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Definition: Creosote |
CreosoteNoun1. A colorless or yellowish oily liquid obtained by distillation of wood tar; used as an antiseptic. 2. A dark oily liquid obtained by distillation of coal tar; used as a preservative for wood. Verb1. Treat with creosote; "creosoted wood". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "creosote" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1890. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Chemical Industry | Heavy, high-boiling oil obtained from coal and wood tars. A major use for creosote is in wood preservatoves. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Liquid pitch oil. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Energy | A liquid byproduct of wood combustion (or distillation) that condenses on the internal surfaces of vents and chimneys, which if not removed regularly, can corrode the surfaces and fuel a chimney fire. (references) |
Mining | As used in wood preservation, a distillate of coal tar produced by high-temperature carbonization of bituminous coal; it consists principally of liquid and solid aromatic hydrocarbons, and contains appreciable quantities of tar acids and tar bases; it is heavier than water; and has a continuous boiling range of at least 125 degrees C beginning at about 200degrees C. Also called creosote oil; creosote distillate. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Wood creosote is a colorless to yellowish greasy liquid with a smoky odor and burned taste. Coal tar creosote is a thick, oily liquid typically amber to black in color. Coal tar and coal tar pitch are usually thick, black, or dark-brown liquids or semi-solids, with a smoky odor.
Wood creosote has been used as a disinfectant, a laxative, and a cough treatment, but has since been replaced by better medicines. Coal tar products are used in medicines to treat skin diseases such as psoriasis, and also as animal and bird repellents, insecticides, animal dips, and fungicides. Coal tar creosote is the most widely used wood preservative in the United States. Coal tar, coal tar pitch, and coal tar pitch volatiles are used for roofing, aluminum smelting, and coking.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Creosote."
Synonym: CreosoteSynonym: coal-tar creosote (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Creosote |
| English words defined with "creosote": Coal-tar creosote, Creasote, Creosoted, Creosoting, Cresylic ♦ Guiacol ♦ Kreosote ♦ Picamar ♦ Sonora gum. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "creosote": brush treatment ♦ coal-tar oil ♦ flotation oil ♦ guaiacol ♦ oxyacetylene treatment ♦ pest-control worker, pressure process ♦ reconstituted tar ♦ SUPERVISOR, TAR DISTILLATION ♦ tar acids, tar bases, tar phenols. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Creosote" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Portuguese (creosote). |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Railroad ties painted with creosote, Brown County, Indiana. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Creosote" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 87.88% of the time. "Creosote" is used about 33 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) | 87.88% | 29 | 64,444 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 9.09% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 3.03% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 33 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "creosote": Creosote bush. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "creosote": creosote-based. | |
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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 |
creosote | 99 |
creosote bush | 16 |
creosote mr | 4 |
creosote gardening | 4 |
creosote msds | 3 |
creosote railroad tie | 2 |
creosote fence post | 2 |
creosote wood | 2 |
coal creosote tar | 2 |
creosote pole | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "creosote"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | katran (coal tar, pitch, tar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | креозот. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 木馏油. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | kreozot. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | kreosot, flydende restolie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | creosootolie, creosoot. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | گرءوزوت . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kreosootti. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | créosote de hêtre, créosote. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | kreosot. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κριεζότο, κρεόζωτο, κρεοζώτον, κρεοζώτο, έλαιον κρεοζώτου, σωρισκέασ, σωσίκρεας, βαρύ έλαιο πίσσας, λιπαρά αντισηπτική ουσία. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kreozot, karbolsav (carbolic acid, phenol). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | creosoto. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | クレアチン燐酸 (clay, creatine phosphate, creator). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | クレオソート . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | creasoidey, creasoid. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eosotecray creosote. (various references) creozot. (various references) креозот. (various references) kreozot. (various references) creosota. (various references) kreosot. (various references) kreozot (heavy oil), katran ruhu. (various references) креозот. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "creosote": creosoted, creosotes. (additional references) | |
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"Creosote" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: creosot, cresosote, Creusot, Crosotel, Kreosotum. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-o-o-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: cooters, scooter. | |
-2 letters: certes, cooees, cooers, cooter, corset, coster, erects, escort, rectos, resect, roscoe, scoter, secret, sector, stereo, terces, torose. | |
-3 letters: ceres, ceros, cetes, cooee, cooer, coots, cores, corse, coset, cotes, crest, erect, erose, escot, ester, recto, reest, reset, roose, roost, roots, roset, rotes, rotos, scoot, score, scree, steer, stere, store, terce, terse. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-o-o-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: creosoted, creosotes. | |
+2 letters: centrosome, cooperates, crookedest, ozocerites. | |
+3 letters: centrosomes, cholesterol, coexecutors, cornerstone, cotoneaster, coulometers, counterpose, ctenophores, enterocoels, neocortexes, neocortices, nonsecretor, overstocked, stereoscope, stereoscopy, thermoscope. | |
+4 letters: cholesterols, chronometers, clotheshorse, cogenerators, coleopterans, coleopterist, coleopterous, colorimeters, commemorates, concertgoers, cooperatives, corespondent, cornerstones, corporeities, costermonger, cotoneasters, coulometries, countermemos, countermoves, counterpoise, counterposed, counterposes, cyproterones, econometrics, econometrist, ecoterrorism, ecoterrorist, electroforms, electroscope, electroshock, electrotonus, enterococcus, enterocoeles, heteroecious, intercoolers, kinetochores, mesothoraces, nonsecretors, nonsecretory, orthocenters, otoscleroses, overcorrects, overprotects, photoreduces, protectories, reconnoiters, reconnoitres, redecorators, retrocession, retrorockets, serotonergic, sociometries, spectroscope, stereophonic, stereopticon, stereoscopes, stereoscopic, thermoscopes, urethroscope, watercoolers. | |
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