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coagulate
Word definitions for coagulate in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Coagulate \Co*ag"u*late\, v. i. To undergo coagulation. --Boyle. Syn: To thicken; concrete; curdle; clot; congeal.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., from Latin coagulatus , past participle of coagulare "to cause to curdle," from cogere "to curdle, collect" (see cogent ). Earlier coagule , c.1400, from Middle French coaguler . Related: Coagulated ; coagulating .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 (context obsolete English) Coagulated. v 1 (context intransitive English) To become congealed; to convert from a liquid to a semisolid mass. 2 (context transitive English) To cause to congeal. Etymology 2 n. A mass formed by means of coagulation. ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. transformed from a liquid into a soft semisolid or solid mass; "coagulated blood"; "curdled milk"; "grumous blood" [syn: coagulated , curdled , grumous , grumose ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ The salt solution helps coagulate the soy milk into clumps. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ The Dratslingers and their troupe plucked these impulses from the ether, made them coagulate , gave them form.
Usage examples of coagulate.
Nature of the experiments--Effects of boiling water--Warm water causes rapid inflection--Water at a higher temperature does not cause immediate inflection, but does not kill the leaves, as shown by their subsequent reexpansion and by the aggregation of the protoplasm--A still higher temperature kills the leaves and coagulates the albuminous contents of the glands.
The others remain dissolved during this process, but are coagulated by chemical agents and by heat.
Dissolved albumin, like that in milk, is curded, or coagulated, in the stomach.
Dusty webs had coagulated near the high ceiling and scales of green paint curled from the walls.
They began to take in things, like the small pool of blood that had coagulated under the curve of her spine.
Sitting beside it was a mug whose bottom was coated with a brown layer of coagulated coffee.
With impossible strength the man wrenched at the arm of coagulated stone and dislocated it, so the golem moved clumsily.
She would smear the liquid froth into careful position, slopping astonishing tones in suggestive patches and scabs, where it coagulated quickly into shape.
In some analytical pocket of his mind Isaac realized that these were not, could not be, grots of history coagulated and distilled into that sticky resin.
The air was warm, and smelt alternately lush and foul, as trees fruited and factory waste coagulated in thickening flows.
He was an old man whose body was collapsing under the oppressive weight of a rotting, wasting disease, whose mind was stiff with coagulated dream-emissions.
Before him, waves of blood washed over the reddened sand in black coagulated chunks.
Fibrinogen coagulates more readily than the others and is the only one that changes in the ordinary coagulation of the blood.
What causes the blood to coagulate outside of the blood vessels and what prevents its coagulation inside of these vessels?
In one breath, without removing the bowl from her lips, Tulla drinks the fatless spleen-heart-kidney-liver broth with all its granular delicacies and surprises, with the tiny bits of cartilage at the bottom, with Koshnavian marjoram and coagulated urea.