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Definition: Camphor |
CamphorNoun1. A resin obtained from the camphor tree; used in making celluloid and liniment. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "camphor" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Health | A bicyclic monoterpene ketone found widely in plant (primarily the camphor tree, Cinnamomum camphora). Natural camphor is used topically as a skin antipruritic and as an anti-infective agent. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Camphor, also known as 1,7,7-trimethyl-bicyclo(2,2,1)heptan-2-one, d-camphor, d-(+)-camphor, (+)-2-bornanone, or d-2-bornanone, has the chemical formula C10H16O.
Camphor is a white transparent waxy crystalline solid with a strong penetrating pungent aromatic odor. It is found in wood of the camphor laurel, Cinnamomum camphora, which is a large evergreen tree found in Asia; it can also be synthetically produced from oil of turpentine.
Modern uses include as a plasticizer for cellulose nitrate, as a moth repellent, in embalming, and in fireworks. Historically it has been used in medicine. In 1980, the Food and Drug Administration set a limit of 11% allowable camphor in consumer products and totally banned products labeled as camphorated oil, camphor oil, camphor liniment, and camphorated liniment. Camphor is readily absorbed through the skin and produces a feeling of warmth and acts as slight local anesthetic. Camphor is poisonous and can cause seizures, mental confusion, irritability, and neuromuscular hyperactivity. Since alternative treatments exist, medicinal use of camphor is disparaged.
Other products derived from trees are sometimes sold as camphor.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Camphor."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Resin | Noun: resin, rosin; gum; lac, sealing wax; amber, ambergris; bitumen, pitch, tar; asphalt, asphaltum; camphor; varnish, copal, mastic, magilp, lacquer, japan. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Camphor |
| English words defined with "camphor": Anethol, Asarone ♦ Betulin, Bombolo, Borneol, Bumbelo ♦ Camphene, Camphire, camphor ball, camphor daisy, camphor dune tansy, camphor ice, Camphor oil, Camphor tree, camphoraceous, camphorate, camphorated, Camphorated oil, camphoric, Camphoric acid, Camphretic, Camporated, Caryophyllin, celluloid, Cinnamomum camphora, cyclohexanol, Cymene ♦ Dryobalanops, Durene ♦ Eugenin ♦ Japan camphor ♦ Lauraceous, Laurinol ♦ mint camphor, mothball ♦ Neroli camphor, Nicotianine, Nitrogelatin ♦ Opodeldoc ♦ Paraxylene, Patchouly camphor, Phorone, Pyrethrin ♦ Rose camphor ♦ Soap liniment ♦ thyme camphor, turpentine camphor weed ♦ uncamphorated. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "camphor": Camphine, Camphretic. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Camphor" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Manx (camphor). |
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Economic History | Colombia | Best sales prospects include white mineral oils, alcohol's, phenols, o-acetylsalicylic acid, its salts and esters, amino-acids, vegetable and synthetic tanning and coloring substances, essential oils, flavorings, fragrances or odoriferous (raw materials) substances, base chemical products for cosmetics, soaps, detergents and cleaning, sodium bicarbonate, phosphates, chlorides, iodine, camphor, and surface-active agents (tensoactives). (references) |
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| "Camphor" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Camphor" is used about 24 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 24 | 71,196 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "camphor": anise camphor ♦ birch camphor ♦ Borneo camphor ♦ Camphor 5-Monooxygenase ♦ camphor ball ♦ camphor daisy ♦ camphor dune tansy ♦ camphor ice ♦ camphor of asarum ♦ camphor of Borneo ♦ camphor oil ♦ camphor tree ♦ cedar camphor ♦ clove camphor ♦ Japan camphor ♦ Malay camphor ♦ Malayan camphor ♦ mint camphor ♦ neroli camphor ♦ Patchouly camphor ♦ peppermint camphor ♦ pyrethrum camphor ♦ rose camphor ♦ Sumatra camphor ♦ thyme camphor ♦ tobacco camphor ♦ turpentine camphor weed. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
camphor | 120 |
camphor tree | 39 |
camphor oil | 10 |
camphor wood | 9 |
camphor block | 6 |
white camphor | 4 |
camphor glass | 3 |
camphor spirit | 3 |
camphor tablet | 3 |
camphor chest | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "camphor"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | kamfur (camphoric). (various references) | |
Arabic | كافور. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | камфор. (various references) | |
Chinese | 樟脑, 樟 (Cinnamonum camphara). (various references) | |
Czech | kafr. (various references) | |
Danish | campher, kamfer. (various references) | |
Dutch | kamfer. (various references) | |
Esperanto | kamforo. (various references) | |
Finnish | kamferi. (various references) | |
French | camphre. (various references) | |
German | kampfer, Mottenkugel (moth ball, mothball). (various references) | |
Greek | κάμφορα, καμφορά,καμφουρά, καμφορά. (various references) | |
Hebrew | קמפור. (various references) | |
Hungarian | kámfor. (various references) | |
Indonesian | kapur barus, kamper. (various references) | |
Italian | canfora. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 樟脳 , カンジダ膣炎 (border, Cambodia, Cambrian, campaign, candidal vaginitis, cantabile, cantaloupe, cantata, canvas, canzone, cedilla, cheat, comma, company, company economist, company magazine, company paper, company union, conversation, country, country and western, country club, country music, country risk, country wear, cunning, fund raising, Kant, school, torch, vaginal yeast infection). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しょうのう (cerebellum, humble term used to refer to another's acceptance of one's present, small farmer), カンフル , カンファー . (various references) | |
Korean | 장뇌. (various references) | |
Manx | camphor. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | amphorcay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | cânfora. (various references) | |
Romanian | camfor. (various references) | |
Russian | камфара. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | kamfor. (various references) | |
Spanish | alcanfor. (various references) | |
Swedish | kamfer. (various references) | |
Turkish | kâfur (camphorated). (various references) | |
Ukranian | камфора. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | long não. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Song of Solomon Chapter 1, Verse 14 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | BotruV thV kuprou adelfidoV mou emoi en ampelwsin eggaddi |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Ecce tu pulchra es amica mea ecce tu pulchra oculi tui columbarum |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Lo! thou art fair, my leef; lo! thou fair, thin eyen of culueres. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | My beloved is unto me as a cluster of camphire in the vineyards of Engedi. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | My beloved is to me as a cluster of camphor in the vineyards of En-gedi. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | My love is to me as a branch of the cypress-tree in the vine-gardens of En-gedi. |
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| Language | Song of Solomon Chapter 1, Verse 14 |
| Bulgarian | 'ъзлюбленият ми е за мене като кипрова китка ' лозята на Енгади. |
| Cebuano | Ang akong hinigugma alang kanako sama sa usa ka pongpong sa bulak nga copher Diha sa kaparrasan sa Engadi. |
| Chinese | 我 以 我 的 良 人 為 一 棵 鳳 仙 花 、 在 隱 基 底 葡 萄 ' 中 。 |
| Croatian | Dragi mi je moj grozd ciprov u vinogradima engedskim. |
| Danish | min Ven er mig en Koferklase fra En-Gedis Vingårde. |
| Dutch | Mijn Liefste is mij een tros van Cyprus, in de wijngaarden van En-gedi. |
| Finnish | Rakkaani on kooferkukka-terttu Een-Gedin viinitarhoista." |
| French | Mon bien-aimé est pour moi une grappe de troëne Des vignes d`En Guédi. - |
| German | Mein Freund ist mir eine Traube von Zyperblumen in den Weinbergen zu Engedi. |
| Haitian Creole | Mennaj mwen tankou yon bouke flè k'ap fleri nan jaden rezen Angedi. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Kekasihku laksana serumpun bunga pacar di kebun-kebun anggur En-Gedi. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Kekasihku itu bagiku akan bunga kurma setandan di dalam kebun anggur Enjedi. |
| Italian | Il mio diletto è per me un grappolo di cipro nelle vigne di Eng ddi. |
| Korean | 나 의 사 랑 하 " 자 " 내 게 " 게 "" 포 도 원 의 벨 " 송 이 로 구 나 |
| Maori | He tautau hena ki ahau taku e aroha nei, i nga mara waina o Enekeri. |
| Modern Greek | Ο αγαπητος μου ειναι εις εμε ως βοτρυς κυπρινος εις τους αμπελωνας του Εν-γαδδι. |
| Norwegian | Min elskede er mig en cyperdrue i En-Gedis vingårder. |
| Portuguese | O meu amado é para mim como um ramalhete de hena nas vinhas de En-Gedi. |
| Rumanian | Prea iubitul meu este pentru mine un strugure de mqliniyq, din viile din En-Ghedi. - |
| Russian | п, ФЩ ТЕЛТБУОБ, ЧПЪМА'МЕООБС НПС, ФЩ ТЕЛТБУОБ! ЗМБЪБ ФЧПЙ ЗПМХ'ЙОЩЕ. |
| Spanish | Mi amado se parece a un racimo de flores de alheña de las viñas de En-guedi. |
| Swedish | Min vän är för mig en klase cyperblommor från En-Gedis vingårdar." |
| Thai | ที่รักของ"ิฉันนั้น สำหรับ"ิฉันเธอเป็นเหมือนช่อ"อกเทียนขาว อยู่ในสวนองุ่นเอนเก"ี |
| Ukrainian | Мій коханий для мене мов кипрове гроно в ен-ґедських садах-виноградах! |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "camphor": camphoraceous, camphorate, camphorated, camphorates, camphorating, camphors. (additional references) | |
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"Camphor" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Acampora, campher, camphire, camphora, camphre, canfor, Canfora, Compaor, Cramphorn, cwmhir, sambhur. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-h-m-o-p-r" | |
-1 letter: carhop, chroma, coprah. | |
-2 letters: campo, carom, champ, charm, chomp, copra, cramp, macho, macro, march, mocha, morph, orach, parch, poach, porch, roach. | |
-3 letters: arch, arco, camp, caph, capo, carp, cham, chao, chap, char, chop, coma, comp, corm, cram, crap, crop, harm, harp, hoar, hora, mach, marc, mora, opah, orca, pram, prao, proa, prom, ramp, roam, romp. | |
-4 letters: amp, arc, arm, cam, cap, car, cop, cor, ham, hao, hap, hop, mac, map, mar, mho, moa, moc, mop, mor, oar, oca, ohm, ora, orc, pac, pah, pam, par, poh, pom, pro, rah, ram, rap, rho, roc, rom. | |
-5 letters: ah, am, ar, ha, hm, ho, ma, mo, oh, om, op, or, pa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-h-m-o-p-r" | |
+1 letter: camphors. | |
+3 letters: amphoteric, anamorphic, camphorate, macrophage, macrophyte, metaphoric, micrograph, microphage, morphactin, supermacho. | |
+4 letters: allomorphic, atmospheric, camphorated, camphorates, champertous, chromoplast, comradeship, cosmography, demographic, halomorphic, homographic, kymographic, macrophages, macrophagic, macrophytes, macrophytic, metamorphic, micrographs, microphages, monographic, morphactins, nomographic, phonogramic, psychodrama, supermachos, symposiarch, tomographic. | |
+5 letters: accomplisher, actinomorphy, apochromatic, archesporium, atmospherics, bronchospasm, camphorating, cephalometry, chemotherapy, chromoplasts, comradeships, cosmographer, cosmographic, demographics, mammographic, metaphorical, microcephaly, micrographed, micrographic, misanthropic, overemphatic, paedomorphic, panchromatic, parochialism, pharmacology, pharmacopeia, philharmonic, phonogrammic, psychodramas, symposiarchs. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 61 6D 70 68 6F 72 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- -- .--. .... --- .-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01101101 01110000 01101000 01101111 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a m p h o r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 006D 0070 0068 006F 0072 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)37677982748184 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Bible Trace 10. Derivations 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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