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Definition: Glycerin |
GlycerinNoun1. A sweet syrupy trihydroxy alcohol obtained by saponification of fats and oils. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "glycerin" was first used: 1838. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Chemistry | Cleavage product of fats and oils, chemically it is an alcohol. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: GlycerinSynonyms: glycerine (n), glycerol (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Oil | Noun: oil, fat, butter, cream, grease, tallow, suet, lard, dripping exunge, blubber; glycerin, stearin, elaine, oleagine; soap; soft soap, wax, cerement; paraffin, spermaceti, adipocere; petroleum, mineral, mineral rock, mineral crystal, mineral oil; vegetable oil, colza oil, olive oil, salad oil, linseed oil, cottonseed oil, soybean oil, nut oil; animal oil, neat's foot oil, train oil; ointment, unguent, liniment; aceite, amole, Barbados tar; fusel oil, grain oil, rape oil, seneca oil; hydrate |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Glycerin |
| English words defined with "glycerin": Acetin ♦ Boroglyceride ♦ Chlorhydrin, Court-plaster ♦ Diachylum ♦ Erythrite, Ethylin ♦ Gelatin process, Glyceric, Glyceric acid, Glycerin fermentation, glycerin jelly, glycerinated gelatin, glycerite, glycerogel, glycerogelatin, glycerole, Glycide, Glyconin ♦ Laurin, Linoleic, Lipyl ♦ Myristin ♦ Polyacid, Propenyl, Propionic ♦ Ricinelaidin, Ricinolein ♦ soft soap, Steapsin, Stycerin ♦ Triacid, Triatomic, Tricarballylic ♦ Valerin. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "glycerin": Biodiesel ♦ DE-IONIZER OPERATOR ♦ konimeter ♦ low-freezing dynamites ♦ stress meter ♦ TWITCHELL OPERATOR. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "glycerin": Valerin. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Glycerin" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Swedish (glycerin, glycerine). |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Also, Q-tips or glycerin swabs can help remove food particles. (references) | |
Economic History | Senegal | The surge in U.S. direct investment was primarily due to the $68 million GE Capital power station and to Colgate-Palmolive's investment in a new toothpaste and glycerin plant. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Glycerin" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Glycerin" is used about 5 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% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "glycerin": Glycerin fermentation ♦ glycerin jelly ♦ glycerin nitrate ♦ phenyl glycerin. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "glycerin": pbs-glycerin. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "glycerin"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | glicerinë (glycerine, glycerol). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | глицерин (glycerine, glycerol). (various references) | |
Chinese | 甘油 (Glycerine). (various references) | |
Czech | glycerín (glycerine). (various references) | |
Danish | glycerol(glycerin) (glycerol), E422 (glycerol). (various references) | |
Dutch | glycerol (CH2OH), CHOH, glycerine, glycerol, glycerol(CH2OH), glycerine (CH2OH), CHOH, glycerine, glycerol, glycerol(CH2OH), E422 (glycerol). (various references) | |
French | glycerol (glycerol), glycerine (glycerol), glycérine (glycerine), trihydroxypropane (glycerol), E422 (glycerol). (various references) | |
German | glyzerin. (various references) | |
Greek | γλυκερίνη (trihydric alcohol). (various references) | |
Hungarian | glicerin (glycerol). (various references) | |
Italian | glicerina (glycerol). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | グリオキシル酸回路 (glissade, glycerol, glycine, glycogen, glyoxylate cycle, grease, Greenwich, grid, gridding, grinding against, grip, rubbing against and turn). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | グリセリン (glycerol). (various references) | |
Korean | 글리세린 (Glycerine). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | yceringlay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | glicerina (glycerine, glycerol). (various references) | |
Romanian | glicerinã (glycerine). (various references) | |
Russian | глицерин (glycerine). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | glicerin (glycerine). (various references) | |
Spanish | glicerina (glycerine, glycerol). (various references) | |
Swedish | glycerin (glycerine). (various references) | |
Turkish | gliserin (glycerine, glycerol). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | гліцерин (glycerine, glycerol). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | glykeros. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "glycerin": glycerinate, glycerinated, glycerinates, glycerinating, glycerine, glycerines, glycerins. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "glycerin": nitroglycerin. (additional references) | |
Words containing "glycerin": nitroglycerine, nitroglycerines, nitroglycerins. (additional references) | |
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"Glycerin" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: glideren, gltcerin, glycan, Glyceria, glycerined, glycerinn, glyceryl. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-g-i-l-n-r-y" | |
-1 letter: clinger, cringle, glycine, relying. | |
-2 letters: cering, clergy, clingy, cringe, crying, glycin, linger, nicely. | |
-3 letters: cline, cling, eying, genic, girly, ingle, liger, liner, liney, lingy, lying, lyric, nicer, reign, relic, renig, riley, yince. | |
-4 letters: ceil, cine, cire, gien, girl, girn, glen, gley, grey, grin, gyre, gyri, inly, lice, lien, lier, line, ling, liny, lire, lyre. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-g-i-l-n-r-y" | |
+1 letter: glycerine, glycerins, recycling. | |
+2 letters: glycerines, piercingly. | |
+3 letters: caressingly, cylindering, embracingly, generically, glycerinate, hectoringly, panegyrical, preachingly, rejectingly, rejoicingly, screamingly, searchingly, wrenchingly. | |
+4 letters: belligerency, clatteringly, decreasingly, discerningly, electrifying, flickeringly, glycerinated, glycerinates, glycoprotein, increasingly, recognizably, scatteringly, synergically. | |
+5 letters: allergenicity, centrifugally, cryogenically, deprecatingly, electrolyzing, electrotyping, encouragingly, endocrinology, energetically, ergonomically, glycerinating, glycoproteins, incongruently, monoglyceride, nitroglycerin, panegyrically, reclassifying, reproachingly, syringomyelic. | |
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