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discoloration
Alternative clues for the word discoloration
Word definitions for discoloration in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a soiled or discolored appearance; "the wine left a dark stain" [syn: stain , discolouration ] the act of changing the natural color of something by making it duller or dingier or unnatural or faded [syn: discolouration ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. 1 The act of discoloring, or the state of being discolored; alteration of hue or appearance. 2 A discolored spot; a stain. n. 1 The act of discoloring, or the state of being discolored; alteration of hue or appearance. 2 A discolored spot; a stain.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Discoloration \Dis*col`or*a"tion\, n. [Cf. F. decoloration.] The act of discoloring, or the state of being discolored; alteration of hue or appearance. --Darwin. A discolored spot; a stain. --Arbuthnot.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s, noun of action from discolorate (early 15c.), from past participle stem of Medieval Latin discolorare (see discolor ) + -ation .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ The victims suffered a purplish discoloration of the skin. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A slight spicy smell but nothing unusual, and no discoloration of the skin, nails or face. ▪ Her rapid pulse, high blood pressure, irregular ...
Usage examples of discoloration.
I may here add, in order not to recur to the papillae, that they do not secrete, but are easily permeated by various fluids: thus when living or dead leaves are immersed in a solution of one part of chloride of gold, or of nitrate of silver, to 437 of water, they are quickly blackened, and the discoloration soon spreads to the surrounding tissue.
Shirtless and hipshot, the man leaned in idle solitude upon the rail, gazing fixedly out to sea, out to the edge where the world stopped and the clean sheet of blue sky was stained with the faintest discoloration, a careless smudge of charcoal that seemed to suggest that somewhere over the horizon there was fire upon the water.
With dismay Picardy saw the bluish discoloration that traced her lips and spread over her nose.
Cora showed a slight discoloration from central cyanosis due to polycythemia and reduced oxygen saturation, despite the genetically modified hemoglobin-Y and the enhanced lung capacity.
If this were so, it is not the only instance in which the preexistent discolorations in the mind of an inspired prophet have refracted the truth of his burden into distorted error and bequeathed the task of a future rectification when more light shall have come.
Jurgen thought about what Tipton had said, he noticed a discoloration in the grass by the road.
Never mind the lesions and tumorlike growths and discolorations, it was the total lack of any body hair that always got them, the result both of genhole travel and the wearing of these suits.
Its neck was still twisted, though there was now no sign of the burnlike discoloration.
Holly was like that, like those women whose manhandled bodies had slight discolorations, bruises like thumbprints, little reddened patches of pressure.
On the morning of the ninth day after their departure from the point off the mouth of the Rio Kongo, they spotted the telltale discoloration of the sea that denoted the debouchment of a large river to the immediate north, and by midafternoon, Abdullah was dickering with a pilot who had come out in a barge from the Port of Saints Peter and Paul.
On the morning of the ninth day after their departure from the point off the mouth of the Rio Kongo, they spotted the telltale discoloration of the sea that denoted the debouchment of a large river to the immediate north, and by mid-afternoon, Abdullah was dickering with a pilot who had come out in a barge from the Port of Saints Peter and Paul.
They are nothing more than a dirty discoloration of a dirty, discolored floor, but under magnification, Scarpetta detects a very faint blush of red.
Our laboratory was able to confirm that the discolorations were actually notes, written in invisible ink, just now becoming visible through the corruption of time.
All around them the stone was coppery brown with a few discolorations of lichen.
The grotto now stood empty, a vast enclosed space with no trace of the Heighliner, just leftover equipment and a pattern of discolorations on the floor and walls and ceiling.