slake

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To dash water on a hot surface to cool it

Notes for landscape tones. Long sequences of tempera. Light filtered through the essence of lemons. An air full of brick-dust - sweet smelling brick dust and the odour of hot pavements slaked with water.

To satisfy; to quench
To become mixed with water, so that a true chemical combination takes place; as, the lime slakes
To go out; to become extinct
To abate; to become less decided
To slacken; to become relaxed
{v} to quench, extinguish, become relaxed
{f} quench, satisfy a desire (such as hunger, thirst, etc.); moderate, lessen the intensity of something; extinguish, put out; combine lime with water
To moisten dry clay with water
\SLAYK\, transitive verb: 1 To satisfy; to quench; to extinguish; as, to slake thirst 2 To cause to lessen; to make less active or intense; to moderate; as, slaking his anger 3 To cause (as lime) to heat and crumble by treatment with water
To dissolve a thickening agent such as flour or cornstarch in a little cold water before adding it to the hot liquid which is to be thickened
To allay; to quench; to extinguish; as, to slake thirst
If you slake your thirst, you drink something that stops you being thirsty
To mix with water, so that a true chemical combination shall take place; to slack; as, to slake lime
cause to heat and crumble by treatment with water; "slack lime"
v To satisfy Ex "I think I've just been slaked "
To mix with water with a true chemical combination (hydrolysis) taking place, such as in the slaking of lime
satisfy (thirst); "The cold water quenched his thirst"
make less active or intense
slake durability test
(Mühendislik) A test to estimate the resistance of rocks, particularly argillaceous rocks, to a combination of wetting and abrasion. Test results are expressed as a slake-durability index for each particular rock
slaked
Allayed; quenched; extinguished; as, a slaked thirst
slaked
Simple past tense and past participle of slake
air-slake
alter by exposure to air with conversion at least in part to a carbonate; "air-slake lime
slaked
allayed; "his thirst quenched he was able to continue"
slaked
{s} mixed with water (of lime)
slaked
Mixed with water so that a true chemical combination has taken place; as, slaked lime
slaked
past of slake
slakes
third-person singular of slake
slaking
present participle of slake
slake

    Синонимы

    hydrate

    Произношение

    Этимология

    [ 'slAk, intransitive sense 2 ] (verb.) 14th century. From Middle English slaken (“to render slack", "to slake”), from Old English sleacian, from sleac (“slack”)

    Времена

    slakes, slaking, slaked
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