ROSIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rosin mean? 

• ROSIN (noun)
  The noun ROSIN has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: ROSIN used as a noun is very rare.

• ROSIN (verb)
  The verb ROSIN has 1 sense:

1. rub rosin onto

  Familiarity information: ROSIN used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROSIN (noun)

Sense 1

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

resin; rosin

Hypernyms ("rosin" is a kind of...):

organic compound (any compound of carbon and another element or a radical)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rosin"):

East India kino; kino gum; Malabar kino (reddish or black juice or resin from certain trees of the genus Pterocarpus and used in medicine and tanning etc)

natural resin (a plant exudate)

synthetic resin (a resin having a polymeric structure; especially a resin in the raw state; used chiefly in plastics)

Derivation:

rosin (rub rosin onto)

• ROSIN (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they rosin    ... he / she / it rosins   
Past simple: rosined   
Past participle: rosined   
-ing form: rosining   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Rub rosin onto

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

rosin the violin bow

Hypernyms (to "rosin" is one way to...):

rub (move over something with pressure)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

rosin (any of a class of solid or semisolid viscous substances obtained either as exudations from certain plants or prepared by polymerization of simple molecules)