clot(n = noun.body) coagulum - a lump of material formed from the content of a liquid;
is a kind of ball, chunk, clod, clump, glob, lump
has particulars: thrombus, embolus
Derived forms verb clot4, verb clot1, verb clot2
1. clot(v = verb.change) coagulate - change from a liquid to a thickened or solid state; "coagulated blood"
is one way to change state, turn
Derived forms noun clot1, noun clotting1
Sample sentences:
Something ----s; Something ----s something
2. clot(v = verb.change) coagulate - cause to change from a liquid to a solid or thickened state;
is one way to alter, change, modify
Derived form noun clot1
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something
3. clot(v = verb.change) clabber, curdle - turn into curds; "curdled milk"
is one way to change state, turn
Derived form noun clotting1
Sample sentences:
Something ----s; Something ----s something
4. clot(v = verb.change) clog - coalesce or unite in a mass; "Blood clots"
is one way to coalesce
Derived forms noun clot1, noun clotting1
Sample sentences:
Something ----s; Somebody ----s
A concretion or coagulation; esp. a soft, slimy, coagulated mass, as of blood; a coagulum. Addison. [1913 Webster]
" Clod and clot appear to be radically the same word, and are so used by early writers; but in present use clod is applied to a mass of earth or the like, and clot to a concretion or coagulation of soft matter." [1913 Webster]
"Doth bake the egg into clots as if it began to poach." [1913 Webster]
To concrete, coagulate, or thicken, as soft or fluid matter by evaporation; to become a cot or clod. [1913 Webster]
To form into a slimy mass. [1913 Webster]
clot, n. & v.
--n.
1 a a thick mass of coagulated liquid, esp. of blood exposed to air. b a mass of material stuck together.
2 Brit. colloq. a silly or foolish person.
--v.tr. & intr. (clotted, clotting) form into clots.
Idiom:
clotted cream esp. Brit. thick cream obtained by slow scalding.
Etymology:
OE clot(t) f. WG: cf. CLEAT
N density, solidity, solidness, impenetrability, impermeability, incompressibility, imporosity, cohesion, constipation, consistence, spissitude, specific gravity, hydrometer, areometer, condensation, caseation, solidation, solidification, consolidation, concretion, coagulation, petrification, crystallization, precipitation, deposit, precipitate, inspissation, gelation, thickening, indivisibility, indiscerptibility, insolubility, indissolvableness, solid body, mass, block, knot, lump, concretion, concrete, conglomerate, cake, clot, stone, curd, coagulum, bone, gristle, cartilage, casein, crassamentum, legumin, superdense matter, condensed states of matter, dwarf star, neutron star, dense, solid, solidified, caseous, pukka, coherent, cohesive, compact, close, serried, thickset, substantial, massive, lumpish, impenetrable, impermeable, nonporous, imporous, incompressible, constipated, concrete, knotted, knotty, gnarled, crystalline, crystallizable, thick, grumous, stuffy, undissolved, unmelted, unliquefied, unthawed, indivisible, indiscerptible, infrangible, indissolvable, indissoluble, insoluble, infusible.
VB be dense, become solid, render solid, solidify, solidate, concrete, set, take a set, consolidate, congeal, coagulate, curd, curdle, lopper, fix, clot, cake, candy, precipitate, deposit, cohere, crystallize, petrify, condense, thicken, gel, inspissate, incrassate, compress, squeeze, ram down, constipate.
N land, earth, ground, dry land, terra firma, continent, mainland, peninsula, chersonese, delta, tongue of land, neck of land, isthmus, oasis, promontory, highland, coast, shore, scar, strand, beach, playa, bank, lea, seaboard, seaside, seabank, seacoast, seabeach, ironbound coast, loom of the land, derelict, innings, alluvium, alluvion, ancon, riverbank, river bank, levee, soil, glebe, clay, loam, marl, cledge, chalk, gravel, mold, subsoil, clod, clot, rock, crag, acres, real estate, landsman, earthy, continental, midland, coastal, littoral, riparian, alluvial, terrene, landed, predial, territorial, geophilous, ripicolous, ashore, on shore, on land.