What's ectoplasm?
Source: tatoeba (13639102)
Ectoplasm
//ˈɛktəˌplæzəm//
Synonyms for "ectoplasm" (28 found)
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54 translations across 30 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- إكتوبلازم noun (parapsychology: visible substance believed to emanate from spiritualistic mediums)
Armenian
1 entries- էկտոպլազմա noun (parapsychology: visible substance believed to emanate from spiritualistic mediums)
Bulgarian
3 entries- ектоплазма noun (parapsychology: visible substance believed to emanate from spiritualistic mediums)
- ектоплазма noun (parapsychology: an immaterial or ethereal substance)
- ектоплазма noun (cytology: the outer granule-free layer of cytoplasm)
Catalan
2 entries- ectoplasma noun (parapsychology: visible substance believed to emanate from spiritualistic mediums)
- ectoplasma noun (cytology: the outer granule-free layer of cytoplasm)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 外質 /外质 noun (parapsychology: visible substance believed to emanate from spiritualistic mediums)
Danish
2 entries- ektoplasma noun (parapsychology: visible substance believed to emanate from spiritualistic mediums)
- teleplasma noun (parapsychology: visible substance believed to emanate from spiritualistic mediums)
Dutch
1 entries- ectoplasma noun (parapsychology: visible substance believed to emanate from spiritualistic mediums)
Finnish
3 entries- ektoplasma noun (parapsychology: visible substance believed to emanate from spiritualistic mediums)
- ektoplasma noun (parapsychology: an immaterial or ethereal substance)
- ektoplasma noun (cytology: the outer granule-free layer of cytoplasm)
French
1 entries- ectoplasme noun (parapsychology: visible substance believed to emanate from spiritualistic mediums)
Galician
3 entries- ectoplasma noun (parapsychology: visible substance believed to emanate from spiritualistic mediums)
- ectoplasma noun (parapsychology: an immaterial or ethereal substance)
- ectoplasma noun (cytology: the outer granule-free layer of cytoplasm)
German
3 entries- Ektoplasma noun (parapsychology: visible substance believed to emanate from spiritualistic mediums)
- Ektoplasma noun (parapsychology: an immaterial or ethereal substance)
- Ektoplasma noun (cytology: the outer granule-free layer of cytoplasm)
Greek
1 entries- εκτόπλασμα noun (parapsychology: visible substance believed to emanate from spiritualistic mediums)
Hungarian
3 entries- ektoplazma noun (parapsychology: visible substance believed to emanate from spiritualistic mediums)
- ektoplazma noun (parapsychology: an immaterial or ethereal substance)
- ektoplazma noun (cytology: the outer granule-free layer of cytoplasm)
Indonesian
1 entries- ektoplasma noun (parapsychology: visible substance believed to emanate from spiritualistic mediums)
Irish
1 entries- eicteaplasma noun (parapsychology: visible substance believed to emanate from spiritualistic mediums)
Italian
1 entries- ectoplasma noun (parapsychology: visible substance believed to emanate from spiritualistic mediums)
Japanese
2 entries- エクトプラズム noun (parapsychology: visible substance believed to emanate from spiritualistic mediums)
- エクトプラズム noun (parapsychology: an immaterial or ethereal substance)
Javanese
1 entries- ektoplasma noun (parapsychology: visible substance believed to emanate from spiritualistic mediums)
Korean
2 entries- 엑토플라즘 noun (parapsychology: visible substance believed to emanate from spiritualistic mediums)
- 엑토플라즘 noun (parapsychology: an immaterial or ethereal substance)
Norwegian
4 entries- ektoplasma noun (parapsychology: visible substance believed to emanate from spiritualistic mediums)
- ektoplasma noun (parapsychology: an immaterial or ethereal substance)
- ektoplasma noun (cytology: the outer granule-free layer of cytoplasm)
- teleplasma noun (parapsychology: visible substance believed to emanate from spiritualistic mediums)
Polish
1 entries- ektoplazma noun (parapsychology: visible substance believed to emanate from spiritualistic mediums)
Portuguese
1 entries- ectoplasma noun (parapsychology: visible substance believed to emanate from spiritualistic mediums)
Russian
3 entries- эктопла́зма noun (parapsychology: visible substance believed to emanate from spiritualistic mediums)
- эктопла́зма noun (parapsychology: an immaterial or ethereal substance)
- эктопла́зма noun (cytology: the outer granule-free layer of cytoplasm)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- ektoplazma noun (parapsychology: visible substance believed to emanate from spiritualistic mediums)
- ektoplazma noun (parapsychology: an immaterial or ethereal substance)
- ektoplazma noun (cytology: the outer granule-free layer of cytoplasm)
- ектоплазма noun (parapsychology: visible substance believed to emanate from spiritualistic mediums)
Spanish
1 entries- ectoplasma noun (parapsychology: visible substance believed to emanate from spiritualistic mediums)
Swedish
1 entries- ektoplasma noun (parapsychology: visible substance believed to emanate from spiritualistic mediums)
Tagalog
1 entries- labaskaphay noun (cytology: the outer granule-free layer of cytoplasm)
Turkish
1 entries- ektoplazma noun (parapsychology: visible substance believed to emanate from spiritualistic mediums)
Ukrainian
1 entries- ектопла́зма noun (parapsychology: visible substance believed to emanate from spiritualistic mediums)
Vietnamese
1 entries- ngoại chất noun (parapsychology: visible substance believed to emanate from spiritualistic mediums)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
Is ectoplasm a real thing?
Source: tatoeba (13639103)
He saw again clearly enough[…]the doctor’s consulting room in the Avenida de la Revolución, visited for some drunken reason in the early hours of the morning, macabre with its pictures of ancient Spanish surgeons, their goat faces rising queerly from ruffs resembling ectoplasm, roaring with laughter as they performed inquisitorial operations; […]
Source: wiktionary
Watching as the woman lifted her skirts and flung out ectoplasm, expelled it into a bowl, then brandished it around at her audience wildly.
Source: wiktionary
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