lime
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Is lime a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (chemistry) Any inorganic material containing calcium, usually calcium oxide (quicklime) or calcium hydroxide (slaked lime).Examples: "Lime, which is the product of the burning of chalk or limestone, might be bought ready burnt, or it could be burnt in kilns specially constructed in the neighbourhood of the building operations."countableuncountable
2. (poetic) Any gluey or adhesive substance that traps or captures; sometimes a synonym for birdlime.Examples: "Monster, come, put some lime upon your fingers, and away with the rest."; "Like the lime which foolish birds are caught with."countablepoeticuncountable
3. (theater) A limelight; any spotlight.Examples: "Sellers moved on until he was actually trusted to operate the limes, the spotlights that can make or destroy an artist's act."; "Then out of the blue, a spotlight much like the “limes” in a theatre, lit up what seemed like a Punch and Judy tent […] He struggled even more, when from out of the shadows and into the bright light of the limes, stepped Uncle Jolly."countableuncountable
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To treat with calcium hydroxide or calcium oxide (lime).Examples: "If I were you, I'd lime."transitive
2. (transitive) To smear with birdlime.transitive
3. (transitive) To smear with birdlime.Examples: "URSULA. She's lim'd, I warrant you: we have caught her, madam. HERO. If it prove so, then loving goes by haps: Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps."; "Abraham, like his parents, seemed to have been limed and caught by the ensnaring inn."raretransitive
4. (transitive) To apply limewash.transitive
noun (English)
1. (uncountable) Any of several brilliant, sometimes yellowish, green colours associated with the fruits of a lime tree.Synonyms: lime green#Noun[Appendix:Glossary#broadly|broadly]] synonymous, precisely hyponymous>uncountable
2. (uncountable) Any of several brilliant, sometimes yellowish, green colours associated with the fruits of a lime tree.Synonyms: lime green#Noun[Appendix:Glossary#broadly|broadly]] synonymous, precisely hyponymous>countableuncountable
3. (fandom slang) A fan fiction story which contains sexual references, but stops short of full, explicit descriptions of sexual activity (coined by analogy with lemon).Examples: "WARNING: This is a lime. While it does not show explicit sex, as a lemon would, references to sexual situations abound."; "Even with all the sex in Garden of EVA, I still think the main stories are better for just being the lemon-scented limes that they are."; "I have no intention of writing any lemon scenes, limes are possibilities but unlikely and if they occur they will be few in number."countableslanguncountable
verb (English)
1. (Caribbean, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, informal) To hang out or socialize in an informal, relaxed environment, especially with friends, for example at a party or on the beach.BarbadosCaribbeanTrinidad-and-Tobagoinformal
noun (English)
1. (Caribbean, Trinidad & Tobago) A casual gathering to socialize.Caribbean
Definition source: Wiktionary