Definition of Creosotes

1. Noun. (plural of creosote) ¹

2. Verb. (third-person singular of creosote) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Creosotes

1. creosote [v] - See also: creosote

Lexicographical Neighbors of Creosotes

creolization
creolizations
creolize
creolized
creolizes
creolizing
creology
creophagy
creos
creosol
creosols
creosote
creosote bush
creosoted
creosotelike
creosotes (current term)
creosotic
creosoting
crepance
crepances
crepe Suzette
crepe de Chine
crepe de Chines
crepe fern
crepe flower
crepe gardenia
crepe jasmine
crepe marocain
crepe myrtle

Literary usage of Creosotes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Preservation of Structural Timber by Howard Frederick Weiss (1916)
"... (1) water-soluble preservatives, (2) crude oils, and (3) creosotes. Water-soluble Preservatives.—While a large number of water- soluble preservatives ..."

2. Wood and Other Organic Structural Materials by Charles Henry Snow (1917)
"98); "The Analysis and Grading of creosotes" (United States Forest Service, Circular No. 112); "Volatilization of Various ..."

3. Wood and Other Organic Structural Materials by Charles Henry Snow (1917)
"98); "The Analysis and Grading of creosotes" (United States Forest Service, Circular No. 112); "Volatilization of Various Fractions of Creosote after their ..."

4. Bulletin by United States, United States Bureau of Soils, United States Dept. of Agriculture. Bureau of Statistics (1909)
"THE creosotes AND ZINC CHLORID. In the United States creosote and zinc chlorid are the only preservatives in common use. ..."

5. The San Francisco Bay Marine Piling Survey ...: First-third Annual Progress by Robert Cunningham Miller, Harold Francis Blum, Charles Atwood Kofoid, Walter Harrington Dore (1922)
"Oil tar creosotes. Such creosote is now being offered for wood preservation use on the Pacific Coast. Repeated analyses show that it will pass every test ..."

6. Wood Preservation in the United States by William Forsythe Sherfesee (1909)
"THE creosotes AND ZINC CHLORID. In the United States creosote and zinc chlorid are the only preservatives in common use. ..."

7. Circular by United States Forest Service (1911)
"Fractional distillation curves for samples classed as coal-tar creosotes (classes 1 and 2) 15 6. Index of refraction curves for samples classified as ..."

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