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Definition: Powder |
PowderNoun1. A solid substance in the form of tiny loose particles. 2. A mixture of potassium nitrate, charcoal, and sulfur in a 75:15:10 ratio which is used in gunnery, time fuses, and fireworks. 3. Any of various cosmetic or medical preparations dispensed in the form of a powder. Verb1. Apply powder to, as of one's nose or other body parts. 2. Make into a powder by breaking up; "pulverize the grains". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "powder" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
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Chemical Industry | Specifically, a rocket propellant in solid form, usually such a propellant containing both fuel and oxidizer combined or mixed in a solid(not powdered nor granulated)form. Source: European Union. (references) |
Dream Interpretation | To see powder in your dreams, denotes unscrupulous people are dealing with you. You may detect them through watchfulness. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Food & Agriculture | Solid pesticide formulation in which the active ingredient is incorporated into, or coated on, a solid carrier, such as refined clay. Dusts, because of the cost of transporting large volumes of product, are often produced as dust concentrates, which can be further diluted near the site of application. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Powder I'll powder your jacket for you. A corruption of poudrer (to dust). (See Dust .) "Lo! in powdur [dust] ye schall slepe, For out of powdur fyrst ye came." Quoted by Halliwell under "Poudre." Not worth powder and shot. "Le jeu ne vaut pas la chandelle." The thing shot won't pay the cost of powder and shot. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mining | A general term for explosives including dynamite, but excluding caps. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Gunpowder is an explosive substance, used as a propellant for firearms. There are two types, "black powder" and "smokeless powder." Almost all modern guns use smokeless powder.Gunpowder burns producing a subsonic deflagration wave rather than a supersonic detonation wave as do high explosives. This reduces peak pressures in a gun, but makes it less suitable for shattering rock or fortifications.
Smokeless powder consists of almost pure nitrocellulose, frequently combined with up to 20 percent nitroglycerin corned into small spherical balls or extruded into cylinders or flakes using solvents such as ether. Smokeless powder burns only on the surfaces of the granules. Larger granules burn more slowly, and the burn rate is further controlled by flame-deterrent coatings which retard burning slightly. The intent is to regulate the burn rate so that a more or less constant pressure is exerted on the propelled projectile as long as it is in the barrel so as to obtain the highest velocity. Cannon powder has the largest granules, up to thumb-sized cylinders with seven perforations (one central and the other six in a circle halfway to the outside of the cylinder's end faces). The perforations stabilize the burn rate because as the outside burns inward (thus shrinking the burning surface area) the inside is burning outward (thus increasing the burning surface area, but faster, so as to fill up the increasing volume of barrel presented by the departing projectile). Fast-burning pistol powders are made by extruding shapes with more area such as flakes or by flattening the spherical granules. Drying is usually performed under a vacuum. The solvents are condensed and recycled. The granules are also coated with graphite to prevent static electricity sparks from causing undesired ignitions.
Black powder consists of the granular ingredients sulfur (S), charcoal (provides carbon to the reaction) and saltpeter (saltpetre, potassium nitrate, KNO3). The optimum proportions for gunpowder are : Saltpetre 74.64%, Sulphur 11.85%, Charcoal 13.51%.
The basic ratio is:
2 parts Sulfur : 3 parts Charcoal : 15 parts Saltpetre
Black powder is also corned to change its firing rate. Corning black powder is very dangerous because black powder explodes when ground. Corning must be done with the powder wet.
Although black powder is not a true high explosive, the United States Department of Transportation classifies it as a "Class A High Explosive" for shipment because it is so easily set off.
History
Gunpowder was first discovered in China in the 9th century. The discovery appears to have been by accident by alchemists seeking the elixir of immortality, and the first references to gunpowder appear as warnings in alchemy texts not to mix certain materials together. By the 10th century, gunpowder began to be used for military purposes in China in the form of rockets and explosive bombs fired from catapults. The first reference to cannon appears in 1126 when oil bamboo tubes were used to launch missiles at the enemy. Eventually bamboo tubes were replaced by metal tubes, and the oldest cannon in China dates from 1290. From China, the military use of gunpower appears to have spread to Japan and Europe. It was used by the Mongols against the Hungarians in 1241 and was mentioned by Roger Bacon in 1248. By the mid 14th century, early cannons are mentioned extensively both in Europe and in China.
In China as in Europe, the use of gunpowder to produce firearms and cannon was delayed by difficulties in creating metal tubes that would contain an explosion. This problem may have led to the false myth that the Chinese used their discovery only for the manufacture of fireworks. In fact, gunpowder powered cannon and rockets were extensively used in the Mongol conquests of the 13th century and were a feature of East Asian warfare afterwards. The short squat and thick city walls of Beijing for example, were specifically designed to withstand an artillery attack, and the Ming dynasty moved the capital from Nanjing to Beijing specifically because the hills around Nanjing were good locations for invaders to place artillery.
The 15th through 17th century saw widespread development in gunpowder technology both in Europe and the Far East. Advancements in metallurgy lead to small weapons and the development of muskets. Cannon technology in Europe gradually outpaced that of China and these technological improvements transferred back to China through Jesuit missionaries who were put in charge of cannon manufacture by the late Ming and early Qing emperors.
Uses of Gunpowder in Korea
It has been a widely ignored fact that, being close to China, the Koreans effectively used gunpowder to construct primitive mortars along the coasts of their country to protect from Japanese naval attacks. These mortars were also used by the Korean General Yi-Shun-Shin in 1530 to create the first armored warship in history. He designed this new ship to look like a turtle: it was clad in iron on the top, and covered in spikes, which made it impossible for Japonese ships to board it. Arrows were useless against this slow but devastating ship which could fire multiple cannons on each side. With these new inventions the Japanese were forced to retreat from Korea, back to their islands.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Gunpowder."
Synonyms: PowderSynonyms: gunpowder (n), powderize (v), pulverise (v), pulverize (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Arms | Ammunition; powder, powder and shot; cartridge; ball cartridge, cartouche, fireball; "villainous saltpeter"; dumdum bullet. |
Littleness | Point; atom; fragment; (small part); powder; point of a pin, mathematical point; minutiae; (unimportance). |
Ornament | Garnish, trim, dizen, bedizen, prink, prank; trick out, fig out; deck, bedeck, dight, bedight, array; begawd, dress, dress up; spangle, bespangle, powder; embroider, work; chase, emboss, fret, emblazon; illuminate; illustrate. |
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Screenplays | You steal my soap, you steal my cigarettes, you even stole my face powder. (Englishman Abroad, An; writing credit: Alan Bennett) Well, we could grind our enemies into talcum powder with a sledgehammer, but, gosh, we did that last night (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) 3 Powder Blue Eyes (Will & Grace; writing credit: Evan Weinstein) Sir, this weather will wet the men's powder. Our muskets won't fire (George Washington; writing credit: Jon Boothe; Richard Fielder) I'll get the powder, sir. (Futurama; writing credit: Lance Smith; Carl Colpaert) | |
Lyrics | We're living in a powder keg and giving off sparks (TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE HEART; performing artist: Bonnie Tyler) Whispers in the powder room baby, don't listen to the games they play (Walking Away; performing artist: Craig David) And when we touched the powder off, the gator lost his mind ("The Battle of New Orleans"; performing artist: Johnny Horton) And I feed em gun powder so they can devour (Warning; performing artist: The Notorious B.I.G.) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Powder Burns (1971) He Took a Powder (1955) Powder River (1953) Take a Powder (1953) She Took a Powder (1951) | |
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 | Figure 18. Protected Chabaud thermometers constructed by Victor Chabaud in 1892. Three left-most: mercury thermometers. Right: with copper powder. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Rogue River - Just below Indian Mary Park. CCC Boys drilling powder holes. Credit: Unknown. |
 | [Tooth powder making]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Expended cartridge cases and powder tanks from the ship's 5"/38 guns litter the deck, after firing in support of the Normandy invasion off Utah Beach, 6 June 1944. View was taken on the ship's afterdeck, with mount 54 at right. Credit: NAVY. |
 | View on board, looking aft from the bow, while the ship was in New York Harbor on 15 May 1942. Note her forward 5"/38 gun mounts, with 5" powder canisters stacked on deck nearby; and Mark 37 gun director, with "FD" radar antenna, atop the pilothouse. The tug Robert Aikman and a Navy covered lighter (YF) are alongside. Fort Richmond, on Staten Island, is visible in the right distance. Credit: NAVY. |  | Oh not my powder puff -- I can't spare that : but Mars was adamant. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Dr. Price's cream baking powder Steele & Price, manufacturers, Chicago & St. Louis / / Hughes & Johnson, lith., Chicago. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Old Powder House, Marblehead. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Sibley Cotton Mills and powder mill chimney, Augusta, Ga. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Within the mine. Col. Pleasants superinting [sic] the arrival of powder. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Powder brush" by Uschi Hering Commentary: "Macro." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Oliver Cromwell | Put your trust in God and keep your powder dry. |
Rear Admiral Chester W. Nimitz | [A ship is always referred to as "she"] Because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder. |
Thomas Carlyle | The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | When it is perceived, from the slackening of their fire, that they have no longer either balls or powder, the assault is made |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | On the floor lay a broken comb, an empty talcum powder can, and a few dust mice |
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Health | Apply corn starch as you would a dusting powder. (references) | |
Heroin usually appears as a white or brown powder. (references) | ||
PCP is a white crystalline powder that is readily soluble in water or alcohol. (references) | ||
Business | China is a large producer of magnetic tape, floppy discs, and magnetic powder. (references) | |
The continuous increase of whole insipid milk powder production and the new demands for skimmed and partially skimmed dairy products create new opportunities for foreign processing machinery suppliers. (references) | ||
Besides polyester, epoxy resin, saturated polyester, and acrylic resin coatings, the low-pollution coatings, special coatings, and functional coatings such as water-soluble coatings, high solid coatings, powder coatings and light-solidified coatings are seeing good sales in the local market because they mainly rely on imports. (references) | ||
Economic History | Nigeria | Major agricultural imports are wheat, sugar, milk powder, tallow, tobacco and consumer-ready food products. (references) |
Cote D'ivoire | The government encourages export diversification and processing cocoa beans into cocoa butter, cocoa powder, and cocoa liquor to increase valued added to exports. (references) | |
Cote D'ivoire | Whole milk powder is consumed directly and used in the manufacture of UHT milk, condensed milk, ice cream, and yogurt. (references) | |
Human Rights | Macedonia | A powder burn on Bairami's head indicated that he had been shot at close range. (references) |
Sri Lanka | In other cases, victims must remain in unnatural positions for extended periods, or they have bags laced with insecticide, chili powder, or gasoline placed over their heads. (references) | |
Political Economy | JAMAICA | Import licenses: Although Jamaica has made considerable headway in trade liberalization, some items still require an import license, including milk powder, plants and parts of plants for perfume or pharmaceutical purposes, gum-resins, vegetable saps and extracts, certain chemicals, motor vehicles, arms and ammunition, certain toys such as water pistols, and gaming machines. (references) |
Trade | Burma | The most current regulations, issued in November 1999 and February 2000, prohibit the import of commodities such as seasoning powder, soft drinks, assorted biscuits, chewing gum, cake, wafers, chocolate, canned foods noodles, liquor, beer, cigarette and fruits. (references) |
Dominican Rep | Tariff rate quotas were proposed for eight agricultural goods (rice, sugar, chicken parts, pork, corn, onions, milk powder and garlic). (references) | |
Honduras | In an apparent retaliation, El Salvador prohibited dairy exports from Honduras, citing a government regulation banning milk reconstituted from powder in the Salvadoran market. (references) | |
Travel | Indonesia | Persons suffering from severe diarrhea may obtain powder to make up oral rehydration solution from a local pharmacy. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | URBANITY, n. The kind of civility that urban observers ascribe to dwellers in all cities but New York. Its commonest expression is heard in the words, "I beg your pardon," and it is not consistent with disregard of the rights of others. The owner of a powder mill Was musing on a distant hill -- Something his mind foreboded -- When from the cloudless sky there fell A deviled human kidney! Well, The man's mill had exploded. His hat he lifted from his head; "I beg your pardon, sir," he said; "I didn't know 'twas loaded." Swatkin |
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Nancy Grace | That's right, Sally. He was the only one in the entire neighborhood that took a powder. As soon as this child went missing, when they went to Westerfield's home immediately after she was discovered gone, Westerfield was gone. |
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Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Global poverty is a powder keg that could be ignited by our indifference. |
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| "Powder" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 91.43% of the time. "Powder" is used about 1,061 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) | 91.43% | 970 | 7,515 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 4.05% | 43 | 52,181 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 2.82% | 30 | 63,341 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.69% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,061 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "powder": 2) skimmed milk powder manufactured by the spray process ♦ aluminum powder ♦ Antimonial powder ♦ aspirin powder ♦ atlas powder ♦ baby powder ♦ baking powder ♦ bath powder ♦ be reduced to powder ♦ black blasting powder ♦ black powder ♦ bleaching powder ♦ blue powder ♦ body powder ♦ bronze powder ♦ bronzing powder ♦ carob powder ♦ chili powder ♦ cocoa powder ♦ curry powder ♦ custard powder ♦ Detonating powder ♦ Dover's Powder ♦ dusting powder ♦ effervescent powder ♦ evacuated powder ♦ face powder ♦ fever powder ♦ fine powder ♦ five spice powder ♦ Fly powder ♦ Friction powder ♦ Fulminating powder ♦ garlic powder ♦ Giant powder ♦ Goa powder ♦ Gravel powder ♦ gun powder ♦ Hair powder ♦ headache powder ♦ Hercules powder ♦ in powder ♦ in powder form ♦ Ink powder ♦ insect powder ♦ itching powder ♦ James's powder ♦ Jelly powder ♦ Jesuits' powder ♦ joy powder ♦ keep one's powder dry ♦ large grain powder ♦ lemonade powder ♦ Lycopodium powder ♦ mica powder ♦ milk powder ♦ Neptune powder ♦ North Powder ♦ Pearl powder ♦ pebble powder ♦ percussion powder ♦ persian powder ♦ powder and shot ♦ powder blue ♦ powder box ♦ powder compact ♦ powder down ♦ powder flask ♦ powder horn ♦ powder hose ♦ powder house ♦ powder hoy ♦ powder keg ♦ powder magazine ♦ powder measurements ♦ powder metallurgy ♦ powder method ♦ powder milk ♦ powder mill ♦ powder mine ♦ powder monkey ♦ powder of projection ♦ powder one's nose ♦ powder oneself ♦ powder photography ♦ powder post ♦ powder puff ♦ Powder River County ♦ powder room ♦ powder snow ♦ powder sprayer ♦ Powder Springs ♦ powder store ♦ powder technique ♦ powder tin ♦ powder with salt ♦ powder with snow ♦ propellant powder ♦ propellent powder ♦ putty powder ♦ pyrethrum powder. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "powder": powder-blue, powder-coated, powder-coating, powder-covered, Powder-down feather, Powder-down patch, powder-flask, powder-form, powder-horn, powder-keg, powder-kegs, powder-magazine, powder-mill, powder-post termite, Powder-posted, powder-puff, powder-room, powder-stained, powder-trail, powder-train, powder-white, powder-whitened. | |
Ending with "powder": black-powder, bleaching-powder, curry-powder, face-powder, flea-powder, foundation-and-powder, gregory-powder, gun-powder, itching-powder, milk-powder, monocle-and-green-face-powder, orris-powder, pie-powder, plate-powder, re-powder, saw-powder, soap-powder, tripoli-powder, washing-powder, white-powder, wood-powder, worm-powder. | |
Containing "powder": baking-powder biscuit. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
powder coating | 956 | powder coating supply | 75 |
black powder | 434 | flash powder | 72 |
protein powder | 405 | powder puff girl | 68 |
powder | 309 | powder puff | 68 |
powder coat | 155 | baking powder | 67 |
coral calcium powder | 155 | milk powder | 63 |
powder spring georgia | 152 | powder horn | 62 |
gun powder | 150 | powder room | 60 |
black powder rifle | 147 | soy protein powder | 58 |
black powder gun | 136 | hodgdon powder | 58 |
powder movie | 132 | paint powder | 58 |
alliant powder | 124 | powder coating system | 55 |
powder post beetle | 123 | black powder revolver | 55 |
black powder cannon | 109 | whey powder | 53 |
maca powder | 105 | powder metallergy | 53 |
black powder pistol | 100 | white powder gold | 52 |
powder metal | 92 | accurate powder | 51 |
powder coating equipment | 92 | powder magazine | 49 |
whey protein powder | 76 | curry powder | 45 |
imr powder | 76 | itching powder | 45 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "powder"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | poeier (cosmetic, cosmetic powder), bepoeier. (various references) | |
Albanian | pudros (flour, pounce), pudër (pounce), pluhuros, pluhuroj, pluhur (dried, dust, flour, grit), barut (gunpowder), bëj pluhur (levigate). (various references) | |
Arabic | زر (button, push button), بودرة, رش (asperse, besprinkle, dabble, dust, spatter, spirt, splash, splatter, spray, spraying, sprinkle, squirt), رش المسحوق, رماد (ash, cinder, dust), إستعمل البودرة, بارودالمدفع, طحن (crush, flour, grin, grind, grinding, grist, mill, pulverize), مسحوق (crushed, shrivelled), سحق (bash, batter, beat, beating, bow, break, crack, crumple, crunch, crush, flatten, grind, jam, levigate, mow, overwhelm, pound, pounding, pulverization, pulverize, put down, quash, reduce, run over smth., scotch, slam, smash, squash, squeeze, squelch, steam roller, suppress, sweep, trample, tread, triturate, trituration), سحن (beat, bruise, grind, levigate, pulverization, triturate, trituration), تبرج بإستعمال المساحيق, غبار (drift, dust), لبن بودرة (dry milk), هرب (abscond, contraband, drive away, elope, escape, fled, flee, fleeing, fly, get away, get out of, put to flight, run away, run first, run from smb., run off, shun, slope, smuggle, take flight, take to one's heels, tamper, traffic, turn tail), ذرورة القمح. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | стривам на прах (comminute, pulverize, triturate), украсявам с точици, украсявам с дребни фигурки, удрям топка силно, ситен лек сняг, наръсвам (scatter), лекарство на прах, барут (gunpowder), пудря, пудра, превръщам (change, convert, gasify, metamorphose, organize, ossify, pulverize, reduce, transform, transmute, turn, vaporize, volatilize), прах (dust, fug, mould), поръсвам (dredge, dust, perfuse, sift, sprinkle). (various references) | |
Chinese | 粉末, 粉 (dust), 細粉 , 沙 (granule, hoarse, raspy, sand), 丹 (cinnabar, pellet, red). (various references) | |
Czech | prášek (flour, mote, tablet). (various references) | |
Danish | pulver (diacetylmorphine, diamorphine, dust, heroin), pudder (dust), ikke-brisant sprængstof (solid propellant), fast brændstof (solid propellant). (various references) | |
Dutch | poederen (talc), poeder (boy, dust, Helen, Henry, horse, jee jee, jojee, Jones, joy powder, Mrs.White, peanut butter, scag, smack, white boy, white girl, white lady), bepoederen. (various references) | |
Esperanto | pulvoro, pudro (cosmetic powder), pudri. (various references) | |
Faeroese | putur (cosmetic powder), pulvur. (various references) | |
Farsi | پودرزدن به , پودرصورت , پودر (Flour), گردمالیدن بصورت گرددراوردن , گردزدن به , گرد (Compass, Flour, Globular, Hero), دینامیت (Dynamite), باروت (Gunpowder). (various references) | |
Finnish | jauhe (grist). (various references) | |
French | poudre (cosmetic powder). (various references) | |
German | Pulver (dough, gunpowder), Puder (cosmetic powder, face powder), pudern (to powder), Staub (dust, grit). (various references) | |
Greek | σκόνη (dirt, dust), πούδρα (face powder, talc, toilet powder). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לפדר (rouge), לאבק (dust, pulverize, raise dust), לכתוש (crush, mash, pound, stamp), שחק (dust), פודרה, אבקה (pollen), אבק (dust). (various references) | |
Hungarian | por (candy, dust), púder (face powder, facial powder). (various references) | |
Indonesian | serbuk, bubuk, bedak (talcum). (various references) | |
Italian | polvere (dust), cipria. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 粉 (flour, meal). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おしろい, プードル (poodle), パウダー , まつ (highest, pine tree, the end of, to wait), ふんたい, ふんじょう (dispute, disturbance, pulverized, trouble), かやく (adding extra ingredients, gunpowder, seasoning, spices, temporary extra work), こな (flour, meal). (various references) | |
Korean | 분말. (various references) | |
Manx | poodyral (dust), poodyr (blasting powder, dynamite, explosive, gelatine, gelignite, gunpowder), jannoo poodyr jeh (pulverize), grineenaghey (granulate, granulation). (various references) | |
Norwegian | pulver, pudder (cosmetic powder). (various references) | |
Papago | ko'okol (chili powder). (various references) | |
Papiamen | pòlvo, pòlbu. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | owderpay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pó (clay, cosmetic powder, dust, earthenware, fug), empoar (talcum). (various references) | |
Romanian | pulveriza (atomize, comminute, grind, jet, levigate, pulverize, spray, sprinkle), pudrã (Farina, meal), pudra (dredge, puff, whiten), praf de puşcã (gun powder), praf (dry, dust, Farina, meal), sãra (brine, corn, cure, powder with salt, salt, souse). (various references) | |
Russian | напудрить, пудра (face powder), посыпать (scatter, sprinkle, strew, talcum), порох (gunpowder), порошок (trituration), испещрять (dapple, flecker, mottle, specking, speckling, spot). (various references) | |
Scottish | fùdar (gunpowder). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | puderisati, puder, prah (dust), prašak (detergent), napuderisati, barut (gunpowder). (various references) | |
Spanish | polvos (cosmetic powder, face powder), polvo (dust, grit, jammed, screw), pólvora (gunpowder). (various references) | |
Swahili | poda (cosmetic powder). (various references) | |
Swedish | pulver, pudra (powder oneself, puff), puder (dust), krut (gunpowder). (various references) | |
Thai | แป้งฝุ่น (talcum powder), ผงฟู (baking powder), ผงซักฟอก (detergent, soap powder). (various references) | |
Turkish | barut (gunpowder, quick to anger person). (various references) | |
Turkmen | poroюak (r). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | товкти (bruise, cree, pound), квапитися (busk, haste, hie, hurry up, push on, skip, wing-ding), натиск (bang, dash, dint, inrush, onfall, onrush, onset, onslaught, pressure, push, rush, stress), напудрювати, пудра, пудритися, присипати, порох (clod), порошок (flour, trituration), пил (dust, fug). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự thử thách với lửa đạn, bia đỡ đạn không đáng bắn, bột (flour, starch). (various references) | |
Welsh | pylor (dust), powdr, ulw (ashes, utterly), llwch (dust). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | gaz. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | contuderis, contusum, farinae, farinam, pulvere, pulverem, pulveri, pulveris, pulvis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Luke Chapter 20, Verse 18 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | PaV o peswn ep ekeinon ton liqon sunqlasqhsetai ef on d an pesh likmhsei auton |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Omnis qui ceciderit supra illum lapidem conquassabitur supra quem autem ceciderit comminuet illum |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | þa sohton þara sacerda ealdras and þa boceras hyra handa on þære tide on hine wurpun and hig adredon him þæt folc; Soðlice hi ongeton þæt he þis bigspell to him cwæð:-- |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Ech that schal falle on that stoon, schal be to-brisid, but on whom it schal falle, it schal al to-breke him. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Whosoever stomble at that stone shalbe broken: but on whosoever it faul vpon it wyll grynde him to powder. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Whosoever shall fall upon that stone shall be broken; but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Whoever shall fall upon that stone, shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Everyone falling on that stone will be broken, but the man on whom the stone comes down will be crushed to dust. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Luke Chapter 20, Verse 18 |
| Cebuano | Ang tanan nga mahulog sa ibabaw niining batoha, mawataswatas; apan bisan kinsa nga mapusdakan niini, mapulpog siya." |
| Croatian | Tko god padne na taj kamen, smrskat æe se, a na koga on padne, satrt æe ga." |
| Danish | Hver, som falder på denne Sten, skal slå sig sønder; men hvem den falder på, ham skal den knuse." |
| Dutch | Een iegelijk, die op dien steen valt, zal verpletterd worden, en op wien hij valt, dien zal hij vermorzelen. |
| Finnish | Jokainen, joka kaatuu siihen kiveen, ruhjoutuu, mutta jonka päälle se kaatuu, sen se murskaa." |
| French | Quiconque tombera sur cette pierre s`y brisera, et celui sur qui elle tombera sera écrasé. |
| German | Wer auf diesen Stein fällt, der wird zerschellen; auf wen aber er fällt, den wird er zermalmen. |
| Hungarian | Valaki erre a kõre esik, szétzúzatik; a kire pedig ez esik reá, szétmorzsolja azt. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Semua orang yang jatuh pada batu itu akan hancur; dan siapa yang ditimpa batu itu akan tergilas menjadi debu." |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka tiap-tiap orang yang jatuh di atas batu itu, ia akan remuk; tetapi orang yang ditimpa oleh batu itu, hancurlah ia kelak." |
| Italian | Chiunque cadrà su quella pietra si sfracellerà e a chi cadrà addosso, lo stritolerà». |
| Maori | Na, ki te hinga tetahi ki runga ki tenei kohatu, mongamonga noa; ki te hinga tenei kohatu ki runga ki tetahi, ngotangota noa ia, ano he puehu. |
| Norwegian | Hver den som faller på denne sten, han skal knuses; men den som den faller på, ham skal den smuldre til støv. |
| Rumanian | Oricine va cqdea peste piatra aceasta, va fi zdrobit de ea: wi pe acela peste care va cqdea ea, kl va spulbera?`` |
| Russian | чУСЛЙК, ЛФП ХРБДЕФ ОБ ФПФ ЛБНЕОШ, ТБЪПВШЕФУС, Б ОБ ЛПЗП ПО ХРБДЕФ, ФПЗП ТБЪДБЧЙФ. |
| Shuar | Nu kayan tukumainia nuka kupintrattawai. Tura nu kaya shuarnum iniarka nu shuaran tsai tsai awajsattawai. Tu aarmaiti. |
| Spanish | Cualquiera que caiga sobre aquella piedra será quebrantado, y desmenuzará a cualquiera sobre quien ella caiga. |
| Swahili | Mtu yeyote akianguka juu ya jiwe hilo, atavunjika vipandevipande; na likimwangukia mtu yeyote, litamsaga kabisa." |
| Swedish | Var och en som faller på den stenen, han skall bliva krossad; men den som stenen faller på, honom skall den söndersmula." |
| Uma | Hewa kura to monawu' hi watu mopengka, hewa kura to napitihi watu moreja', hewa toe wo'o mpai' tauna to mposapuaka-a." |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "powder": powdered, powderer, powderers, powdering, powderless, powderlike, powders, powdery. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "powder": gunpowder. (additional references) | |
Words containing "powder": gunpowders. (additional references) | |
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"Powder" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bowder, Lowder, peder, Pedwar, podar, poder, Pooder, pouder, povder, Powda, powed, powert, Powler, powte, puder, pudeur. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "powder" (pronounced pou"der) |
| 3 | -ou" d er | chowder, Crowder, louder, prouder. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-o-p-r-w" | |
-1 letter: doper, dower, pedro, pored, power, roped, rowed. | |
-2 letters: doer, dope, dore, dorp, drew, drop, oped, owed, pore, prod, prow, redo, repo, rode, rope, word, wore. | |
-3 letters: dew, doe, dor, dow, ode, ope, ore, owe, ped, per, pew, pod, pow, pro, red, rep, rod, roe, row, wed, woe, wop. | |
-4 letters: de, do, ed, er, od. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-o-p-r-w" | |
+1 letter: dewdrop, powders, powdery, powered, prowled. | |
+2 letters: dewdrops, poleward, powdered, powderer. | |
+3 letters: empowered, gunpowder, impowered, pewholder, powderers, powdering, preshowed, repowered, spadework, topworked, worshiped. | |
+4 letters: gunpowders, hydropower, outpowered, peckerwood, pewholders, powderless, powderlike, spadeworks, spiderwort, woodpecker, worshipped. | |
+5 letters: candlepower, crowstepped, hydropowers, overpowered, peckerwoods, spiderworts, swordplayer, woodchopper, woodpeckers. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Fiction 11. Quotations: Non-fiction 12. Quotations: Spoken | 13. Quotations: Speeches 14. Usage Frequency 15. Expressions 16. Expressions: Internet | 17. Translations: Modern 18. Translations: Ancient 19. Bible Trace 20. Derivations | 21. Rhymes 22. Anagrams 23. Bibliography |
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