pulp
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
Etymology: From Middle English pulpe, from Latin pulpa.
Inflected forms:
form: pulps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pulps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pulping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pulped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pulped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: more pulp
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pulp
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: These sources do not, however, state why the drink is called lambswool. The name comes from the way the apples are roasted until they split open, and their pulp froths over the skin; this is used to float on top of the bowl of drink.
gloss: A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: A magazine or book containing lurid subject matter and characteristically printed on rough, unfinished paper.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
uncountable
usually
examples: The hard-hitting, action packed, thud and blunder adventure fantasy was a commodity during that somber decade: Americans paid money to forget their troubles, and the pulps were willing to sell.
The fledgling comics business was a sweatshop trade for creative hopefuls too inexperienced, too socially ill-equipped, or, more often, too minimally talented for the established avenues of hackdom, the pulps and commercial art.
gloss: To make or be made into pulp.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
gloss: To beat to a pulp.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
gloss: To deprive of pulp; to separate the pulp from.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: Of or pertaining to pulp magazines; in the style of a pulp magazine or the material printed within such a publication.
pos: adj
examples: The Nightwing annual had what felt like a very 'pulp-ish' plot, and the Superman annual was great, with a very pulp plot and a^([sic]) incredible Doc Savage tribute cover.
Rather than Asimov I might suggest Stanley Weinbaum (since he died young and early in his career, he is far more "pulp" than Asimov - and remarkably readable - there is a LANCER collection of some of his short stories).
Synonyms: flesh
mash
pomace
Derived words: beat to a pulp
kraft pulp
pulpaceous
pulpal
pulpament
pulpboard
pulp cavity
pulp chamber
pulpectomy
pulp engine
pulp fiction
pulpification
pulpify
pulpily
pulpitis
pulpless
pulplike
pulp mill
pulpotomy
pulpous
pulpsmith
pulpwood
pulpy
red pulp
soda pulp
splenic pulp
wood-pulp
wood pulp
pulpability
pulpable
pulper
repulp
unpulped
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: каша
roman: kaša
lang: Finnish
word: massa
lang: French
word: pulpe
lang: Friulian
word: polpe
lang: German
word: Brei
lang: Greek
word: πολτός
roman: poltós
lang: Hindi
word: गूदा
roman: gūdā
lang: Hungarian
word: pép
lang: Hungarian
word: massza
lang: Irish
word: garr
lang: Italian
word: polpa
lang: Māori
word: puru
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Brie
lang: Portuguese
word: polpa
lang: Romanian
word: pulpă
lang: Russian
word: мя́коть
roman: mjákotʹ
lang: Russian
word: пу́льпа
roman: púlʹpa
lang: Swahili
word: uji uji