"white lead" meaning in English

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Noun

Etymology: In the sense of tin, calque of Latin plumbum album (“tin”, literally “white lead”) already used before our era, as well as plumbum candidum (“tin”, literally “white-shining lead”) and Arabic رَصَاص أَبْيَض (raṣāṣ ʔabyaḍ, “tin”, literally “white lead”), distinguished from plumbum nigrum (“lead”, literally “black lead”) / رَصَاص أَسْوَد (raṣāṣ ʔaswad, “lead”, literally “black lead”), as tin and lead were improperly distinguished before modernity. Etymology templates: {{clq|en|la|plumbum album|lit=white lead|nocap=1|t=tin}} calque of Latin plumbum album (“tin”, literally “white lead”), {{cog|ar|رَصَاص أَبْيَض|lit=white lead|t=tin}} Arabic رَصَاص أَبْيَض (raṣāṣ ʔabyaḍ, “tin”, literally “white lead”) Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} white lead (uncountable)
  1. (obsolete) Tin, golden marcasite. Tags: obsolete, uncountable
    Sense id: en-white_lead-en-noun-y12YrIzS
  2. A basic lead carbonate, particularly (historical) as once widely used for white paint, whitening cosmetics, and early medicine. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Cosmetics, Inorganic compounds, Lead, Medicine, Painting Synonyms: lead white, flake white, silver white, slate white, ceruse, Venetian ceruse, Venetian white, white poison [derogatory, historical], whitelead Hyponyms: Berlin white, China white, French white, Krems white, Kremnitz white, Nottingham white, Vienna white (english: especially pure white lead paint) Derived forms: white lead ore Coordinate_terms: cerussite (english: white lead ore), red lead, titanium dioxide, zinc oxide (english: other mineral sources of white pigment) Translations (lead carbonate): ψίμυθος (psímuthos) [masculine] (Ancient Greek), سِبِيدَاج (sibīdāj) [masculine] (Arabic), بَارُوق (bārūq) [masculine] (Arabic), بَيَاض (bayāḍ) [masculine, rare] (Arabic), সফেদী (śophedi) (Bengali), оловно белило (olovno belilo) [neuter] (Bulgarian), blanc de plom [masculine] (Catalan), blanquet [masculine] (Catalan), loodwit [neuter] (Dutch), lyijyvalkoinen (Finnish), céruse [feminine] (French), blanc de plomb [masculine] (French), blanc de Saturne [masculine] (French), Bleiweiß [neuter] (German), સફેદો (saphedo) (Gujarati), ólomfehér (Hungarian), luaidhe bhán [feminine] (Irish), bianchetto [masculine] (Italian), biacca [feminine] (Italian), 연백 (yeonbaek) (Korean), cērussa [feminine] (Latin), abarath (Latin), سپیداب (sepīdāb) (Persian), blejwas [masculine] (Polish), ceruză [feminine] (Romanian), alb de plumb [neuter] (Romanian), свинцо́вые бели́ла (svincóvyje belíla) [neuter, plural] (Russian), albayalde [masculine] (Spanish), blyvitt [common-gender, neuter] (Swedish), plwm gwyn [masculine] (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-white_lead-en-noun-lnsLyC6k Disambiguation of Cosmetics: 4 96 Disambiguation of Inorganic compounds: 14 86 Disambiguation of Lead: 11 89 Disambiguation of Medicine: 5 95 Disambiguation of Painting: 17 83 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Ancient Greek translations, Terms with Arabic translations, Terms with Bengali translations, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Gujarati translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Irish translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Korean translations, Terms with Latin translations, Terms with Persian translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Romanian translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations, Terms with Welsh translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 6 94 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 6 94 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 6 94 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 4 96 Disambiguation of Terms with Ancient Greek translations: 26 74 Disambiguation of Terms with Arabic translations: 9 91 Disambiguation of Terms with Bengali translations: 9 91 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 13 87 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 10 90 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 11 89 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 10 90 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 10 90 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 11 89 Disambiguation of Terms with Gujarati translations: 10 90 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 23 77 Disambiguation of Terms with Irish translations: 10 90 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 8 92 Disambiguation of Terms with Korean translations: 10 90 Disambiguation of Terms with Latin translations: 8 92 Disambiguation of Terms with Persian translations: 10 90 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 9 91 Disambiguation of Terms with Romanian translations: 10 90 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 8 92 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 5 95 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 8 92 Disambiguation of Terms with Welsh translations: 8 92 Disambiguation of 'lead carbonate': 3 97

Alternative forms

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      "english": "white lead ore",
      "word": "cerussite"
    },
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      "word": "red lead"
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    {
      "word": "titanium dioxide"
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      "word": "China white"
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      "word": "Krems white"
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          "text": "It is not amiſs here to give the differences betwixt white Lead, or Tin, Biſmuth, Tin-glaſs, or aſh-coloured Lead, and this common Lead, which they call black Lead;",
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          "text": "The beginning of a new episode of work for Bradly was an agitated niggling over six-by-four squares of cardboard coated with size and white lead, prepared by himself to save an experimental waste of canvas.",
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          "ref": "2021, Judith Rainhorn, The Colour of Controversy..., p. 4",
          "text": "Such eminent and renowned scientists as Fourcroy, Berthollet and Vauquelin all enthusiastically supported zinc white, the defects of which \"are so slight compared to the disadvantages of using white lead, that its adoption cannot be reasonably refused.\""
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          "word": "slate white"
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      "sense": "lead carbonate",
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      "sense": "lead carbonate",
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      "lang": "German",
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      "roman": "saphedo",
      "sense": "lead carbonate",
      "word": "સફેદો"
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      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "lead carbonate",
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    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "lead carbonate",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "luaidhe bhán"
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      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "lead carbonate",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "bianchetto"
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      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "lead carbonate",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "biacca"
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      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "yeonbaek",
      "sense": "lead carbonate",
      "word": "연백"
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    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "lead carbonate",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "cērussa"
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    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "lead carbonate",
      "word": "abarath"
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      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
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      "sense": "lead carbonate",
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      "sense": "lead carbonate",
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      "word": "blejwas"
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      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "lead carbonate",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "ceruză"
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      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "lead carbonate",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
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      "word": "alb de plumb"
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
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      "sense": "lead carbonate",
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        "neuter",
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      "word": "свинцо́вые бели́ла"
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "lead carbonate",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "albayalde"
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "lead carbonate",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "blyvitt"
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      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "lead carbonate",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "plwm gwyn"
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  "wikipedia": [
    "white lead"
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  "word": "white lead"
}

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