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Definition: Bladder |
BladderNoun1. A distensible membranous sac (usually containing liquid or gas). 2. A bag that fills with air. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bladder" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of your bladder, denotes you will have heavy trouble in your business if you are not careful of your health and the way you spend your energies. To see children blowing up bladders, foretells your expectations will fail to give you much comfort. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Health | The organ that stores urine. (references) |
Industry | An expandable device of folded flexible material to cover and protect an moving part. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A raised area on the surface of a moulding caused by the pressure of gases inside it on its incompletely hardened surface. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| A local lifting of a surface film(paint, varnish etc)owing to pressure there from beneath, generally due to excessive moisture in the wood. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Mechanical Engineering | Fluid tank made of flexible material, especially one not forming part of airframe. Source: European Union. (references) |
Occupations | Heavy-walled rubber cylinder used in a curing press to expand uncured tires into the recesses of the tire mold. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A bladder is a pouch or other flexible enclosure with waterproof or gasproof walls.
In the context of animals and anatomy, "bladder" usually refers to the urinary bladder, but the term is generic, i.e. gallbladder.
Zeppelins are kept buoyant by gas bladders, for example, as are many species of kelp.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Bladder."
Synonym: BladderSynonym: vesica (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Gaseity | Gasmeter, gasometer; air bladder, swimming bladder, sound (of a fish). |
Receptacle | Capsule, vesicle, cyst, pod, calyx, cancelli, utricle, bladder; pericarp, udder. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Oh, nothing makes me sadder than the agent lost his bladder on the airplane (Con Air; writing credit: Scott Rosenberg) Here are her changing rags and her milk bladder. (Willow; writing credit: Bob Dolman; George Lucas) Her bladder burst (The Owl and the Pussycat; writing credit: Buck Henry; Bill Manhoff) Miss Bladder, take a letter (Monty Python's Flying Circus; writing credit: Douglas Adams; Graham Chapman) Fearless Bandit, empty your bladder of that bitter black urine men call coffee (The Tick; writing credit: Larry Charles; Lon Diamond) | |
Lyrics | Like a fatter bad bladder boy ya pissing me off (Feel Me Flow; performing artist: Naughty By Nature) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Line drawing showing large intestine, duodenum, gall bladder, liver, bile duct, esophagus, pancreas and stomach. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | Histopathology of bladder shows eggs of Schistosoma haematobium surrounded by intense infiltrates of eosinophils and other inflammatory cells. Parasitel. Credit: CDC. |
 | Physaria chambersiiTwin bladder podWildflower. Credit: Roger Rosentreter. |  | Use Dr. Kilmer's Swamp Root Kidney Liver & Bladder Cure. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | [Calculi or bladder stones] / Jonas Arnold. Delineavit. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Oil skin jacket, made of bladder. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Emo Philips | I went into Gus's artificial organ and taco stand. I said "Give me a bladder por favor." |
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Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | In each bladder was a small quantity of dried pease, or little pebbles (as I was afterwards informed) |
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Health | Bladder capacity increases. (references) | |
Urine remains in the bladder. (references) | ||
To urinate, empty the bladder. (references) | ||
Human Rights | Bangladesh | She lost control of her bladder and was unable to urinate again until more than 20 hours after the beating. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | PEDIGREE, n. The known part of the route from an arboreal ancestor with a swim bladder to an urban descendant with a cigarette. |
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| "Bladder" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.42% of the time. "Bladder" is used about 466 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) | 97.42% | 454 | 12,849 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 2.58% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Total | 100.00% | 466 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "bladder": Air bladder ♦ Bladder Calculi ♦ Bladder campion ♦ bladder cherry ♦ bladder disorder ♦ Bladder Exstrophy ♦ bladder fern ♦ Bladder Fistula ♦ bladder fucus ♦ Bladder Infection ♦ Bladder infection and inflammation ♦ Bladder inflammation ♦ bladder ketmia ♦ Bladder Neoplasms ♦ Bladder nut ♦ Bladder outlet obstruction ♦ Bladder pod ♦ Bladder senna ♦ bladder sphincter ♦ bladder stone ♦ bladder tangle ♦ bladder tank ♦ Bladder tree ♦ bladder worm ♦ bladder worms ♦ bladder wrack ♦ brain bladder ♦ brittle bladder fern ♦ bulblet bladder fern ♦ flaccid bladder ♦ football bladder ♦ Gall bladder ♦ mountain bladder fern ♦ neurogenic bladder ♦ overactive bladder ♦ painful bladder syndrome ♦ spastic bladder ♦ stage I bladder cancer ♦ stage II bladder cancer ♦ stage III bladder cancer ♦ stage IV bladder cancer ♦ swim bladder ♦ swimming bladder ♦ urinary bladder ♦ with burst gall bladder. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "bladder": bladder-bursting, bladder-emptying, bladder-grass, bladder-kelp. | |
Ending with "bladder": gall-bladder, swim-bladder. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "bladder"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | qeskë (casing, follicle, packet, sac, sleeve), fshikëz urine, fshikëz (cocoon, follicle, vesicle), fshikë (bleb, blister, vesicle, water blister). (various references) | |
Arabic | كيس يملأ هواء, مثانة (cyst, sac). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | мехур (blister, bubble, cyst, utricle, vesica), бърборко (babbler, blatherskite, bletherskate, chatterer, gabber, gossip, magpie, prattler, tattler), пикочен мехур. (various references) | |
Chinese | 胱 , 膀胱, 膀 (puffed, to flirt, upper arm, wing), 脬 . (various references) | |
Czech | mìchýř, duše (psyche, soul, spirit). (various references) | |
Danish | blære (bubble). (various references) | |
Dutch | blaas (bubble). (various references) | |
Esperanto | veziko (bubble). (various references) | |
Finnish | vulkanointityyny (bellows), virtsarakko, tyyny (cushion, pillow), rakko (blister), kupla (bubble). (various references) | |
French | vessie (blister, urinary bladder), vésicule (small blister), bulle (bleb, blister). (various references) | |
Frisian | bonge (bubble). (various references) | |
German | Blase (blister, bubble, cyst). (various references) | |
Greek | κύστη (bleb, cyst, vesica). (various references) | |
Hebrew | שלפוחית "שתן (urocyst). (various references) | |
Hungarian | hólyag (bell, blister, boil, bubble, cyst, dummy, goof, goop, meatball, nitwit, pouch), húgyhólyag, futballbelső. (various references) | |
Indonesian | kandung kemih. (various references) | |
Italian | vescica (blister, bubble). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 浮袋 (life buoy, swimming belt, swimming float), 浮き袋 (life buoy, swimming belt, swimming float), 気胞 (vesicle). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | きほう (brunt, bubble, dear, notation, previous report, vesicle, you), うきぶくろ (life buoy, swimming belt, swimming float). (various references) | |
Korean | 방광. (various references) | |
Manx | eddryman, bolgan (blister on paint, bubble, bulb of thermometer, sac, vesicle), bleddyr (vesica). (various references) | |
Norwegian | blære (bubble). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | adderblay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | bexiga (blister, bubble, tube). (various references) | |
Romanian | bãşicã (bubble), vezicã urinarã, om încrezut şi lipsit de valoare, camerã (apartment, chamber, closet, house, lock-chamber, room, roomful, tube). (various references) | |
Russian | пузырь (bleb, blister, blowhole, cyst). (various references) | |
Scottish | aodraman. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | bešika. (various references) | |
Spanish | vejiga (blister, bubble), vesícula (air bladder, gallbladder, vesicle). (various references) | |
Swedish | blåsa (bister, blister, blow, blowing, bubble, huff, puff, suck in, vesicular, whistle, wind). (various references) | |
Turkish | sidik torbası (urinary bladder, vesica), sídík torbasi (bubble), mesane (vesica), kese (bag, bath glove, pocket, pouch, purse, sac, scrip, vesicle), iç lastik (air tube, inner tube, pneumatic tire, pneumatic tyre, tube). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | пузир (blub, bubble). (various references) | |
Welsh | pledren, chwysigen (blister). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | bun, elamku. (various references) |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | kystis. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | vesica. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | bielg. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bladder": bladderlike, bladdernut, bladdernuts, bladders, bladderwort, bladderworts, bladdery. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "bladder": gallbladder. (additional references) | |
Words containing "bladder": gallbladders. (additional references) | |
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"Bladder" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Baaader, baader, Badda, badder, bhadur, bladdered, blader, Bladet, Bluddeh, Bludden, bludder, cladder, fladder. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "bladder" (pronounced bla"der) |
| 4 | -l a" d er | ladder. |
| 3 | -a" d er | adder, madder, sadder. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-d-e-l-r" | |
-1 letter: badder, balded, balder, barded, bladed, blared, ladder, larded, raddle. | |
-2 letters: abler, adder, addle, alder, ardeb, baled, baler, barde, bared, beard, blade, blare, blear, bread, dared, debar, dedal, dread, laded, lader, readd. | |
-3 letters: abed, able, bade, bald, bale, bard, bare, bead, bear, blae, bled, brad, brae, bred, dale, darb, dare, dead, deal, dear, drab. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-d-e-l-r" | |
+1 letter: bladders, bladdery, drabbled. | |
+3 letters: balderdash, bandleader, bedraggled, bladdernut, borderland, degradable, saddlebred. | |
+4 letters: addressable, balustraded, bandleaders, billboarded, blackbirded, bladderlike, bladdernuts, bladderwort, borderlands, clapboarded, deliberated, descrambled, discardable, gallbladder, leaderboard, paddleboard, roadblocked, saddlebreds, warmblooded. | |
+5 letters: balderdashes, blackguarded, bladderworts, detribalized, doubleheader, gallbladders, leaderboards, paddleboards, radiolabeled. | |
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