mordant

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EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From French mordant.

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /mɔː(ɹ)dənt/
• Homophone: mordent

AdjectiveEdit

mordant (comparative more mordant, superlative most mordant)

1. Having or showing a sharp or critical quality; biting; caustic; sarcastic; keen; severe.

TranslationsEdit

biting or caustic

• Finnish: pureva (fi), julma (fi), pisteliäs
• German: beißend (de)
• Greek: δηκτικός (el) m (diktikós), καυστικός (el) m (kafstikós)

• Korean: 신랄한 (sillalhan)
• Polish: żrący (pl)

NounEdit

mordant (plural mordants)

1. Any substance used to facilitate the fixing of a dye to a fibre; usually a metallic compound which reacts with the dye using chelation.
   • 1964, In dyeing two mediums are required, the colouring matter and the mordant which fixes the dye in the wool. — L.F. Salzman, English Industries of the Middle Ages, p. 208.
2. Any corrosive substance used in etching.

TranslationsEdit

a substance used to facilitate dye fixing

• Catalan: mordent m
• Finnish: puretin
• German: Beize (de) f
• Korean: 매염제 (maeyeomje)

• Maori: waitumu, tūmau kano
• Serbo-Croatian: močilo (sh) n
• Spanish: mordiente, mordaz (es)

VerbEdit

mordant (third-person singular simple present mordants, present participle mordanting, simple past and past participle mordanted)

1. (transitive) To subject to the action of, or imbue with, a mordant.

   Mordant these goods for dyeing.

TranslationsEdit

to subject to a mordant

• Catalan: mordentar (ca)
• Finnish: purettaa

• French: amordancer (fr)

See alsoEdit

• mordant on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• mordent

AnagramsEdit

• dormant

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FrenchEdit

VerbEdit

mordant

1. present participle of mordre

AdjectiveEdit

mordant (feminine singular mordante, masculine plural mordants, feminine plural mordantes)

1. biting, sharp, acrid
2. mordant
3. corrosive

AnagramsEdit

• dormant

Further readingEdit

• “mordant” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).