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say it: AN-uh-leen
aniline is a noun meaning "oily poisonous liquid amine obtained from nitrobenzene and used to make dyes and plastics and medicines". It carries one recorded sense.
oily poisonous liquid amine obtained from nitrobenzene and used to make dyes and plastics and medicines
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for aniline come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.