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Definition: Affusion |
AffusionNoun1. The act of baptizing someone by pouring water on their head. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "affusion" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1690. (references) |
Synonym: AffusionSynonym: pouring (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Nonassemblage Dispersion | Noun: {opp. } dispersion; disjunction; divergence; aspersion; scattering; Verb: dissemination, diffusion, dissipation, distribution; apportionment; spread, respersion, circumfusion, interspersion, spargefaction; affusion. waifs and estrays, flotsam and jetsam, disjecta membra; waveson. |
Water | Dilution, maceration, lotion; washing. Verb: immersion, humectation, infiltration, spargefaction, affusion, irrigation, douche, balneation, bath. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Language | Translations for "affusion"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | të larët më ujë, spërkatje me ujë. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | обливане (douche), поливане (pouring, sprinkling, watering). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | επίχυση (irrigation, suffusion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | leöntés (decantation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | affusionay aspersão (aspersion, overhead irrigation, overhead watering, splashing, spray irrigation, sprinkler irrigation, sprinkling, sprinkling irrigation, surface irrigation), afusão. (various references) обливание (douche), опускание в купель. (various references) окроплення (aspersion, perfusion, sprinkling), обливання (ablution, superfusion), опускання в купіль. (various references) sự rảy nước, phép chữa giội nước. (various references) taenelliad (sprinkling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "affusion": affusions. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "affusion" (pronounced 'Af*fu"sion'): Abrasion, Abscession, Abscision, Abscission, Abstersion, Abstrusion, Abusion, Accension, Accession, Acutorsion, Addression, Adhesion, Admission, Adversion, Aggression, Allision, Allusion, Amission, Animadversion, Anteversion, Appension, Apprehension, Appulsion, Arrosion, Ascension, Aspersion, Assession, Aversion, Avision, Avulsion, Catabasion, Cession, Circumclusion, Circumfusion, Circumincession, Coextension, Cohesion, Cointension, Collapsion, Collision, Collusion, Comprehension, Compression, Compulsion, Concession, Concision, Conclusion, Concussion, Condescension, Confession, Confusion, Congression, Consension, Conspersion, Contorsion, Contraversion, Controversion, Contusion, Conversion, Convulsion, Corrasion, Corrosion, Decession, Decision, Declension, Decursion, Delapsion, Delusion, Demersion, Demission, Demulsion, Deprehension, Depression, Depulsion, Derision, Descension, Detersion, Detorsion, Detrusion, Diffission, Diffusion, Digression, Dimension, Dimission, Discession, Disclusion, Discommission, Discursion, Discussion, Dismission, Dispansion, Dispassion, Dispersion, Displosion, Dispossession, Dissension, Dissuasion, Distension, Diversion, Effossion, Effusion, Egression, Elapsion, Elusion, Emersion, Emission, Empassion, Emulsion, Erasion, Evasion, Eversion, Evulsion, Excision, Exclusion, Excursion, Excussion, Exesion, Expansion, Explosion, expression, extension, Extersion, Extramission, Extraversion, Extroversion, Extrusion, Fidejussion, fission, fusion, Illision, illusion, immersion, Immission, Impassion, implosion, imprecision, impression, Improvision, impulsion, Inadhesion, Inapprehension, Incension, Incession, incision, inclusion, Incompassion, incomprehension, Inconfusion, incursion, INDECISION, Indivision, Inextension, infusion, Ingression, Inhesion, Inrecision, Insession, Inspersion, Insubmission, intension, intercession, Interclusion, Interfusion, intermission, interspersion, Intorsion, Intrafusion, Introcession, Introgression, intromission, Intropression, introversion, intrusion, invasion, inversion, Invision, Irremission, Irrision, lesion, manumission, Mersion, misapprehension, Misconclusion, Misdivision, Misexpression, Mispassion, Mispersuasion, Misprision, Nonadmission, Noncohesion, Nonsubmission, Obsession, Obtension, Obtrusion, Obtusion, Obversion, Occision, Occlusion, Occursion, Offension, Omission, Oppression, Ostension, Outpassion, Percussion, Perfusion, Permansion, permission, Perpension, Perpession, Persuasion, Pertusion, Pervasion, Perversion, Portension, Preadmission, Preapprehension, Precession, Precision, Preclusion, Prehension, Prepossession, Presension, Pression, Pretension, Pretermission, Prevision, Profession, Profusion, Prolapsion, Prolusion, Propension, Propulsion, Protension, Protrusion, Pulsion, readmission, Reascension, Recension, Recision, Reclusion, Recommission, Reconversion, recursion, Recussion, Refossion, Refusion, regression, Reimpression, repercussion, repossession, reprehension, repression, repulsion, rescission, Respersion, Responsion, Retrocession, retrogression, retroversion, Retrusion, reversion, revision, revulsion, scansion, scission, secession, seclusion, Self-delusion, self-possession, session, Sponsion, suasion, subdivision, Subingression, submersion, submission, subversion, succession, Succision, succussion, Suffossion, suffusion, supersession, supervision, suppression, Supravision, suspension, Thermotension, torsion, Transcension, Transcursion, transfusion, transgression, transmission, Transversion, Trusion, Uncircumcision, Unconversion, Unintermission, Unpersuasion, Version. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-f-f-i-n-o-s-u" | |
-2 letters: fusain, fusion. | |
-3 letters: fanos, fauns, finos, foins, infos, naifs, snafu, sniff, snuff, unais. | |
-4 letters: ains, anis, anus, fain, fano, fans, faun, fino, fins, foin, fons, funs, info, ions, naif, naoi, naos, nous, oafs, offs, onus, sain, sofa, unai. | |
-5 letters: aff, ain, ais, ani, fan, fas, fin, fon, fou, fun, iff, ifs, ins, ion, nos, nus, oaf, off, ons, sau, sin, son, sou, sun, uns. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-f-f-i-n-o-s-u" | |
+1 letter: affusions. | |
+3 letters: diffusional, insufflator, suffixation, suffocating, suffocation. | |
+4 letters: insufflation, insufflators, suffixations, suffocations. | |
+5 letters: effectuations, inefficacious, insufflations, suffocatingly. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 66 66 75 73 69 6F 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- ..-. ..-. ..- ... .. --- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100110 01100110 01110101 01110011 01101001 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A f f u s i o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0066 0066 0075 0073 0069 006F 006E |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3572728785758180 |
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