Soapstone

Definition: Soapstone

Soapstone

Noun

1. A soft heavy compact variety of talc having a soapy feel; used to make hearths and tabletops and ornaments.

Date "soapstone" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1837. (references)

Specialty Definition: Soapstone

Domain	Definition
Chemistry	A soft stone having a soapy feel and composed essentially of talc, chlorite, and often some magnetite compare steatite. Source: European Union. (references)
	Type of steatite, sometimes containing chloritic minerals . Source: European Union. (references)
Industry	Powdered soft stone used to reduce tackiness of rubber to keep tires from sticking to molds during curing. Also used as lubricant to prevent sticking between tire and tube. Source: European Union. (references)
Mining	A. Massive talc. Syn:steatite; soaprock. b. A metamorphic rock of massive, schistose, or interlaced fibrous or flaky texture and soft, unctuous (greasy) feel; composed essentially of talc with variable amounts of mica, chlorite, amphibole, and pyroxene; alteration product of ultramafic rock; may be carved into art objects or sawn into dimension stone for use where chemical resistance or high heat capacity is needed. c. A miners' and drillers' term for any soft, unctuous rock. Syn:agalmatolite; Manchurian jade; talcum.d. See:saponite; talc. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Soapstone

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The lid of a soapstone box to show the characteristic look of the stone. The lid is 4 inches wide (10 cm).
Larger version

Soapstone is a very soft mineral consisting mostly of talc. Soapstone which is almost entirely talc is also known as steatite. It may feel soapy when touched, hence the name.

Soapstone is used for inlaid designs, sculpture and for kitchen countertops and sinks. Traditional Inuit carvings often use soapstone. Soapstone is sometimes used for fireplace surrounds because it can absorb and evenly distribute heat while being easy to manufacture.

Synonyms: Soapstone

Synonyms: soaprock (n), steatite (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Soapstone

English words defined with "soapstone": slate pencil. (references)

Specialty definitions using "soapstone": BAND-MACHINE OPERATOR, BEAD PREPARER ♦ DRIER-OPERATOR HELPER, dry-room helper ♦ EXPANSION-JOINT BUILDER, expansion-joint finisher ♦ FABRIC NORMALIZER, fabric-separator operator, FIRE-HOSE CURER ♦ grease stone, greasy feel ♦ IRONWORKER-MACHINE OPERATOR ♦ LABORER, GENERAL ♦ normalizing-equipment tender ♦ Populist ♦ refractory stone ♦ STRAINER TENDER, strainer-mill operator ♦ TUBE-AND-MANIFOLD BUILDER, TUBE-BUILDING-MACHINE OPERATOR, tuber operator. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Soapstone

Domain	Title
Books	Soapstone : a Price Guide (Collector's Digest) (reference) The Improbable Adventures of Marvelous O'Hara Soapstone. (reference) The Soapstone Birds of Great Zimbabwe (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Soapstone

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Two GI's stand guard on bridge over Soapstone Creek--about 10 miles east of Selma--as Selma-to-Montgomery civil rights marchers approach. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Soapstone

Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	POPULIST, n. A fossil patriot of the early agricultural period, found in the old red soapstone underlying Kansas; characterized by an uncommon spread of ear, which some naturalists contend gave him the power of flight, though Professors Morse and Whitney, pursuing independent lines of thought, have ingeniously pointed out that had he possessed it he would have gone elsewhere. In the picturesque speech of his period, some fragments of which have come down to us, he was known as "The Matter with Kansas."
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Soapstone

"Soapstone" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Soapstone" is used about 13 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%	13	97,576

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Soapstone

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
soapstone	255	kitchen sink soapstone	4
soapstone countertops	53	green mountain soapstone	4
soapstone sink	35	soapstone supplier	3
soapstone counter	30	soapstone slab	3
soapstone carving	27	woodstock soapstone stove	3
soapstone stove	26	carving iroquois soapstone	3
soapstone counter top	24	residencies soapstone	3
vermont soapstone	20	soapstone cookware	3
soapstone fireplace	16	dealer soapstone	3
soapstone wood stove	15	soapstone wholesale	2
soapstone tile	12	basin soapstone	2
soapstone sculpture	10	distributor jersey new soapstone	2
arts craft soapstone	8	indian soapstone	2
aroma burner oil soapstone	5	soapstone virginia	2
burner oil soapstone	5	inuit soapstone carving	2
soapstone oil diffuser	5	counter kitchen soapstone top	2
soapstone oil warmer	5	dish soap soapstone	2
holder oil soapstone	5	kitchen soapstone	2
art craft soapstone	4	campground soapstone	2
arts craft made soapstone	4	african soapstone	2
		canada soapstone	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Soapstone

Language		Translations for "soapstone"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		steatitutë, gur i butë. (various references)

Bulgarian		талк (talc, talcum). (various references)

Chinese		鸡血石. (various references)

Czech		mastek (talc, talcum). (various references)

Danish		steatit (steatite), slipmiddel, klæbersten, fedtsten (mountain tallow). (various references)

Dutch		steatiet (steatite), speksteen (steatite), anti-hechtingsmiddel. (various references)

Finnish		steatiitti, vuolukivi (soap-stone, steatite). (various references)

French		stéatite chloriteuse, stéatite, stéaschiste, anticollant. (various references)

German		Seifenstein. (various references)

Greek		σαπουνόχωμα (talc, talcum). (various references)

Italian		antiaderente. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		凍石 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		とうせき (dialysis, membership in a party, party register, stone throwing). (various references)

Korean		동석. (various references)

Pig Latin		oapstonesay

Portuguese		greda (chalk, clay, loam, malm). (various references)

Russian		мыльный камень (soap-stone, steatite). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		krojačka kreda. (various references)

Spanish		esteatita (steatite). (various references)

Swedish		täljsten. (various references)

Turkish		sabuntaşı (steatite). (various references)

Ukrainian		стетит, мильний камінь (steatite). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Soapstone

Derivations
	Words beginning with "soapstone": soapstones. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Soapstone" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Osbaston, Shalstone. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Soapstone

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: teaspoons.
	Words within the letters "a-e-n-o-o-p-s-s-t"
	-1 letter: teaspoon.
	-2 letters: aptness, patness, petasos, sapotes, soonest, stepson, teopans.
	-3 letters: aspens, assent, atones, estops, netops, nooses, onsets, paeons, pantos, paseos, pastes, patens, pestos, pontes, posset, ptoses, sanest, santos, sapote, season, setons, sneaps, snoops, snoots, spates, speans, spoons, stanes, stapes, stenos, stones, stoops, stopes, teopan.
	-4 letters: aeons, antes, apses, aspen, asset, atone, easts, estop, etnas.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-n-o-o-p-s-s-t"
	+1 letter: postseason, soapstones.
	+2 letters: personators, postseasons, snapshooter, spontaneous, synaptosome, tablespoons.
	+3 letters: anisotropies, autohypnoses, compensators, personations, snapshooters, synaptosomes, teaspoonfuls, teaspoonsful, trypanosomes.
	+4 letters: compassionate, compensations, despoliations, impersonators, nonphosphates, operationisms, operationists, postsecondary, proconsulates, protestations, spermatozoans, spontaneously.
	+5 letters: anisometropias, compassionated, compassionates, dodecaphonists, expostulations, impersonations, paleobotanists, photosynthates, planetologists, plastoquinones, postadolescent, postmenopausal, prognosticates, sexploitations, tablespoonfuls, tablespoonsful, treponematoses, treponematosis, waterproofness.
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