resin
pronunciation
How to pronounce resin in British English:
UK [ˈrezɪn]
How to pronounce resin in American English:
US [ˈrezn]
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- Noun:
- any of a class of solid or semisolid viscous substances obtained either as exudations from certain plants or prepared by polymerization of simple molecules
Word Origin
- resin
- resin: [14] Resin comes via Old French resine and Latin resīna from Greek rhētínē ‘resin’, a word of unknown origin. A collateral form that arose in medieval Latin was rosīna, which has given English rosin [14].=> rosin
- resin (n.)
- late 14c., from Old French resine "gum, resin," and directly from Latin resina "resin," from Greek rhetine "resin of the pine," of unknown origin.
Example
- 1. It started with a chunk of fossilized resin from the dominican republic .
- 2. This is to employ an ion-exchange resin in addition to the membranes .
- 3. The filtered solution is then passed through small beads of an ion-exchange resin .
- 4. Liquid resin is poured into wooden container and then painted when it becomes solid .
- 5. The resin turned to amber , a time capsule both beautiful and informative .