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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
soot
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
black
▪ The floor was cluttered underfoot, the walls black with soot.
▪ Outside my rattling window the green countryside was black with soot.
▪ It is about nine feet square, its walls and thatched ceiling black with soot.
▪ The painted white fiberglass skin gets covered with black soot, fire-damaged.
▪ The University buildings were old, ramshackle and black with soot.
▪ His peculiar clothes were covered in green dust and black soot.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All were cream-colored and even in the darkness looked drab with soot.
▪ Chafee also proposed a five-year delay in setting specific limits for fine particulates, or soot, citing scientific uncertainty.
▪ Classes gathered round the pipe stoves which gave out a strong smell of soot.
▪ However I am having a problem with soot from a neighbour's chimney which falls into the pond at regular intervals.
▪ Open fires should always have the chimney regularly swept, otherwise the build up of soot can start a chimney fire.
▪ The familiar frowsty smell compounded of soot and chicken meal met her.
▪ The paint becomes exhausted, the city encroaches with its soot, the plaster crumbles within.
▪ The red bricks were covered with soot, making the structure look like a giant barbecue pit.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Soot

Soot \Soot\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sooted; p. pr. & vb. n. Sooting.] To cover or dress with soot; to smut with, or as with, soot; as, to soot land.
--Mortimer.

Soot

Soot \Soot\, Soote \Soot"e\, a. [See Sweet.] Sweet. [Obs.] ``The soote savour of the vine.''
--Chaucer.

Soot

Soot \Soot\ (? or ?; 277), n. [OE. sot, AS. s?t; akin to Icel. s?t, Sw. sot, Dan. sod, OD. soet, Lith. s?dis; cf. Gael. suith, Ir. suth.] A black substance formed by combustion, or disengaged from fuel in the process of combustion, which rises in fine particles, and adheres to the sides of the chimney or pipe conveying the smoke; strictly, the fine powder, consisting chiefly of carbon, which colors smoke, and which is the result of imperfect combustion. See Smoke.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
soot

Old English sot "soot," from Proto-Germanic *sotam "soot" (cognates: Old Norse sot, Old Dutch soet, North Frisian sutt), literally "what settles," from PIE *sod-o- (cognates: Old Church Slavonic sažda, Lithuanian suodžiai, Old Irish suide, Breton huzel "soot"), suffixed form of root *sed- (1) "to sit" (see sedentary).

Wiktionary
soot

n. Fine black or dull brown particles of amorphous carbon and tar, produced by the incomplete combustion of coal, oil etc. vb. (context transitive English) To cover or dress with soot.

WordNet
soot

  1. n. a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink [syn: carbon black, lampblack, smut]

  2. v. coat with soot

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Wikipedia
Soot

Soot is a mass of impure carbon particles resulting from the incomplete combustion of hydrocarbons. It is more properly restricted to the product of the gas-phase combustion process but is commonly extended to include the residual pyrolysed fuel particles such as coal, cenospheres, charred wood, and petroleum coke that may become airborne during pyrolysis and that are more properly identified as cokes or chars.

Soot is theorized to be the second-largest cause of global warming.

Soot (software)

In static program analysis, Soot is a language manipulation and optimization framework consisting of intermediate languages for the Java programming language. It has been developed by the Sable Research Group at McGill University known for its SableVM, a Java virtual machine and the AspectBench Compiler, an open research compiler for AspectJ. In 2010, two research papers on Soot ( and ) were selected as IBM CASCON First Decade High Impact Papers among 12 other papers from the 425 entries.

Soot provides four intermediate representations for use through its API for other analysis programs to access and build upon:

  • Baf: a near bytecode representation.
  • Jimple: a simplified version of Java source code that has a maximum of three components per statement.
  • Shimple: an SSA variation of Jimple (similar to GIMPLE).
  • Grimp: an aggregated version of Jimple suitable for decompilation and code inspection.

The current Soot software release also contains detailed program analyses that can be used out-of-the-box, such as context-sensitive flow-insensitive points-to analysis, call-graph analysis and domination analysis (answering the question "must event a follow event b?"). It also has a decompiler called dava.

Soot is free software available under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL).

Soot (disambiguation)

Soot is the black, impure carbon particles resulting from the incomplete combustion of a hydrocarbon.

Soot may also refer to:

  • Engebret Soot (1786-1859), Norwegian engineer
  • Soot (computer science), a language manipulation and optimization framework

Usage examples of "soot".

Buccari, hands and face blackened with soot, collapsed on the lodge porch and watched the sun flush alpenglow from the snowy peaks.

The workmen, grimy with the black ashy soot of the tunnels and pits of the ruined house, groaned with effort as they hoisted the heavy crate up onto the table and let it fall with a massive thump.

Late at night his father and brothers returned, all begrimed with soot and ashes.

An elderly couple, it chanced, had been walking behind Bibbs and Mary for the last block or so, and passed ahead during the removal of the soot.

Looking once more from the window, Bibbs sculptured for himself--in the vague contortions of the smoke and fog above the roofs--a gigantic figure with feet pedestaled upon the great buildings and shoulders disappearing in the clouds, a colossus of steel and wholly blackened with soot.

The window curtains were blowing in the wind, and the clouds above the swamp were as black as soot, heat lightning ballooning inside them, and I could smell a trash fire in a coulee and hear the hysterical shrieking sound of a nutria calling to its mate.

Cold cinders crumbled under his hands as he marked a patch of ground with soot, then stamped around in a curious dance, singing in a reedy voice that occasionally slipped low.

Out hunting with Farad, Conan was the first to see the patch of soot in the middle of the trampled ground.

Cautiously he eased himself up the flue, clearing the soot as he went, partly with his brush and partly with the spiky stubble that grew out of his head.

Beyond it, up the flue, was a shelflike projection having a thick accumulation of ash and soot.

As I watched, the evening wind came down, scouring the ruin, and the shadow of a stool collapsed noiselessly into ash, flurries of soot and char moving ghostlike over the ground.

Charis realized that her companions were Lile and little Morgian, their faces white beneath smeared soot, hair gray with ash.

But when the Industrial Revolution began to cover the birch bark with soot, the situation was reversed, and only moths with the melanin mutation survived.

Stopping at the brazier, she raised the brass lid and thrust a mitted hand into the black, powdery soot.

The squat and ugly buildings were black with soot from the nearby tannery, and the muggy air smelt strongly of smoke and tannin.