soot
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2.5
- noun
- /sʊt/
:
hollín
- To clean the walls, we had to scrub away the soot that had collected from the fireplace.
- black soot
- smoke and soot
- ash and soot
And all of this soot gets lofted into the air.
- And all of this soot gets lofted into the air.
- But the question is how much soot would need to be lofted, how high, for how long?
- And then the rest of the door was like grey from the smoke soot.
- Nuclear fallout is the contaminated soot, ash, dust, and earth after a nuclear explosion.
- One sidelong stroke of gum suspended soot away from regret.
Examples
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Just the soot, that particulate matter coming from coal plants, kills more than 10,000 Americans every year.
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The impact plume and soot from the wildfires blocked out the sun.
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Will it get all the soot off my hands?
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You got a little soot in your eye.
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By the time I noticed a bit of soot on it, it was already clean.
Fiction book (1993) -
And all of this soot gets lofted into the air.
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It was covered under all this soot and smoke.
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New York City was enveloped in a cloud of smoke, soot, and toxic ash.
Academic text (2003) -
Soot is merely carbon residue from coal and wood.
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In future rocks, people's penchant for burning coal, oil and natural gas has spread tiny bits of soot all over the planet.
Synonyms
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2.3
Dirt and soot that make a surface look dirty
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9.8
A very fine black powder made from soot used for ink and paint
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9.8
A black powder used to make ink or paint
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Etymology
Soot comes from an old English word sōt that meant 'black dust' left by fire. Think of the adjective sooty, which is the same root, so soot is the dark powder that collects after burning.