Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Counteracting or preventing the building up of deposits on underwater surfaces, such as the undersides of boats.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Adapted to prevent or counteract fouling.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective That
prevents orcounteracts the buildup ofbarnacles and otherdeposits onundersea surfaces such as those ofboats . - noun Any substance that prevents or counteracts the buildup of
barnacles and otherdeposits onundersea surfaces such as those ofboats .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Under the bill, use of toxic tin-based antifouling paints would be prohibited.
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A variety of chemicals including DDT and DDE (an organochlorine pesticide and its breakdown product), tributyltin (used in the past as a marine antifouling agent), and vinclozolin (a fungicide that in the past was used on many fruits, vegetables and ornamentals) have been found to disrupt the endocrine systems of animals in laboratory studies.
Endocrine disruption 2008
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Next she greesed the groove of her keel, warthes and wears and mole and itcher, with antifouling butter-scatch and turfentide and serpenthyme and with leafmould she ushered round prunella isles and eslats dun, quincecunct, allover her little mary.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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• Use only environmentally friendly antifouling bottom paints.
Sailing Fundamentals Gary Jobson 1998
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These steps include: use of antifouling paints, cleaning your vessel with hot water, removal of all bait and emptying bait wells and bait buckets and flushing them with water containing chlorine bleach.
Sailing Fundamentals Gary Jobson 1998
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• Use only environmentally friendly antifouling bottom paints.
Sailing Fundamentals Gary Jobson 1998
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These steps include: use of antifouling paints, cleaning your vessel with hot water, removal of all bait and emptying bait wells and bait buckets and flushing them with water containing chlorine bleach.
Sailing Fundamentals Gary Jobson 1998
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NOTE: Do not use antifouling paint, since it contains copper or mercury and can hasten galvanic corrosion, unless the manufacturer states that it is intended for use on aluminum.
Chapter 5 1983
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Example: A process of painting the bottom of a marine vessel which consists in applying thereto a composition consisting of sulphate of copper, powdered metallic zinc, chlorid of antimony, and hyposulphite of soda, in a vehicle of linseed oil, would be more usefully classified as an antifouling paint than as a ship, as the invention would hardly be distinguishable from a paint claimed as such and described for use on submarine surfaces.
The Classification of Patents United States Patent Office
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Then, top, from across the cove came a case of copper paint, a famous antifouling article, which stood me in good stead long after.
Sailing Alone Around the World Joshua Slocum 1877
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