powder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpaʊ.də(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈpaʊ.dɚ/
rhymes: -aʊdə(ɹ)
Forms: form: powders
form: powdre
Etymology: From Middle English poudre, pouder, pouldre, borrowed from Old French poudre, poldre, puldre, from Latin pulverem, accusative singular of Latin pulvis (“dust, powder”). Doublet of pulver. Compare pollen (“fine flour”), polverine, pulverize.
Senses: examples: text: Let me goe grin'd their Bones to powder ſmall, […]
ref: c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii], page 50, column 2:
text: Let them stop fretting about vegetables denied by the weather and eat chilli powder. Just explain to them that they really shouldn’t think about spiralising it, because that doesn’t work.
ref: 2017 February 3, Deborah Orr, “Veg crisis, what veg crisis? If we can’t have courgettes, then let us eat kale”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The fine particles which are the result of reducing a dry substance by pounding, grinding, or triturating, or the result of decay; dust.
examples: text: She was redolent of violet sachet powder, and had warm, soft, white hands, but she danced divinely, moving as smoothly as the tide coming in.
ref: 1912, Willa Cather, The Bohemian Girl:
topics: cosmetics
lifestyle
glosses: A mixture of fine dry, sweet-smelling particles applied to the face or other body parts, to reduce shine or to alleviate chaffing.
examples: text: Tut, tut, good enough to toſſe: foode for Powder, foode for Powder: they'll fill a Pit, as well as better: tuſh man, mortall men, mortall men.
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii], page 67, column 2:
glosses: An explosive mixture used in gunnery, blasting, etc.; gunpowder.
glosses: Ellipsis of powder snow; light, dry, fluffy snow.
glosses: Ellipsis of powder blue, a color.
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from powder (noun)
word: antimonial powder
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word: anti-shine powder
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word: Atlas powder
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word: baby powder
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word: baking powder
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word: bepowder
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word: black powder
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word: bleaching powder
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word: Bolivian marching powder
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word: bread powder
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word: brown powder
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word: champagne powder
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word: chili powder
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word: cocoa powder
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word: cold food powder
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word: Colombian marching powder
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word: corpse powder
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word: cryopowder
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word: cube powder
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word: curry powder
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word: custard powder
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word: denture powder
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word: Dover's powder
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word: dry powder
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word: dry powder inhaler
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word: face powder
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word: fever powder
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word: fingerprint powder
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word: five mineral powder
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word: five-spice powder
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word: flash powder
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word: flea-powder
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word: fly powder
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word: food for powder
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word: garlic powder
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word: giant powder
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word: Goa powder
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word: Goulard's powder
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word: Gregory's powder
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word: gunpowder
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word: gun powder
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word: hair powder
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word: inheritance powder
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word: insect powder
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word: itching powder
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word: James's powder
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word: jelly powder
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word: Jesuits' powder
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word: joy powder
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word: juvenile powder
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word: keep one's powder dry
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word: keep the powder dry
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word: love powder
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word: lycopodium powder
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word: marching powder
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word: milk powder
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word: nanopowder
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word: negro powder
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word: Neptune powder
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word: nose powder
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word: not worth the powder
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word: not worth the powder and shot
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word: overpowder
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word: party powder
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word: pearl powder
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word: Persian insect powder
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word: Persian powder
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word: Peruvian marching powder
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word: plate powder
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word: powder-bag
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word: powder bath
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word: powder-bed
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word: powder blue
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word: powder box
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word: powder burn
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word: powder-burn
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word: powder cap
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word: powder closet
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word: powder-coat
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word: powder-coated
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word: powder coating
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word: powder-douce
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word: powder down
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word: powder-down feather
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word: powder-down patch
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word: powder flask
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word: powderflask
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word: powder-forte
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word: powder horn
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word: powderhorn
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word: powder hose
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word: powderhound
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word: powder hound
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word: powder hoy
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word: powderize
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word: powder keg
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word: powderless
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word: powderlike
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word: powder magazine
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word: powdermaker
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word: powderman
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word: powder metallurgy
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word: powdermill
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word: powder mill
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word: powder mine
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word: powder monkey
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word: powder of sympathy
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word: powder one's nose
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word: powder pink
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word: powder-post
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word: powder-post beetle
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word: powder-posted
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word: powder puff
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word: Powder River
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word: powder room
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word: powder snow
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word: priming powder
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word: prismatic powder
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word: protein powder
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word: putty powder
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word: Rochelle powder
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word: Schultze powder
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word: scouring powder
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word: sedlitz powder
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word: seidlitz powder
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word: Shimose powder
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word: smokeless powder
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word: stump powder
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word: sympathetic powder
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word: take a powder
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word: take a walkout powder
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word: talcum powder
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word: tooth powder
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word: Tripoli powder
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word: washing powder