Meaning

1 senses

  1. To apply rosin to (something); to rub or cover with rosin.

    We waited expectantly as the guest violinist rosined his bow in preparation for playing.

    rub rosin onto

Examples

3 sentences

  1. Tom did a dab of rosin.

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  2. What's the difference between resin and rosin?

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  3. The violinist rubbed rosin down the hair of her bow before the concert started.

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Origin

From Old French raisine, rousine, variants of résine. Doublet of resin.

From Old French raisine, rousine, variants of résine. Doublet of resin.

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Forms

rosins, rosining, rosined, rosined
Base formrosin · to rosin
3rd person singularrosins
Present participlerosining
Past simplerosined
Past participlerosined

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyrosin
he, she, itrosins

Past simpleLesson

all personsrosined

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave rosined
he, she, ithas rosined

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill rosin

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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