rubber
Webster Dictionary
india rubber; caoutchouc
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rubber
Webster Dictionary
an overshoe made of India rubber
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vulcanize
Webster Dictionary
to change the properties of, as caoutchouc, or India rubber, by the process of vulcanization
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elastic
Webster Dictionary
an elastic woven fabric, as a belt, braces or suspenders, etc., made in part of India rubber
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corticine
Webster Dictionary
a material for carpeting or floor covering, made of ground cork and caoutchouc or India rubber
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football
Webster Dictionary
an inflated ball to be kicked in sport, usually made in India rubber, or a bladder incased in Leather
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cannula
Webster Dictionary
a small tube of metal, wood, or India rubber, used for various purposes, esp. for injecting or withdrawing fluids. It is usually associated with a trocar
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impermeable
Webster Dictionary
not permeable; not permitting passage, as of a fluid. through its substance; impervious; impenetrable; as, India rubber is impermeable to water and to air
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kamptulicon
Webster Dictionary
a kind of elastic floor cloth, made of India rubber, gutta-percha, linseed oil, and powdered cork
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parkesine
Webster Dictionary
a compound, originally made from gun cotton and castor oil, but later from different materials, and used as a substitute for vulcanized India rubber and for ivory; -- called also xylotile
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caoutchouc
Webster Dictionary
a tenacious, elastic, gummy substance obtained from the milky sap of several plants of tropical South America (esp. the euphorbiaceous tree Siphonia elastica or Hevea caoutchouc), Asia, and Africa. Being impermeable to liquids and gases, and not readly affected by exposure to air, acids, and alkalies, it is used, especially when vulcanized, for many purposes in the arts and in manufactures. Also called India rubber (because it was first brought from India, and was formerly used chiefly for erasing pencil marks) and gum elastic. See Vulcanization
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hose
Webster Dictionary
a flexible pipe, made of leather, India rubber, or other material, and used for conveying fluids, especially water, from a faucet, hydrant, or fire engine
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linoleum
Webster Dictionary
linseed oil brought to various degrees of hardness by some oxidizing process, as by exposure to heated air, or by treatment with chloride of sulphur. In this condition it is used for many of the purposes to which India rubber has been applied
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varnish
(ˈvɑr nɪʃ)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
any of various other preparations similarly used, as one having India rubber as its chief constituent.
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pontoon
Webster Dictionary
a wooden flat-bottomed boat, a metallic cylinder, or a frame covered with canvas, India rubber, etc., forming a portable float, used in building bridges quickly for the passage of troops
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tambour
Webster Dictionary
a shallow metallic cup or drum, with a thin elastic membrane supporting a writing lever. Two or more of these are connected by an India rubber tube, and used to transmit and register the movements of the pulse or of any pulsating artery
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spring
Webster Dictionary
an elastic body of any kind, as steel, India rubber, tough wood, or compressed air, used for various mechanical purposes, as receiving and imparting power, diminishing concussion, regulating motion, measuring weight or other force
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impregnate
Webster Dictionary
to infuse particles of another substance into; to communicate the quality of another to; to cause to be filled, imbued, mixed, or furnished (with something); as, to impregnate India rubber with sulphur; clothing impregnated with contagion; rock impregnated with ore
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parárubber
(ˌpær ə saɪˈkɒl ə dʒi)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
India rubber obtained from the tree Hevea brasiliensis, of the spurge family, and other species of the same genus of tropical South America.
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deckle
Webster Dictionary
a separate thin wooden frame used to form the border of a hand mold, or a curb of India rubber or other material which rests on, and forms the edge of, the mold in a paper machine and determines the width of the paper
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elastic
Webster Dictionary
springing back; having a power or inherent property of returning to the form from which a substance is bent, drawn, pressed, or twisted; springy; having the power of rebounding; as, a bow is elastic; the air is elastic; India rubber is elastic
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masticator
Webster Dictionary
a machine for cutting meat into fine pieces for toothless people; also, a machine for cutting leather, India rubber, or similar tough substances, into fine pieces, in some processes of manufacture
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elastomer
(ɪˈlæs tə mər)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
an elastic substance occurring naturally, as natural rubber, or produced synthetically, as butyl rubber.
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sponge rubber
(ʌndʒ)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a light, spongy rubber, usu. prepared by bubbling carbon dioxide through or whipping air into latex; foam rubber.
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cold rubber
(cold rubber)
Princeton's WordNet
a rubber made at low temperatures (5 degrees Centigrade) which is tougher than conventional rubber and is often used in car tires
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pencil eraser
(rubber eraser, rubber, pencil eraser)
Princeton's WordNet
an eraser made of rubber (or of a synthetic material with properties similar to rubber); commonly mounted at one end of a pencil
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rubber eraser
(rubber eraser, rubber, pencil eraser)
Princeton's WordNet
an eraser made of rubber (or of a synthetic material with properties similar to rubber); commonly mounted at one end of a pencil
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rubber
(rubber eraser, rubber, pencil eraser)
Princeton's WordNet
an eraser made of rubber (or of a synthetic material with properties similar to rubber); commonly mounted at one end of a pencil
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ebonite
(hard rubber, vulcanite, ebonite)
Princeton's WordNet
a hard nonresilient rubber formed by vulcanizing natural rubber
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vulcanite
(hard rubber, vulcanite, ebonite)
Princeton's WordNet
a hard nonresilient rubber formed by vulcanizing natural rubber
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