sulfur

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A chemical element with atomic number 16, having a bright yellow color and characteristic smell, used commercially in a variety of products such as insecticides, black powder, and matchsticks.

   “A Dungeon horrible, on all ſides round / As one great Furnace flam’d, yet from thoſe flames / No light, but rather darkneſs viſible / […] but torture without end / Still urges, and a fiery Deluge, fed / With ever-burning Sulphur unconſum’d:”

2. isim The element symbolically associated with hellfire or damnation, or in alchemy, the fiery principle present in all things.

   ““She shall be blasted like a riven oak! Drowned in sulphur! Torn by whirlwinds!””

3. isim A yellowish green colour, like that of sulfur.
4. isim Any of various pierid butterflies of the subfamily Coliadinae, especially the sulfur-coloured species.
5. sıfat Of a yellowish green colour, like that of sulfur.
6. sıfat Having a characteristic sulfur-like smell, reminiscent of rotten eggs.
7. fiil To treat with sulfur, or a sulfur compound, especially to preserve or to counter agricultural pests.