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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
silicone
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
silicone implant
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
silicone breast implants
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Assorted blends of acrylic adhesive caulk fortified with silicone.
▪ In places where a seam was not going to show from the street, he used a longer-lasting clear silicone caulk.
▪ Katherine Dowson's giant silicone drip work links the exhibition in its site within the 50-foot stairwell.
▪ Some bags use a silicone treated down to enable them to resist damp.
▪ Step 2 Using a silicone gun, apply an even bead of silicone along edges A-B of the base.
▪ Straight silicone caulk does not accept paint, so the normal process with silicone is to caulk when you have completed painting.
▪ The next days when the researchers flipped the beaker, the silicone oil began to form fat mounds.
▪ The unique Master Baker non-stick silicone coating ensures a perfect turn-out.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
silicone

coined 1863 in German from silico-, comb. form indicating the presence of silicon, + -one.

Wiktionary
silicone

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 replacements for body parts

WordNet
silicone

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]

Wikipedia
Silicone

Silicones are polymers that include any inert, synthetic compound made up of repeating units of siloxane, which is a chain of alternating silicon atoms and oxygen atoms, frequently combined with carbon and/or hydrogen. They are typically heat-resistant and rubber-like, and are used in sealants, adhesives, lubricants, medicine, cooking utensils, and thermal and electrical insulation. Some common forms include silicone oil, silicone grease, silicone rubber, silicone resin, and silicone caulk.

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.