1A soft, wet, shapeless mass of material.

1. 1.1 The soft fleshy part of a fruit.
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   • Straight energy feeds like molasses, rolled barley, rolled wheat, beet pulps, citric pulp and combinations of these are all suitable.
   • Discard the tomato pulp, season the tomato water, and reserve.
   • Avocado oil is produced by mashing the pulp of the avocado fruit.
   • Fruit butters are made from fruit pulp cooked with sugar until thickened to a spreadable consistency.
   • Bright flies were embedded in the stringy pulp, the glistening flesh of the fruit.
   • However, they are not pests because palm civets digest only the outer pulp of fruit, passing the coffee beans unharmed through their digestive systems.
   • Jane suspends the pips in muslin to help the marmalade set, but I just use the juice and fleshy pulp from the inside of a lemon… it does the same trick.
   • We picked up the rosy red ones first, as many as our arms could hold, and plopped down at the foot of the tree biting into the fleshy pulp.
   • It was a thick juice with a generous amount of the fruit's pulp in it.
   • It also helps to understand what makes jam or jelly set: it's pectin, a natural substance that binds the fruit pulp with acid and sugar.
   • The fleshy pulp is orange or yellow, with a scent of pineapple, and full of seeds.
   • Mango being the season, its pulp is being readied at one corner.
   • Wash the seeds well, rubbing to remove any pulp.
   • Marmalade is made from citrus fruits, jam from fruit pulp and jelly from fruit juice with no bits in.
   • Avocado has another use though, the mashed pulp of the fruit makes for an excellent and natural face-pack.
   • To make the dressing, scoop the passion fruit pulp into a sieve over a bowl to extract the juice (it should be about 1 tbs).
   • Getting any sort of fleshy pulp was very difficult, so I squeezed the fruits to get decent amounts of liquid.
   • In a blender, combine the passion fruit pulp, passion fruit juice, coconut milk, lemon juice, and lime juice.
   • Wet waste connotes anything generated from the kitchen - vegetable and fruit peels, pulp, left-over food matter.
   • The pulp of Baobab fruits has a taste like the cream of tartar and is used to treat fever, dysentery and stomach ailments in some parts of Asia.

   Synonyms

   flesh, soft part, fleshy part, marrow, meat
2. 1.2 A soft wet mass of fibres derived from rags or wood, used in papermaking.
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   • Other global businesses include palm oil refining, acrylic fibre, paper pulp and copper concentrate.
   • Wood pulp is an input in the production of paper.
   • Like cutting cedar for fencing material, oil and pulp production, a good pecan crop can augment yearly income.
   • Poplar wood has many end uses, including pulp and paper, timber, plywood, pallets, soft board, and hard board.
   • Next comes the scooping stage, which requires the most skill, because the amount of pulp scooped and the evenness of its spread on the frame decides the quality of the paper.
   • These products may also contain rayon and wood fluff, which is chemically derived from tree pulp and then bleached.
   • The notion of the forest uncompromisingly supplying fibre for pulp, paper and sawmills has been a basic premise or point of departure in all Baskerville's calculations.
   • His favorite tree could one day be processed into pulp.
   • Owners of legal sawmills, plus a multitude of illegal ones, compete for raw materials with the large pulp companies.
   • It is also the world's second-largest producer of chemicals used to bleach pulp for papermaking.
   • What if, say, I think the book I receive in the mail is a waste of pulp, a detriment to society and is frightening in the way that indoctrination literature always is?
   • As vice president, Megawati in 2000 actually allowed its operation resumption but the company was only allowed to produce pulp and no longer rayon.
   • It was printed in 20 colors and was made from a combination of pressed paper pulp and adhered lithographic elements.
   • Made asked the companies, such as pulp and paper mills, to start considering the import of logs from other countries including Australia.
   • Dividends halved; volumes of pulp doubled; native forests cleared doubled - those are the facts from their accounts.
   • The object of the plots is to measure which plants produce the best fibre for pulp and paper use and also which produce the highest volume of fibre.
   • The most important reasons for this are strong commodity prices, particularly for copper, pulp, paper and wood products.
   • They are used for the first chemical processing step of converting wood chips into pulp for paper manufacturing, primarily in the sulphate or kraft paper process.
   • Second, heat drives lignocellulose resin (ie, lignin) out of the wood's pulp during the sterilization process.
   • The two tycoons have been involved in a long-running legal dispute centring on the ownership of two of Russia's largest pulp and paper mills.
3. 1.3 Vascular tissue filling the interior cavity and root canals of a tooth.
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   • In the middle of every tooth, there is space containing dental pulp.
   • As the decay nears the dental pulp you may suffer from toothache.
   • Human teeth are made up of four different types of tissue: pulp, dentin, enamel, and cementum.
   • A loose or broken filling may also cause infection in the tooth pulp.
   • The bulk of the tooth consists of the bony substance dentine, surrounding the soft inner pulp that contains blood vessels and nerves.
4. 1.4Mining Pulverized ore mixed with water.
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   • A device for borehole hydraulic mining includes a pipeline for delivering fluid into the hole accommodated inside a pipeline for bringing pulp to the surface.

2usually as modifier Popular or sensational writing that is regarded as being of poor quality.

1Crush into a soft, wet, shapeless mass.

1. 1.1 Withdraw (a publication) from the market and recycle the paper.
   the publisher had the right to pulp all unsold copies

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   • Here's a positive point, then: there's still nearly three months for someone to discover a copyright problem and pulp the whole lot.
   • The product was hastily withdrawn from the market and all 2,000 copies had to be pulped.
   • The key to writing a bi-weekly column throughout the summer is to write a column a week in advance of its appearing on the news stand that will still be relevant three weeks later when the issue is finally pulped.
   • Sadly, it is difficult to get hold of as the copies not yet sold were pulped by the publishers when the ‘fraud’ was discovered.
   • Only at the last minute did a lackey spot the error and the whole issue had to be pulped and then reprinted, a mop-up operation that cost £4,000.
   • When I was at Pantheon, we received a memo saying every book that sold less than 2,000 copies a year should be pulped, as if it had a contagion that would have infected the other books in the warehouse.
   • Your book is found to be libellous and the publisher doesn't want to get sued, so they cancel publication, or if it's been printed, withdraw the book and pulp it.
   • Soon after publication, the Central Propaganda Bureau issued an order to recall all copies and have them pulped.
   • The brochure - printed at the end of last year - is being pulped and another is being produced because the old one was said to be deterring potential guests.
   • The Federal Opposition says a leaked copy of a now pulped colour brochure has revealed the Government's real industrial agenda.
   • Instead of sending their old stock back to wherever they came from or pulping them, Indian distributors must find a way to let old bookstores have them for a bargain.
   • MPs also agreed that parties will not have to pulp election leaflets due to be distributed to individual households and to allow extra finance to cover unforeseen costs caused by the delay.
   • Then it's shipped off to a paper maker, where it will be pulped, de-inked and turned back into newsprint.
   • The printer's decision to pulp an early printing of the issue, fearing legal action, is reported around the world.
   • The cards and envelopes are pulped and recycled to make new products.
   • But supporters need not panic, nor the View's editors rush to pulp this week's issue.
   • German authorities and the journal's publisher distanced themselves from the article's content and announced, without giving any specific reasons for their decision, that the residual print run was to be pulped.
   • I assist him to circulate his ideas mainly out of free-speech considerations - as there have been great efforts made (sacking him from his university job, pulping his book) by Leftists to suppress him.
   • At the end of January the government's statistical service pulped the entire print run of its annual compendium of social statistics just days before publication, following a decision to censor the lead-in article.
   • And this doesn't included the sixty billion paperbacks printed every year, half of which are pulped and set to Japan to make toilet paper.