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Type of rubber
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silicone
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Word definitions for silicone in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
coined 1863 in German from silico- , comb. form indicating the presence of silicon , + -one .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. any of a large class of siloxanes that are unusually stable over a wide range of temperatures; used in lubricants and adhesives and coatings and synthetic rubber and electrical insulation [syn: silicone polymer ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context chemistry English) Any of a class of inert, semi-inorganic polymeric compounds (polysiloxanes), that have a wide range of thermal stability and extreme water repellence, used in a very wide range of industrial applications, and in prosthetic ...
Usage examples of silicone.
CDs choose, as is the practice of receiving nonmedically approved injections of automotive-grade silicone to feminize the bodily contours of the lips, cheeks, hips, and buttocks.
Plastic surgery to feminize the face, vocal cord surgery to raise the pitch of the voice, silicone implants into the cheeks, and the tattooing of eyeliner and lipliner onto the face are among the procedures transsexuals undergo that CDs almost never undertake.
I cast a glance or two at the giant pictures of zoftig girls with silicone boobs, Carol Doda and The Persian Lamb who chained herself to the Golden Gate Bridge rather than leave her husband -- all coming at me from the fronts of tourist traps, Topless Joints with fat Filipino barkers dragging in the customers out for a score or at least a hard-on.
He rode the slidewalks and escalators until, half a mile above the ground, he came to his regular Tuesday-evening eateasy, a swank and illegal little restaurant with a grubby exterior that proclaimed to all nonmembers that it was a branch of a silicone surgery beautification chain.
Silicone from their breast implants was probably leaking into their breasts and would soon give them cancer and autoimmune diseases.
Air leakage from the nose deadlight was cut to an almost bearable minimum by redesigning the assembly with great, ungainly silicone gaskets.
I cast a glance or two at the giant pictures of zoftig girls with silicone boobs, Carol Doda and The Persian Lamb who chained herself to the Golden Gate Bridge rather than leave her husband -- all coming at me from the fronts of tourist traps, Topless Joints with fat Filipino barkers dragging in the customers out for a score or at least a hard-on.
TV dinners loaded with silicone fillers and chemical additives and begin cooking our fantasies together from scratch.
Add to this her lipo, her silicone, her trachea shave, her brow shave, her scalp advance, her forehead realignment, her rhino contouring to smooth her nose, her maxomilliary operations to shape her jaw.
She was about five-six, willowy, impeccably dressed in a simple, midnight-blue sheath that lovingly hugged every siliconed and liposuctioned curve and provided ample bare flesh on which to display the multitude of diamonds and sapphires she wore.
Ever since silicone turned out to be dangerous, collagen has become the hot item to I gave injected to smooth out wrinkles or to puff up thin lips or weak chins.
What was most evident were her long skinny brown legs, huge silicone boobs, white-blonde hair and an abundance of makeup.
If I was a guy, I'd probably fall in love with her - silicone boobs and all.
She sat at the table, silicone tits sticking out, mouth slightly open as she listened to Chas and Renee reminisce.
These resonant tunnelling computer chips are constructed not of silicone, not even of the newest hyperfast conductive alloys, indium phosphide and aluminium gallium arsenide.