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sod⋅dy

  [sod-ee] adjective, -di⋅er, -di⋅est, noun, plural -dies.
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–adjective
1. of or pertaining to sod.
2. consisting of sod.
–noun
3. Also, soddie. Western U.S. sod house.
Origin:
1605–15; sod 1 + -y 1 , -y 2

Sod⋅dy

  [sod-ee]
–noun
Frederick, 1877–1956, English chemist: Nobel prize 1921.

sod house

 
–noun
a house built of strips of sod, laid like brickwork, and used esp. by settlers on the Great Plains, when timber was scarce.
Also called soddie, soddy.

Origin:
1825–35
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Sod·dy   (sŏd'ē)   
British chemist. He won a 1921 Nobel Prize for investigations into the origin and nature of isotopes.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Soddy   (sŏd'ē)  Pronunciation Key 
British chemist who was a pioneer in the study of radioactivity. With Ernest Rutherford, he explained the atomic disintegration of radioactive elements. Soddy also coined the word isotope to describe elements that were chemically identical but had different atomic weights. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1921.
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