Dictionary entry
Silicone
Pronunciation: /ˈsɪlɪkəʊn/
Pronunciation
/ˈsɪlɪkəʊn/
Myanmar Meaning
အအေး ၊ အပူနှင့်ရေကို များစွာ ခံနိုင်သည့် ဆီလီကွန် ဒြပ်ပေါင်းတစ်မျိုး။
Definition
silicone /'sÇlÇkǝƱn/ n [U] အိမ္သုတ္ေဆး၊ ေရာ္ဘာတု၊ အေရာင္တင္ဆီ စသည္ ျပဳလုပ္ရာတြင္ အသံုးျပဳသည့္ ဆီလီကြန္ျဒပ္ေပါင္း တစ္ မ်ဳိးမ်ဳိး။ ဆီလီကုန္း။ a silicone breast implant.
Examples
- ‘A bung
- made of glass
- plastic
- rubber
- earthenware
- silicone
- or wood
- is a barrel's stopper
- analogous to the cork of a bottle.’
- ‘Because they are lubricious
- the silicones are easily inserted and removed with little discomfort and tissue trauma
- and infection rates are thus decreased.’
- ‘Among the plastics materials used for prostheses
- silicone elastomers
- also known as silicon rubber or silicones
- have been particularly favoured as they combine flexibility with chemical and thus physiological inertness.’
- ‘Depending on the type and location of the flashings
- roofing tar or silicone or butyl rubber sealants can be used to seal small cracks and gaps.’
- ‘The effect of surface energy on adhesion is often studied by employing widely different materials
- ranging from urethanes and epoxies (high energy)
- to silicones and fluorinated materials (low energy).’
- ‘Carrier siliconed the unit onto the trolley's roof near a wire run.’
- ‘I even siliconed all the gaps and sized the tank using an impressive combination of manufacturers tables
- data from the Bureau of Meteorology and sneaking a look at other tanks down our street.’
- ‘While Mr. Nesbitt claimed the windows were siliconed shut
- there was no such evidence as the holidaymaker had all the windows opened.’
- ‘A circular mirror from Myra Glass was attached to the back wall to reflect tall plants in a gold pot
- while a gothic shaped mirror was siliconed directly to the wall above the fireplace.’
- ‘Then we superglued and siliconed the whole shebang together.’