soot
Fine black or dull brown particles of amorphous carbon and tar, produced by the…Fine black or dull brown particles of amorphous carbon and tar, produced by the incomplete combustion of coal, oil etc.
» Tom was covered in soot.
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1 senses(uncountable, usually)Fine black or dull brown particles of amorphous carbon and tar, produced by the incomplete combustion of coal, oil etc.
Ruß, Russ
са́жаsáža, ко́потьkópotʹ
са́жаsáža, кі́потьkípotʹ, кі́птяваkíptjava
- a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink
Examples
15 sentencesTom was covered in soot.
Snow is white, soot is black.
ruСнег белый, сажа чёрная. — marafon
His face was full of soot.
Snow is white, but soot is black.
ruСнег белый, а сажа чёрная. — Selena777
deSchnee ist weiß, aber Ruß ist schwarz. — Yorwba
The soot, which had not been disturbed for centuries, showered down the huge chimneys.
deDer Ruß, seit Jahrhunderten ungestört, prasselte die gewaltigen Schlote hinab. — Yorwba
Translations
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Origin
Inherited from Middle English soot, soote, sote, sot, from Old English sōt, from Proto-GerInherited from Middle English soot, soote, sote, sot, from Old English sōt, from Proto-Germanic *sōtą (“soot”), from Proto-Indo-European *sed- (“to sit”). Cognate with dated Dutch zoet (“soot”), German Low German Soot (“soot”), Danish sod (“soot”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish sot (“soot”), Icelandic sót (“soot”). Compare similar ō-grade formation the same Proto-Indo-European root in Old Irish suide (“soot”) and Balto-Slavic: Lithuanian súodžiai (“soot”), and Proto-Slavic *saďa (“soot”) (Russian са́жа (sáža), Polish and Slovak sadza, Bulgarian са́жда (sážda)).
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Forms
plural: soots| Singular | soot |
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uncountable
Synonyms
4 synonyms- a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink:carbon blacklampblacksmutcrock
Word family
16 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
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