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–noun

any of a class of nonvolatile, solid or semisolid organic substances, as copal or mastic, that consist of amorphous mixtures of carboxylic acids and are obtained directly from certain plants as exudations or prepared by polymerization of simple molecules: used in medicine and in the making of varnishes and plastics.

2.	a substance of this type obtained from certain pines; rosin.

–verb (used with object)

3.	to treat or rub with resin.

[Origin: 1350–1400; ME < OF resine < L résīna, prob. < a non-IE language; cf. Gk rhétné pine resin, from a related source

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—Related forms

res·in·like, adjective

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–noun

a male given name.

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n.

Any of numerous clear to translucent yellow or brown, solid or semisolid, viscous substances of plant origin, such as copal, rosin, and amber, used principally in lacquers, varnishes, inks, adhesives, synthetic plastics, and pharmaceuticals.
Any of numerous physically similar polymerized synthetics or chemically modified natural resins including thermoplastic materials such as polyvinyl, polystyrene, and polyethylene and thermosetting materials such as polyesters, epoxies, and silicones that are used with fillers, stabilizers, pigments, and other components to form plastics.

tr.v. res·ined, res·in·ing, res·ines
To treat or rub with resin.

[Middle English, from Old French resine, from Latin rēsīna, from Greek dialectal *rhēsīnā, variant of Greek rhētīnē.]

res'in·ous (rěz'ə-nəs) adj.

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resin

1388, from O.Fr. resine, from L. resina "resin," from Gk. rhetine "resin of the pine," of unknown origin.

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resin
noun
any of a class of solid or semisolid viscous substances obtained either as exudations from certain plants or prepared by polymerization of simple molecules

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resin [ˈrezin] noun

a sticky substance produced by certain trees (eg firs, pines) and some other plants

Arabic:	راتينْج، صِمْغ الصُّنوبَر
Chinese (Simplified):	树脂，松香
Chinese (Traditional):	樹脂，松香
Czech:	pryskyřice, smůla
Danish:	harpiks
Dutch:	hars
Estonian:	vaik
Finnish:	pihka
French:	résine
German:	das Harz
Greek:	ρητίνη
Hungarian:	gyanta
Icelandic:	trjákvoða
Indonesian:	getah
Italian:	resina

Japanese:	樹脂
Korean:	수지(樹脂), 송진; 합성수지
Latvian:	gumija
Lithuanian:	sakai
Norwegian:	harpiks, kvae
Polish:	żywica
Portuguese (Brazil):	resina
Portuguese (Portugal):	resina
Romanian:	răşină
Russian:	смола
Slovak:	živica; smola
Slovenian:	smola
Spanish:	resina
Swedish:	kåda
Turkish:	reçine; sakız

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Any of numerous clear or translucent, yellowish or brownish substances that ooze from certain trees and plants. Resins are used in products such as varnishes, lacquers, adhesives, plastics, and drugs. Balsam is a resin.
Any of various artificial substances, such as polyurethane, that have similar properties to natural resins and are used to make plastics.

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Resin

Res"in\ (r?z"?n), n. [F. r['e]sine, L. resina; cf. Gr. "rhti`nh Cf. Rosin.] Any one of a class of yellowish brown solid inflammable substances, of vegetable origin, which are nonconductors of electricity, have a vitreous fracture, and are soluble in ether, alcohol, and essential oils, but not in water; specif., pine resin (see Rosin).

Note: Resins exude from trees in combination with essential oils, gums, etc., and in a liquid or semiliquid state. They are composed of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen, and are supposed to be formed by the oxidation of the essential oils. Copal, mastic, quaiacum, and colophony or pine resin, are some of them. When mixed with gum, they form the gum resins, like asafetida and gamboge; mixed with essential oils, they frorm balsams, or oleoresins.

Highgate resin (Min.), a fossil resin resembling copal, occuring in blue clay at Highgate, near London.

Resin bush (Bot.), a low composite shrub (Euryops speciosissimus) of South Africa, having smooth pinnately parted leaves and abounding in resin.

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