinct phases when mixed at some concentration; -- of two liquids.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. (chemistry, physics) incapable of mixing
Examples
“There are days when I think that the two entities or disciplines are entirely immiscible and antagonistic, and others where they seem not just to complement each other but to be, in a strange way, twin enterprises.”
“I can't help but think about that sitting on top of something holding multiple layers of differently colored immiscible fluids, drawing from it and feeding back into it at the same time.”
“The bubbles were too CO2-rich to have formed during cooling and shrinkage of the MI and the authors concluded that the inclusions trapped both silicate melt and an immiscible CO2-bearing vapor.”
“When heated to magmatic temperatures, these clusters melt to form hydrosaline liquid that is immiscible with the silicate melt”
“Plausibly, the Cu could have come from a small droplet of immiscible hydrosaline liquid (Lowenstern 1994a) trapped along with a CO2-bearing vapor bubble in the MI.”
“He not only mouths a rhetoric of transcending division, but is himself a seamless genetic integration of what should be immiscible.”
“You are still clinging to an essentialist notion of a "conservative/libertarian" politics that remains, in some way that you have failed to demonstrate, immiscible with certain political notions that have their origins (genuinely or putatively) in the left.”
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
“Topics in the November issue of GEOLOGY include: a challenge to the use of banded iron formations as markers for the rise of oxygen in the oceans; new model of changes in seawater composition over time; factors in the rise of atmospheric methane; unmixing of magma into immiscible liquids; and evolution of organic molecules on early Earth.”
“Or perhaps a better word would be immiscible: for some of the best avant-garde art has precisely that oil-and-water-y quality.”
“Sex and the family become increasingly so immiscible as to begin actively threatening one another.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘immiscible’.
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xulilux's list
leviathan, destitute, iapetus, caesura, ineffable, eschew, phosphene, fungible, antediluvian, nomenclature, mottle, europa and 84 more...
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imm
immunogen, immobile, immiscible, shimmy, slimming, glimmer, immigrate, immutability, swimmingly, brimming, primming, skimming and 25 more...
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apjoseph's words
insurmountable, ubiquitous, unequivocal, incumbent, asinine, amenable, sycophants, precarious, malevolent, gregarious, raison detra, nefarious and 200 more...
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Clarissa, Or, The History of a Young ...
These words are from Samuel Richardson's novel Clarissa, Or, The History of a Young Lady, 1747-48
adumbrate, virago, varlet, rencounter, akimbo, palliate, amanuensis, amok, equipage, cully, se'ennight, resentments and 560 more...
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Words that were new to me
but now they're not because I looked them up. In cases of polysemy or homography, *of course* it was the oddest meaning that stumped me. ;)
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Wordnik Words
Words that appear on the home page of Wordnik.
abaci, cabooleat, endomorphic, warfinger, varna, tautological, quesadillia, hub, oceanography, ken, ignimbrite, galactagogue and 110 more...
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The Collection
A somewhat discriminatory list of words and phrases collected for their euphonic or arcane appeal, interesting etymology, or concise definition of an otherwise unnamed phenomenon or concept.
ziggurat, neophilia, sucker punch, soporific, epoch, tundra, fiat, idiotproof, miscellany, metaphysics, cryptozoology, dysphoria and 856 more...
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the omnibus
preponderance, idioglossia, acumen, heteronym, flux, anacoluthon, metonymy, impetus, constellation, exegesis, revelatory, cloistered and 877 more...
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circumscribe
silty, lettuce, ingratiate, circumscribe, defection, fastidious, indolently, mitigate, inwardness, twined, deference, mottled and 100 more...
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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) ...
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Hecko, words! I’m so happy I’ve found you. I want to keep you all and never want to lose you again. I hope you like it here.
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grassdog's Words
schadenfreude, sanguine, nefarious, verisimilitude, antediluvian, salacious, obfuscate, plethora, cacophony, defenestration, vacillate, blasphemy and 478 more...
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thricedotted's Words
schadenfreude, vanquish, calumny, obsequious, rhapsody, expostulate, promontory, bordello, quintessence, catharsis, recapitulation, myriad and 937 more...
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botello360's list
ruminate, steel, bifurcation, arrivederci, portage, tactile, ruminant, rift, anecdotage, diacritic, cud, hull and 399 more...
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