cyanide

CEFRC1

/ˈsaɪənaɪd/

noun · verb

Türkçe translations

Translating…

In plain English

Examples

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Deep Dive

Extra meanings

Sodium or potassium cyanide, used in the extraction of gold and silver or as a poison.
Any compound containing the -C≡N group or the CN⁻ anion.

Extra meaning

In context

The birdies all try an' hide / But they still go for peanuts / When coated with cyanide
The vast majority of the victims, on Jones’s orders, had drunk a fruit punch mixture laced with cyanide, a deadly poison. Adults had fed the poisoned liquid to the children, including infants.

Two questions on this entry. Nothing is scored.

Question 1 · Quick check

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

The word in print, with each source given in full.

The birdies all try an' hide / But they still go for peanuts / When coated with cyanide
1959, Tom Lehrer, “Poisoning Pigeons in the Park”
Two doctors and a metallurgist from Scotland patented a process for dissolving gold with cyanide in 1887 and patented the recovery of gold from solution using finely divided zinc (zinc precipitation) the following year. […] The first commercial processing plant to use cyanide in the milling circuit was constructed at the Crown mine at Karangahake, New Zealand in 1889.
1988 July, Michael A. Silva, “Cyanide Heap Leaching in California”, in California Geology, volume 41, number 7, page 147
The vast majority of the victims, on Jones’s orders, had drunk a fruit punch mixture laced with cyanide, a deadly poison. Adults had fed the poisoned liquid to the children, including infants.
2000, Sean Dolan, Everything You Need to Know About Cults, New York: The Rosen Publishing Groups, Inc., →ISBN, page 15

Looking a word up is the easy part. LexUp remembers which words you have met and brings them back at the point you were about to forget them.

From cyan- + -ide.