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COMBUSTIBLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does combustible mean? 

COMBUSTIBLE (noun)
  The noun COMBUSTIBLE has 1 sense:

1. a substance that can be burned to provide heat or powerplay

  Familiarity information: COMBUSTIBLE used as a noun is very rare.


COMBUSTIBLE (adjective)
  The adjective COMBUSTIBLE has 1 sense:

1. capable of igniting and burningplay

  Familiarity information: COMBUSTIBLE used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


COMBUSTIBLE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A substance that can be burned to provide heat or power

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

combustible; combustible material

Hypernyms ("combustible" is a kind of...):

fuel (a substance that can be consumed to produce energy)

Derivation:

combustible (capable of igniting and burning)


COMBUSTIBLE (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Capable of igniting and burning

Similar:

burnable; ignitable; ignitible (capable of burning)

comburant; comburent; combustive (supporting combustion)

flammable; inflammable (easily ignited)

ignescent (can emit sparks or burst into flame)

incendiary (capable of catching fire spontaneously or causing fires or burning readily)

Antonym:

noncombustible (not capable of igniting and burning)

Derivation:

combust (undergo combustion)

combust (start to burn or burst into flames)

combust (cause to burn or combust)

combustible (a substance that can be burned to provide heat or power)


 Context examples 


A combustible, yellowish liquid with a slight phenolic odor.

(Diglycidyl Resorcinol Ether, NCI Thesaurus)

Any of numerous unctuous combustible substances that are liquid or can be liquefied easily on warming, are soluble in ether but not in water, and leave a greasy stain on paper or cloth.

(Oil, NCI Thesaurus)

An unctuous, combustible substance which is liquid, or easily liquefiable, on warming, and is soluble in ether but insoluble in water.

(Oil Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A volatile, combustible, yellow, oily liquid nitrosamine with a faint characteristic odor that decomposes when exposed to light and emits toxic fumes of nitrogen oxides when heated to decomposition.

(N-Nitrosodimethylamine, NCI Thesaurus)

A white, crystalline, solid, combustible, chlorinated compound.

(Nitrofen, NCI Thesaurus)

Issue associated with approaching certain temperatures at which a combustible liquid ignites.

(Flashpoint Threshold Met Medical Device Problem, Food and Drug Administration)

A yellow colored, combustible leaflet material that emits toxic fumes of nitrogen oxides when heated to decomposition.

(Michler's Base, NCI Thesaurus)

A stable, colorless, combustible liquid that emits toxic fumes of sulfoxide when heated to decomposition.

(Methyl Methanesulfonate, NCI Thesaurus)

As night advanced, I placed a variety of combustibles around the cottage, and after having destroyed every vestige of cultivation in the garden, I waited with forced impatience until the moon had sunk to commence my operations.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The organic compounds constituting the esters of glycerol and fatty acids and their associated organic groups that are produced by a plant, or any of its component parts, that are generally slippery, combustible, liquid or liquefiable at room temperatures, soluble in various organic solvents such as ether but not in water.

(Plant Oil, Food and Drug Administration)



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