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Definition: Aspic |
AspicNoun1. Savory jelly based on fish or meat stock used as a mold for meats or vegetables. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "aspic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1607. (references) |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
ASPIC | English | Application Services Providers Industry Consortium | Computing |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: Aspic |
| English words defined with "aspic": galantine ♦ Oil of spike. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Aspic" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Ecuadorian Quechua (pencil), French (asp, asps), Romanian (aspic). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Well, if it doesn't jell, it isn't aspic, and this ain't jellin' (Psycho; writing credit: Joseph Stefano) | |
Movie/TV Titles | A Dandy in Aspic (1968) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| "Aspic" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Aspic" is used about 29 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% | 29 | 64,444 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "aspic": pickle in aspic. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
aspic | 60 |
aspic tomato | 8 |
aspic recipe | 6 |
aspic back in lark tongue | 4 |
aspic in lark tongue | 3 |
aspic recipe tomato | 2 |
arab aspic in | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "aspic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | xhelatinë (gelatin, gelatine, jelly). (various references) | |
Arabic | خزامى عريضة الورق, الهلام اللحمي, الناشر أفعى سامة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | желе от месо. (various references) | |
Chinese | 小'蛇. (various references) | |
Czech | rosol (jelly). (various references) | |
Farsi | درخت زبان گنجشک . (various references) | |
French | gelée. (various references) | |
German | Sülze (brawn), Aspik (jelly). (various references) | |
Greek | καλογερικόχορτο, είδοσ πηκτήσ, λεβάντα (lavender). (various references) | |
Hebrew | קריש (curd, gel, jam, jelly). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kocsonya (jelly). (various references) | |
Italian | gelatina (gelatin, gelatine, jelly). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | アスパラギン酸 (aspartame, aspartic acid, asphalt, asphalt jungle, Aspirin, aspirin snow, Aspite). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | アス"ック . (various references) | |
Manx | aspagh. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aspicay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | alfazema (lavender), geléia de carne, áspide (asp). (various references) | |
Romanian | aspidã (asp), aspic, viperã (adder, asp, serpent, snake, viper). (various references) | |
Russian | заливное (galantine). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | aspik, zmija otrovnica (cockatrice, viper), pihtije (galantine). (various references) | |
Spanish | gelatina de tomate, gelatina de carne, espliego (lavender), áspid (adder, asp, viper). (various references) | |
Swedish | aladåb (jelly). (various references) | |
Turkish | etli jöle. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | холодець (brawn, galantine), змія (asp, ophidian, serpent, snake), заливне (galantine), лаванда садова. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| French | 1500-Modern | aspic. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "aspic": aspics. (additional references) | |
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"Aspic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Abpi, acic, Adpcm, agpc, Aipac, aipim, Ampico, Aopec, Apbc, apec, Apic, applic, Apsac, asic, asik, asoi, aspa, Aspal, Aspey, aspice, aspig, astic, astik, Atpc, atsic, atypic, auspicy, Espc, fspi, Icpic, ipsc, isic, jasic, naypic, passpic, sabic. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: picas, spica. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-i-p-s" | |
-1 letter: asci, caps, pacs, pias, pica, pics, spic. | |
-2 letters: ais, asp, cap, cis, pac, pas, pia, pic, pis, psi, sac, sap, sic, sip, spa. | |
-3 letters: ai, as, is, pa, pi, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-i-p-s" | |
+1 letter: apices, aspics, capias, capris, capsid, panics, phasic, scampi, spicae, spicas. | |
+2 letters: aphasic, apicals, aseptic, auspice, bipacks, caliphs, caplins, capsids, capsize, catnips, episcia, icecaps, impacts, inclasp, inscape, ipecacs, isopach, pachisi, picaras, picaros, piscary, piscina, plaices, plasmic, plastic, prosaic, psalmic, psoatic, sapphic, scaping, scrapie, spacial, spacier, spacing, spastic, spathic, special, spicate, spicula, spinach, tipcats. | |
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