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among (iou)



among preposition & adverb. Also (obsolete exc. north.) amang; emong.

A. preposition.
With noun pl.: in the assemblage of, surrounded by and grouped with. With noun sing. (exc. collect. now chiefly Scot. & Anglo-Irish): surrounded by the separate members, components, or particles of; amid. OE.
among the hands of under the charge of, while being attended by.
Sir W. Scott Among the bubbling blood. Longfellow He saw once more his dark-eyed queen Among her children stand. Yeats And saplings root among the broken stone. D. du Maurier If I heard it, even among a thousand others, I should recognise her voice. Day Lewis There is a screech from among the gooseberry bushes.
b. Through the assemblage of; through the midst of. M19.
E. Waugh Sauntering and skipping among the trim gravel walks. G. Greene Picking among the dry seaweed for cigarette ends. S. Hill Colds spread like a forest fire among the old.
During; in the course of. OE-L17.
Caxton Saynt ambrose..gaue up his ghoost emonge the wordes of his prayers.
In company or association with; in the house, city, country, etc., of. ME.
G. Crabbe Susan..had some pride Among our topmost people to preside. Scott Fitzgerald It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people.
In the number or class of; in comparison with. ME.
Trevisa Amonge all elementes water is prouffytablest. Ld Berners Your folkes haue brent my house, the whiche I loued among all Other. W. Stevens Among the old men that you know, There is one, unnamed, that broods On all the rest.
In the General practice or views of; with or by generally. ME.
Addison I pass among some for a disaffected Person. J. Bowen Among the criminal classes, the word 'bird'..is used to mean 'lady friend' and also a stretch in prison. J. G. Farrell With a reputation among the young men of that circle.
Divided between, to be shared by, (collectively or distributively); in portions to each of. ME.
Oxford English Dictionary That leaves five shillings among us. M. McCarthy She was one of many readers he had to distribute manuscripts among.
By the joint action of. ME.
Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing You have among you kill'd a sweet and innocent lady.
As a reciprocal action of. ME.
E. O'Neill The three girls..stand around the entrance to the bar, chatting excitedly among themselves.
B. adverb.
Meanwhile, at the same time. ME-L16.
From time to time, now and then. ME-E17.
Together, along with something else. Only in E17.

latex (sh)




Any of several natural or synthetic colloidal suspensions (see colloid).

Some latexes occur naturally in the cells of plants such as chicle and rubber trees. They are complex mixtures of organic compounds, including various gum resins, fats, or waxes and, in some instances, poisonous compounds, suspended in a watery medium with dissolved salts, sugars, tannins, alkaloids, enzymes, and Other substances from which the latex (or natural rubber, the only available rubber until 1926) can be concentrated, coagulated, and vulcanized. Synthetic latexes (e.g., neoprene), made by emulsion polymerization from styrene-butadiene copolymer, acrylate resins, polyvinyl acetate, or Other materials, are used as paints and coatings; the plastic, dispersed in the water, forms films by fusion as the water evaporates.