Soot

Definition: Soot

Soot

Noun

1. A black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink.

Verb

1. Coat with soot.

Date "soot" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references)

Domain	Definition
Dream Interpretation	If you see soot in your dreams, it means that you will meet with ill success in your affairs. Lovers will be quarrelsome and hard to please. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....
Environment	Carbon dust formed by incomplete combustion. (references)
Industry	Fine-grained particulate amorphous carbon occuring as the result of incomplete combustion. Source: European Union. (references)
Mining	A black substance, consisting essentially of carbon from the smoke of wood or coal, esp. that which adheres to the inside of the chimney, containing also volatile products condensed from the combustion of the wood or coal,including certain ammonia salts. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Soot

Synonyms: carbon black (n), lampblack (n), smut (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Calefaction	Cinder, ash, scoriae, embers, soot; slag.
Uncleanness	Dirt, filth, soil, slop; dust, cobweb, flue; smoke, soot, smudge, smut, grit, grime, raff; sossle, sozzle.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Soot Versus Suds (1901)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	An eye full of soot and an ear full of steam (reference) Dancing in Soot (reference) Soot Devil. (reference) Soot Formation in Combustion: Mechanisms and Models (reference) Soot in Combustion Systems and Its Toxic Properties (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	New Idria, California. Collecting mercury by hand from soot deposited in the condenser chamber at the mercury extraction plant of the New Idria Quicksilver Mining Company. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Tangled Tale	Carroll, Lewis	And I rubs my hand on the wall where he got over, and there was soot on it, and no mistake.
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	He had his arms bare, like the first, and a mask of ink or of soot.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		A conventional car driven by fuel cell technology would currently cost about $65,000. Environmentalists are also not exactly enthusiastic about fuel cells because although they don't emit nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide or soot particles, some carbon dioxide does is emitted along with air and water. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Bill Clinton	1993-2001	Last year, we put in place the toughest-ever controls on smog and soot.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Soot" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.53% of the time. "Soot" is used about 162 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)	97.53%	158	24,965
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	1.23%	2	245,945
Lexical Verb (base form)	1.23%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	162	N/A

Expressions using "soot": black as soot ♦ cover with soot ♦ produce soot ♦ soot black ♦ wood soot. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "soot": soot-black, soot-blackened, soot-contaminated, soot-encrusted, soot-flowers, soot-free, soot-marks, soot-plumed, soot-smeared, soot-stained, soot-stains, soot-streaked, soot-streaks.
	Ending with "soot": steel-and-soot.
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.

Language		Translations for "soot"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		tym (exhalation, fume, smoke), blozë (black, lampblack, pitch-black, smoke-black, smut). (various references)

Arabic		‏لوث بالسخام, ‏وسخ (bedraggle, befoul, begrime, defiled, dirty, filthy, foul, grime, grimy, grubbiness, litter, mess up, offset, ordure, scum, slattern, smut, soil, sordid, stain, tarnish), ‏سناج, ‏سواد الدخان, ‏سخام (bloat, colly, crock, grime, smut). (various references)

Bulgarian		сажди, покривам със сажди. (various references)

Chinese		煤灰 . (various references)

Czech		saze (smut), mour, kopt. (various references)

Danish		sod. (various references)

Dutch		roet. (various references)

Esperanto		fulgo. (various references)

Faeroese		sót, ím. (various references)

Farsi		رنگ سیاه دوده , دوده زدن , دوده بخاری , دوده (Black, Grime, Smut). (various references)

Finnish		noki (blight, smut). (various references)

French		suie (sooty mold, sooty mould). (various references)

German		Ruß (grime, lampblack, smoke). (various references)

Greek		αιθάλη (carbon black, smut), καπνιά (blight, lampblack, smudge, smut). (various references)

Hebrew		פיח (lampblack). (various references)

Hungarian		korom (black, carbon deposit, grime, lampblack, smut). (various references)

Indonesian		jelaga (smoke-black). (various references)

Italian		fuliggine (smut). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		煤 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		すす. (various references)

Korean		검댕. (various references)

Manx		sooie (colly, smut). (various references)

Pig Latin		ootsay

Portuguese		fuligem (black, crock, grime, smut). (various references)

Romanian		funingine (grime, smoke, smut), acoperi cu funingine. (various references)

Russian		копоть (smoke). (various references)

Scottish		sùith. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		garež (grime), čađ (char, lampblack). (various references)

Spanish		hollín. (various references)

Swedish		sot (grime, sickness), sota ned. (various references)

Thai		เขม่า, ทำให้เปื้อนเขม่า. (various references)

Turkish		kurum bulaştırmak, kurum (airs, conceit, corporation, establishment, foundation, haughtiness, institute, institution, pose, shop, smut, swagger, vanity), is yapmak (smoke, smut), is lekesi yapmak, is (black, smut). (various references)

Turkmen		gurum, dьяt. (various references)

Ukrainian		сажа (black, crock, smut), нагар, покривати сажею. (various references)

Vietnamese		nhọ n�"i, muội (smoke-black), b�" hóng (grime, smoke-black). (various references)

Welsh		parddu (fire-black, smut), huddygl. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Sumerian	3100 BCE-2500 BCE	ubilla. (various references)
Middle High German	1100-1500	ram. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "soot": sooted, sooth, soothe, soothed, soother, soothers, soothes, soothest, soothfast, soothing, soothingly, soothingness, soothingnesses, soothly, sooths, soothsaid, soothsay, soothsayer, soothsayers, soothsaying, soothsayings, soothsays, sootier, sootiest, sootily, sootiness, sootinesses, sooting, soots, sooty. (additional references)
	Words containing "soot": besoothe, besoothed, besoothes, besoothing, forsooth. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Soot" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: esoo, esut, oset, osom, osor, samot, savot, segot, seto, sgot, Sikota, sito, skoot, sloot, smoo, smootu, soat, soet, sogt, soit, sojo, sont, soo, sooa, sood, soof, sooi, sook, soom, soor, sopot, sopt, sotk, soto, S'oton, sotu, souet, soui, soult, souq, sovo, soxo, soyo, soyt, sozo, spoot, sroat, sroot, srot, stoo, stoot, sutt, swoot, zeot, Zogoth, zoot, zot. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "soot" (pronounced suh"t)
2	-uh" t	afoot, foot, put, underfoot.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: oots.
	Words within the letters "o-o-s-t"
	-1 letter: oot, sot, too.
	-2 letters: os, so, to.
	Words containing the letters "o-o-s-t"
	+1 letter: boost, boots, coots, foots, hoots, kotos, loots, lotos, moots, ottos, roost, roots, rotos, scoot, shoot, snoot, sooth, soots, sooty, sotol, stood, stook, stool, stoop, tools, toons, toots, topos, toros, torso, toyos.
	+2 letters: bhoots, boosts, booths, boston, cloots, cohost, contos, coopts, footsy, kotows, lottos, motors, mottos, nostoc, oboist, oocyst, ootids, ostomy, otiose, photos, pottos, robots, roosts, rotors, scoots, shoots, smooth, snoots, snooty, sooted, soothe, sooths, sotols, stolon, stooge, stooks, stools, stoops, strook, taboos, tholos, tondos, tooths, tootsy, torose, torous, torsos, toyons, troops, volost.
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 6F 6F 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01101111 01101111 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 006F 006F 0074

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
soot free candle	51	soot free natural candle to erase common odor	4
soot	47	soot remover	4
candle soot	17	soot free bath and boudoir candle	4
candle color free soot	10	bull jeep soot	3
blower soot	9	brick clean from soot	2
free soot	7	bus filter soot	2
blower sonic soot	7	remove soot	2
soot free natural candle for aromatherapy mood management	7	soot sponge	2
candle free natural scent season soot	6	soot sprites	2
cleaning soot	5	cleanser soot	2
soot removal	4	soot damage	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Soot

Definition: Soot

Soot

Noun

Verb

Specialty Definition: Soot

Synonyms: Soot

Synonyms within Context: Soot

Calefaction

Uncleanness

Crosswords: Soot

Modern Usage: Soot

Movie/TV Titles

Commercial Usage: Soot

Books

Image Slideshow: Soot

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Photo Album: Soot

Use in Literature: Soot

Tangled Tale

Carroll, Lewis

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Non-Fiction Usage: Soot

Speeches: Soot

Bill Clinton

Usage Frequency: Soot

Expression: Soot

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Soot

Modern Translation: Soot

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Turkmen

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Ancestral Language Translations: Soot

Derivations & Misspellings: Soot

Derivations

Misspellings

Rhyming with "Soot"

Anagrams: Soot

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Alternative Orthography: Soot

53 6F 6F 74

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01010011 01101111 01101111 01110100

&#83 &#111 &#111 &#116

0053 006F 006F 0074

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Illustrations:
Soot