quicklime

See also: quick lime

English

Etymology

From Middle English quyk lym; equivalent to quick +‎ lime.

Noun

quicklime (countable and uncountable, plural quicklimes)

1. Calcium oxide, which is produced by heating (calcining) limestone and gives slaked lime on treatment with water.
   • 1898, Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol:

     The Warders strutted up and down, / And kept their herd of brutes, / Their uniforms were spick and span, / And they wore their Sunday suits, / But we knew the work they had been at, / By the quicklime on their boots.

Synonyms

• burnt lime, caustic lime, unhydrated lime, anhydrous lime, lime

Translations

calcium oxide

• Albanian: gëlqere (sq) f
• Armenian: կիր (hy) (kir)
• Belarusian: ва́пна n (vápna)
• Bulgarian: негасена вар f (negasena var)
• Catalan: calç (ca) f, calcina (ca) f (Algherese)
• Chechen: кир (kir)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 石灰 (zh) (shíhuī)

• Czech: vápno (cs) n
• Danish: kalk (da)
• Dutch: ongebluste kalk m
• Esperanto: kalko (eo)
• Finnish: kalkki (fi)
• French: chaux vive (fr) f
• Georgian: კირი (ka) (ḳiri)
• German: gebrannter Kalk m, Branntkalk m, ungelöschter Kalk m, Kalkerde f, Ätzkalk (de) m, Calciumoxid
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἄσβεστος f (ásbestos)

• Gujarati: કળીચૂનો (kaḷīcūno)
• Hindi: अनबुझा चूना (anbujhā cūnā)
• Hungarian: mész (hu)
• Icelandic: kalk (is) n
• Ido: kalko (io)
• Ingush: кир (kir)
• Irish: aol beo m
• Italian: calce viva f
• Japanese: 石灰 (ja) (せっかい, sekkai)
• Korean: 생석회, saengseoghoe (saengseokhoe, saengseoghoe)
• Latvian: kaļķis (lv) m
• Laz: კირი (ǩiri)
• Macedonian: вар f (var)
• Malayalam: നീറ്റുകക്ക (ml) (nīṟṟukakka)
• Ossetian:

  Digor: къирӕ (k’iræ)

  Iron: чъыр (ḱ’yr)

• Polish: wapno (pl) n, wapno niegaszone n
• Portuguese: cal virgem f, cal viva f
• Romanian: var (ro) n, var nestins (ro) n
• Russian: негашёная и́звесть f (negašónaja ízvestʹ), жжёная и́звесть f (žžónaja ízvestʹ)
• Sardinian:

  Campidanese: carcína

  Logudorese: calchína

• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: вапно n

  Roman: vapno (sh) n

• Spanish: cal viva f, cal (es) f
• Swedish: kalk (sv) c, bränd kalk c, osläckt kalk c
• Turkish: kalsiyum oksit (tr), sönmemiş kireç, yanmış kireç
• Ukrainian: ва́пно (uk) n (vápno), палене ва́пно (uk) n (palene vápno), негашене ва́пно (uk) n (nehašene vápno)
• Welsh: calch brwd

Verb

quicklime (third-person singular simple present quicklimes, present participle quickliming, simple past and past participle quicklimed)

1. (transitive) To treat with quicklime.