Resin
noun
A sticky substance that comes from trees.
The tree dripped with thick, amber-colored resin.
Often appears as...
- resin exudes/drips from the tree
- synthetic resin
noun
A chemical used in plastic and production of other materials.
Polyester resins are used in sheet moulding compound, bulk moulding compound and the toner of laser printers.
Often appears as...
- epoxy resin
- polyvinyl resin
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noun
A sticky substance that comes from trees.
The tree dripped with thick, amber-colored resin.
Often appears as...
- resin exudes/drips from the tree
- synthetic resin
noun
A chemical used in plastic and production of other materials.
Polyester resins are used in sheet moulding compound, bulk moulding compound and the toner of laser printers.
Often appears as...
- epoxy resin
- polyvinyl resin
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Natural Origin
Resin often refers to organic substances from plants, particularly trees.
Natural resins have been used historically for sealing and varnishing.
Pro Tip 2/3Visual Descriptor
Resin is typically sticky, glossy, and can harden, making it useful in art and crafts.
She created jewelry by hardening colorful resin into pendants.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Reference
Amber, a type of fossilized tree resin, is often mentioned in history, jewelry, and mining.
The amber resin was prized by ancient cultures for its beauty.
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adhesivegluegumlacquerwaremasticpitchplasticpolymersapvarnish
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A journey through the...
and I poured resin all over it and a bee got stuck. Now, she's afraid of bees and she's allergic to them, so I poured more resin on the canvas, thinking I could hide it or something. Instead, the opposite It sort of created a magnification, like a magnifying glass, on the dictionary text.
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the world they look as if they've been sculpted by some truly tormented mind this one here is less than a thousand years old they can get to be at least twice that age the woods have such high quality so full of resin but even a couple of hundred years after the tree dies the stump
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Hendrik Poinar: Bring...
at the insects in amber that he kept in the house. And they were remarkably well preserved, morphologically just phenomenal. And we used to imagine that someday, they would actually come to life and they would crawl out of the resin, and, if they could, they would fly away.
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A radical plan to end...
their oceans rendered depauperate or barren of sea life because of plastic. So you come down that chain, and there's tens of thousands of brands which we all buy heaps of products from, but then there's only a hundred major resin producers, big petrochemical plants,
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Adam Savage: My...
it was better than anything that I could achieve or obtain out in the world. But there was a problem. And the problem was I wanted the entirety of the object, I wanted the weight behind the object. This thing was made of resin and it was too light.
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What's in Dry-Erase...
five different things solvent resin pigment release agent and wax and the wax we can ignore for now because it's kind of a wild card the resin and the pigment you can think of as one thing the point of the resin is to help the pigment evenly spread
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in tree sap. The sap or resin forms a protective seal around the entrapped organism. Over time, the soft resin hardens and turns into amber with the organism suspended within. This process creates a biologically inert tomb
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The art forger who...
and aged the works by applying synthetic resin and baking them to dry and crack the paint. A forensic test could have detected the synthetic resin. But at the time, such tests were neither advanced nor widespread,
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Why I think inside the...
terribly allergic to bees and afraid of them so I covered it in more resin thinking I would hide it the opposite happened I discovered an optical quality the text was magnified this built me
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Sue Makes Homemade Balm...
very brutally cold climate this is hopefully gonna keep me limber enough to keep my lifestyle going pour it in here then I'm gonna take oil all of the resins those little clippings have I
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A journey through the...
and I poured resin all over it and a bee got stuck. Now, she's afraid of bees and she's allergic to them, so I poured more resin on the canvas, thinking I could hide it or something. Instead, the opposite It sort of created a magnification, like a magnifying glass, on the dictionary text.
Video examples
Best Of Frogs PIPE Top 5 PIPE...
the world they look as if they've been sculpted by some truly tormented mind this one here is less than a thousand years old they can get to be at least twice that age the woods have such high quality so full of resin but even a couple of hundred years after the tree dies the stump
Video examples
Hendrik Poinar: Bring...
at the insects in amber that he kept in the house. And they were remarkably well preserved, morphologically just phenomenal. And we used to imagine that someday, they would actually come to life and they would crawl out of the resin, and, if they could, they would fly away.
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A radical plan to end...
their oceans rendered depauperate or barren of sea life because of plastic. So you come down that chain, and there's tens of thousands of brands which we all buy heaps of products from, but then there's only a hundred major resin producers, big petrochemical plants,
Video examples
Adam Savage: My...
it was better than anything that I could achieve or obtain out in the world. But there was a problem. And the problem was I wanted the entirety of the object, I wanted the weight behind the object. This thing was made of resin and it was too light.
Video examples
What's in Dry-Erase...
five different things solvent resin pigment release agent and wax and the wax we can ignore for now because it's kind of a wild card the resin and the pigment you can think of as one thing the point of the resin is to help the pigment evenly spread
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Fossils 101 PIPE National...
in tree sap. The sap or resin forms a protective seal around the entrapped organism. Over time, the soft resin hardens and turns into amber with the organism suspended within. This process creates a biologically inert tomb
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The art forger who...
and aged the works by applying synthetic resin and baking them to dry and crack the paint. A forensic test could have detected the synthetic resin. But at the time, such tests were neither advanced nor widespread,
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Why I think inside the...
terribly allergic to bees and afraid of them so I covered it in more resin thinking I would hide it the opposite happened I discovered an optical quality the text was magnified this built me
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Sue Makes Homemade Balm...
very brutally cold climate this is hopefully gonna keep me limber enough to keep my lifestyle going pour it in here then I'm gonna take oil all of the resins those little clippings have I
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Timothy Morton
English Philosopher
The ideal job letter starts with a brilliant light. Then we realize that this brilliant light is actually sunlight, shafts of it, pouring through trees onto a thick bed of pine needles. Soft dusty resin floats in the sun shafts, invitingly. The smell of pine and sap rises from the forest floor. A twig snaps underfoot.
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Michelle Paver
British Novelist
To experience the northern forest in the raw, I went to northern Finland and Lapland, travelling on horseback, and sleeping on reindeer skins in the traditional open-fronted Finnish laavu. I ate elk heart, reindeer and lingonberries, and tried out spruce resin: the chewing gum of the Stone Age.
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Chris Pine
American Actor
I like kind of natural, woodsy earth tones. I like patchouli. I like tobacco. I like sandalwood. I like tree resin. I'm not a huge fan of citrus - I like things that are kind of moodier and... more deeper base notes.
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Jonathan Ive
English Designer
Unless we understand a certain material - metal or resin and plastic - understanding the processes that turn it from ore, for example - we can never develop and define form that's appropriate.
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Ivanka Trump
American Businesswoman
When I was little, I'd pick flowers wherever I traveled with my mom, then dry them, cover them with resin, and turn them into paperweights.
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Reem Acra
Lebanese Designer
No one believed me when I said it was possible to put fabric in resin.
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Timothy Morton
English Philosopher
The ideal job letter starts with a brilliant light. Then we realize that this brilliant light is actually sunlight, shafts of it, pouring through trees onto a thick bed of pine needles. Soft dusty resin floats in the sun shafts, invitingly. The smell of pine and sap rises from the forest floor. A twig snaps underfoot.
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Michelle Paver
British Novelist
To experience the northern forest in the raw, I went to northern Finland and Lapland, travelling on horseback, and sleeping on reindeer skins in the traditional open-fronted Finnish laavu. I ate elk heart, reindeer and lingonberries, and tried out spruce resin: the chewing gum of the Stone Age.
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Chris Pine
American Actor
I like kind of natural, woodsy earth tones. I like patchouli. I like tobacco. I like sandalwood. I like tree resin. I'm not a huge fan of citrus - I like things that are kind of moodier and... more deeper base notes.
Quote examples
Jonathan Ive
English Designer
Unless we understand a certain material - metal or resin and plastic - understanding the processes that turn it from ore, for example - we can never develop and define form that's appropriate.
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Ivanka Trump
American Businesswoman
When I was little, I'd pick flowers wherever I traveled with my mom, then dry them, cover them with resin, and turn them into paperweights.
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Reem Acra
Lebanese Designer
No one believed me when I said it was possible to put fabric in resin.
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