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Definition: Cordite |
CorditeNoun1. Explosive powder (nitroglycerin and guncotton and petrolatum) dissolved in acetone and dried and extruded in brown cords. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Note: Cordite \Cord"ite\, noun. [From Cord, noun.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | An explosive compound consisting of cellulose nitrate and a restrainer,such as vaseline, used chiefly as a propellant. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Cordite is capable of explosive combustion and often used as a propellant in gun cartridges. It was discovered by Sir James Dewar of Scotland, though patent rights were vigorously contested by Alfred Nobel.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Cordite."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Arms | High explosive; trinitrotoluene, TNT; dynamite, melinite, cordite, lyddite, plastic explosive, plastique; pyroxyline. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Cordite |
| Non-English Usage: "Cordite" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Manx (cordite), Portuguese (cordite). |
| "Cordite" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Cordite" is used about 30 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% | 30 | 63,341 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "cordite": cordite M D. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "cordite": cordite-reeking. | |
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| 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 |
cordite | 9 |
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| Language | Translations for "cordite"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | barut pa tym. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | кордит, бездимен барут. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | cordit, codite. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | cordiet. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | cordite. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Cordit. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κορδίτης. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kordit. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | cordite. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | cordite. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | orditecay cordite. (various references) кордит. (various references) kordit. (various references) cordita. (various references) kordit, itici barut. (various references) кордит. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "cordite": cordites. (additional references) | |
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"Cordite" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: carlite, Chordita, codate, coedited, condita, Corbit, cordaite, cordaites, cordatus, Cordee, Cordet, cordile, Cordiner, cordtex, Corfiot, corfit, cortie, Corvidae, Curdie, norlite, ordit. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "cordite" (pronounced 'Cord"ite'): Arkite, Arsenopyrite, Braunite, Bronzite, Brookite, Brushite, Cabrerite, Chalcopyrite, Composite, Congenite, Cushite, Danite, gahnite, Gibbsite, Glassite, Gnathite, graphite, Hicksite, Hussite, jadeite, Linarite, Linnaeite, Lyddite, marlite, Melanochroite, Miascite, Moroxite, Nerite, Perthite, Petzite, Prehnite, Priceite, Protomerite, Pyrite, Quartzite, ratite, Scaphite, scheelite, Semite, Servite, sporozoite, Struvite, Turfite, Voltzite, Zincite, Zoisite. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-i-o-r-t" | |
-1 letter: coedit, credit, direct, dotier, editor, erotic, rioted, triced, triode. | |
-2 letters: cider, cited, citer, coder, cored, coted, credo, cried, decor, dicer, dicot, doter, droit, edict, recti, recto, riced, tired, toric, trice, tried, trode. | |
-3 letters: cedi, cero, cire, cite, code, coed, coir, cord, core, cote, deco, dice, diet, dire, dirt, dite, doer, doit, dore, dote. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-i-o-r-t" | |
+1 letter: centroid, ceratoid, codirect, coeditor, cordites, creditor, depictor, director, doctrine, morticed, outcried. | |
+2 letters: bacteroid, centroids, charioted, chondrite, codirects, coeditors, contrived, courtside, creditors, dedicator, depictors, direction, directors, directory, dissector, doctrines, doleritic, dowitcher, introduce, noncredit, outpriced, peridotic, predictor, recondite, recordist, redaction, reduction, retrodict, threnodic. | |
+3 letters: achondrite, bacteroids, carotenoid, chondrites, clitorides, cloistered, codirected, codirector, cointerred, coordinate, cordierite, coresident, coscripted, counterbid, courtesied, courtsides, decorating, decoration, decorative, decryption, dedicators, dedicatory, democratic, descriptor, desiccator, detraction, dichromate, directions, disconcert, discounter, discretion, dissectors, dosimetric, dowitchers, elucidator, entodermic, eradicator, ergodicity, eroticized, excoriated, factorized, fornicated, fractioned, introduced, introducer, introduces, mediocrity, narcotized, orthopedic, ostracised, ostracized, outtricked, overdirect, prediction, predictors, productive, recordists, redactions, rediscount, reductions, retrodicts, ricocheted, tricolored, tyrocidine. | |
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