Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Architecture One of a series of small ornaments in the shape of truncated cones used on a Doric entablature.
- noun Pharmacology A drop, as of liquid medicine.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
guttapercha . - noun A drop; specifically, in architecture, one of a series of pendent ornaments, generally in the form of the frustum of a cone, but sometimes cylindrical, attached to the under side of the mutules and regulæ of the Doric entablature.
- noun In pharmacy, a drop: usually, and in prescriptions, written gt., plural gtt.
- noun In zoology, a small spot, generally of a round or oval form, and not differing much in shade from the ground-color, as if made by a drop of water; any small color-spot, especially when guttiform.
- noun A colorless pulverulent compound, C10H16, contained in gutta-percha. It begins to melt at 180° C., and loses its flexibility on exposure to air and light.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A drop.
- noun (Arch.) One of a series of ornaments, in the form of a frustum of a cone, attached to the lower part of the triglyphs, and also to the lower faces of the mutules, in the Doric order; -- called also
campana , anddrop . - noun (Med.) amaurosis.
- noun (Arch.) the listel or band from which the guttæ hang.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun architecture A
small water -repelling,cone -shaped projection used in thearchitrave of theDoric order in classical architecture.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Guttate is from the Latin word gutta, meaning "drop".
xml's Blinklist.com 2008
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I love the signage from three different eras, and the erupting thick black wires that look like they've been dipped in gutta percha -- it's my favorite kind of London streetscene, walls that have been scarred and repurposed as the technologies of municipal living changed.
Boing Boing 2008
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Mazer wood was what we now term gutta percha, the question may be propounded, how could Tradescant have procured it from its remote _locale_?
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The manufacturing process for hard rubber (alternatively known as gutta percha and India Rubber) was patented by Charles Goodyear in 1851, and the product was essentially the period equivalent of plastic.
2006 Field Report 4 « Interactive Dig Johnson's Island – Unlocking a Civil War Prison 2006
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This plant also known as the gutta-percha tree, has been an important economic plant and is endemic to the mountainous regions of China.
2. China 1997
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The silk slurps up color instantly, so first she outlines every leaf, every petal, every stem with a permanent latex-like material known as gutta (GUT-uh).
unknown title 2008
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The gutta is a "resist," a medium that stops the penetration of other liquids.
unknown title 2008
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In Bengal a kind of gutta percha is made by boiling the juice.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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The British are more interested in the minerals and jungle produce, such as gutta-percha, rattan, rubber, and birds 'nests, than in the cultivation of plantations.
Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania Jewett Castello Gilson
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The Captain bestowed a freezing look on his flippant _protégé_ and then commenced a very grave discussion of future ways and means, which ended in an immediate departure for Paris, where the two men entered upon an unpretentious career in the commercial line as agents and travellers for the patentees of an improved kind of gutta percha, which material was supposed to be applicable to every imaginable purpose, from the sole of an infant's boot to the roof of a cathedral.
Birds of Prey 1875
hernesheir commented on the word gutta
(n): 1. (architecture, archaic) a small, drop- or peg-like ornamentation on a Doric entablature.
cf. mutule
2. a gum which forms the chief constituent of gutta-percha, extracted as a white amorphous compound. (Malay, getah, gum).
January 11, 2009