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Definition: Cyanamid |
CyanamidNoun1. A weak soluble dibasic acid (the parent acid of cyanamide salts). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: CyanamidSynonym: cyanamide (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: American Cyanamid (chemical industry). |
Crosswords: Cyanamid |
| Specialty definitions using "cyanamid": dithiophosphates. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Shows photo of male scientist working in anti-cancer chemical library at the Lederle Laboratories, a division of American Cyanamid in 1961. Lederle developed methotrexate (and thio-tepa?). Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | U.S. suppliers active in this market include Abbott Laboratories, Merck Sharp & Dohme, Schering-Plough, American Cyanamid, Bristol-Meyers Squibb, Eli Lilly, Beckman Coulter, Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Pharmacia & Upjohn, Sysmex, Syva, Technicon, Chiron (Ciba Corning), Baxter Diagnostics, Becton Dickinson, Bio-Rad Laboratories, Radiometer, and Helena. (references) | |
Economic History | Colombia | Charles Crystal, Du Pont, Cyanamid, Burlington Chemicals, Gaf Corp., Pennwalt, etc. (references) |
Ukraine | Cyanamid Overseas Corporation, Dow Elanco, Du Pont, FMC, Monsanto, and Cargill represent American products at the Ukrainian pesticide and agricultural chemical market. (references) | |
Costa Rica | There are a few local companies that formulate and produce agro-chemicals (pesticides, herbicides and fungicides) for well-known companies established in Costa Rica, such as Cyanamid, Dow Chemical, ELF, Rohm & Haas, Rhone Poulenc, BASF, Griffin and others. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Cyanamid" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Cyanamid" is used about 2 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 (proper) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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 |
american cyanamid | 38 |
cyanamid | 22 |
american company cyanamid | 9 |
american co cyanamid | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "cyanamid"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Russian | цианамид. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "cyanamid": cyanamide, cyanamides, cyanamids. (additional references) | |
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"Cyanamid" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cynamid, cynipid. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "cyanamid" (pronounced sīa"numud) |
| 4 | -u m u d | Aramid, pyramid. |
| 3 | -m u d | humid, timid. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: adynamic. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-i-m-n-y" | |
-1 letter: dynamic. | |
-2 letters: aidman, caiman, cayman, cyanid, maniac. | |
-3 letters: acidy, adman, amain, amnia, amnic, anima, candy, canid, daman, mania, manic, mayan, mincy, naiad, nicad. | |
-4 letters: acid, amia, amid, amin, ayin, cadi, caid, cain, cyan, cyma, damn, maid, main, mana, many, maya, mica, mina, mind, myna, nada. | |
-5 letters: aid, aim, ain, ama, ami, ana, and, ani, any. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-d-i-m-n-y" | |
+1 letter: cyanamide, cyanamids, dynamical. | |
+2 letters: cyanamides. | |
+3 letters: aerodynamic, dynamically. | |
+4 letters: aerodynamics, demoniacally. | |
+5 letters: aerodynamical. | |
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