lime
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
entertainment
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
theater
Etymology: From Middle English lyme, lym, lime, from Old English līm, from Proto-West Germanic *līm, from Proto-Germanic *līmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂leyH- (“to smear”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Liem (“glue”), Dutch lijm (“glue”), German Leim (“glue”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish lim (“glue”), Faroese and Icelandic lím (“glue”), Latin limus (“mud”).
Inflected forms:
form: limes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: limes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: liming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: limed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: limed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Any inorganic material containing calcium, usually calcium oxide (quicklime) or calcium hydroxide (slaked lime).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Lime, which is the product of the burning of chalk or limestone, might be bought ready burnt, or it could be burnt in kilns specially constructed in the neighbourhood of the building operations.
gloss: Any gluey or adhesive substance that traps or captures; sometimes a synonym for birdlime.
pos: noun
tags: countable
poetic
uncountable
examples: Monster, come, put some lime upon your fingers, and away with the rest.
Like the lime which foolish birds are caught with.
gloss: A limelight; any spotlight.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Sellers moved on until he was actually trusted to operate the limes, the spotlights that can make or destroy an artist's act.
Then out of the blue, a spotlight much like the “limes” in a theatre, lit up what seemed like a Punch and Judy tent […] He struggled even more, when from out of the shadows and into the bright light of the limes, stepped Uncle Jolly.
gloss: To treat with calcium hydroxide or calcium oxide (lime).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: If I were you, I'd lime.
gloss: To smear with birdlime.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To smear with birdlime.
pos: verb
tags: rare
transitive
examples: URSULA. She's lim'd, I warrant you: we have caught her, madam.
HERO. If it prove so, then loving goes by haps:
Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.
Abraham, like his parents, seemed to have been limed and caught by the ensnaring inn.
gloss: To apply limewash.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: Containing lime or lime juice.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Having the aroma or flavor of lime.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Lime-green.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: acid lime
anhydrous lime
belime
birdlime
burnt lime
carbonate of lime
caustic lime
chloride of lime
chlorinated lime
cream of lime
delime
dolime
hydraulic lime
Jew's lime
lime-ash
limeberry
limeburner
lime burning
limecrete
Limedale
lime-fingered
limehouse
lime kiln
limekiln
limeless
limelight
limelighter
limelike
lime mortar
lime pit
limerod
limescale
limestone
lime sulfur
lime-twig
limetwig
lime-twigged
limewater
limeworking
limeworks
limeyard
limy
milk of lime
nitrolime
pickling lime
quicklime
shell lime
slaked lime
soda-lime
soda lime
soda-lime glass
time and lime
tobacco lime
unhydrated lime
unlime
unslaked lime
whitelime
white lime
overlime
relime
unlimed
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: sivellä lintuliimalla
lang: Latin
word: invisco
lang: Turkish
word: ökselemek