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Definition: AMOEBAS |
AMOEBASPlural1. Of Amoeba |
Date "AMOEBAS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1985. (references) |
Crosswords: AMOEBAS |
| English words defined with "AMOEBAS": Amoebida, Amoebina ♦ order Amoebida, order Amoebina ♦ phylum Protozoa, Protozoa ♦ Rhizopoda ♦ subclass Rhizopoda ♦ test. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Morgan took a sip and it's got his amoebas in it. (Signs; writing credit: M. Night Shyamalan) They're amoebas on fleas on rats! (Grease; writing credit: Bronte Woodard.) | |
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| "AMOEBAS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "AMOEBAS" is used about 5 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 (plural) | 100% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "AMOEBAS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Romanian | pl. de la amoeba (amoebae). (various references) | |
Spanish | pl. de amoeba (amoebae). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "AMOEBAS": endamoebas, entamoebas. (additional references) | |
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"AMOEBAS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ameoba, amieba, amoba, amobea, Amorbach, aomeba. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "AMOEBAS" (pronounced umē"buz) |
| 3 | -b u z | cordobas, mambas. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-e-m-o-s" | |
-1 letter: abomas, amebas, amoeba. | |
-2 letters: abase, abeam, aboma, ambos, ameba, beams, bemas, besom, mabes, omasa, samba, sambo. | |
-3 letters: abas, abos, amas, ambo, asea, baas, bams, base, beam, bema, boas, mabe, maes, mesa, moas, mobs, obes, sabe, same, seam, soma, some. | |
-4 letters: aas, aba, abo, abs, ama, baa, bam, bas, boa, bos, ems, mae, mas, moa. | |
-5 letters: aa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-e-m-o-s" | |
+2 letters: gambadoes, steamboat. | |
+3 letters: abominates, ameloblast, amoebiases, amoebiasis, endamoebas, entamoebas, steamboats. | |
+4 letters: ameloblasts, compassable, megaloblast, melanoblast. | |
+5 letters: abandonments, ambulatories, balletomanes, biomaterials, cabbageworms, dermabrasion, elasmobranch, embarcaderos, embarkations, flamboyances, harbormaster, megaloblasts, melanoblasts, meprobamates, semiarboreal, somnambulate. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 4D 4F 45 42 41 53 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -- --- . -... .- ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01001101 01001111 01000101 01000010 01000001 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A M O E B A S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 004D 004F 0045 0042 0041 0053 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)35474939363553 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Usage Frequency 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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