bromide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: brō'mīd
ipa: /ˈbɹəʊ.maɪd/
enpr: brō'mīd
ipa: /ˈbɹoʊ.maɪd/
Forms: form: bromides
Etymology: From brom- + -ide. First used in the sense “dull person” by Gelett Burgess.
Figurative sense ("platitude") by extending the medicating sense through the metaphor of pacifying or placating.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
hypernyms: compound
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substance#Noun
material#Noun
coordinate_terms: fluoride
chloride
iodide
;
astatide
tennesside
glosses: A binary compound of bromine and some other element or radical.
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
hypernyms: compound
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substance#Noun
material#Noun
halide#Noun
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salt
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compound
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substance#Noun
material#Noun
coordinate_terms: fluoride
chloride
iodide
;
astatide
tennesside
fluoride
chloride
iodide
;
astatide
tennesside
glosses: A binary compound of bromine and some other element or radical.
Any salt of hydrobromic acid.
examples: text: “How fortunate Buddha, Mahomed, and Shakespeare were that their kind relations and doctors did not cure them of their ecstasy and their inspiration,” said Kovrin. “If Mahomed had taken bromide for his nerves, had worked only two hours out of the twenty-four, and had drunk milk, that remarkable man would have left no more trace after him than his dog. […]”
ref: 1894, Anton Chekhov, translated by Constance Garnett, The Black Monk, published 1917:
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
hypernyms: halide#Noun
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anion#Noun
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ion#Noun
coordinate_terms: fluoride
chloride
iodide
;
astatide
tennesside
glosses: The anionic form of a bromine atom.
examples: text: My adviser at college was a bromide who had not had an original thought in years.
text: The bromide conforms to everything sanctioned by the majority, and may be depended upon to be trite, banal, and arbitrary.
ref: 1906, Frank Gelett Burgess, Are You A Bromide?:
antonyms: sulphite
glosses: A dull person with conventional thoughts.
examples: text: We hoped the speech would include reassurances, but instead it was merely one bromide after another.
text: No organicist metaphor, no irrelevant bromide that "we are all part of one another," must be permitted to obscure this basic fact.
ref: 1974, Murray Newton Rothbard, “What the State Is Not”, in Anatomy of the State:
text: Gascoigne was annoyed by this. ‘Well, I wish you luck, Mr. Lauderback, in bringing Mr. Carver to justice,’ he said.
‘Spare the bromide,’ Lauderback snapped. ‘Talk to me plain.’
ref: 2013, Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries, London: Granta Books, published 2014, →ISBN, page 569:
text: Certainly not Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, who is clearly the Rupert Murdoch of his generation. He’s always justifying his cowardly choices with vacuous bromides about “free speech,” but he’s obviously just in it for the money — no matter how much his platform is used to destroy our democracy.
ref: 2020 June 2, Thomas L. Friedman, “America, We Break It, It’s Gone”, in New York Times:
synonyms: word: platitude
word: byword
word: saying
word: adage
word: saw
word: proverb
word: maxim
word: apothegm
word: apophthegm
word: dictum
word: gnome
word: gnomic saying
word: mantra
word: paroemia
glosses: A platitude.
glosses: A dose of bromide taken as a sedative, or to reduce sexual appetite.
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: A print made on bromide paper.
Derived terms: acetyl bromide
acyl bromide
allylmagnesium bromide
aluminium bromide
aluminum bromide
americium bromide
ammonium bromide
barium bromide
benzyl bromide
beryllium bromide
bibenzonium bromide
bismuth bromide
bromide developer
bromide emulsion
bromide of potassium
bromide paper
bromide print
bromide printer
bromide printing
bromidic
bromidiom
bromidism
bromo
bromoil
cadmium bromide
caesium bromide
cesium bromide
calcium bromide
cerium bromide
cerous bromide
cetrimide
chlorobromide
chromium bromide
clidinium bromide
cobalt bromide
copper bromide
curium bromide
cyanogen bromide
decamethonium bromide
deuterium bromide
diazobromide
dibromide
domiphen bromide
dysprosium bromide
ethidium bromide
ethyl bromide
ferric bromide
germanium bromide
glycopyrronium bromide
gold bromide
hafnium bromide
hexabromide
hexamethonium bromide
hydrobromide
hydrogen bromide
indium bromide
iodine bromide
iodobromite
iron bromide
lithium bromide
lithium bromide-dihydrate
manganese bromide
manganous bromide
mercury bromide
methyl bromide
monobromide
nickel bromide
niobium bromide
octabromide
otilonium bromide
oxobromide
oxybromide
oxyphenonium bromide
pentabromide
perbromide
phenacyl bromide
phenylmagnesium bromide
phosphorous bromide
platinum bromide
polybromide
potassium bromide
prifinium bromide
protobromide
radium bromide
rubidium bromide
selenium bromide
silicon bromide
silver bromide
sodium bromide
stannic bromide
strontium bromide
strontium bromide-hexahydrate
sulfur bromide
sulphur bromide
tantalum bromide
tellurium bromide
tetrabromide
tetradecabromide
tetrylammonium bromide
thallium bromide
timepidium bromide
tin bromide
titanium bromide
tribromide
trimedoxime bromide
tungsten bromide
uranous bromide
vanadium bromide
vinyl bromide
ytterbium bromide
yttrium bromide
zinc bromide
zirconium bromide