SOOT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does soot mean? 

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

1. a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink

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

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

1. coat with soot

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOOT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

carbon black; crock; lampblack; smut; soot

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

atomic number 6; C; carbon (an abundant nonmetallic tetravalent element occurring in three allotropic forms: amorphous carbon and graphite and diamond; occurs in all organic compounds)

Derivation:

soot (coat with soot)

sooty (of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal)

sooty (covered with or as if with soot)

• SOOT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they soot    ... he / she / it soots   
Past simple: sooted   
Past participle: sooted   
-ing form: sooting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Coat with soot

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

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

coat; surface (put a coat on; cover the surface of; furnish with a surface)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Derivation:

soot (a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink)

 Context examples 

"Is all the soot washed from my face?" he asked, turning it towards her.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Airborne and invisible, microscopic pieces of dust, dirt, smoke, soot and liquid droplets often become destructive when they invade the bloodstream.

(Breathing Dirty Air May Harm Kidneys, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

One example is the burning of straw residues during harvest, which is responsible for carbon dioxide emissions and respiratory problems due to inhalation of smoke and soot.

(Method that cuts sugarcane emissions gets global prize, SciDev.Net)

It was thickly coated with soot from the passing engines, but the black surface was blurred and rubbed in places.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Knock some of the soot off him, Lord Frederick!” they shouted.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Dibenzo(a,h)anthracene is primarily found in gasoline exhaust, tobacco smoke, coal tar, soot and certain food products, especially smoked and barbecued foods.

(Dibenzo[a,h]anthracene, NCI Thesaurus)

See yonder, he added, pointing to a bombard which lay within the camp: there is what hath done scath to good bowmanship, with its filthy soot and foolish roaring mouth.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Benzo(b)fluoranthene is primarily found in gasoline exhaust, tobacco and cigarette smoke, coal tar, soot, amino acids and fatty acid pyrolysis products.

(Benzo[b]fluoranthene, NCI Thesaurus)

Indene[1,2,3-cd]pyrene is primarily found in certain foods, gasoline and diesel exhaust, cigarette smoke, coal tar and coal tar pitch, soot and petroleum asphalt.

(Indeno[1,2,3-cd]pyrene, NCI Thesaurus)

It consists of complex and varying mixtures of particles suspended in the air such as fine solids such as dirt, soil dust, pollens, molds, ashes, and soot; and aerosols that are formed in the atmosphere from gaseous combustion by-products such as volatile organic compounds, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides.

(Particulate, NCI Thesaurus)