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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
powder
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
baking powder
chilli powder
curry powder (=a mixture of spices for making curry)
curry powder
face powder
milk powder
▪ hot water mixed with milk powder
powder blue
powder puff
powder room
powdered milk (also dry milk American English)
▪ Powdered milk is useful for camping trips.
powdered sugar
soap powder
talcum powder
tooth powder
washing powder
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
black
▪ We continued our work until the fingerprint man arrived to dust that dreadful black powder everywhere.
▪ The shelf had been literally blasted out of the mountain with black powder.
▪ I have known it to be successfully treated with black sulphur powder mixed with water but prevention is better than cure.
▪ Darken the eyebrows with dark brown or black powder - pencil gives a very harsh look.
▪ They woke with raging hangovers to a wrecked room and the smell of black powder and vomit.
dry
▪ It is sold dry, in powder form, which is generally stronger than the more convenient ready-mixed varieties.
▪ Add salt and nonfat dry milk powder, whisking rapidly until milk granules are dissolved into a smooth sauce.
▪ Simply to add water to a dry powder was not enough to satisfy this ritual urge.
▪ Black spots will appear on silver if it comes into contact with dry dishwasher powder.
▪ This was available in the forms of either a treacly liquid or a dry powder.
▪ When I was in a safe place, I loaded my pistols, this time with dry powder.
fine
▪ You can say: the sea was like blue glass, the sand like fine powder, and Bob's your uncle.
▪ Beneath my toes, the sand was as fine as talcum powder and the color of vanilla.
▪ The basic approach is to apply a slurry of fine alumina powder to a model of the tooth stub.
▪ There was a layer of fine dust: Your feet sank into 3 inches of fine powder, and it was everywhere.
▪ This ultra fine matt powder will enhance your natural colouring.
▪ Scuffling feet kick up a fine powder that covers the children and everything else.
▪ A cellulose-based paste is being applied to the gypsum deposits followed by a micro-sanding with fine alumina powder.
▪ As she exits, she lets drop a fine powder.
loose
▪ Warm Geranium lipstick by Kanebo and a loose matt powder completed the look.
▪ Use a foundation that closely matches your skintone, topped with transparent loose powder to set, then add your pinks.
▪ The loose graphite powder can be rubbed into paper surfaces to give a silvery-grey tone.
▪ For a natural glow to your skin mix a subtle shade of blusher with loose powder.
▪ Tip a little loose powder into the palm of your hand and pat the powder puff into it.
▪ Powder the rest of the face. Loose translucent powder is best, as it's much finer than pressed powder.
▪ Disguise a blemish with a touch of medicated cover-stick, then set with loose face powder.
▪ Apply plenty of loose face powder if you want a make-up that lasts the day.
white
▪ Once more he picked up the paper with its load of white powder.
▪ I poured some liquid into a peanut butter jar and dumped some white powder in itit bubbled.
▪ He kicked one, and it disintegrated into a white powder.
▪ Except for the white powder of light from the Nurses' Station out in the hall, the dorm is dark.
▪ The white dusting powder over the fleshing was sometimes cornflour.
▪ Inside were three narrow bags full of a white powder.
▪ He bounded over to the chest containing the strange white powder.
▪ And a small plastic bag full of white powder.
■ NOUN
baking
▪ Mix equal parts of baking powder and water and pat on the sunburnt areas.
▪ Stir the flour, suet, cinnamon and baking powder together then mix in the liquid to bind.
▪ Fold in flour and baking powder then add enough milk for mixture to have a soft dropping consistency.
▪ Combine oats, milk powder and baking powder together.
▪ The alkaline baking powder causes the cocaine to separate and, since the base is insoluble, it sinks to the bottom.
chili
▪ Add chili powder, cumin, and cayenne and black peppers, and stir over low heat for 3 minutes.
▪ Combine cumin, chili powder, cardamom, cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves in large bowl.
▪ Stir in undrained diced tomatoes, rice, chili powder and Tabasco sauce.
cocoa
▪ This pudding also includes a little cocoa powder for good measure.
▪ Put the cocoa powder coffee and water into a small pan.
▪ Put the syrup, cocoa powder and brandy in a pan.
curry
▪ Mix together the dressing and curry powder and add to the Quorn.
▪ Blend curry powder and salt into 1 cups water and add to skillet along with raisins.
▪ Masala is a generic word meaning mixed spices, and thus the most basic curry powder is a masala of a sort.
▪ Lightly whisk the remaining cream with the curry powder and egg yolks. 7.
▪ If you have used curry powder, such flavours are already in the dish.
▪ Add the curry powder and cook for a further 1-2 minutes.
▪ Stir in the curry powder, almonds, sultanas, parsley, lemon juice, chutney and seasoning. 4.
▪ Mix the flour and curry powder together.
face
▪ A special carmine stick replaced rouge on the cheeks followed by a dusting of face powder.
▪ The usual smell of long-seated bottoms, of sour shoes, of tobacco muck, of stogies, cologne, face powder.
▪ Once a year she gets her hair permed and once a year she buys face powder.
▪ This corresponds to the fineness of face powder or an average particle size of about $ 0 microns.
▪ It had that mixed smell of face powder, lipstick and everything else that goes into a woman's purse.
▪ Disguise a blemish with a touch of medicated cover-stick, then set with loose face powder.
▪ Corn Silk, a unique super-absorbent superfine face powder that ends oily shine.
▪ She put the books down on the vanity table and with trembling fingers opened her handbag to find her face powder.
keg
▪ Ireland - home, as Joseph called it - had been a powder keg since the Easter Rising three years ago.
▪ The place was a powder keg.
milk
▪ Mix the flour and milk powder together with a little water to make a thin paste.
▪ Add salt and nonfat dry milk powder, whisking rapidly until milk granules are dissolved into a smooth sauce.
▪ Breakfast is tea and muesli, the muesli made with hot water and milk powder.
▪ But the milk powder was ruined, and so, too, were many of the packets of dried soup and flavourings.
▪ Pritchitt's distribution manager Robert Hamilton sees off the consignment of milk powder bound for Bosnia.
▪ The blaze gutted a spray drying area of the factory used for processing skimmed milk powder.
▪ Combine oats, milk powder and baking powder together.
▪ Mix the remaining milk with the cornflour and skimmed milk powder.
mustard
▪ Stir in the seasoning, mustard powder and eggs. 8 Spoon the sauce over the moussaka and sprinkle over the cheese.
▪ Mix the fromage frais with the mustard powder and dill and serve with the salmon.
▪ To gain the maximum flavour, always mix mustard powder to a paste before adding it to recipes.
puff
▪ Always use a clean powder puff.
▪ His second serve is no longer a powder puff.
▪ Tip a little loose powder into the palm of your hand and pat the powder puff into it.
room
▪ When those silly women went to the downstairs powder room, I saw them go.
snow
▪ At other points I broke through the top surface into icy, powder snow below.
▪ And David Goldsmith has also sorted out the best buys in powder snow equipment, so you are prepared for the exhilaration.
▪ He was immediately plucked off and we plunged downwards, drowning in a tidal wave of powder snow.
▪ We went back to the top and made fresh tracks towards Chamonix through windswept powder snow on the Glacier du Geant.
▪ Well, there's a lot of powder snow in Vail, Colorado.
soap
▪ Kausmann is not a fetishist and is much more interested in the couple's relationship than in the efficiency of soap powder.
▪ The few shoppers who are searching for soap powder feel rather awkward.
▪ She's shown us the label so we can recognize the packaged news story like it was a familiar soap powder.
▪ To make soap powder, a liquid is blown through a nozzle.
▪ Some people find a change of soap powder can help, especially a move away from a biological powder.
talcum
▪ If you don't want to splash out on Dry Shampoo, ordinary talcum powder will do the same trick.
▪ Annie felt her hand enclosed in a warm cocoon of talcum powder and smooth baby skin.
▪ The cocaine looked like talcum powder, luminescent in the darkness.
▪ Not a speck of talcum powder, not a smear of soap, on any surface.
▪ Everything smells of talcum powder from a tin that has leaked.
▪ He smelled of aftershave and talcum powder.
▪ Like a baby who's been rolled in warm lotions and talcum powder.
▪ Do not use aerosols or talcum powder.
■ VERB
dust
▪ We continued our work until the fingerprint man arrived to dust that dreadful black powder everywhere.
▪ The process takes a previously printed image which before the ink is dry is dusted with a resinous powder.
▪ What looked like flour-sacks were piled in one section of it, and the floor was dusted with yellowish powder.
grind
▪ But I can tell you that it contains plants' leaves and roots ground into powder.
▪ The seeds are often ground and the resulting powder is a basic ingredient of curry spice mix.
▪ In the brewery the malt is ground into a coarse powder called grist.
mix
▪ It had that mixed smell of face powder, lipstick and everything else that goes into a woman's purse.
▪ We mixed the henna powder with tea, as directed.
▪ To gain the maximum flavour, always mix mustard powder to a paste before adding it to recipes.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
drinking horn/powder horn etc
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I carved my first wide turn through virgin powder, experiencing a transcendence of Buddhist proportions.
▪ In its wake, savoring powder, perfume, lotion and dew from the love-making gone before.
▪ John Denver was adept at metal work and could earn £2: 7s.: 6d. for making powder cans.
▪ Next, a long tapering round metal pricker was inserted so that its point penetrated a short distance into the powder.
▪ Scuffling feet kick up a fine powder that covers the children and everything else.
▪ She spooned coffee powder into it and filled it up with water from the kettle.
▪ That report showed there were more suspects arrested in 1999 on charges involving marijuana than for powder or crack cocaine.
▪ These days, nobody cared what high-grade powder he put up his nose, whom he spent the night with.
II.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
face
▪ Her Committee would teach him a lesson, she promised herself venomously, as she powdered her face.
▪ Earlier she had powdered her face so that it now looked smooth.
▪ She sat up, and, taking out her compact, powdered her face lightly and combed her hair.
▪ Montreal was powdering its face and putting on lipstick while infrastructure was going to pot.
▪ She'd powdered her face and put on a dab of lipstick.
▪ I smoothed a little more powder on my face.
▪ The appalling slowness with which she arranged her hair and powdered her face drove her small nephew almost frantic.
nose
▪ After the main course Vanessa disappeared to powder her nose.
▪ I also notice the fresh lipstick and powdered nose and realize my sister had done as she pleased.
▪ One way or another, I had drunk quite a bit this evening, but I didn't need to powder my nose.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The makeup man rushed forward to powder Zack's face.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At each place was a bowl made from a can that had one contained powdered milk.
▪ Examples are fine sand, powdered clay and ash.
▪ Others reeked of herbs or were powdered with flour.
▪ She is eating a donut, and the powdered sugar makes more spots on her dress.
▪ She sat up, and, taking out her compact, powdered her face lightly and combed her hair.
▪ Sprinkle a little powdered sugar on top.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Powder

Powder \Pow"der\, n. [OE. poudre, pouldre, F. poudre, OF. also poldre, puldre, L. pulvis, pulveris: cf. pollen fine flour, mill dust, E. pollen. Cf. Polverine, Pulverize.]

  1. The fine particles to which any dry substance is reduced by pounding, grinding, or triturating, or into which it falls by decay; dust.

    Grind their bones to powder small.
    --Shak.

  2. An explosive mixture used in gunnery, blasting, etc.; gunpowder. See Gunpowder.

    Atlas powder, Baking powder, etc. See under Atlas, Baking, etc.

    Powder down (Zo["o]l.), the peculiar dust, or exfoliation, of powder-down feathers.

    Powder-down feather (Zo["o]l.), one of a peculiar kind of modified feathers which sometimes form patches on certain parts of some birds. They have a greasy texture and a scaly exfoliation.

    Powder-down patch (Zo["o]l.), a tuft or patch of powder-down feathers.

    Powder hose, a tube of strong linen, about an inch in diameter, filled with powder and used in firing mines.
    --Farrow.

    Powder hoy (Naut.), a vessel specially fitted to carry powder for the supply of war ships. They are usually painted red and carry a red flag.

    Powder magazine, or Powder room. See Magazine, 2.

    Powder mine, a mine exploded by gunpowder. See Mine.

    Powder monkey (Naut.), a boy formerly employed on war vessels to carry powder; a powder boy.

    Powder post. See Dry rot, under Dry.

    Powder puff. See Puff, n.

Powder

Powder \Pow"der\, v. i.

  1. To be reduced to powder; to become like powder; as, some salts powder easily.

  2. To use powder on the hair or skin; as, she paints and powders.

Powder

Powder \Pow"der\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Powdered; p. pr. & vb. n. Powdering.] [F. poudrer.]

  1. To reduce to fine particles; to pound, grind, or rub into a powder; to comminute; to pulverize; to triturate.

  2. To sprinkle with powder, or as with powder; to be sprinkle; as, to powder the hair.

    A circling zone thou seest Powdered with stars.
    --Milton.

  3. To sprinkle with salt; to corn, as meat. [Obs.]

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
powder

c.1300, "ash, cinders; dust of the earth;" early 14c., "pulverized substance;" mid-14c., "medicinal powder;" late 14c. as "gunpowder," from Old French poudre "dust, powder; ashes; powdered substance" (13c.), earlier pouldre (11c.), from Latin pulverem (nominative pulvis) "dust" (see pollen). Specialized sense "gunpowder" is from late 14c. In the sense "powdered cosmetic," it is recorded from 1570s.\n

\nIn figurative sense, powder keg is first attested 1855. Powder room, euphemistic for "women's lavatory," is attested from 1936. Earlier it meant "place where gunpowder is loaded on a warship" (1620s). Powder horn attested by 1530s. Powder puff first recorded 1704; as a symbol of femaleness or effeminacy, in use from at least 1930s.\n

\nPhrase take a powder "scram, vanish," is from 1920; it was a common phrase as a doctor's instruction, so perhaps from the notion of taking a laxative medicine or a sleeping powder, with the result that one has to leave in a hurry (or, on another guess, from a magician's magical powder, which made things disappear). Powder blue (1650s) was smelt used in laundering; as a color name from 1894.

powder

c.1300, "to put powder on;" late 14c., "to make into powder," from Old French poudrer "to pound, crush to powder; strew, scatter," from poudre (see powder (n.)). Related: Powdered; powdering.

Wiktionary
powder

n. 1 The fine particles to which any dry substance is reduced by pounding, grinding, or triturating, or into which it falls by decay; dust. 2 A mixture of fine dry, sweet-smelling particles applied to the face or other body parts, to reduce shine or to alleviate chaffing. 3 An explosive mixture used in gunnery, blasting, etc.; gunpowder. 4 (context informal English) Light, dry, fluffy snow. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To reduce to fine particles; to pound, grind, or rub into a powder. 2 (context transitive English) To sprinkle with powder, or as with powder. 3 (context intransitive English) To be reduced to powder; to become like powder. 4 (context intransitive English) To use powder on the hair or skin. 5 (context transitive English) To sprinkle with salt; to corn, as meat.

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WordNet
powder

  1. n. a solid substance in the form of tiny loose particles; a solid that has been pulverized [syn: pulverization, pulverisation]

  2. a mixture of potassium nitrate, charcoal, and sulfur in a 75:15:10 ratio which is used in gunnery, time fuses, and fireworks [syn: gunpowder]

  3. any of various cosmetic or medical preparations dispensed in the form of a powder

powder

  1. v. apply powder to; "She powdered her nose"; "The King wears a powdered wig"

  2. make into a powder by breaking up or cause to become dust; "pulverize the grains" [syn: powderize, powderise, pulverize, pulverise]

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Wikipedia
Powder

Powder may refer to:

  • Powder (substance), material composed of very fine particles that are not cemented together
Powder (TV series)

Powder was an Indian crime television series which first aired on Sony TV 3 January 2010 and ran for only one season. The story was of the new scenario in substance abuse in India. Praised widely for its aesthetics and storytelling, Powder didn't do good in the ratings. Though the show was inspired from HBO's highly acclaimed series The Wire, it delivered an original story with newly developed characters and scenarios.

The complete season is now available on Youtube.

Powder (substance)

A powder is a dry, bulk solid composed of a large number of very fine particles that may flow freely when shaken or tilted. Powders are a special sub-class of granular materials, although the terms powder and granular are sometimes used to distinguish separate classes of material. In particular, powders refer to those granular materials that have the finer grain sizes, and that therefore have a greater tendency to form clumps when flowing. Granulars refers to the coarser granular materials that do not tend to form clumps except when wet.

Powder (film)

Powder is a 1995 American fantasy drama film written and directed by Victor Salva and starring Sean Patrick Flanery in the titular role, with Jeff Goldblum, Mary Steenburgen, Bradford Tatum and Lance Henriksen in supporting roles. It is about Jeremy "Powder" Reed, who has an incredible intellect, as well as telepathy and paranormal powers. The film questions the limits of the human mind and body while also displaying society's capacity for cruelty, and raises hope that humanity will advance to a state of better understanding. Its filming locations were around suburbs of Houston, San Antonio and Austin, Texas.

Powder (band)

Powder were a Britpop band, who existed between 1994 and 1997, and released three singles on Parkway Records. Signed in late 1994 by music public relations agents John Best and Phill Savidge, they were the first band on the label. Powder were fronted by Pearl Lowe, with songwriters Mark Thomas on guitar and Tim McTighe on bass and James Walden on drums. Their first single "20th Century Gods", a Select Single Of The Month, sold out of its pressing of 1,500 within two days. This was followed by the release of "Afrodisiac" in June 1995, and appearances at music festivals as well as prime-time BBC music special Britpop Now.

As the Parkway offices were situated in Camden, Powder were subjected to a fair amount of criticism from the music press for being a "Scenester" band, though in fact none of them actually lived there. They also acquired a stigma for touring with Menswear, who were at that time continually mocked by the NME and Melody Maker.

After the release of their third and last single "Deep Fried" in November 1995, Powder stopped touring as Pearl was pregnant. By the time she was ready to tour again the band was finished, having announcing their split in spring 1996. Posthumous album MCMXCV, a compilation of all the tracks from their three singles, was released in Japan in 1997.

Pearl went on to front Lodger, and has also released a solo album.

Mark is now a member of the hard rock band Black Spiders.

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Usage examples of "powder".

New Orleans, simply clothed in homespun cotton striped red and blue, abysmally poor and surrounded by swarms of children who all seemed to bear names like Nono and Vev6 and Bibi, cheerfully selling powdered file and alligator hides and going away again without bothering, like the Americans did, to sample the delights of the big city.

The braziers began giving off a thick, resinous, overly sweet smoke with something astringent to it but I had no way of knowing if it was, in fact, the perfume the grimoire had specified for operations ruled by the planet Mercury: a mixture of mastic, frankincense, cinquefoil, achates, and the dried and powdered brains of a fox.

Cover with salted and acidulated water, add a bunch of parsley, a sliced onion, and a pinch of powdered sweet herbs.

Scale and clean two large kingfish, and boil in salted and acidulated water, with a bunch of parsley, a slice each of carrot and onion, and a pinch of powdered sweet herbs.

It is evenly and not too thickly covered with fine sand or lycopodium powder and then caused to vibrate acoustically by the repeated drawing of a violin-bow with some pressure across the edge of the plate until a steady note becomes audible.

THE SHADOW folded the actinium powder in a small piece of paper that he found in the wastebasket.

By that time, his actinium powder would be as traceless as it had been with Rune.

Griff Forteyn was an arresting devil with his shining dark eyes and ebony hair, which in defiance of alamodality, he never wore powdered.

When the spy master sprinkled alegar over an egg and held it in the light of a particular lamp, the powder rose like mist.

Then I reduced them into a fine powder, and ordered the Jewish confectioner to mix the powder in my presence with a paste made of amber, sugar, vanilla, angelica, alkermes and storax, and I waited until the comfits prepared with that mixture were ready.

Not the least curious part of this outcrop is the black thread of iron silicate which, broken in places, subtends it to the east: some specimens have geodes yielding brown powder, and venal cavities lined with botryoidal quartz of amethystine tinge.

Impoverished Argali could never match such an offer: shovels and awls forged from fine metals, stacks of dried firewood, golden bridle bells, dewhoney and molasses, dried rose-leeks, cobberwheat, tri-grains, and reedflour that poured through your fingers like powdered rubies.

The smoking flame started snaking back through the doors of the armoury into the passageway that led to the main powder magazine.

I learned that on the 5th of June a violent explosion was heard in the Chamber of Representatives at Paris, which was at first supposed to be a clap of thunder, but was soon ascertained to have been occasioned by a young Samson having fallen with a packet of detonating powder in his pocket.

Some assayers use a little powdered fluor-spar to assist the fusion of refractory slags.