User Contributed Dictionary
Noun
powders- Plural of powder
Extensive Definition
Powder may refer to a number of topics,
including:
- Powder (substance) material composed of very fine particles that are not cemented together
- Powder (film), a 1995 film
- Powder (band), a mid-1990s Britpop band.
- Powder (doom metal band), a Filipino doom metal band formed by composer and songwriter Nephi Malit
- Powder blue, a color
- Powder (pharmaceutical form)
- Powder, a song from the soundtrack of Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' on Heaven's Door
- Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER), a W3C Working Group that is specifying a protocol for publishing descriptions of (e.g. metadata about) Web resources using RDF, OWL, and HTTP
Several powdery substances are known colloquially
as "powder":
- Powdered milk, a milk powder made from dried milk solids
- Cosmetic powders such as face powder and body or talcum powders
- Gunpowder, the explosive powder used as a propellant
- Baking powder, a leavening agent
- Fine snowfall
- Laundry detergent in powder form
- Cocaine
powders in German: Pulver
powders in Esperanto: Polvo
powders in French: Poudre
powders in Hebrew: אבקה
powders in Dutch: Poeder
powders in Japanese: 粉
powders in Russian: Порох (значения)
powders in Simple English: Powder
powders in Yiddish: פולווער