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Definition: Alimentary |
AlimentaryAdjective1. Providing nourishment; "good nourishing food". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "alimentary" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1870. (references) |
Etymology: Alimentary \Al`i*men"ta*ry\, adjective. [Latin expression alimentarius, from alimentum: compare to the French expression alimentaire.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | Pertaining to food or nutritive material, or to the organs of digestion. (references) |
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Synonyms: AlimentarySynonyms: nourishing (adj), nutrient (adj), nutritious (adj), nutritive (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Food | Adjective: eatable, edible, esculent, comestible, alimentary; cereal, cibarious; dietetic; culinary; nutritive, nutritious; gastric; succulent; potable, potulent; bibulous. |
Remedy | Dietetic, alimentary; nutritious, nutritive; peptic; |
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Screenplays | Alimentary, my dear Leiter (Diamonds Are Forever; writing credit: Richard Maibaum) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Alimentary tract of infant showing intestinal necrosis, pneumatosis intestinalis, and perforation site (arrow). Autopsy. Credit: CDC. |
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Ronald Reagan | Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics. (references) | |
Business | The very first system was put in place by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forests and Alimentary Resources. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | HEART, n. An automatic, muscular blood-pump. Figuratively, this useful organ is said to be the esat of emotions and sentiments -- a very pretty fancy which, however, is nothing but a survival of a once universal belief. It is now known that the sentiments and emotions reside in the stomach, being evolved from food by chemical action of the gastric fluid. The exact process by which a beefsteak becomes a feeling -- tender or not, according to the age of the animal from which it was cut; the successive stages of elaboration through which a caviar sandwich is transmuted to a quaint fancy and reappears as a pungent epigram; the marvelous functional methods of converting a hard-boiled egg into religious contrition, or a cream-puff into a sigh of sensibility -- these things have been patiently ascertained by M. Pasteur, and by him expounded with convincing lucidity. (See, also, my monograph, The Essential Identity of the Spiritual Affections and Certain Intestinal Gases Freed in Digestion -- 4to, 687 pp.) In a scientific work entitled, I believe, Delectatio Demonorum (John Camden Hotton, London, 1873) this view of the sentiments receives a striking illustration; and for further light consult Professor Dam's famous treatise on Love as a Product of Alimentary Maceration. |
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| "Alimentary" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Alimentary" is used about 31 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 31 | 62,296 |
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Expressions using "alimentary": alimentary assistance ♦ Alimentary canal ♦ alimentary paste ♦ alimentary tract ♦ alimentary tract smear ♦ alimentary yeast. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "alimentary": extra-alimentary. | |
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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 |
alimentary canal | 27 |
alimentary | 11 |
alimentary import | 4 |
alimentary export | 4 |
alimentary tract | 4 |
alimentary system | 4 |
alimentary crocodile tract | 3 |
alimentary hypoglycemia | 2 |
alimentary society surgery tract | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "alimentary"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | ushqyes (feeder, nourishing, Stoker), mbështetës (adhesive, backing, friend, help, recliner, recumbent, staff, supporting, sustaining, sustentive). (various references) | |
Arabic | مغذ (nourishing, nutrient, nutritious, nutritive, sustaining), متعلق بالغذاء, غذائي (alimental, trophic). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | храносмилателен (digestive, peptic, stomachic), хранителен (comestible, food, nourishing, nutrient, nutritious, nutritive, rich), осигуряващ издръжка, питателен (nourishing, nutrient, nutritive, satisfying, substantial). (various references) | |
Chinese | 有营业. (various references) | |
Czech | zažívací trakt (alimentary canal). (various references) | |
Danish | alimentær, alimentær. (various references) | |
Dutch | alimentair. (various references) | |
Farsi | غذاءی , رزقی . (various references) | |
Finnish | ravintohiiva (alimentary yeast, food yeast, marmite), hiivauute (alimentary yeast, food yeast, marmite). (various references) | |
French | alimentaire (alimental). (various references) | |
German | nahrhaft (fertile, nourishing, nutrient, nutritious, nutritiously, nutritive, nutritively, rich, solid, substantial). (various references) | |
Greek | πεπτικός (digestive), τροφικός (trophic). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מזין (feeder, nutrient, nutritious, nutritive, sustaining). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tápláló (afferent, feeder, feeding, hearty, nourishing, nurturer, nutrient, nutritious, nutritive, rich, substantial, sustaining, wholesome). (various references) | |
Italian | alimentare (feed, nourish, plump). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 消化管 (alimentary canal). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しょうかか" (alimentary canal). (various references) | |
Manx | yn vee. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | alimentaryay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | alimentar (aliment, diet, fare, feed, food, forage, foster, nourish, nurture, nutritive). (various references) | |
Romanian | alimentar (edacious, food, nutritive). (various references) | |
Russian | алиментарный, пищевой (nutritional, pabular), пищеварительный (digestive, peptic). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | prehrambeni, hranjiv. (various references) | |
Spanish | alimenticio (nourishing, nutritious), alimentario (dietary, food ( adj. )). (various references) | |
Swedish | närings-, närande (hearty, nourishing, nutritive). (various references) | |
Turkish | besleyici (feeder, nourishing, nutrient, nutritious, nutritive, rich, substantial, sustaining, trophic), beslenme (alimentation, nourishment, nutrition, nutritive). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | харчовий (esculent, nutritional, nutritive, pabulary), травний (peptic), поживний (battle, nourishing, nutrient, nutritional, nutritious, nutritive, substantial). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | dinh dưỡng bổ, có chất bổ cấp dưỡng. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Alimentary" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: alimemtary, alimenta, alimentari, alimentarium, alimenter, alimentory. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "alimentary" (pronounced a'lume"nterē) |
| 8 | -l u m e" n t er ē | complimentary, parliamentary, supplementary. |
| 7 | -u m e" n t er ē | documentary, rudimentary, sedimentary, testamentary. |
| 4 | -n t er ē | effrontery, splintery. |
| 3 | -t er ē | adultery, artery, battery, blustery, buttery, contradictory, coterie, directory, jittery, eatery, factory, flattery, glittery, history, introductory, lottery, mastery, mystery, notary, olfactory, peremptory, perfunctory, pottery, premonitory, protohistory, rectory, refractory, rotary, satisfactory, trajectory, unsatisfactory, upholstery, valedictory, victory, watery. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-i-l-m-n-r-t-y" | |
-1 letter: animately. | |
-2 letters: animater, antimale, interlay, laminary, laminate, marinate, material, maternal, terminal, tramline, tyramine. | |
-3 letters: ailment, aliment, amenity, amentia, amirate, anality, animate, anytime, inertly, inlayer, irately, laminae, laminar, laniary, latrine, maltier, manlier, marital, marline, marlite, martial, martian, matinal, meatily, minaret, mineral, raiment, ramenta, ratline, reality, reliant, retinal, riantly, tamarin, tearily, trenail. | |
-4 letters: aerial, aerily, airman. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-i-l-m-n-r-t-y" | |
+1 letter: filamentary. | |
+2 letters: artilleryman. | |
+3 letters: fragmentarily, intradermally, matrilineally, parliamentary. | |
+4 letters: manometrically. | |
+5 letters: argumentatively, interparoxysmal, maneuverability, martensitically, merchantability, necromantically, planimetrically, thermodynamical, unparliamentary. | |
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