phosphate
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: agriculture
business
chemistry
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰéh₂os
Proto-Hellenic *pʰáwos
Ancient Greek φᾰ́ος (phắos)
Ancient Greek φῶς (phôs)
Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰéreti
Proto-Hellenic *pʰérō
Ancient Greek φέρω (phérō)
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Hellenic *-os
Ancient Greek -ος (-os)
Ancient Greek -φόρος (-phóros)
Ancient Greek φωσφόρος (phōsphóros)bor.
Latin phōsphorusder.
French phosphore
French -ate
French phosphateder.
English phosphate
From French phosphate. By surface analysis, phosphoric acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Inflected forms:
form: phosphates
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: phosphates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: phosphating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: phosphated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: phosphated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Any salt or ester of phosphoric acid.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Make sure you don’t use detergents with phosphates or nonylphenol ethoxylate surfactants, but that information is rarely available on the labels.
Bony fishes were judicious in their use of phosphate as a building material: their teeth, a few parts of the skeleton, and that was it.
gloss: Any fertiliser containing phosphate compounds.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Guano (containing high levels of phosphates and harvested for the fertiliser industry).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A carbonated soft drink containing phosphoric acid, often flavored with a fruit-based syrup.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
dated
regional
uncountable
examples: An egg phosphate is a phosphate to which an egg has been added in the proper manner. While an egg phosphate can be flavored with any syrup that makes a good phosphate, still the standard flavor by long usage has com to be orange […]
“This man here,” she said, “can make you a cherry Coke or a chocolate Coke or a phosphate — a chocolate phosphate or. “Vanilla phosphate,” the man helped, “cherry phosphate, orange phosphate, lime phosphate, lemon phosphate,
You order California burgers for us both, even though I don't eat lettuce or tomato, then you order me a phosphate, cherry, a dreadful fizzy drink you say you always loved. It's bitter, bubbly, unbearable; but, thirsty for your past, force myself to drink it.
gloss: To treat or coat with a phosphate or phosphoric acid.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: acylphosphate
adenosine phosphate
alkylglycerone phosphate synthase
alkyl phosphate
aluminophosphate
ammonium phosphate
aryldialkylphosphatase
biphosphate
bisphosphate
boron phosphate
borophosphate
cadmium phosphate
calcium dihydrogen phosphate
calcium phosphate
carbamoyl phosphate
chalcogenophosphate
chlorophosphate
creatine phosphate
creatinolfosfate
cyclophosphate
decaphosphate
diammonium phosphate
dichlorophosphate
dichlorothiophosphate
difluorodioxophosphate
difluorodithiophosphate
difluorophosphate
difluorothiophosphate
dihydrogen phosphate
diphosphate
disodium hydrogen phosphate
disodium phosphate
dithiophosphate
ecothiopate
ferric phosphate
ferrous phosphate
fluophosphate
fluorophosphate
fosfestrol
fructose 6-phosphate
galactosephosphate
glucose 6-phosphate
glucose-6-phosphate isomerase
glycerolphosphate
halophosphate
hexakisphosphate
hexametaphosphate
hexaphosphate
high energy phosphate
hydrogen phosphate
hydroxyphosphate
hydroxypropyl starch phosphate
hypophosphate
inorganic phosphate
inositol phosphate
iron phosphate
isopropylphosphate
magnesium phosphate
metaphosphate
metrifonate
monocalcium phosphate
monophosphate
monopotassium phosphate
natrophosphate
nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate
nonphosphate
oligophosphate
organophosphate
organphosphate
orthophosphate
paraphosphate
pentakisphosphate
pentaphosphate
pentose phosphate pathway
phosphagen
phosphataemia
phosphatase
phosphate acetyltransferase
phosphate bond
phosphate butyryltransferase
phosphated
phosphated distarch phosphate
phosphate glass
phosphate island
phosphatemia
phosphate rock
phosphatian
phosphatic
phosphatide
phosphatise
phosphatization
phosphatize
phosphaturia
phosphoribosylpyrophosphate
polyestradiol phosphate
polyphosphate
potassium titanyl phosphate
pyrophosphate
quadriphosphate
radiophosphate
riboflavin-5-sodium phosphate
selenophosphate
silicophosphate
sodium aluminium phosphate
sodium dithiophosphate
sodium hexametaphosphate
sodium hydrogen phosphate
sodium monofluorophosphate
sodium phosphate
sodium phosphate tribasic
sodium trimetaphosphate
sodium tripolyphosphate
sugar phosphate
superphosphate
tetrakisphosphate
tetraphosphate
tetrathiophosphate
thermophosphate
thiophosphate
trialkylphosphate
tributyl phosphate
tricalcium phosphate
tricresyl phosphate
triosephosphate
triose phosphate
triosephosphateisomerase
triphenylphosphate
triphosphate
trisodium phosphate
trisodium phosphate dodecahydrate
trisphosphate
trithiophosphate
uranium phosphate
uranyl phosphate
vanadious phosphate
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