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/brˈoʊmˌaɪd/ Listen

noun

Bromide n.

(Chem.) A compound of bromine with a positive radical.

A person who is conventional and commonplace in his habits of thought and conversation. (Slang) "The bromide conforms to everything sanctioned by the majority, and may be depended upon to be trite, banal, and arbitrary."

A conventional or trite saying; often used in the phrase "old bromide".

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Etymology of 'Bromide'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... The difficulty is that the stragglers, organized under fantastic names in pretentious associations, or lurking in solitary dens behind doors left ajar, make no real contributions to the art of healing. When they bring forward a remedial agent like chloral, like the bromide of potassium, like ether, used as an anesthetic, they will find no difficulty in procuring ...

— Medical Essays • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

... to the positive pole—that is to say, the cathode to the anode, and the glass became luminous with bluish phosphorescence and greenish fluorescence. Immediately under the bulb was placed my naked hand resting on a photographic slide containing a sensitive bromide plate covered with a plate of vulcanised fibre. An exposure of five or ten minutes is sufficient to give a good picture of the bones, as will be seen ...

— The Story Of Electricity • John Munro

... and turned to the British Consul: "This is an international affair, eh? See if I don't state the proposition in a nutshell—if I may be pardoned the bromide. This steamer is a German, and the proposition is to get her under the American flag so firmly that she'll stay there; then, I suppose, we're to charter her to the British Government, or one of ...

— Cappy Ricks Retires • Peter B. Kyne

... you don't do something for me. No, I didn't mean that. Don't be angry, old fellow.' He wiped the sweat off himself as he fought to regain composure. 'I'm a bit restless and off my oats, and perhaps you could recommend some sort of sleeping mixture,—bromide ...

— Life's Handicap • Rudyard Kipling

... : Potassium iodide, a slight and doubtful amount of inflection. Sodium bromide, moderately rapid inflection. : Potassium bromide. Potassium oxalate, slow and doubtful inflection. : Lithium nitrate, moderately rapid inflection. : Lithium acetate. Caesium chloride, rather slow inflection. : Rubidium chloride. Silver nitrate, rapid inflection: quick poison. : Cadmium chloride, ...

— Insectivorous Plants • Charles Darwin

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