soot
soot — noun
1. a soft black powder that forms when materials such as wood, coal, or oil burn, o
a soft black powder that forms when materials such as wood, coal, or oil burn, often seen inside chimneys or on surfaces near a fire
After the fire, a thick layer of black soot covered the walls and furniture.
collocation: layer of soot / covered with soot
The chimney sweep removed buckets of soot from the old fireplace in the manor house.
collocation: chimney sweep / remove soot
Hao wiped the soot from his face and arms after cleaning out the wood-burning stove.
The candles left dark streaks of soot on the inside of the glass hurricane lantern.
Burning low-quality coal produces far more soot than burning natural gas indoors.
soot — verb
- sootpresent simple I / you / we / they
- soots3rd person singular
- sooting-ing form
- sootedpast simple
1. to cover something with soot, or to become covered with soot — for instance, whe
to cover something with soot, or to become covered with soot — for instance, when smoke from a fire leaves a black coating on glass, walls, or the inside of a chimney
The inside of the old chimney was heavily sooted after decades of winter fires.
passive: be heavily sooted
Theo accidentally sooted his sleeves while reaching into the fireplace to adjust the logs.
transitive: soot + object (body part)
Cooking over the open hearth had sooted every pot and pan in the farmhouse kitchen.
Workers removed the sooted bricks from the factory smokestack and replaced them with new ones.
The oil lamp glass was sooted after three nights of use without power.
文法句型
soot + object
be sooted
sooted + noun (attributive)
用法筆記
This verb is frequently used in the passive voice ('the wall was sooted') or as an attributive adjective before a noun ('sooted glass', 'sooted bricks'). The active form is less common.