silicone

From silicon +‎ -one. Originally obtained by the attempted synthesis of the silicon equivalent of a ketone.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪlɪkəʊn/

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silicone (countable and uncountable, plural silicones)

1. (chemistry) Any of a class of inert, semi-inorganic polymeric compounds (polysiloxanes), that have a wide range of thermal stability and extreme water repellence, used in a very wide range of industrial applications, and in prosthetic replacements for body parts.
   • 2008, Christos Tsiolkas, The Slap, London: Atlantic Books, page 93:

     [H]e had little time or respect for the rich skip bitches who were his neighbours, useless fake-tanned women with plastic smiles and silicone tits who spent their husbands' money on afternoon teas, endless shopping and personal trainers.

• → Japanese: シリコーン (shirikōn)
  • → Hokkien: 矽利康 (si-lí-khóng)
  • → Mandarin: 矽利康 (xīlìkāng)

silicone (third-person singular simple present silicones, present participle siliconing, simple past and past participle siliconed)

1. (transitive) To join or treat (something) with a silicone-based product.

   silicone the bathtub to the tile

   • 1984, United States National Labor Relations Board, Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board, page 963:

     Structural glazing or siliconing of window units is, according to Donald F. Kelly, Jr., president of AMPAT, the bonding of glass to a metal frame.

2. (informal, transitive) To enhance or reconstruct (a body part) with a prosthesis containing silicone.
   • 2011, Natasha Walter, Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism, page 27:

     The next girl, with huge, perfectly spherical, siliconed breasts perched high on her slender chest, got the loudest roar. ‘Oh, there are two things I like about her!’ shouted the DJ. ‘How about you, boys?’

silicone (not comparable)

1. (slang) Having had cosmetic surgery, especially breast enlargement.
   • 2006 09, Anne Thomas Soffee, Nerd Girl Rocks Paradise City: A True Story of Faking It in Hair Metal L. A., Chicago Review Press, →ISBN, page 125:

     Besides, the bevy of silicone beauties surrounding him would have been difficult, not to mention ego-crushing, to wade through.

   • 2009, Ignácio de Loyola Brandão, Anonymous Celebrity, Dalkey Archive Press, →ISBN, page 152:

     They want to see men covered in sweat, lying in bed with some unknown, blank, silicone actresses — they want sculpted bodies, they don't give a shit about performance.

   • 2020 March 18, Aldona Bialowas Pobutsky, Pablo Escobar and Colombian Narcoculture, University Press of Florida, →ISBN, page 58:

     Nowadays it is a cliché to associate silicone women with narco aesthetics, overdrawn Pamela Anderson clones popularized by telenovelas.

• silicon

• isocline

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silicone m or f (plural silicones)

1. silicone

• “silicone”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• IPA^(key): /si.liˈko.ne/
• Rhymes: -one
• Hyphenation: si‧li‧có‧ne

silicone m (plural siliconi)

1. (chemistry) silicone

• siliconare
• siliconato
• siliconico

• isocline, scioline

• Hyphenation: si‧li‧co‧ne

silicone m (plural silicones)

1. (chemistry) silicone (any of a class of inert compounds of silicon)

• silício