Crossword-Solution: COMMINUTE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Comminute | v. t. | To reduce to minute particles, or to a fine powder; to pulverize; to triturate; to grind; as, to comminute chalk or bones; to comminute food with the teeth. |
We have 15 clues for the answer “COMMINUTE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Break a bone into many pieces | 1 answer |
| Divide land or property into several small units | 1 answer |
| FRACTURE, type of | 11 answers |
| Bray | 16 answers |
| pulverise | 23 answers |
| fracture | 38 answers |
| Grind | 51 answers |
| Crumble | 57 answers |
| Divide | 64 answers |
| Buck | 66 answers |
| Crush | 67 answers |
| Rupture | 69 answers |
| disjoin | 75 answers |
| Detach | 80 answers |
| Lower | 81 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RAETE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with COMMINUTE (5)
This, he declares, is a purely mechanical process due to heat and pressure, the wonderful effects of which may be seen in Papin's recently invented 'digester.' That the stomach is fully able to comminute the food may be proved by the following calculation.
The stomach is well muscled and churns the food about, helping to comminute it, but it can not take the place of the teeth.
This liquid, being cooled, will afford a white compound of phosphorus and lard, from which the spirit spontaneously separates, and may be poured off to be used again for the same purpose, but not for drinking, for none of it enters into the combination, but it merely serves to comminute the phosphorus, and diffuse it in very small particles through the lard.
Even after taking all possible precautions to finely comminute these substances by mechanical means, still only imperfect results are obtained, for the impurities, that is to say, the sand, can never be so intimately mixed with the lighter particles that a sample of 0.5 to 0.8 gramme, such as is used in the determination of nitrogen, will correspond to the correct average contents.
This would involve a large amount of unnecessary physiological labor, to comminute, dissolve, and absorb the food, and to excrete the superfluous nitrogenous matter.