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supernatant
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun supernatant has 1 sense
- supernatant(n = noun.object) Array - the clear liquid that lies above a sediment or precipitate; Array is a kind of liquid
Derived form adjective supernatant1
Adjective supernatant has 1 sense
CIDE DICTIONARY
supernatant, a. [L. supernatanus, p. pr. of supernatare to swim above; super above + natare to swim.].
Swimming above; floating on the surface; as, oil supernatant on water. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
supernatant, adj. & n. esp. Chem.
--adj. floating on the surface of a liquid.
--n. a supernatant substance.
--adj. floating on the surface of a liquid.
--n. a supernatant substance.
Etymology
SUPER- + natant swimming (as NATATION)
ROGET THESAURUS
supernatant
Height
N height, altitude, elevation, eminence, pitch, loftiness, sublimity, tallness, stature, procerity, prominence, colossus, giant, grenadier, giraffe, camelopard, mount, mountain, hill alto, butte, monticle, fell, knap, cape, headland, foreland, promontory, ridge, hog's back, dune, rising ground, vantage ground, down, moor, moorland, Alp, uplands, highlands, heights, knob, loma, pena, picacho, tump, knoll, hummock, hillock, barrow, mound, mole, steeps, bluff, cliff, craig, tor, peak, pike, clough, escarpment, edge, ledge, brae, dizzy height, tower, pillar, column, obelisk, monument, steeple, spire, minaret, campanile, turret, dome, cupola, skyscraper, pole, pikestaff, maypole, flagstaff, top mast, topgallant mast, ceiling, high water, high tide, flood tide, spring tide, altimetry, batophobia, satellite, spy-in-the-sky, high, elevated, eminent, exalted, lofty, tall, gigantic, Patagonian, towering, beetling, soaring, hanging (gardens), elevated, upper, highest, high reaching, insessorial, perching, upland, moorland, hilly, knobby, mountainous, alpine, subalpine, heaven kissing, cloudtopt, cloudcapt, cloudtouching, aerial, overhanging, incumbent, overlying, superincumbent, supernatant, superimposed, prominent, tall as a maypole, tall as a poplar, tall as a steeple, lanky, on high, high up, aloft, up, above, aloof, overhead, airwind, upstairs, abovestairs, in the clouds, on tiptoe, on stilts, on the shoulders of, over head and ears, breast high, over, upwards, from top to bottom, e meglio cader dalle finistre che dal tetto.Ascent
N ascent, ascension, rising, acclivity, hill, flight of steps, flight of stairs, ladder rocket, lark, sky rocket, sky lark, Alpine Club, rising, scandent, buoyant, supernatant, superfluitant, excelsior, uphill.
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