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silicone

See also: Silicone and siliconé

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A pastry brush with brightly colored silicone bristles.

Etymology

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From silicon +‎ -one. Originally obtained by the attempted synthesis of the silicon equivalent of a ketone.

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Noun

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silicone (countable and uncountable, plural silicones)

  1. (chemistry) Any of a class of inert, semi-inorganic polymeric compounds (polysiloxanes), that have a wide range of thermal stability and extreme water repellence, used in a very wide range of industrial applications, and in prosthetic replacements for body parts.
    • 2008, Christos Tsiolkas, The Slap, London: Atlantic Books, page 93:
      [H]e had little time or respect for the rich skip bitches who were his neighbours, useless fake-tanned women with plastic smiles and silicone tits who spent their husbands' money on afternoon teas, endless shopping and personal trainers.

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Verb

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silicone (third-person singular simple present silicones, present participle siliconing, simple past and past participle siliconed)

  1. (transitive) To join or treat (something) with a silicone-based product.
    silicone the bathtub to the tile
    • 1984, United States National Labor Relations Board, Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board, page 963:
      Structural glazing or siliconing of window units is, according to Donald F. Kelly, Jr., president of AMPAT, the bonding of glass to a metal frame.
  2. (informal, transitive) To enhance or reconstruct (a body part) with a prosthesis containing silicone.
    • 2011, Natasha Walter, Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism, page 27:
      The next girl, with huge, perfectly spherical, siliconed breasts perched high on her slender chest, got the loudest roar. ‘Oh, there are two things I like about her!’ shouted the DJ. ‘How about you, boys?’

Adjective

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silicone (not comparable)

  1. (slang) Having had cosmetic surgery, especially breast enlargement.
    • 2006 09, Anne Thomas Soffee, Nerd Girl Rocks Paradise City: A True Story of Faking It in Hair Metal L. A., Chicago Review Press, →ISBN, page 125:
      Besides, the bevy of silicone beauties surrounding him would have been difficult, not to mention ego-crushing, to wade through.
    • 2009, Ignácio de Loyola Brandão, Anonymous Celebrity, Dalkey Archive Press, →ISBN, page 152:
      They want to see men covered in sweat, lying in bed with some unknown, blank, silicone actresses — they want sculpted bodies, they don't give a shit about performance.
    • 2020 March 18, Aldona Bialowas Pobutsky, Pablo Escobar and Colombian Narcoculture, University Press of Florida, →ISBN, page 58:
      Nowadays it is a cliché to associate silicone women with narco aesthetics, overdrawn Pamela Anderson clones popularized by telenovelas.

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Noun

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silicone m or f (plural silicones)

  1. silicone

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /si.liˈko.ne/
  • Rhymes: -one
  • Hyphenation: si‧li‧có‧ne

Noun

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silicone m (plural siliconi)

  1. (chemistry) silicone
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  • Hyphenation: si‧li‧co‧ne

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silicone m (plural silicones)

  1. (chemistry) silicone (any of a class of inert compounds of silicon)
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