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vinyl

[vahyn-l]

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Chemistry. containing the vinyl group.

noun

any resin formed by polymerization of compounds containing the vinyl group or plastics made from such resins.

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Origin:
1860–65; < Latin vīn(um) wine + -yl

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IN some circles, putting vinyl siding on historic buildings is considered downright sinful.

The movement was made, of course, by the large covers of vinyl records.

Durable, easy-to-clean vinyl with adjustable volume.

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IN some circles, putting vinyl siding on historic buildings is considered downright sinful.

The movement was made, of course, by the large covers of vinyl records.

Durable, easy-to-clean vinyl with adjustable volume.

Peel backing from vinyl letters and apply them to the pot within the circle.

Record sales are climbing as fans turn to vinyl for high-end home listening while.

Yet the printed book will never entirely die, as devotees of vinyl and film have shown.

The trees also more quickly removed carcinogens such as chloroform and vinyl chloride from the ground and benzene from the air.

Then rehook the vinyl siphoning tube to the bucket's spigot and put the other end in the neck of your first empty bottle.

Music lovers can now be immortalised when they die by having their ashes baked into vinyl records to leave behind for loved ones.

There are two types of gutter systems you can install: aluminum and vinyl.

Some wax cylinders and discs, metal tape, vinyl records and other formats have already begun disintegrating or are slag.

All offer superior insulation over wood and vinyl siding, but some require nonrenewable resources for their manufacture.

Vinyl has long been the go-to format for audiophiles.

There is poison in the well water that they used to drink, a chemical used to make plastic called vinyl chloride.

Don't use toothpaste on wallpaper unless it's vinyl.

In a music scene saturated with digital recordings, vinyl records have been making an unlikely comeback of late.

Allison said that the choices for new seat models included hard plastic and padded vinyl.

Revamped in retro-mid-century style: blue astroturf pool deck, martinis in the vinyl bar.

But it's doubtlessly tinny built-in stereo speaker and lightweight tonearm aren't going to do it for the real vinyl junkie:.

Maltoni linked vinyl chloride with a high rate of a rare liver cancer among workers exposed to.

The reaction on and alongside the road seems to vary according to where people live and how snazzy their vinyl adhesive is.

For some people, tunes only sound true when they are on vinyl and played on a turntable.

Many manufacturers claim that modern siding materials, vinyl and metal, are maintenance-free.

Encased in gray vinyl siding and surrounded by the kind of suburban sprawl.

Many record stores have stopped carrying vinyl records because they perceive little demand.

Only golf romantics still actually own the big leather or vinyl pouches.

Water is fed through a small funnel into a vinyl sack.

It was no longer the reverent placing of the needle on the vinyl and quiet listening.

But few of the vinyl invalids restored in the workshops would ever leave their owners' collections.

Inspecting fascias covered by aluminum or vinyl siding is more difficult.

Shoppers can flip through racks of new and vintage vinyl.

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World English Dictionary

vinyl (ˈvaɪnɪl)

—n
1.	(modifier) of, consisting of, or containing the monovalent group of atoms CH₂CH-: a vinyl polymer; vinyl chloride
2.	(modifier) of, consisting of, or made of a vinyl resin: a vinyl raincoat
3.	any vinyl polymer, resin, or plastic, esp PVC
4.	(collectively) conventional records made of vinyl as opposed to compact discs

[C19: from vini- + -yl]

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Word Origin & History

vinyl

"plastic or synthetic resin," 1939, short for polyvinyl, not in widespread use until late 1950s. In chemistry, vinyl was used from 1863 as the name of a univalent radical derived from ethylene, from L. vinum "wine," because ethyl alcohol is the ordinary alcohol present in wine. Slang meaning "phonograph

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record" (1976) replaced wax in that sense.

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American Heritage

Medical Dictionary

vinyl vi·nyl (vī'nəl)
n.
The univalent radical CH₂-CH derived from ethylene.

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Science Dictionary

vinyl (vī'nəl) Pronunciation Key

The group C₂H₃, derived from ethylene.
Any of various chemical compounds, typically highly reactive, that contain this group and are used in making plastics.
Any of various plastics made of vinyl, typically tough, flexible, and shiny, often used in upholstery and clothing.

Slang Dictionary

vinyl definition

[ˈvɑɪnlæ]

n.
phonograph records. : I got some new vinyl. Come over and listen.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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