Synonyms of the word soot


SOOTCARBON - COAT - CROCK - LAMPBLACK - SMUT - SURFACE

soot

  • n. Fine black or dull brown particles of amorphous carbon and tar, produced by the incomplete combustion…
  • v. (transitive) To cover or dress with soot.

carbon

  • n. (uncountable) The chemical element (symbol C) with an atomic number of 6.
  • n. (countable) An atom of this element, in reference to a molecule containing it.
  • n. (countable, informal) A sheet of carbon paper.
  • n. (countable, informal) A carbon copy.
  • n. A fossil fuel that is made of impure carbon such as coal or charcoal.
  • n. (ecology, uncountable) Carbon dioxide, in the context of global warming and climate change.
  • n. A carbon rod or pencil used in an arc lamp.
  • n. A plate or piece of carbon used as one of the elements of a voltaic battery.

coat

  • n. (countable) An outer garment covering the upper torso and arms.Wp.
  • n. (countable) A covering of material, such as paint.Wp.
  • n. (countable) The fur or feathers covering an animal's skin.Wp.
  • n. (uncountable, nautical) Canvas painted with thick tar and secured round a mast or bowsprit to prevent…
  • n. (obsolete) A petticoat.
  • n. The habit or vesture of an order of men, indicating the order or office; cloth.
  • n. A coat of arms.Wp.
  • n. A coat card.
  • v. To cover with a coat of some material.
  • v. To cover as a coat.

crock

  • n. A stoneware or earthenware jar or storage container.
  • n. A piece of broken pottery, a shard.
  • n. (Britain) A person who is physically limited by age, illness or injury.
  • n. (Britain) An old or broken-down vehicle (and formerly a horse).
  • n. (slang, countable and uncountable) Silly talk, a foolish belief, a poor excuse, nonsense.
  • n. A low stool.
  • n. (medical slang, derogatory) A patient who is difficult to treat, especially one who complains of a minor…
  • v. To break something or injure someone.
  • v. (textiles, leatherworking) To transfer coloring through abrasion from one item to another.
  • v. (horticulture) To cover the drain holes of a planter with stones or similar material, in order to ensure…
  • v. (transitive, now dialectal) To put or store (something) in a crock or pot.
  • n. The loose black particles collected from combustion, as on pots and kettles, or in a chimney; soot; smut.
  • n. Colouring matter that rubs off from cloth.
  • v. (intransitive) To give off crock or smut.

lampblack

  • n. An amorphous form of carbon made from incompletely burned organic matter; used to make pigments and inks.
  • v. (transitive) To blacken using this form of carbon.

smut

  • n. (uncountable) Soot.
  • n. (countable) A flake of ash or soot.
  • n. (uncountable) Sexually vulgar material; something that is sexual in a dirty way; pornographic material.
  • n. (uncountable) Obscene language; ribaldry; obscenity.
  • n. (derogatory) A promiscuous woman.
  • n. Any of a range of fungi, mostly Ustilaginomycetes, that cause plant disease in grasses, including cereal…
  • n. (mining) Bad, soft coal containing earthy matter, found in the immediate locality of faults.
  • v. To stain (or be stained) with soot etc.
  • v. (intransitive) To gather smut; to be converted into smut; to become smutted.
  • v. To taint (grain, etc.) with the smut fungus.
  • v. To clear of the smut fungus.

surface

  • n. The overside or up-side of a flat object such as a table, or of a liquid.
  • n. The outside hull of a tangible object.
  • n. (figuratively) Outward or external appearance.
  • n. (mathematics, geometry) The locus of an equation (especially one with exactly two degrees of freedom)…
  • n. (fortification) That part of the side which is terminated by the flank prolonged, and the angle of the…
  • v. (transitive) To provide something with a surface.
  • v. (transitive) To apply a surface to something.
  • v. (intransitive) To rise to the surface.
  • v. (intransitive) To come out of hiding.
  • v. (intransitive) For information or facts to become known.
  • v. (intransitive) To work a mine near the surface.
  • v. (intransitive) To appear or be found.

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