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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD CREOSOTE

From Greek kreas flesh + sōtēr preserver, from sōzein to keep safe.
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PRONUNCIATION OF CREOSOTE

creosote  [ˈkrɪəˌsəʊt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CREOSOTE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Creosote is a verb and can also act as a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb creosote in English.

WHAT DOES CREOSOTE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

creosote

Creosote

Creosote is the portion of chemical products obtained by the distillation of a tar that remains heavier than water, notably useful for its anti-septic and preservative properties. It is produced in some quantities from the burning of wood and coal in blast furnaces and fireplaces; commonly found inside chimney flues when the wood or coal burns incompletely, producing soot and tarry smoke, and is the compound responsible for the preservation and the flavor of meat in the process of smoking. The name is derived from the Greek kréas, meaning "meat", and sōtēr, meaning "preserver". The two main types in industrial production are wood-tar creosote and coal-tar creosote. The coal-tar variety, having stronger and more toxic properties, has chiefly been used as a preservative for wood, while the wood-tar variety has been used for meat preservation, wood treatment, and for medicinal purposes as an expectorant, anti-septic, astringent, anaesthetic and laxative, though these have mostly been replaced by newer medicines.

Definition of creosote in the English dictionary

The first definition of creosote in the dictionary is a colourless or pale yellow liquid mixture with a burning taste and penetrating odour distilled from wood tar, esp from beechwood, contains creosol and other phenols, and is used as an antiseptic. Other definition of creosote is Also called: coal-tar creosote. a thick dark liquid mixture prepared from coal tar, containing phenols: used as a preservative for wood. Creosote is also to treat with creosote.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO CREOSOTE

PRESENT

Present
I creosote
you creosote
he/she/it creosotes
we creosote
you creosote
they creosote
Present continuous
I am creosoting
you are creosoting
he/she/it is creosoting
we are creosoting
you are creosoting
they are creosoting
Present perfect
I have creosoted
you have creosoted
he/she/it has creosoted
we have creosoted
you have creosoted
they have creosoted
Present perfect continuous
I have been creosoting
you have been creosoting
he/she/it has been creosoting
we have been creosoting
you have been creosoting
they have been creosoting
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I creosoted
you creosoted
he/she/it creosoted
we creosoted
you creosoted
they creosoted
Past continuous
I was creosoting
you were creosoting
he/she/it was creosoting
we were creosoting
you were creosoting
they were creosoting
Past perfect
I had creosoted
you had creosoted
he/she/it had creosoted
we had creosoted
you had creosoted
they had creosoted
Past perfect continuous
I had been creosoting
you had been creosoting
he/she/it had been creosoting
we had been creosoting
you had been creosoting
they had been creosoting
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will creosote
you will creosote
he/she/it will creosote
we will creosote
you will creosote
they will creosote
Future continuous
I will be creosoting
you will be creosoting
he/she/it will be creosoting
we will be creosoting
you will be creosoting
they will be creosoting
Future perfect
I will have creosoted
you will have creosoted
he/she/it will have creosoted
we will have creosoted
you will have creosoted
they will have creosoted
Future perfect continuous
I will have been creosoting
you will have been creosoting
he/she/it will have been creosoting
we will have been creosoting
you will have been creosoting
they will have been creosoting
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would creosote
you would creosote
he/she/it would creosote
we would creosote
you would creosote
they would creosote
Conditional continuous
I would be creosoting
you would be creosoting
he/she/it would be creosoting
we would be creosoting
you would be creosoting
they would be creosoting
Conditional perfect
I would have creosote
you would have creosote
he/she/it would have creosote
we would have creosote
you would have creosote
they would have creosote
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been creosoting
you would have been creosoting
he/she/it would have been creosoting
we would have been creosoting
you would have been creosoting
they would have been creosoting
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you creosote
we let´s creosote
you creosote
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to creosote
Past participle
creosoted
Present Participle
creosoting
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CREOSOTE


boat
bəʊt
coat
kəʊt
cote
kəʊt
coyote
ˈkɔɪəʊt
endnote
ˈɛndˌnəʊt
float
fləʊt
goat
ɡəʊt
Grote
ɡrəʊt
houseboat
ˈhaʊsˌbəʊt
keynote
ˈkiːˌnəʊt
myosote
ˈmaɪəˌsəʊt
note
nəʊt
promote
prəˈməʊt
quote
kwəʊt
remote
rɪˈməʊt
rote
rəʊt
throat
θrəʊt
tote
təʊt
vote
vəʊt
wrote
rəʊt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CREOSOTE

creodont
creole
Creole State
creolian
creolisation
creolise
creolised
creolist
creolization
creolized
Creon
creophagous
creophagy
creosol
creosote bush
creosotic
crepance
crepe
crepe bandage
crepe de Chine

WORDS THAT END LIKE CREOSOTE

anecdote
antidote
azote
banknote
blue note
capote
Chimbote
coal-tar creosote
compote
cover note
devote
dote
footnote
Lanzarote
mote
of note
Post-it Note
pote
Quixote
take note

Synonyms and antonyms of creosote in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «creosote» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CREOSOTE

Find out the translation of creosote to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of creosote from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «creosote» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

杂酚油
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

creosota
570 millions of speakers

English

creosote
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

creosote
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الطلاء
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

креозот
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

creosoto
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ক্রিত্তসোট
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

créosote
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Creosote
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Kreosot
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

クレオソート
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

크레오소트
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Creosote
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

dầu mộc du
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தாரில் இருந்து வடிக்கப்படும் எண்ணெய்ப் பொருள் வகை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

क्रेओसोट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kreozot
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

creosoto
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

creosote
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

креозот
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

creozot
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κρεόσωτο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kreosoot
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

kreosot
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

kreosot
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of creosote

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CREOSOTE»

The term «creosote» is regularly used and occupies the 76.895 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CREOSOTE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «creosote» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «creosote» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about creosote

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CREOSOTE»

Discover the use of creosote in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to creosote and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Chemistry of Organic Bodies, Vegetables
1 00 of water, the other, a solution of 1 0 parts water in 1 00 of creosote. The aqueous solutions of creosote are neutral. For they have not the property of neutralizing either acids or alkalies. Concentrated creosote dissolves black oxide of ...
Thomas Thomson, 1838
2
Where the creosote blooms: a memoir
For a child growing up in the 1920s, El Paso seemed to be full of off-beat characters and warm personalities: from a diverse group of servicemen and their families stationed at Fort Bliss to tuberculosis patients attracted by the dry desert ...
Mary King Rodge, 1999
3
500 Simple Home Repair Solutions
There is a problem with creosote leaking through the chimney joints. The chimney was recently taken down to the roofline and rebuilt, but creosote is still leaking from the chimney's mortar joints and into the attic. The chimney is cleaned yearly, ...
Norman Becker, 2008
4
A Treatise on the Chemical, Medicinal, and Physiological ...
portance in enabling us to decide upon the value of creosote as a remedy in cancer from their imperfect state. M. Marchal has published a case of cancer of the lip in which he believes he accomplished a permanent cure by means of creosote.
Sir John Rose Cormack, 1836
5
The Medico-chirurgical Review and Journal of Practical Medicine
Or THE NEWLY-DISCOVERED SoB- STANCE WHICH HAS BEEN CALLED " CREOSOTE," and of its Medical Properties. This substance was found first in py- roligneous acid, and subsequently in all sorts of pitchy matters, by M. Reichen- ...
James Johnson, 1834
6
Applied Biotechnology for Site Remediation
IN. SITU. BIOREMEDIATION. OF. CREOSOTE-CONTAMINATED. SOIL: COLUMN. EXPERIMENTS. G. D. Breedveld. and. T. Briseid. ABSTRACT ^ ______^^___ The effectiveness of three in situ bioremediation techniques to clean soil highly ...
Battelle Memorial In, 1994
7
Wood Preservation
particularly creosote treatment. The availability of creosote was decreasing and pentachlorophenol was used increasingly as a substitute for creosote, but ultimately the steel industry established new distillation plants so that the creosote ...
B A Richardson, 2002
8
Proceedings of the 49th Industrial Waste Conference Purdue ...
tars have been classified into seven components based on boiling points; industrial creosote oils may be a blend of various of these fractions with a combined boiling range of 200-400° Celsius.32 Creosotes by their manufacture are mixtures ...
Ronald F. Wukasch, 1994
9
Regulated Chemicals Directory 1994
... REFINING OI= CRUDE OIL [IAR] 136-78-7 CRAG HERBICIDE [BC1, BCI, FLA, MsL, N10, sEsONE N10, N10] 136-78-7 CRAG HERBICIDE (SESONE) [081, 051] sEsONE 8001-58-9 cREOsOTE CREOsOTE 8001-58-9 CREosOTE (COAL) ...
ChemADVISOR® , Inc, 1994
10
100 Desert Wildflowers of the Southwest
One of the most abundant and widespread shrubs of the Southwest deserts, creosote bush is admirably suited to its arid habitat. Even when the soil is so dry that other plants become dormant, creosote bush can continue to manufacture the ...
Janice E. Bowers, 1989

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CREOSOTE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term creosote is used in the context of the following news items.
1
San Francisco's Ocean Beach Cleanup Yields Big Trash
Sirova said the park service was anxious to remove the industrial wood, the majority treated with chemicals like creosote, a carcinogenic tar ... «NBC Bay Area, Jul 15»
2
Dr Dennis Gross Dark Spot Sun Defense SPF 50
This comes from a desert-dwelling creosote bush and was actually used by Native Americans as a sunscreen and a protective agent against ... «Truth In Aging, Jul 15»
3
1 dead, 3 injured in separate motorcycle crashes
Upon arrival, they discovered the lifeless body of Daniel Garrobo, 33, partially hanging from a creosote tree. Garrobo was apparently riding a ... «Eastern Arizona Courier, Jul 15»
4
Bill Stavely
He worked at the Creosote Plant for 31 years, retiring as superintendent. He was a member of First Presbyterian Church, Lions Club and the ... «Times Record, Jul 15»
5
FIFA World Cup prizes for men and women show world-class pay …
The introduction of thinner Oreos brings to mind Monty Python gourmand Mr. Creosote. (Stanley Bielecki Movie Collection, Getty Images). «Chicago Tribune, Jul 15»
6
Anderson Verajao traded for Joe Johnson? No thanks.
Yes, I will mention that every single time I have to write about that porcine ball of creosote. I liked Joe Johnson at the Hawks. At the Nets, I'm ... «Cleveland Leader, Jul 15»
7
How do I get honey off a spoon?
It has an aroma that is a cross between mint, tarragon and old creosote posts, and that adds a wonderful fresh, high note to Mexican food. «Good Food, Jul 15»
8
Global Hunter Recommendation on KMG Chemicals, Inc. (NYSE:KMG)
Its wood treating chemicals, pentachlorophenol (penta), and creosote, are sold to industrial customers who use these preservatives primarily to ... «Insider Trading Report, Jul 15»
9
Koppers Holdings Receives $29.00 Average Price Target from …
The CMC segment is primarily a manufacturer of carbon pitch, naphthalene, phthalic anhydride, creosote and carbon black feedstock. «The Legacy, Jul 15»
10
Underground issues delaying Sam's Club in Glen Carbon
Development plans have been delayed twice in recent months due to the presence of creosote deposits and the existence of an abandoned ... «Alton Telegraph, Jul 15»

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