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Meanings of lime in English
Portuguese
hidróxido de cálcio Catalan
hidròxid de calci 
A caustic substance produced by heating limestone.
A white crystalline oxide used in the production of calcium hydroxide.
Type of wood.
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Usage of lime in English
1
Beet: phosphates, fourteen; potash, forty-nine; soda, nineteen; lime, six; sulphuric acid, five.
2
Why, it is our best friend in the world; it is lime.
3
Turnip: phosphates, thirteen; potash, thirty-nine; soda, five; lime, ten; sulphuric acid, fourteen.
4
But we have blood in our veins and lime in our bones.
5
He squeezed some juice from the lime slice floating in the glass.
6
The nitrifying germs require phosphoric acid, potash and lime in the soil.
7
The process of making lime from them is extremely simple and expeditious.
8
At the windows the dark tops of the lime trees trembled quietly.
9
I was thrilled to find myself in the lime-light of world-wide publicity.
10
The action of lime is greatest in its caustic or unslacked form.
11
Ashes were used in place of lime for taking off the hair.
12
The water soon dissolves all the lime it is capable of dissolving.
13
Bromide of Magnesia-Isprepared in the same manner as bromide of lime.
14
The bones are composed principally of gelatine and the phosphate of lime.
15
The end was whittled to a dull point and painted lime green.
16
They arise from the heating of lime upon the addition of water.
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Lime across language varieties
South Africa
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New Zealand
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United States of America
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