clot
See also: clôt
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From Middle English clot, clotte, from Old English clott, from Proto-West Germanic *klott (“lump”). Cognate with German Klotz (“block”). Doublet of klutz.
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clot (plural clots)
- A thrombus, solidified mass of blood.
- A solidified mass of any liquid.
- 1631, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
- Doth bake the egg into clots as if it began to poach.
- A silly person.
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blood clot
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solidified mass of any liquid
a silly person
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clot (third-person singular simple present clots, present participle clotting, simple past and past participle clotted)
- (intransitive) To form a clot or mass.
- 2023 January 5, Amber Smith, “30 Health Benefits of Turmeric”, in Discover Magazine[1], retrieved 2023-01-05:
- When there is a wounded area on the body, the natural response is for platelets in the blood to clot to plug the wound.
- (transitive) To cause to clot or form into a mass.
- 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 168:
- They didn't explode into blood and clotted matter.
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to form into a clot
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to cause to clot
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Etymology edit
Uncertain, perhaps Indo-European but from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia.
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clot m (plural clots)
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Further reading edit
- “clot” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “clot” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
- “clot”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
Middle English edit
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Etymology edit
From Old English clot, clott, from Proto-West Germanic *klott; compare clod.
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clot (plural clottes)
- A clod; a ball of earth or clay.
- The ground; the earth's surface.
- (figurative) The body.
- (rare) A chunk of turf or soil.
Descendants edit
- English: clot
References edit
- “clot, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.