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Definition: Turpentine |
TurpentineNoun1. Obtained from conifers (especially pines). 2. Volatile liquid distilled from turpentine oleoresin; used as paint thinner and solvent and medicinally. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "turpentine" was first used: sometime around 1400. (references) |
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Dream Interpretation | To dream of turpentine, foretells your near future holds unprofitable and discouraging engagements. For a woman to dream that she binds turpentine to the wound of another, shows she will gain friendships and favor through her benevolent acts. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Food & Agriculture | A)an essential oil obtained by distilling the oleoresin of conifers, particularly Pines, consisting of a mixture of terpenes(mainly Alpha-pinene)boiling at ca. 150-170 Celsius degrees; b)the essential oil, a turpentine, obtained from the "gum"(i. e. oleoresin)of living Pine trees. Source: European Union. (references) |
Health | The concrete oleoresin obtained from Pinus palustris Mill. (Pinaceae) and other species of Pinus. It contains a volatile oil, to which its properties are due, and to which form it is generally used. (Dorland, 28th ed) Turpentine is used as a solvent and an experimental irritant in biomedical research. Turpentine toxicity is of medical interest. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Turpentine is a semifluid resin obtained from trees, mainly pines of the genus Pinus. A volatile oil called spirit of turpentine, oil of turpentine or, colloquially, turps can be extracted by distillation. Turpentine has been described simply as "distilled trees". Turpentine is used as a solvent, especially for thinning oil-based paints, and as a raw material for the chemical industry. Turpentine was also used in folk medicine for the treatment of intestinal worms or mixed with animal fat as a primitve chest rub for nasal and throat complaints. Some modern chest rubs still contain some turpentine (e.g., Vick's Vaporub).
Turpentine is sometimes called acquaragia; cf aqua regia.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Turpentine."
Synonyms: TurpentineSynonyms: gum terpentine (n), oil of turpentine (n), spirit of turpentine (n), turps (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Calefaction | Coke, carbon, charcoal; wood alcohol, turpentine, tea tree oil; gasoline, kerosene, naptha, fuel oil (fuel); wax, paraffin; residue, tar. |
Smoothness | Roller, steam roller, lawn roller, rolling pin, rolling mill; sand paper, emery paper, emery cloth, sander; flat iron, sad iron; burnisher, turpentine and beeswax; polish, shoe polish. |
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Screenplays | I'd rather drink turpentine and piss on a grassfire. (Young Guns II; writing credit: John Fusco) | |
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 | Trap used on pine tree for catching sap for turpentine distillation, Irwin County, Georgia. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Empty barrels which had contained pitch from the turpentine pine at still, State Line, Mississippi. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Wife of turpentine worker near DuPont, Georgia. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Three turpentine "dippers." Georgia. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | House in a deserted turpentine camp in the Camp Stewart area near Hinesville, Georgia. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | A turpentine still near Pembroke, Georgia. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Abandoned houses in a turpentine camp in the Camp Stewart area near Hinesville, Georgia. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Negro worker who had been cleaning hearth in turpentine kiln, Iron City, Alabama. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Barrels of pine sap brought to turpentine still. Iron City, Alabama. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Baker, Florida. (vicinity) Turpentine mill on the edge of town. Baker is the nearest town to Escambia Farms. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | I hit upon making it with gum lac and turpentine. |
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Trade | Pakistan | Commodities exportable only through public sector agencies include petroleum products, mineral turpentine, finished lubricants, surplus lube base oil and petrochemicals. (references) |
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| "Turpentine" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Turpentine" is used about 52 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 52 | 47,145 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "turpentine": Chian turpentine ♦ crude turpentine ♦ gum spirits of turpentine ♦ gum turpentine ♦ of turpentine ♦ oil of turpentine ♦ spirit of turpentine ♦ spirits of turpentine ♦ sulphite turpentine ♦ turpentine camphor weed ♦ turpentine moth ♦ turpentine oil ♦ turpentine State ♦ turpentine tree ♦ turpentine weed. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "turpentine": turpentine-tasting. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
turpentine | 54 |
creek turpentine | 17 |
venice turpentine | 7 |
source turpentine | 5 |
turpentine oil | 5 |
kisses.net turpentine | 4 |
gum turpentine | 3 |
beetle turpentine | 3 |
beetle red turpentine | 3 |
larch turpentine | 3 |
chaser lyrics turpentine | 3 |
msds turpentine | 3 |
creek refuge turpentine wildlife | 2 |
turpentine spirits | 2 |
chemistry turpentine | 2 |
tree turpentine | 2 |
beetle black turpentine | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "turpentine"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | terpentinë, lyej me terpentinë. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | زيت التربنتين, عالج بالتربنتينة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | разтривам с терпентин, разтварям в терпентин, мажа с терпентин. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 松节油. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | terpentýn (terebinthina). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | terpentin (gum spirits, gum spirits of turpentine, gum turpentine, oil of turpentine, oleoresin, spirits of turpentine, turpentine oil, turps). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | terpentijnolie (gum spirits, gum spirits of turpentine, gum turpentine, oil of turpentine, oleoresin, spirits of turpentine, turpentine oil, turps), terpentijn (gum spirits, gum spirits of turpentine, gum turpentine, oil of turpentine, oleoresin, spirits of turpentine, turpentine oil, turps). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | قندرون , تربانتین زدن به , تربانتین , سقز (Galipot). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | tärpätti (gum spirits, gum spirits of turpentine, gum turpentine, oil of turpentine, oleoresin, spirits of turpentine, turpentine oil, turps). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | essence de térébenthine (gum spirits of turpentine, gum turpentine, oil of turpentine, spirits of turpentine, turpentine oil, turps). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Terpentin (turps). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | νέφτι (naphtha), τρεμεντίνα (terebinth), τερεβινθέλαιον (gum spirits, gum spirits of turpentine, gum turpentine, oil of turpentine, oleoresin, spirits of turpentine, turpentine oil, turps), τερεβίνθη. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | שרף אל", טרפ טין. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | terpentin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | terpentin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | trementina (gum spirits, gum spirits of turpentine, gum turpentine, oil of turpentine, oleoresin, spirits of turpentine, turpentine oil, turps). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 松脂 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | まつやに. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | pick vane (resin), pick juys, ooill juys (turps). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | urpentinetay terebintina, essência de terebintina (gum spirits, gum spirits of turpentine, gum turpentine, oil of turpentine, oleoresin, spirits of turpentine, turpentine oil, turps), aguarrás. (various references) terebentinã (pin tar oil, turps). (various references) скипидар (pitch). (various references) terpentin (terebinth), staviti terpentin. (various references) trementina, aguarrás (gum spirits, gum spirits of turpentine, gum turpentine, oil of turpentine, oleoresin, spirits of turpentine, turpentine oil, turps). (various references) terpentin (turps). (various references) terebentin, neft yağı (oil of turpentine, spirits of turpentine, turps). (various references) скипидар (terebenthene), живиця (gallipot, oleoresin, rosin, sap). (various references) nhựa thông dầu thông. (various references) tyrpant. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | terebintha resina. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "turpentine": turpentined, turpentines. (additional references) | |
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"Turpentine" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: terpentine, Torentanz, turbentine, turpentines, turpintine. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "turpentine" (pronounced ter"puntī'n) |
| 7 | -er" p u n t ī' n | serpentine. |
| 5 | -u n t ī' n | byzantine, Eglantine, Valentine. |
| 3 | -t ī' n | Palatine. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-i-n-n-p-r-t-t-u" | |
-1 letter: pertinent. | |
-2 letters: nutrient, penitent, preunite, renitent. | |
-3 letters: interne, nettier, neurine, nuttier, pettier, punnier, puttier, retinue, reunite, tentier, uterine. | |
-4 letters: entire, intent, intern, inturn, netter, neuter, nutter, penner, petite, petter, pinene, pinner, pterin, punier, punner, punnet, punter, purine, puttee, putter, rennet, repent, repine, repute, retine, retint, retune, tenner, tenpin, tenter, tentie, tenure, tenuti, tinner, tinter. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-i-n-n-p-r-t-t-u" | |
+1 letter: turpentined, turpentines. | |
+3 letters: uninterrupted, unpretentious. | |
+4 letters: counterpointed, nontherapeutic, supercontinent, superintendent, superintensity. | |
+5 letters: counterpetition, counterstepping, importunateness, pretentiousness, supercontinents, superintendents, uninterruptedly, unpretentiously. | |
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