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Resin vs Sol - What's the difference?

resin | sol |

As nouns the difference between resin and sol

is that resin is a viscous hydrocarbon secretion of many plants, particularly coniferous trees while sol is .

As a verb resin

is to apply resin.

resin

English

(wikipedia resin)

Noun

  • A viscous hydrocarbon secretion of many plants, particularly coniferous trees.
  • Any of various yellowish viscous liquids or soft solids of plant origin; used in lacquers, varnishes and many other applications; chemically they are mostly hydrocarbons, often polycyclic.
  • Any synthetic compound of similar properties.
  • Derived terms

    * resinate * resinous

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to apply resin
  • Anagrams

    * * * * * ----

    sol

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m) in the hymn for St. John the Baptist all note names were take from.

    Alternative forms

    * so, soh

    Noun

    (-)
  • (music) The fifth step in the scale of C (Ut), preceded by fa and followed by la.
  • Etymology 2

    .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (label) A solar day on Mars (equivalent to 24 hours, 39 minutes, 35 seconds).
  • gold
  • (Chaucer)
    See also
    * Sol * yestersol

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A Spanish-American gold or silver coin, now the main currency unit of Peru (also new sol ) , or a coin of this value.
  • * (rfdate), M. Le Page Du Pratz, History of Louisiana :
  • Three days after, the Great Sun, his brother, sent me another deer-skin of the same oil, to the quantity of forty pints. The most common sort sold this year at twenty sols a pint, and I was sure mine was not of the worst kind.

    Etymology 4

    An abbreviation of (solution)

    Noun

    (-)
  • A type of colloid in which a solid is dispersed in a liquid.
  • Etymology 5

    , from (etyl) (m)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An old French coin consisting of 12 deniers.