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

  1. ‘A bung
  2. made of glass
  3. plastic
  4. rubber
  5. earthenware
  6. silicone
  7. or wood
  8. is a barrel's stopper
  9. analogous to the cork of a bottle.’
  10. ‘Because they are lubricious
  11. the silicones are easily inserted and removed with little discomfort and tissue trauma
  12. and infection rates are thus decreased.’
  13. ‘Among the plastics materials used for prostheses
  14. silicone elastomers
  15. also known as silicon rubber or silicones
  16. have been particularly favoured as they combine flexibility with chemical and thus physiological inertness.’
  17. ‘Depending on the type and location of the flashings
  18. roofing tar or silicone or butyl rubber sealants can be used to seal small cracks and gaps.’
  19. ‘The effect of surface energy on adhesion is often studied by employing widely different materials
  20. ranging from urethanes and epoxies (high energy)
  21. to silicones and fluorinated materials (low energy).’
  22. ‘Carrier siliconed the unit onto the trolley's roof near a wire run.’
  23. ‘I even siliconed all the gaps and sized the tank using an impressive combination of manufacturers tables
  24. data from the Bureau of Meteorology and sneaking a look at other tanks down our street.’
  25. ‘While Mr. Nesbitt claimed the windows were siliconed shut
  26. there was no such evidence as the holidaymaker had all the windows opened.’
  27. ‘A circular mirror from Myra Glass was attached to the back wall to reflect tall plants in a gold pot
  28. while a gothic shaped mirror was siliconed directly to the wall above the fireplace.’
  29. ‘Then we superglued and siliconed the whole shebang together.’