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coagulate

[ verb koh-ag-yuh-leyt; adjective koh-ag-yuh-lit, -leyt ]

verb (used with or without object)

coagulated, coagulating.
  1. to change from a fluid into a thickened mass; curdle; congeal:

    Let the pudding stand two hours until it coagulates.

    Synonyms: , , ,

  2. Biology. (of blood) to form a clot.
  3. Physical Chemistry. (of colloidal particles) to flocculate or cause to flocculate by adding an electrolyte to an electrostatic colloid.


adjective

  1. Obsolete. coagulated.

coagulate

/ əʊˈæɡʊəɪ /

verb

  1. to cause (a fluid, such as blood) to change into a soft semisolid mass or (of such a fluid) to change into such a mass; clot; curdle
  2. chem to separate or cause to separate into distinct constituent phases
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. the solid or semisolid substance produced by coagulation
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˌܱˈٲ, noun
  • ˈܱ, adjective
  • coagulative, adjective
  • ˌˈپDz, noun
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Other yvlog Forms

  • ·u·tDz noun
  • ····ٴ· [koh-, ag, -y, uh, -l, uh, -tawr-ee, -tohr-ee], ····پ [koh-, ag, -y, uh, -ley-tiv, -l, uh, -tiv], adjective
  • t··u·iԲ adjective
  • anti··u·tDz noun adjective
  • ԴDzc·u·iԲ adjective
  • non·u·tDz noun
  • ԴDzc·u·t adjective
  • c·u·ٱ verb recoagulated recoagulating
  • re·u·tDz noun
  • ܲc·u·e adjective
  • ܲc·u·iԲ adjective
  • ܲc·u·t adjective
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of coagulate1

1350–1400 for earlier past participle senses “solidified, clotted,” 1605–15 coagulate fordef 1; Middle English < Latin 岵ܱ ( us ) (past participle of 岵ܱ ), equivalent to 岵ܱ ( um ) coagulum + -ٳܲ -ate 1
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of coagulate1

C16: from Latin 岵ܱ to make (a liquid) curdle, from 岵ܱum rennet, from ō to drive together
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Pumpkin and pecan pie are both custards in my book and they should be baked at a lower temperature to gently and evenly coagulate the eggs.

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Rennet, an enzyme naturally present in the stomachs of ruminants, would prompt the milk to coagulate, separating into curds and whey, thus laying the groundwork for modern cheese production.

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If the already bleak mood among Tory MPs is going to coagulate into action - an attempt to topple him - it is perhaps most likely to happen then.

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“What we are seeing is due to reentry of material—a mixture of burned-up meteors and spacecraft, which slowly coagulates to form particles that settle through the atmosphere,” he says.

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Across the way, “Evil” — a 1973 word-painting related to Ruscha’s series on palindromes, words that read the same backward and forward — is spelled out in dark, coagulated blood that was drawn from the artist’s veins.

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