Explore Fulminate through 4 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like salt or rail. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Fulminate meaning
- To make a verbal attack.
- To issue as a denunciation.
- To thunder or make a loud noise.
Using Fulminate
- The main meaning on this page is: To make a verbal attack. | To issue as a denunciation. | To thunder or make a loud noise.
- Useful related words include: salt, rail, denounce, appear.
- In the example corpus, fulminate often appears in combinations such as: mercury fulminate, fulminate has.
Context around Fulminate
- Average sentence length in these examples: 18.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 1 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 4 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Fulminate
- In this selection, "fulminate" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 18.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, mercury and course stand out and add context to how "fulminate" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a more fulminate course of and mercury fulminate has the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "fulminate" sits close to words such as aaaaand, aaah and aaargh, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with fulminate
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Today, mercury fulminate has been replaced in primers by more efficient chemical substances. (13 words)
Preparation Mercury(II) fulminate is prepared by dissolving mercury in nitric acid and adding ethanol to the solution. (18 words)
Mercury fulminate has the distinct advantage over potassium chlorate of being non-corrosive, but it is known to weaken with time. (21 words)
Surprisingly, the coinjection of apoptotic and viable pathogens causes by far a more fulminate course of disease than injection of only viable parasites. (23 words)
Mercury fulminate has the distinct advantage over potassium chlorate of being non-corrosive, but it is known to weaken with time. (21 words)
Preparation Mercury(II) fulminate is prepared by dissolving mercury in nitric acid and adding ethanol to the solution. (18 words)
Example sentences (4)
Mercury fulminate has the distinct advantage over potassium chlorate of being non-corrosive, but it is known to weaken with time.
Preparation Mercury(II) fulminate is prepared by dissolving mercury in nitric acid and adding ethanol to the solution.
Surprisingly, the coinjection of apoptotic and viable pathogens causes by far a more fulminate course of disease than injection of only viable parasites.
Today, mercury fulminate has been replaced in primers by more efficient chemical substances.
Common combinations with fulminate
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: