Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A peculiar pearl-like substance extracted from hogs' lard; the solid fatty matter of certain vegetable oils. The purest margarin is obtained from the concrete part of olive-oil. It is a mixture of stearin and palmatin.

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

  • noun (Physiol. Chem.) A fatty substance, extracted from animal fats and certain vegetable oils, formerly supposed to be a definite compound of glycerin and margaric acid, but now known to be simply a mixture or combination of tristearin and tripalmitin.

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

  • noun Archaic form of margarine.

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

  • noun a spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter
  • noun a glyceryl ester of margaric acid

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Examples

  • Put in a little bit of butter or (vegetable) margarin.

    Brussels sprouts and ID 2007

  • The trailer wasn't great but it showed the movie has lots of potenital but also a huge margarin of error a big chance it could still suck.

    Sleek New Poster Unveiled for Frank Miller's The Spirit « FirstShowing.net 2008

  • Roll the dough until thin again and repeat the process of spreading the margarin and than folding the dough in.

    Archive 2007-09-01 Ayala Sender 2007

  • Roll the dough until thin again and repeat the process of spreading the margarin and than folding the dough in.

    Hot Lunch Ayala Sender 2007

  • Harding would only have had at his disposal sulphuric acid, but by heating this acid with the neutral fatty bodies he could separate the glycerine; then from this new combination, he easily separated the olein, the margarin, and the stearin, by employing boiling water.

    The Mysterious Island 2005

  • Harding would only have had at his disposal sulphuric acid, but by heating this acid with the neutral fatty bodies he could separate the glycerine; then from this new combination, he easily separated the olein, the margarin, and the stearin, by employing boiling water.

    The Mysterious Island 2005

  • Remembering the night before she threw her knife from her hand as if it was red hot, then tried to push the sticky mass of bread and margarin underneath the bread wrapper.

    Dangerous Lady Cole, Martina 1992

  • Tambahkan tepung terigu, tepung maizena, susu bubuk, kapucino bubuk, dan baking powder sambil diayak dan diaduk rata masukkan margarin leleh sedikit-sedikit sambil diaduk perlahan. tuang di cetakan madeline yang dioles margarin dan ditabur tipis tepung terigu

    unknown title 2008

  • Cream cake ciri utamanya adalah proses cara membuat cake diawali dengan mengocok mentega atau margarin dengan gula.

    unknown title 2008

  • Ingat, pemakaian margarin soft pada masakan yang semestinya memakai mentega akan membuat tekstur dan volume masakan Anda menjadi berbeda.

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