Metal pieces at the end of a belt, opposite the end attached to the buckle.
Of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action.
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Examples for "caustic "
Examples for "caustic "
1 Your effort to be caustic is the sweetest thing in the world.
2 The lunar caustic was applied in half an hour after the accident.
3 We shall therefore in this place describe the manufacture of caustic soda.
4 The action of lime is greatest in its caustic or unslacked form.
5 The caustic Junius and other writers took this side of the question.
1 Local corrosive injury is the major focus of treatment in severe cases.
2 His screenplays frequently delved into the corrosive influences of wealth and power.
3 One method is dipping the potatoes in a solution of corrosive sublimate.
4 The company is testing specialized materials that can resist those corrosive effects.
5 But the doctors again declared the presence of corrosive sublimate and opium.
1 For example, it describes my column of a week ago as vitriolic .
2 The vitriolic power of the poison is excellently expressed in the story.
3 Years later vitriolic supporters still resorted to chants calling him a paedophile.
4 Trump's vitriolic anti-Muslim campaign statements are thus totally irrelevant to the analysis.
5 But to the Episcopal Church the priest dispensed the most vitriolic criticism.
1 Anti-CCP antibodies were also associated with erosive disease in RF-negative RA patients.
2 This is a fragile area with erosive soil and rare plants.
3 Our results suggest an association between erosive LP and HCV infection.
4 A major erosive weather phenomenon such as a planetwide flood could do it.
5 Thirty-metre-high hard-rock columns that had resisted the erosive power of wind and wave.
Harshly ironic or sinister.
1 The dyes fixed with metallic mordant vary in their composition and properties.
2 Preparation or mordant for eight dresses, silk and wool mixed, for black.
3 The voice of the Bassett cut in on these mordant reflections:
4 Wool is generally boiled in a weak solution of whatever mordant is used.
5 Isabella opposed the scheme vehemently and unwisely, with mordant sarcasm and unjust reproaches.
6 He must have the gift of mordant speech, of epigram, and of rhetoric.
7 They exhibit his mordant wit, his clear-sightedness and his moral courage.
8 Mrs. Churchill, for her part, was up to something mordant involving a Hat.
9 Willie's lopsided smile, endless propositions, and mordant intelligence had somehow kept her sane.
10 This is a very intelligent book, full of sharp insights and mordant wit.
11 It is a fraught catalogue of misfortune, illuminated with flashes of mordant wit.
12 The girl watched him warily, but Stonesnake gave a mordant chuckle.
13 The color paste used for printing contains both the dye and the mordant .
14 Preparation or mordant for eight black dresses for renewing the color.
15 And in the process he passed mordant judgment on the nature of human beings.
16 In some cases, soaking in a cold concentrated solution of the mordant is sufficient.
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