calcimine

1. 1.

   a water-base paint containing zinc oxide and glue and coloring; used as a wash for walls and ceilings

   Broaderwater-base paintwash

1. 1.

   cover with calcimine

   “calcimine the walls”

   Broaderwhitewash

Other forms of calcimine

plural

calcimines·

past tense

calcimined·

present participle

calcimining·

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.

Questions about calcimine

What does calcimine mean?

calcimine means "a water-base paint containing zinc oxide and glue and coloring; used as a wash for walls and ceilings". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in calcimine?

calcimine has 3 syllables: cal-ci-mine. The stress falls on "cal".

Is calcimine a common word?

calcimine is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.