quicklime

See also: quick lime

English

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calcium oxide

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Etymology

From Middle English quyk lym; equivalent to quick +‎ lime.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkwɪkˌlaɪm/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

quicklime (countable and uncountable, plural quicklimes)

1. Calcium oxide, which is produced by heating (calcining) limestone and gives slaked lime on treatment with water.
   • 1898, Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol:

     The Warders strutted up and down, / And kept their herd of brutes, / Their uniforms were spick and span, / And they wore their Sunday suits, / But we knew the work they had been at, / By the quicklime on their boots.

Synonyms

• burnt lime, caustic lime, unhydrated lime, anhydrous lime, lime

Translations

calcium oxide

Albanian: gëlqere (sq) f Armenian: կիր (hy) (kir) Belarusian: ва́пна (be) n (vápna) Bulgarian: негасена вар f (negasena var) Catalan: calç (ca) f, calcina (ca) f (Algherese) Chechen: кир (kir) Chinese: Mandarin: 石灰 (zh) (shíhuī) Czech: vápno (cs) n, pálené vápno n Danish: kalk (da) Dutch: ongebluste kalk m Esperanto: kalko (eo) Estonian: põletatud lubi, kustutamata lubi Finnish: kalkki (fi) French: chaux vive (fr) f Georgian: კირი (ka) (ḳiri) German: gebrannter Kalk m, Branntkalk m, ungelöschter Kalk m, Kalkerde f, Ätzkalk (de) m, Calciumoxid Greek: Ancient: ἄσβεστος f (ásbestos) Gujarati: કળીચૂનો (kaḷīcūno) Hindi: अनबुझा चूना (anbujhā cūnā) Hungarian: oltatlan/égetett mész Icelandic: kalk (is) n Ido: kalko (io) Ingush: кир (kir) Irish: aol beo m Italian: calce viva f Japanese: 石灰 (ja) (せっかい, sekkai) Korean: 생석회, saengseoghoe (saengseokhoe, saengseoghoe) Latvian: kaļķis (lv) m Laz: კირი (ǩiri) Macedonian: вар f (var) Malayalam: നീറ്റുകക്ക (ml) (nīṟṟukakka) Ossetian: Digor: къирӕ (k’iræ) Iron: чъыр (ḱ’yr) Polish: wapno (pl) n, wapno palone n, wapno niegaszone n Portuguese: cal virgem f, cal viva f Romanian: var (ro) n, var nestins (ro) n Russian: негашёная и́звесть f (negašónaja ízvestʹ), жжёная и́звесть f (žžónaja ízvestʹ) Sardinian: Campidanese: carcína Logudorese: calchína Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: вапно n Roman: vapno (sh) n Spanish: cal viva f, cal (es) f Swedish: kalk (sv) c, bränd kalk c, osläckt kalk c Tamil: சுண்ணாம்பு (ta) (cuṇṇāmpu) Turkish: kalsiyum oksit (tr), sönmemiş kireç, yanmış kireç Ukrainian: ва́пно (uk) n (vápno), палене ва́пно (uk) n (palene vápno), негашене ва́пно (uk) n (nehašene vápno) Welsh: calch brwd

Verb

quicklime (third-person singular simple present quicklimes, present participle quickliming, simple past and past participle quicklimed)

1. (transitive) To treat with quicklime.

See also

• limelight