nylonn.adj.

1938 N.Y. Times 28 Oct. 34/3 ‘Nylon’ is a generic name, coined by the du Pont chemists, to designate all materials defined scientifically as ‘synthetic fiber-forming polymeric amides having a protein-like chemical structure; derivable from coal, air and water, or other substances, and characterized by extreme toughness and strength and the peculiar ability to be formed into fibers and into various shapes, such as bristles and sheets’.

1943 Chem. Abstr. 37 3947 A description of the manuf. of No. 66 Nylon (as the most important nylon).

1958 D. E. Floyd Polyamide Resins i. 4 Nylon-6,10 means that the diamine contained 6 carbon atoms and the dibasic acid contained 10 carbon atoms.

1963 H. R. Clauser Encycl. Engin. Materials 451/1 Nylons resist electrolytic corrosion, hydrolysis, fungi, bacteria and most chemicals.

1982 G. C. Hill & J. S. Holman Chem. in Context: Lab. Man. & Study Guide 170 Nylon 6 has a structure very similar to nylon 66, but it is derived from only a single monomer molecule, known as caprolactam.

1994 Equinox Jan. 62 The outer skin of the boot is reinforced ballistic nylon, a semirigid substance woven in the same manner as bulletproof vests.

1940 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 44 312 Possible use of synthetic textile Nylon as a parachute material.

1958 Woman's Own 5 Feb. 37/3 (advt.) Nighties, blouses, slips, underwear in silk, nylon, rayon, ‘Terylene’, chiffon..keep their soft sheen and filmy finery.

1967 E. Short Embroidery & Fabric Collage iii. 81 Appliqué in more net, or in nylon, organdie, etc., would give weight and definition to the design.

1992 Chicago Tribune 22 Nov. xv. 8/5 Your final decision, the fabric, can be the most difficult. Choices include nylon, polyester, cotton, [etc.].

1940 Woman (U.S.) 5 ii. 68 Dunk your nylons in rich suds of neutral soap.

1965 N.Y. Times 16 May vi. 80/2 By 1964, silk and rayon stockings were almost unknown in the United States, while production of nylons had risen to 83,900,000 dozen pairs.

1987 P. Benson Levels xv. 107 There are still some people who prefer the sort of thing that ladders nylons.

1939 Industrial Fibres Rev. 3 167/1 The first considerable use of ‘Nylon’ yarn will be in the full-fashioned hose trade where silk is at present the raw material.

1941 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 4 Oct. 1221/1 One of the principal reasons why Nylon stockings have achieved popularity is the fact that they are more ‘sheer’ than silk stockings.

1951 Good Housek. Home Encycl. 29/2 Nylon brushes are available in a variety of colours.

1958 New Statesman 28 June 831/1 Men who had nylon shirts and terylene suits before those fabrics got into Marks and Spencer's.

1961 Lancet 22 July 206/2 Nylon film as a wrapping material for sterilisation.

1968 Bodl. Libr. Rec. 8 61 It runs on four 4-inch nylon wheels fitted with roller bearings.

1984 A. Desai In Custody ii. 24 This made his pale green nylon shirt crackle with latent electricity.

1991 World Monitor Apr. 47/2 (advt.) A nylon jump rope for warm-ups and endurance conditioning.

1955 Caribbean Q. 4 ii. 103 Nylon, pronounced ‘nilô’ or ‘dilô’ has come to signify anything new, different, and better. The new ice house in Soufriere advertises ‘nylon’ ice, and nylon starch and nylon peanuts can be had, the latter being candies shaped like peanuts.

1967 F. G. Cassidy & R. B. Le Page Dict. Jamaican Eng. 326/2 Nylon road, any new very smooth asphalt-surfaced road—much smoother than the average Jamaican road.

1975 House of Assembly Deb. (Barbados) 17 Mar. 4889/1 We were told that we would be improving these nylon roads, and if we wanted to run on them we will have to pay additional taxation.

1942 Industr. & Engin. Chem. Jan. 58/2 The nylon industry is only in its infancy.

1951 Economist 22 Sept. 686/1 Nylon output is now running at an annual rate of 100 million pounds.

1953 K. H. Inderfurth Nylon Technol. 11 Du Pont's third nylon plant.

1963 H. R. Clauser Encycl. Engin. Materials 452/1 Tubing and rod stock manufacture, plus the coating of wire and cable, are the major forms of nylon extrusion.

1991 Process Engin. Aug. 23/1 The Acids 1 plant at ICI Wilton was built in 1959 to produce adipic acid, an intermediate in nylon production.

1952 Life 17 Nov. 101 (advt.) Snuggle your bare or nylon-clad feet into the luxuriously fur-soft, warm-as-toast Borg Dee Pile lining.

1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 29 Mar. 75/3 The pump..incorporates nylon-covered steel rollers to push the milk round.

1967 Jane's Surface Skimmer Syst. 1967–8 25/1 Propulsion fans are driven by nylon-faced toothed rubber timing belts.

1990 Time 23 Apr. 75/2 Jumpers leap headfirst from bridges, cranes and hot-air balloons..with only a long nylon-cased rubber bungee cord to break their fall.

1954 H. R. Mauersberger in Matthews's Textile Fibers (ed. 6) xviii. 946 Nylon-bristled toothbrushes.

1954 J. Betjeman Few Late Chrysanthemums 74 And country girls with lips and nails vermilion Wait, nylon-legged, to straddle on the pillion.

1961 Listener 5 Oct. 498/2 Nylon-geared egg beaters.

1966 Melody Maker 23 July 10/4 His [drum] sticks are..Autocrat nylon-tipped and Japanese Star 7a.

1996 P. Trynka Rock Hardware 138/3 Small-bodied, nylon-strung guitar for classical music.

1946 J. V. Sherman & S. L. Sherman New Fibers 56 Cases of so-called ‘nylon dermatitis,’ or ‘an allergy to nylon,’ are attributed to contact with finishing materials.

1954 H. R. Mauersberger in Matthews's Textile Fibers (ed. 6) xviii. 961 Any references to ‘nylon dermatitis’..are distinct misnomers.

1964 Listener 26 Mar. 520/1 Nylon dermatitis and bunions are related to fashions of dress.

1945 Industr. Fibres & By-Products 7 53/2 The nylon salt solution is..ready to be made into new nylon polymer.

1964 J. G. Cook Your Guide to Plastics 239 Hexamethylene diamine and adipic acid are reacted together to form a salt, hexamethylene diammonium adipate, or ‘nylon salt’.

1973 Materials & Technol. VI. iv. 322 When the two solutions are mixed together, a mixed compound, usually referred to as ‘nylon salt’, is precipitated.

1947 Jrnl. Investigative Dermatol. 9 207 All the subjects suffering from nylon stocking dermatitis were hypersensitive to azodyes used in the manufacture of the stockings.

1979 Contact Dermatitis 5 163 (title) Nylon stocking dermatitis. An unusual example.