How do you use Lye in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like caustic, plus the exact meaning.
Lye meaning
- An alkaline liquid made by leaching ashes (usually wood ashes).
- Potassium or sodium hydroxide (caustic soda).
Synonyms of Lye
Using Lye
- The main meaning on this page is: An alkaline liquid made by leaching ashes (usually wood ashes). | Potassium or sodium hydroxide (caustic soda).
- Useful related words include: caustic.
- In the example corpus, lye often appears in combinations such as: lye in, in lye, lye and.
Context around Lye
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 7 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Lye
- In this selection, "lye" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 22.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, unreacted, enough, hydroxide, town, leaves and sodium stand out and add context to how "lye" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a crewel lye and and alkaline lye to be. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "lye" sits close to words such as abstention, acadiana and actuarial, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with lye
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
It's nothing buy a crewel lye. (7 words)
Lye Sodium hydroxide ( lye ) makes food too alkaline for bacterial growth. (11 words)
Fourth-placed Lye Town host Shrewsbury Town, who sit immediately above them. (12 words)
Since it is better to add too much oil and have left-over fat, than to add too much lye and have left-over lye, soap produced from the hot process also contains left-over glycerine and its concomitant pros and cons. (42 words)
Cold-process soapmaking requires exact measurements of lye and fat amounts and computing their ratio, using saponification charts to ensure the finished product does not contain any excess hydroxide or too much free unreacted fat. (35 words)
Three-year-old Theo Ainsons was bitten by a large "Rottweiler type of dog" on his forearm in Claycroft Place near to Cross Walk, Lye, requiring him to undergo treatment. (30 words)
Example sentences (20)
Excess unreacted lye in the soap will result in a very high pH and can burn or irritate skin; not enough lye leaves the soap greasy.
Lye Sodium hydroxide ( lye ) makes food too alkaline for bacterial growth.
Since it is better to add too much oil and have left-over fat, than to add too much lye and have left-over lye, soap produced from the hot process also contains left-over glycerine and its concomitant pros and cons.
Dylan Hart had equalised for City against Lye at Claines Lane but the Black Country side took the points with goals from Joe Palmer and Morgan Owen.
Fourth-placed Lye Town host Shrewsbury Town, who sit immediately above them.
Discussing the scheme, Tom Lye, Tesco category director for health and wellness, said: “The more veg that little ones eat, the healthier they will be as they grow up.
Lye Town will look to do the Northern One Midlands league double over Walsall Wood tomorrow after penalty shootout heartbreak against Villa, writes Luke Powell.
Singh Newsmarket on High Street, Lye, was given a two star rating on September 1, 2022.
Soap is essentially made by mixing together fats and lye or alkali.
The ingredients for a recipe given in 1871 included sulphuret of arsenic, quicklime and alkaline lye, to be applied on the face and washed off with hot water.
Three-year-old Theo Ainsons was bitten by a large "Rottweiler type of dog" on his forearm in Claycroft Place near to Cross Walk, Lye, requiring him to undergo treatment.
When oil and lye are combined, a chemical reaction called saponification occurs and the resulting soap is safe for skin.
I remember reading about how was inspired by a dream of Stephenie Meyer's, which was the scene in which Edward and Bella lye together in the flower field.
It's nothing buy a crewel lye.
This dough is a little less stiff than the one I used to make the pretzels with lye.
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Almost identical the Spanish type fermentation process, however the lye treatment process is skipped and the olives are placed directly in fermentation vessels full of brine (8-12% NaCl).
Cold-process soapmaking requires exact measurements of lye and fat amounts and computing their ratio, using saponification charts to ensure the finished product does not contain any excess hydroxide or too much free unreacted fat.
During this cure period, trace amounts of residual lye are consumed by saponification and excess water evaporates.
Harvested shoots are first boiled in lye to prepare fibers for yarn -making.
Common combinations with lye
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- lye in 4×
- in lye 4×
- lye and 3×
- and lye 3×
- lye to 3×
- the lye 3×
- hydroxide lye 2×
- lye soap 2×
- lye town 2×
- lye or 2×