salamander
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Middle English salamandre, from Anglo-Norman salamandre, from Latin salamandra, from Ancient Greek σαλαμάνδρα (salamándra), of uncertain origin (per Beekes, likely Pre-Greek); possibly of Iranian origin, see Persian سمندر (samandar) for more information.
Inflected forms:
form: salamanders
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: salamanders
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: salamandering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: salamandered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: salamandered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A long, slender, chiefly terrestrial amphibian of the order Caudata, superficially resembling a lizard.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […]and most plainly Pierius, whose words in his hieroglyphicks are these: "Whereas it is commonly said that a salamander extinguisheth fire, we have found by experience that it is so far from quenching hot coals, that it dyeth immediately therein."
Devils Lake is where I began my career as a limnologist in 1964, studying the lake’s neotenic salamanders and chironomids, or midge flies.[…]The Devils Lake Basin is an endorheic, or closed, basin covering about 9,800 square kilometers in northeastern North Dakota.
gloss: A creature much like a lizard that is resistant to and lives in fire (in which it is often depicted in heraldry), hence the elemental being of fire.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: “Not a chance, Ranger,” Bob Mason was speaking. “This little cuss is a salamander. He's been travelling through fire all day and there isn't a blister on him. …”
"There is a vulgar error," says the author of the Brief Natural History, p. 91, "that a salamander lives in the fire. Yet both Galen and Dioscorides refute this opinion; and Mathiolus, in his Commentaries upon Dioscorides, a very famous physician, affirms of them, that by casting of many a salamander into the fire for tryal he found it false. The same experiment is likewise avouched by Joubertus."
gloss: A metal utensil with a flat head which is heated and put over a dish to brown the top.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The salamander, a fairly long metal utensil with a flat rounded head, was left in the fire until red hot and then used to brown the top of a dish without further cooking.
gloss: A small broiler (North America) or grill (Britain) that heats the food from above, used in professional cookery primarily for browning.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The chef first put the steak under the salamander to sear the outside.
Overfired grills, or salamanders, can, in addition, be used for making toast and salamandering. They have the heat source above the food[…]. This may comprise sets of burners firing below refractory or metal frets, or surface combustion plaques.
gloss: A pouched gopher (Geomys pinetis etc.)
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
gloss: A large poker.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: Multitudes had little Tin Kettles in their Houses, with Small-coal kindled, to light their Pipes withal; though in some places they use Candles, in others Salamanders
gloss: Solidified material in a furnace hearth.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Salamander tapping is done at the salamander base, which is the bottom-most level of the liquid pool in a blast furnace hearth. A high degree of precision is required to tap the salamander base effectively
gloss: A portable stove used to heat or dry buildings under construction.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The necessary fires alone — the salamanders and tinner's pots — had caused dozens of small blazes.
gloss: A fire-eater (performer who pretends to swallow fire).
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
obsolete
slang
uncountable
gloss: To use a salamander (cooking utensil) in a cooking process.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: When cold, sprinkle the custard thickly with sugar and salamander it.
Overfired grills, or salamanders, can, in addition, be used for making toast and salamandering. They have the heat source above the food […]. This may comprise sets of burners firing below refractory or metal frets, or surface combustion plaques.
Related words: salamandrian
salamandric
salamandrid
salamandriform
salamandrine
salamandroid
salamandrous
Derived words: Abe's salamander
alpine salamander
cave salamander
fire salamander
frogamander
gerrymander
giant salamander
Japanese giant salamander
klip-salamander
Korean crevice salamander
land-salamander
Larch Mountain salamander
limestone salamander
longtail salamander
lungless salamander
marbled salamander
mole salamander
northern slimy salamander
ravine salamander
salamander cloth
salamanderfish
salamanderlike
seal salamander
spectacled salamander
spotted salamander
spring salamander
Strinati's cave salamander
tiger salamander
water-salamander
zigzag salamander
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