Dictionary Definition
pulp
Noun
1 any soft or soggy mass; "he pounded it to a
pulp" [syn: mush]
2 a soft moist part of a fruit [syn: flesh]
3 a mixture of cellulose fibers
4 an inexpensive magazine printed on poor quality
paper [syn: pulp
magazine]
5 the soft inner part of a tooth
Verb
1 remove the pulp from, as from a fruit
2 reduce to pulp; "pulp fruit"; "pulp wood"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Noun
Translations
soft, moist mass
- Finnish: massa
center of a fruit
- Czech: dřeň
- Finnish: hedelmäliha
- Polish: miąższ
center of a tooth
- Czech: dřeň
- Finnish: hammasydin, pulpa
mass of which paper is produced
- Finnish: paperimassa
mass of chemically processed wood fibres
- Finnish: sellu, selluloosa
lurid style of writing or publishing
- Finnish: sensaatiojournalismi
- ttbc Portuguese: polpa
- ttbc Telugu: గుజ్జు (gujju), పిప్పి (pippi) (1, 3)
Verb
- To make, or be made into pulp
Translations
Extensive Definition
Pulp may refer to:
- Pulp (band), a British band
- Pulp (juice), a fruit juice sold in Peru
- Pulp (film), a 1972 British crime, thriller and comedy film
- Pulp (magazine) a seinen manga magazine formerly published by Viz Media
- Pulp (spleen)
- Pulp (tooth), the central part of a tooth
- Pulp (novel), the last novel of American writer Charles Bukowski
- Pulp, the soft fleshy part of a fruit
- Pulp, tennis terminology used to describe the point 30-30
- Pulp magazine or pulp fiction, inexpensive fiction magazines published from the 1920s through the 1950s, or paperbacks from the 1950s onwards
- Wood pulp, the most common material used to make paper
- Molded pulp, a packaging material
- Pulping, a process in making or recycling paper
- "Pulping" or "beating to a pulp" often means a severe beating up; or often by colloquial exaggeration a severe defeat in non-violent and even non-contact competition
- Pulp Fiction (film), a 1994 film directed by Quentin Tarantino
pulp in Danish: Pulp (flertydig)
pulp in German: Pulp
pulp in Spanish: Pulp
pulp in French: Pulp
pulp in Italian: Pulp
pulp in Dutch: Pulp
pulp in Serbian: Пулпа
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
albumen, batter, bonnyclabber, bruise, butter, cataplasm, cheap, chew, clabber, cornstarch, cream, crush, curd, cushion, dental pulp, dough, ease, egg white, flesh, fluff, gaum, gel, gelatin, gentle, glair, glop, glue, gluten, goo, gook, goop, gruel, gumbo, gunk, heart, jam, jell, jelly, knead, laxate, levigate, limber, limber up, loblolly, loosen, lurid, macerate, marrow, mash, mass, massage, masticate, mellow, milden, molasses, mollify, mucilage, mucus, mush, pap, paper pulp, paste, pith, plaster, plump, porridge, poultice, pudding, pulp lead, pulpify, pulpwood, pulverize, puree, putty, rag pulp, relax, rob, sauce, semifluid, semiliquid, sensational, shake up,
size, smash, soften, soften up, soup, sponge, squash, starch, sticky mess, subdue, sulfate pulp, sulfite
pulp, supple, syrup, tenderize, tone down, trashy, treacle, triturate, tune down, white
lead, wood pulp