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"WARTS" is a plural of: wart. |
Date "WARTS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | If you are troubled with warts on your person, in dreams, you will be unable to successfully parry the thrusts made at your honor. To see them leaving your hands, foretells that you will overcome disagreeable obstructions to fortune. To see them on others, shows that you have bitter enemies near you. If you doctor them, you will struggle with energy to ward off threatened danger to you and yours. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Health | Benign epidermal proliferations or tumors; some are viral in origin. (references) |
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Crosswords: WARTS |
| English words defined with "WARTS": Amanita muscaria ♦ Brassia verrucosa ♦ Catheretic ♦ electrocautery, electrologist ♦ fly agaric ♦ plantar, plantar wart ♦ Scleroderma aurantium, Scleroderma citrinum, self acceptance, spider orchid ♦ Verruciform, verrucose ♦ wartlike, warty. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "WARTS": 16-bit application ♦ CASING GRADER, casing inspector, casing sorter, casing tester, Caustics ♦ FUNASTRUM CLAUSUM ♦ Keratolytic Agents ♦ Opposition ♦ Papillomavirus, Bovine, Papillomavirus, Human, Podophyllotoxin. (references) |
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Screenplays | We must be accepted as we are, warts and all. (The Hunger; writing credit: Gerald Wexler) Grow a few warts and you'll never get punched; nobody wants to punch a wart. (Moron Movies; writing credit: Griff Rhys Jones; Mel Smith) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Electron micrograph of a negatively stained human papilloma virus (HBV) which occurs in human warts. Warts on the hands and feet have never been known to progress to cancer. However, after many years cervical warts can become cancerous. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | A large tree, covered with these excrescences which are the warts of vegetation, was a few steps from the from the heap of stones. |
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Health | Other people get visible genital warts. (references) | |
If the warts are very large, they can be removed by surgery. (references) | ||
These warts are usually white to gray in color, but they may be pink or purple. (references) | ||
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | OPPOSITION, n. In politics the party that prevents the Government from running amuck by hamstringing it. The King of Ghargaroo, who had been abroad to study the science of government, appointed one hundred of his fattest subjects as members of a parliament to make laws for the collection of revenue. Forty of these he named the Party of Opposition and had his Prime Minister carefully instruct them in their duty of opposing every royal measure. Nevertheless, the first one that was submitted passed unanimously. Greatly displeased, the King vetoed it, informing the Opposition that if they did that again they would pay for their obstinacy with their heads. The entire forty promptly disemboweled themselves. "What shall we do now?" the King asked. "Liberal institutions cannot be maintained without a party of Opposition." "Splendor of the universe," replied the Prime Minister, "it is true these dogs of darkness have no longer their credentials, but all is not lost. Leave the matter to this worm of the dust." So the Minister had the bodies of his Majesty's Opposition embalmed and stuffed with straw, put back into the seats of power and nailed there. Forty votes were recorded against every bill and the nation prospered. But one day a bill imposing a tax on warts was defeated -- the members of the Government party had not been nailed to their seats! This so enraged the King that the Prime Minister was put to death, the parliament was dissolved with a battery of artillery, and government of the people, by the people, for the people perished from Ghargaroo. |
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| "WARTS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 94.64% of the time. "WARTS" is used about 112 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 (plural) | 94.64% | 106 | 31,637 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 3.57% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.79% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 112 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "WARTS": warts and all. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "WARTS": warts-and-all. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "WARTS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | hudvorter (skin warts), Hassal-Henle-legemer (Hassal-Henle corpuscules, Hassal-Henle warts), brillantine-vorter (brilliantine warts), anbringe vorter paa landgangsplade (to put warts on gangway plate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | wratten van Hasall-Henle (Hassal-Henle corpuscules, Hassal-Henle warts), wratachtige verhevenheid op de huid (skin warts), nopjes oplassen op gangboordplaat (to put warts on gangway plate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | verrues de brillantine (brilliantine warts), verrues cutanées (skin warts), verrucosités de la membrane de Descemet de Hassall-Henle (Hassal-Henle warts), i.w.S.papillomes cutanés (skin warts), gaufrer les tôles de plat-bord (to put warts on gangway plate), apporter des boutons sur le plat-bord (to put warts on gangway plate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Warzen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κάνω τραχύ το έλασμα κλίμακας (to put warts on gangway plate), και με τα μειονεκτήματα (warts and all), στιβαδωτά σωμάτια (Hassal-Henle corpuscules, Hassal-Henle warts, Hassall bodies, Hassall corpuscles), ακριβώς όπως είναι (warts and all), Ασσάλεια σωμάτια (Hassal-Henle corpuscules, Hassal-Henle warts). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | nagyon élethűen festi meg vki arcképét (to paint sy with sy's warts), hibákkal együtt (warts and hell), hibák ellenére (warts and hell), akárhogy is van (warts and hell). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | verruche di Hassall-Henle (Hassal-Henle corpuscules, Hassal-Henle warts), verruche cutanee (skin warts), verruca da brillantina (brilliantine warts), papille del derma (skin warts), corpuscoli di Hassall-Henle (Hassal-Henle corpuscules, Hassal-Henle warts). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | artsway verrugas de Hassall-Henle (Hassal-Henle corpuscules, Hassal-Henle warts), corpúsculo de Hassall-Henle (Hassal-Henle corpuscules, Hassal-Henle warts). (various references) verrugas de brillantina (brilliantine warts), verruga cutánea (skin warts), papiloma cutáneo (cutaneous papilloma, skin warts), corpúsculos de Hassal (Hassal-Henle corpuscules, Hassal-Henle warts). (various references) vårtor. (various references) ayrıntılarıyla (at full length, at great length, at some length, thoroughly, warts and all), açık açık (bluntly, clearly, in round terms, openly, outspokenly, straight-from-the-shoulder, warts and all, without mincing matters). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "WARTS": stalwarts, thwarts, worrywarts. (additional references) | |
Words containing "WARTS": athwartship, athwartships. (additional references) | |
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"WARTS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ewarti, ewarts, qwartz, waart, wairt, waras, warks, warot, warpt, warst, warti, Wats, werts, wertz, whart, Wiertz, wirst, worts, wrart, wurst, wurt. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "WARTS" (pronounced wô"rts) |
| 5 | w ô" r t s | quarts, quartz, thwarts. |
| 4 | -ô" r t s | bortz, contorts, courts, distorts, exhorts, fortes, forts, imports, ports, reports, resorts, retorts, shorts, snorts, sorts, sports, supports, torts, transports. |
| 3 | -r t s | airports, arts, carports, carts, charts, cohorts, counterparts, darts, departs, escorts, exports, Harts, hearts, hertz, imparts, marts, mouthparts, parts, passports, purports, ramparts, reexports, seaports, Smarts, starts, sweethearts, tarts, upstarts. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: straw, swart. | |
| Words within the letters "a-r-s-t-w" | |
-1 letter: arts, rats, raws, star, staw, swat, tars, taws, tsar, twas, wars, wart, wast, wats. | |
-2 letters: ars, art, ras, rat, raw, sat, saw, tar, tas, taw, twa, war, was, wat. | |
-3 letters: ar, as, at, aw, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-r-s-t-w" | |
+1 letter: rawest, straws, strawy, swarth, swarty, tawers, thraws, trawls, waster, wastry, waters, wraths. | |
+2 letters: brawest, fretsaw, outwars, postwar, steward, strawed, swarths, swarthy, swather, swatter, sweater, thawers, thwarts, towards, trishaw, wafters, waister, waiters, wanters, wariest, warmest, warmths, warstle, wasters, wastery, wastrel, wastrie, wraiths, wrastle, wreaths. | |
+3 letters: artworks, awaiters, awlworts, bedstraw, dewaters, dwarfest, eastward, fanworts, fretsaws, madworts, outdraws, outsware, outswear, outwards, outwears, radwaste, ragworts, ringtaws, rowboats, saltwork, saltwort, sandwort, seatwork, seawater, soapwort, software, stairway, stalwart, starwort, stemware, sternway, stewards, strawhat, strawier, strawing, swathers, swatters, sweaters, sweatier, tarweeds, taskwork, tawdries, teawares, thruways, tinwares, tramways, trawlers, trawleys, trishaws, twangers, waftures, waisters, waitress, waltzers, warpaths, warrants, warstled, warstler, warstles, warthogs, wartiest, wartimes, wartless, wasterie, wastrels, wastries, watchers, waterers, waterish, weariest, weathers, westward, wetwares, wiretaps, wistaria, wisteria, wrastled, wrastles, wreathes. | |
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