Sap vs. Resin

Sapnoun

(uncountable) The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.

Sapnoun

(uncountable) The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.

Sapnoun

Any juice.

Sapnoun

(figurative) Vitality.

Sapnoun

a naive person; a simpleton

Sapnoun

A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.

Sapnoun

(military) A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.

Sapverb

(transitive) To drain, suck or absorb from (tree, etc.).

Sapverb

To exhaust the vitality of.

Sapverb

To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).

Sapverb

(transitive) To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.

Sapverb

To pierce with saps.

Sapverb

(transitive) To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.

Sapverb

(transitive) To gradually weaken.

Sapverb

(intransitive) To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.

Sapnoun

The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.

Sapnoun

The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.

Sapnoun

A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop.

Sapnoun

A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.

Sapverb

To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.

Sapverb

To pierce with saps.

Sapverb

To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.

Sapverb

To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.

Sapnoun

a watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant

Sapnoun

a person who lacks good judgment

Sapnoun

a piece of metal covered by leather with a flexible handle; used for hitting people

Sapverb

deplete;

Sapverb

excavate the earth beneath

Sap

Sap is a fluid transported in xylem cells (vessel elements or tracheids) or phloem sieve tube elements of a plant. These cells transport water and nutrients throughout the plant.

Resinnoun

A viscous hydrocarbon secretion of many plants, particularly coniferous trees.

Resinnoun

Any of various yellowish viscous liquids or soft solids of plant origin; used in lacquers, varnishes and many other applications; chemically they are mostly hydrocarbons, often polycyclic.

Resinnoun

Any synthetic compound of similar properties.

Resinverb

(transitive) To apply resin to.

Resinnoun

Any one of a class of yellowish brown solid inflammable substances, of vegetable origin, which are nonconductors of electricity, have a vitreous fracture, and are soluble in ether, alcohol, and essential oils, but not in water; specif., pine resin (see Rosin).

Resinnoun

Any of various polymeric substance resembling the natural resins[1], prepared synthetically; - they are used, especially in particulate form, in research and industry for their property of specifically absorbing or adsorbing substances of particular types; they are especially useful in separation processes such as chromatography; as, an ion-exchange resin.

Resinnoun

any of a class of solid or semisolid viscous substances obtained either as exudations from certain plants or prepared by polymerization of simple molecules

Resinnoun

a sticky flammable organic substance, insoluble in water, exuded by some trees and other plants (notably fir and pine)

Resinnoun

a solid or liquid synthetic organic polymer used as the basis of plastics, adhesives, varnishes, or other products

Resinverb

rub or treat with resin

Resin

In polymer chemistry and materials science, resin is a solid or highly viscous substance of plant or synthetic origin that is typically convertible into polymers. Resins are usually mixtures of organic compounds.