pulp
pronunciation
How to pronounce pulp in British English:
UK [pʌlp]
How to pronounce pulp in American English:
US [pʌlp]
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- Noun:
- any soft or soggy mass
- a soft moist part of a fruit
- a mixture of cellulose fibers
- an inexpensive magazine printed on poor quality paper
- the soft inner part of a tooth
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- Verb:
- remove the pulp from, as from a fruit
- reduce to pulp
Word Origin
- pulp (n.)
- c. 1400, "fleshy part of a fruit or plant," from Latin pulpa "animal or plant pulp; pith of wood," earlier *pelpa, perhaps from the same root as pulvis "dust," pollen "fine flour" (see pollen); extended to other similar substances by early 15c. The adjective meaning "sensational" is from pulp magazine (1931), so called from pulp in sense of "type of rough paper used in cheaply made magazines and books" (1727). As a genre name, pulp fiction attested by 1943 (pulp writer "writer of pulp fiction" was in use by 1939). The opposite adjective in reference to magazines was slick.
- pulp (v.)
- 1660s "reduce to pulp" (implied in pulping), from pulp (n.). As "to remove the pulp from," from 1791. Related: Pulped.
Example
- 1. Nokia was originally a small finnish wood pulp company ; it has diversified many times .
- 2. Fluff pulp represents a small portion of an overall pulp and paper market of about 450 million tons annually , he says .
- 3. Commercial fruit juice does not come from the whole fruit , but from the fruit stripped of its skin and pulp .
- 4. Mcc is one of the largest state-owned companies in china , with activities ranging from engineering and property to pulp and paper and mining .
- 5. Industries such as coal washing , textile dyeing or pulp mills are also water-intensive , and industrial use counts for about one-fifth of demand .