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Definition: Cellophane |
CellophaneNoun1. A transparent paper-like product that is impervious to moisture and used to wrap candy or cigarettes etc. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "cellophane" was first used: 1912 trademark name. (references) |
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Chemistry | Transparent film made of regenerated cellulose. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Cellophane is a thin, transparent sheet made of processed cellulose. Cellulose fibres from wood or cotton are dissolved in alkali to make a solution called viscose, which is then extruded through a slit into an acid bath to reconvert the viscose into cellulose. A similar process, using a hole instead of a slit, is used to make a fibre called rayon.Cellophane's impermeability to air, grease and bacteria makes it useful for food packaging.
Cellulose film has been manufactured continuously since the mid-1930s and is still used today. As well as packaging a variety of food items, there are also industrial applications, such as a base for self-adhesive tapes (Sellotape and Scotch Tape), a semi-permeable membrane in certain types of battery, and as a release agent in the manufacture of fibreglass and rubber products.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Cellophane."
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 | Putting rice in cellophane packages. Abbeville, Louisana. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Filling cellophane sacks from automatic weighing machines. Abbeville, Louisana. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Long Island City, New York. Atlantic Macaroni Company, makers of Caruso brand products. Noodles come down the chute after drying and are packed in cellophane envelopes. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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Health | A doctor or other health care worker can diagnose pinworm infection by finding the eggs. The most common way to collect the eggs is a rather simple one involving swabbing the anal area with the sticky side of a piece of transparent cellophane tape. The tape is then transferred to a slide where it can be looked at under a microscope. (references) | |
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| "Cellophane" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.71% of the time. "Cellophane" is used about 70 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) | 95.71% | 67 | 40,952 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.29% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 70 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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Beginning with "cellophane": cellophane-wrapped. | |
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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. |
| Language | Translations for "cellophane"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | celofan. (various references) | |
Arabic | السيلوفان. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | целофан. (various references) | |
Chinese | 玻'纸. (various references) | |
Czech | celofán. (various references) | |
Danish | cellofan (cellophane film, cellulose film, viscose film). (various references) | |
Dutch | cellofaan (viscose film). (various references) | |
Farsi | کاغذسلوفان , کاغذشیشه نمای سلولزی . (various references) | |
Finnish | sellofaani (film). (various references) | |
French | cellophane. (various references) | |
German | Cellophan, Zellophan. (various references) | |
Greek | σελοφάν (viscose film). (various references) | |
Hebrew | צלופן. (various references) | |
Hungarian | celofán. (various references) | |
Indonesian | kertas kaca. (various references) | |
Italian | cellofan, film di cellulosa (viscose film). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | セル付 (10^-2, a center, bottle cap, celery, cellophane tape, center, centering, centi-, centimeter, centre, ceremony, facility providing funeral services, good sense, Scotch tape, select, selection, selector, selenium, sensation, sensational, sensor, serenade, stopper, with a self-starter). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | セロハンテープ (cellophane tape, Scotch tape), セロテープ (cellophane tape). (various references) | |
Manx | kellofane. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ellophanecay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | celofane (cellophane film, cellulose film, viscose film). (various references) | |
Romanian | celofan. (various references) | |
Russian | целлофан целлофановый, целлофан. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | celofan. (various references) | |
Spanish | celofán. (various references) | |
Swedish | cellofan (viscose film). (various references) | |
Turkish | selofan, şeffaf kâğıt. (various references) | |
Turkmen | sellofan (r). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | целофан. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vênh váo (cocksy, cocky, coxy), ngạo mạn (assumptive, haughty, hubris, lordly, perky), giấy bóng kính xenlôfan kiêu căng. (various references) | |
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| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | phainein. (various references) |
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Words beginning with "cellophane": cellophanes. (additional references) | |
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"Cellophane" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cellaphane, cellophaned, cellophone, celophane, Clephan. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-h-l-l-n-o-p" | |
-1 letter: cellphone. | |
-3 letters: chalone, cheapen, colleen, echelon, epochal, nacelle, panoche, penoche, planche. | |
-4 letters: achene, cellae, chapel, cheapo, chelae, cholla, clonal, enhalo, enlace, holpen, locale, lochan, peahen, pechan, pencel, phenol, phonal, planch, pleach, plench, pollee, pollen. | |
-5 letters: aleph, allee, alone, anele, anole, canoe, capon, cella, cello, chape, cheap, cheep, chela, clean, clepe, clone, copal, copen, elope. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-h-l-l-n-o-p" | |
+1 letter: cellophanes. | |
+3 letters: telencephalon. | |
+4 letters: hypoallergenic, myelencephalon, telencephalons, telephonically. | |
+5 letters: myelencephalons, plainclothesmen. | |
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