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Definition: Silicone |
SiliconeNoun1. Any of a large class of siloxanes that are unusually stable over a wide range of temperatures; used in lubricants and adhesives and coatings and synthetic rubber and electrical insulation. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Chemistry | An organosilicon oxide polymer with properties varying according to the organic group(s)it contains. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| SI | English | Silicone plastic | Chemical Industry, Meteorology & Standards |
| SI | French | Plastique silicone | Chemical Industry, Meteorology & Standards |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: SiliconeSynonym: silicone polymer (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Silicone |
| English words defined with "silicone": bouncing putty ♦ silicone polymer, silicone resin, silicone rubber. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "silicone": ANKLE-PATCH MOLDER ♦ Breast Implantation, Breast Implants ♦ conformal coating ♦ DC silicone antifoam, Dental Impression Materials, DISC-PAD-PLATE FILLER ♦ Gastric Balloon, Gastroplasty ♦ KETTLE OPERATOR ♦ MICA-PLATE LAYER, HAND, MIXER, DIAMOND POWDER, MOLDER, AUTOMOBILE CARPETS, molder-trimmer ♦ OVEN-PRESS TENDER I ♦ reactor-kettle operator ♦ Silicone Elastomers, Silicone Gels, silicone oil, Silicone Oils, Skin, Artificial, SOLAR-ENERGY-SYSTEMS DESIGNER, SYNTHETIC-FILAMENT EXTRUDER ♦ Tissue Expanders ♦ Urinary Sphincter, Artificial. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Silicone" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Italian (silicone), Portuguese (silicone). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | You vindictive sack of silicone! (The First Wives Club; writing credit: Robert Harling) My doctor says now I have enough silicone in my body to kill a small elephant! (Orgazmo; writing credit: Trey Parker) | |
Lyrics | Some silicone sister with her manager mister told me I got what it takes (Blinded By The Light (Bruce Springsteen); performing artist: MANFRED MANN) 'Cause silicone parts are made for toys (Baby Got Back; performing artist: SIR MIX-A-LOT) No tucks or silicone (She's So High; performing artist: Tal Bachman) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Girls of Silicone Valley (1991) The Silicone Chip (1978) | |
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Books | |
Consumer Goods | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Hand holding a breast implant which is a flexible sac filled with silicone gel. A surgeon inserts the sac into the chest just under the skin. This implant can be inflated with air or injected with a saline solution to adjust the size. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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Health | The most commonly performed surgical treatment for Ménière's disease is the insertion of a shunt, a tiny silicone tube that is positioned in the inner ear to drain off excess fluid. (references) | |
Business | The Turkish construction sector annually uses about 70,000 tons of additives worth approximately USD 35 million (in addition to insulation products, adhesives, and filling materials such as silicone, polyethylene foam etc). Turkey produces 35 million tons of cement and 1 million tons of plaster per year. Experts state that consumption of building chemicals, and especially of concrete additives, will increase in the near future to more than twice the existing amount to comply with new earthquake-resistance requirements. (references) | |
Economic History | France | The areas of Sophia-Antipolis (Nice) and the Silicone Sentier (Paris) have proven to be the French version of the high-tech Silicon Valley. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Silicone" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 93.38% of the time. "Silicone" is used about 136 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) | 93.38% | 127 | 28,395 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.68% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 2.21% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.74% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 136 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "silicone": DC silicone antifoam ♦ Silicone Elastomers ♦ Silicone Gels ♦ silicone oil ♦ Silicone Oils ♦ silicone polymer ♦ silicone resin ♦ silicone rubber. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "silicone": silicone-based, silicone-coated, silicone-rubber. | |
| 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 |
silicone | 530 | silicone bakeware | 29 |
silicone breast implant | 110 | silicone sealant | 29 |
silicone implant | 89 | candle mold silicone | 28 |
silicone rubber | 80 | silicone molding | 27 |
silicone breast | 71 | silicone doll | 26 |
silicone holocaust | 58 | silicone gel | 26 |
silicone hose | 56 | silicone spray | 25 |
silicone boob | 55 | silicone grease | 25 |
silicone dildo | 55 | silicone oil | 25 |
ge silicone | 53 | silicone adhesive | 23 |
silicone mold | 53 | silicone product | 22 |
silicone coating | 50 | silicone rubber keypads | 20 |
silicone injection | 47 | silicone sheet | 19 |
silicone bra | 45 | mold silicone soap | 18 |
silicone tubing | 41 | silicone lubricant | 17 |
silicone love doll | 39 | silicone brake fluid | 17 |
silicone breast enhancers | 34 | silicone breast form | 16 |
silicone cap | 32 | silicone tape | 16 |
rtv silicone | 32 | silicone mold making | 16 |
free silicone | 29 | silicone rubber product | 15 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "silicone"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | силоксан, силикон. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 硅 脂. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | silicone. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | silicone. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | silikoni. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | silicone. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Silikon. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σιλικόνη. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | silicone. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | シリアル伝送 (serial transmission, silica, silica gel, silicone rubber, Sirius). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | シリコーン . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 실리콘 (si, silicon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | iliconesay silicone. (various references) силикон силиконовый. (various references) silicona. (various references) silikon, kisel (flint, gravel, silicon). (various references) кремнійорганічна сполука. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "silicone": silicones. (additional references) | |
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"Silicone" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: filikon, Filimone, Salicin, Serlison, silecon, siliconing, siliconix, Silikon, sillicon, sillicone, slicon. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: isocline. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-i-i-l-n-o-s" | |
-1 letter: cineols, elision, eosinic, inclose, isoline, lionise, silicon. | |
-2 letters: cineol, clines, clones, colies, colins, conies, cosine, eloins, enolic, icones, incise, insole, ionics, ionise, lesion, nicols, oleins, oscine, sileni. | |
-3 letters: ceils, cines, cions, cline, clone, clons, close, coils, coins, coles, colin, cones, cosie, eloin, enols, eosin, icons, ionic, lenis, lenos, liens, lines, linos, lions, loins. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-i-i-l-n-o-s" | |
+1 letter: colicines, epsilonic, isoclines, picolines, silicones. | |
+2 letters: celloidins, clonidines, creolising, crinolines, decillions, decisional, excisional, insociable, isoleucine, licentious, lidocaines, niccolites, novelistic, relictions, solecising, solecizing. | |
+3 letters: actinolites, bisectional, centillions, cinquefoils, cloistering, clonicities, colchicines, conciliates, consigliere, consiglieri, iconologies, inflections, inviolacies, isoleucines, leucocidins, microclines, millisecond, neologistic, neophiliacs, siliconized, unsolicited. | |
+4 letters: chlorinities, colonializes, compliancies, craniologies, declinations, derelictions, elicitations, elocutionist, elucidations, eosinophilic, equinoctials, exclusionist, explications, ferrosilicon, fictionalise, frictionless, iconolatries, inconclusive, indocilities, infectiously, infelicitous, infomercials, insolvencies, ironicalness, lectionaries, licentiously, lysogenicity, lysolecithin, maledictions, milliseconds, necrophilias, necrophilism, neorealistic, nonrealistic, omnisciently, perniciously, pilocarpines, prolificness, replications, sectionalism, selectionist, semicolonial, semicolonies, sexdecillion, speciational, supercoiling, undecillions, unsocialized, valedictions, vesiculation. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 69 6C 69 63 6F 6E 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... .. .-.. .. -.-. --- -. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101001 01101100 01101001 01100011 01101111 01101110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S i l i c o n e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0069 006C 0069 0063 006F 006E 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5375787569818071 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Bulgarian | речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, превод | български, български език, българин, 保 利亚, bulgarer, bulgarialainen, bulgare, 'ούλγαρος, bulgaro, 불가리아, болгарский, болгарин, búlgaro, bulgar, болгарський |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | китайски, 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , kineser, kiinalainen, Chinois, Chinesisch, Κινέζος, κινέζικα, κινέζικοσ, κινέζοσ, σινικόσ, cinese, チフス菌 , チャイニーズ , 중국, chinês, китайский, китаец, chino, kinesisk, китаянка, китайська мова, китайський, кита"ць |
Danish | ordbog, deskriptordefinition, oversættelse | датски език, датски, 丹麦语, tanskalainen, danois, dänisch, δανικόσ, δανόσ, danese, 덴마크, dinamarquês, датский, danés, dansk, датський, датська мова |
Dutch | woordenboek, definitie, translatie | холандски, немски език, холандски език, холандците, немски, 菏蘭語 , 荷兰语, hollandsk, hollantilainen, néerlandais, holländisch, ολλανδικόσ, ολλανδόσ, olandese, 네덜란", holandês, голландский, holandés, holländsk, голландська мова, голландський |
Finnish | määritelmä, translaatio, taajuusmuutos | фински език, фински, 芬蘭語 , 芬兰语, suomi, suomalainen, finnois, Finlandaise, finlandais, finnisch, φινλανδικόσ, finlandese, 핀란", finlandês, finês, финский, finlandés, finés, finsk, фінська мова, фінський |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | френски език, френски, 法國 , 法文 , 法語 , 法语, ranskalainen, français, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, francese, フレコン化 , 仏文 , フランス" , 仏 , ふつぶ", ふつ, フレンチ , フランセ , "랑스, francês, французский, francés, fransk, franska, французька мова, французький |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | германски, немски език, немски, немец, роден, готически, германец, 德语, 德國 , 德文 , 德語 , tysker, Duitse, saksalainen, allemand, "ερμανός, tedesco, ジプシー音楽 , ジャーマン , 독일, alemão, немецкий, alemán, tysk, німкеня, німецький, німець |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | гръцки език, гръцки, грък, 希腊语, 希臘語 , græker, kreikkalainen, grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, greco, ギリシア語 , ギリシア", 그리스, grego, греческий, грек, griego, grek, грецький, гречанка, грецька мова |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | италиански език, италиански, италианец, 意大利 , 意大利語 , 意大利语, italiener, italialainen, italien, italienisch, Ιταλός, italiano, 이탈리아, итальянский язык, итальянец, итальянский, italiensk, italienska, italienare, італі"ць, італійська мова, італійський, італійка |
Japanese Kanji | 辭典 , 辞典 , 字引 , 辞林 , 字書 , ディーゼル電気車 , 言海 , 辞彙 , 辞書 , 確定 , ディーゼル電気車 , デ'ドロ酢酸 , 翻訳 | японски език, японци, японски, 日語 , 日语, 日本 , 日文 , 倭 , japanilainen, Japonais, japaner, japanisch, ιαπωνικόσ, Ιάπωνας· "ιαπωνέζος, ιάπωνεσ, ιάπων, ιαπωνικά, giapponese, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", 일본, japonês, японский, японец, japonés, japansk, японська мова, японський, японка, японець |
Japanese Katakana | じい, じびき, じて", ディクショナリー , じり", じしょ, '"かい, ディクショナリ , デフィニション , ディフィニション , ていぎ, かくてい, へい"ういどう, やくじゅつ, トランスレーション , やくしょ, やくしゅつ, "うどく, ほ"やく, ほ"やくしょ | японски език, японци, японски, 日語 , 日语, 日本 , 日文 , 倭 , japanilainen, Japonais, japaner, japanisch, ιαπωνικόσ, Ιάπωνας· "ιαπωνέζος, ιάπωνεσ, ιάπων, ιαπωνικά, giapponese, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", 일본, japonês, японский, японец, japonés, japansk, японська мова, японський, японка, японець |
Korean | 사 , 의, 번역 | корейски език, корейски, 韩国语, "國 , 朝鮮語 , Koreaans, coréen, koreanisch, Koreaner, κορεάτικοσ, κορεάτησ, 한국, coréia, a língua coreana, кореец, корейский, coreano, koreansk, кореянка, коре"ць, корейська мова, корейський |
Portuguese | dicionário, definição, tradução | португалски, португалски език, португалец, 葡萄牙語 , 葡萄牙人 , 葡萄牙语, portugiser, portugalilainen, portugais, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portoghese, ポルトガル語 , ポルトガル", 포르투갈, português, португальский, portugués, portugis, португальський, португальська мова, португалець |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | руски език, руски, руснак, 俄語 , 俄文 , 俄语, russer, venäläinen, Russe, russisch, Ρώσος, russo, ロシア語 , ロシア", 러시아, русский, ruso, ryss, росіянка, росіянин, російська мова, російський |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | испански език, испански, 西班牙語 , 西班牙文 , 西班牙语, Spaans, espanjalainen, espagnol, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, spagnolo, スペイン語 , スパイ罪 , スペイン", スパニッシュ , 스페인, espanhol, испанский, español, spanska språk, spansk, іспанський, іспанська мова |
Swedish | ordbok, lexikon, översättning | шведски, шведски език, швед, 瑞典語 , 瑞典语, Zweeds, ruotsalainen, suédois, schwedisch, σουηδικόσ, σουηδικά, svedese, スウェーデン語 , スウェーデン", 스웨덴, шведский, sueco, svensk, шведська мова, шведський |
Ukrainian | словник, довідник, чіткість, тлумачення, виразність, визначення, дефініція, ясність, чітка чутність, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщення | украинец, украински език, 乌克兰, Oekraïens, ukrainalainen, ukrainien, ukrainisch, ukrainerin, Ukrainer, ουκρανικόσ, Ουκρανός, ουκρανόσ, ucraino, ucraniano, украинский язык, украинский, украинец украинский, ucranio, ukrainare, український, українець |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | английски език, английски, англичаните, 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , englantia, englantilainen, anglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, inglese, 영국, inglês, английский, inglés, engelsk, англійський, англійці, англійська мова |
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