Meaning

2 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)A viscous water-insoluble hydrocarbon exudate of certain plants, or such a substance as a component of a plant exudate; used in lacquers, varnishes and many other applications.

    Pine trees produce a sticky resin.

    Harz

    смола́smolá, смольsmolʹ

    смола́smolá

  2. (countable, uncountable)Any synthetic compound of similar properties.

    The artist used synthetic resin in her sculptures.

    Kunstharz

More definitions
  • any of a class of solid or semisolid viscous substances obtained either as exudations from certain plants or prepared by polymerization of simple molecules

Examples

156 sentences
  1. Yanni needs to scrape the resin.

  2. Yanni scraped the resin by hand.

  3. Yanni wiped up the resin quickly.

  4. Some resins are thicker than others.

  5. Yanni is scratching off the resin.

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
secretion of plants:
Русский
By meaning 1
secretion of plants:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
secretion of plants:
similar synthetic compound:

Origin

From Middle English resyn, resyne, from Old French résine, from Latin resīna. Doublet of r

From Middle English resyn, resyne, from Old French résine, from Latin resīna. Doublet of rosin.

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Forms

plural: resins
Singularresin
Pluralresins

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • any of a class of solid or semisolid viscous substances obtained either as exudations from certain plants or prepared by polymerization of simple molecules:rosin

Word family

41 related words

See also

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