pulp

/pʌlp/

Thân thiện

The dentist showed the patient a model of a tooth with exposed pulp.

Definition

1. Noun:

   • A soft, wet, shapeless mass of material: This is the most general meaning, referring to any substance that has been crushed, mashed, or beaten into a soft, moist, and often formless state.
   • The soft, juicy, edible part inside a fruit or vegetable: The fleshy inner part of fruits like oranges, peaches, or tomatoes.
   • The soft inner tissue of a tooth: The central part of a tooth, containing nerves and blood vessels.
   • A material made from wood, rags, or other fibers mixed with water: This is the raw material used to make paper.
   • A type of inexpensive, sensationalist magazine: Historically, magazines printed on cheap, rough paper, often featuring thrilling or shocking stories.

2. Verb:

   • To crush or beat something into a soft, wet, shapeless mass: The action of reducing something to a pulp.
   • To remove the pulp from something: Specifically, to extract the soft inner part from a fruit or vegetable.

Examples of Usage

• Noun:

  • After the accident, the car was crushed to a pulp. (Referring to a shapeless mass)
  • She scooped out the pulp of the mango to eat it. (Referring to the fruit's flesh)
  • The dentist said the infection had reached the tooth's pulp. (Referring to the tooth's inner tissue)
  • The factory produces pulp from recycled paper. (Referring to the material for papermaking)
  • He collects old science fiction pulps from the 1950s. (Referring to the magazines)

• Verb:

  • The machine pulps the old documents for recycling.
  • First, you need to pulp the tomatoes to make the sauce.

Advanced Usage

• "To beat/pound/crush someone to a pulp": An idiom meaning to beat someone very severely.

  • The boxer threatened to beat his opponent to a pulp.

• "Pulp fiction": A term for a genre of fast-paced, sensationalist popular fiction, originally published in pulp magazines.

  • He writes pulp fiction novels full of action and adventure.

Variants and Related Words

• Pulpy (adj): Having a soft, wet, mushy texture, like pulp.

  • The overripe fruit was unpleasantly pulpy.

• Pulpiness (n): The quality of being pulpy.

• Pulper (n): A machine for pulping something.

• Pulpwood (n): Wood suitable for making into pulp for paper.

Synonyms

• Noun (mass): Mash, mush, paste, puree.
• Noun (fruit flesh): Flesh, meat.
• Verb: Crush, mash, puree, liquefy.

Related Phrasal Verbs/Verb Phrases

• Pulp up: (Less common) To make something into pulp.
  • The blender will pulp up those vegetables in seconds.

Related Idioms

• "To be pulped": Can mean to be utterly defeated or destroyed, often in a non-physical context (e.g., a book being pulped means its unsold copies are destroyed for recycling).
  • The first edition of the book was pulped after the scandal.

Học thuật

Noun

1. the soft inner part of a tooth
2. an inexpensive magazine printed on poor quality paper
3. a mixture of cellulose fibers
4. a soft moist part of a fruit
5. any soft or soggy mass
   • he pounded it to a pulp

Verb

1. reduce to pulp
   • pulp fruit
   • pulp wood
2. remove the pulp from, as from a fruit

Từ đồng nghĩa

• pulp magazine
• flesh
• mush