Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To extract (one material) from another, usually by means of a solvent.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To wash off; cleanse.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb rare To wash out.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive To separate one substance from another by means of a solvent; to wash; to cleanse.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb wash out with a solvent, as in chromatography

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From Latin ēluere, ēlūt-, to wash out : ē-, ex-, ex- + -luere, to wash; see leu(ə)- in Indo-European roots.]

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Latin elutus (washed out), 1731.

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Examples

  • Then weeping overpowered her and she threw down the elute and ceased singing; whereat the folks were troubled and I slipped down a-swoon.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Then weeping overpowered her and she threw down the elute and ceased singing; whereat the folks were troubled and I slipped down a-swoon.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • Start midiprep of C-Spec from colony 2 (isopropanol added elute was refrigerated for 4 hrs)

    OpenWetWare - Recent changes [en] Kyasha Sri Ranjan 2010

  • RNA ladder: elute RNA length of 200 to 1500 bases, but not beyond (up to 6000 bases).

    OpenWetWare - Recent changes [en] Andy Fan 2010

  • Start midiprep of N-Spec (isopropanol added elute refrigerated overnight)

    OpenWetWare - Recent changes [en] Kyasha Sri Ranjan 2010

  • Start midiprep of N-Spec (isopropanol added elute refrigerated overnight)

    OpenWetWare - Recent changes [en] Kyasha Sri Ranjan 2010

  • I envision such factors being loaded into a stent that is placed in the coronary artery and can elute (allow to emerge) the reprogramming factors over 1-2 weeks. ...

    Longevity Meme News and Commentary 2010

  • RNA ladder: elute RNA length of 200 to 1500 bases, but not beyond (up to 6000 bases).

    OpenWetWare - Recent changes [en] 2010

  • The flow-through containing unbound protein was discarded and a stepwise NaCl elution was used to elute the correctly folded dimer at 200 mM NaCl (H1) and the majority of soluble aggregates at 600 mM NaCl (H2).

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Carlene S. Starck et al. 2010

  • RNA ladder: elute RNA length of 200 to 1500 bases, but not beyond (up to 6000 bases).

    OpenWetWare - Recent changes [en] Samantha Byrnes 2010

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