Bile

Definition: Bile

Bile

Noun

1. A digestive juice secreted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder; aids in the digestion of fats.

"Bile" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "to be bright", "to have brilliance".

Date "bile" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Bile

Domain	Definitions
Food & Agriculture	Fluid secreted by the liver. Source: European Union. (references)
Health	An emulsifying agent produced in the LIVER and secreted into the DUODENUM. Its composition includes BILE ACIDS AND SALTS, CHOLESTEROL, and ELECTROLYTES. It aids DIGESTION of fats in the duodenum. (references)
Literature	Bile It rouses my bile. It makes me angry or indignant. In Latin, biliosus (a bilious man) meant a choleric one. According to the ancient theory, bile is one of the humours of the body, and when excited abnormally it produces choler or rage. "It raised my bile to see him so reflect their grief aside."- Hood: Plea of Midsummer Fairies, stanza 54. Black bile is melancholy. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Specialty Definition: Bile

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Bile (or gall) is a bitter, greenish-yellow alkaline fluid secreted by the liver of many vertebrates. It is stored in the gallbladder between meals and upon eating is discharged into the duodenum where it aids the process of digestion, especially of fats. Besides its digestive function, bile serves as the route of excretion for hemoglobin breakdown products (bilirubin) which give bile its colour. Bile also contains cholesterol, which occasionally accretes into lumps in the gall bladder, forming gallstones.

Yellow and black bile were two of the four vital fluids or humours of ancient and medieval medicine; for example, melancholia was believed to be caused by a bodily surplus of black bile.

Bile is also another name for Belenus, a god in Brythonic mythology.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Bile."

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Bile

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
BILE	English	Beam Induced Light Emission	N/A
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonym: Bile

Synonym: gall (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Bile

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Resentment	Phrase: one's blood being up, one's back being up, one's monkey being up; fervens difficili bile jecur; the gorge rising, eyes flashing fire; the blood rising, the blood boiling; haeret lateri lethalis arundo; " beware the fury of a patient man "; furor arma ministrat; ira furor brevis est; quem Jupiter vult perdere dementat prius; "What, drunk with choler? ".
	Excitement, irritation; warmth, bile, choler, ire, fume, pucker, dander, ferment, ebullition; towering passion, acharnement, angry mood, taking, pet, tiff, passion, fit, tantrums.
	Cause anger, raise anger; affront, offend; give offense, give umbrage; anger; hurt the feelings; insult, discompose, fret, ruffle, nettle, huff, pique; excite; irritate, stir the blood, stir up bile; sting, sting to the quick; rile, provoke, chafe, wound, incense, inflame, enrage, aggravate, add fuel to the flame, fan into a flame, widen the breach, envenom, embitter, exasperate, infuriate, kindle wrath; stick in one's gizzard; rankle &e.; hit on the raw, rub on the raw, sting on the raw, strike on the raw.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Bile

English words defined with "bile": acholia, Acholous, Atrabiliary ♦ bile acid, bile duct, bile salt, biliary, Biliation, Biliferous, Bilifuscin, Bilin, bilious, bilirubin, Biliverdin, black bile ♦ Cholaemaa, Cholagogue, cholangiography, cholangitis, Choledology, Choleic, cholestasis, Cholic acid, Cholinic, Colera, common bile duct, Cystic duct ♦ Dyslysin ♦ Emulgent, Erythrogen ♦ Fasciola hepatica, Fellinic, Fluids of the body, Foregut ♦ Gall duct, gallbladder, Glycocholic acid, Glycocoll ♦ haematoidin, hematoidin, Hepatic colic, hepatic duct, hyperbilirubinemia ♦ icterus ♦ jaundice ♦ kernicterus ♦ Lithobilic, liver, liver fluke ♦ Melanagogue, Midgut, musculus sphincter ductus choledochi ♦ Neurine ♦ Ox bile ♦ Serolin, Stercobilin, stercobilinogen ♦ taurine, Taurocholate, Taurocholic ♦ urobilin, urobilinogen ♦ yellow bile, Yellows. (references)

Specialty definitions using "bile": 1-Naphthylisothiocyanate ♦ Adenoma, Bile Duct, Alagille Syndrome ♦ Bile Acids, Bile Acids and Salts, Bile Canaliculi, Bile Duct Neoplasms, Bile Duct Obstruction, Extrahepatic, Bile Ducts, Bile Ducts, Extrahepatic, Bile Ducts, Intrahepatic, Bile Pigments, Bile Reflux, Biliary Atresia, Biliverdine ♦ Cardinal Humours, Caroli's Disease, Chenodeoxycholic Acid, Cholagogues and Choleretics, cholangiosarcoma, Cholangitis, Sclerosing, Cholecystogram, Oral, Choledocholithiasis, Choledochostomy, Cholestanols, cholestasia, Cholestasis, Intrahepatic, Cholestyramine, Cholic Acids, CHOLOGOGUE, Choriambic Metre, Colipases, Common Bile Duct Calculi, Common Bile Duct Diseases, Common Bile Duct Neoplasms, Common Bile Duct Obstruction ♦ Dehydrocholic Acid, Deoxycholic Acid ♦ endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography, Enterohepatic Circulation, ERCP, Extrahepatic Biliary Tree ♦ Fats ♦ Gallbladder Emptying, Gallstones, gamma glutamyl transpeptidase, gamma glutamyltransferase, Glucuronides, Glycochenodeoxycholic Acid, Glycodeoxycholic Acid ♦ Hepatic Duct, Common, Hepatitis A Virus, Human, hepatobiliary, Hepatorenal Syndrome ♦ intrahepatic bile ducts ♦ Lithocholic Acid, Lithotripsy, Extracorporeal Shock Wave ♦ Mezlocillin ♦ Oddi's Sphincter ♦ Papillary Stenosis, percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography, Pipemidic Acid, Portoenterostomy, Hepatic, Primary Biliary Cirrhosis, Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis, PTC ♦ Retroperitoneal Fibrosis ♦ Sincalide, Sodium Cholate, Sphincter of Oddi, Sphincterotomy, Endoscopic, stage I pancreatic cancer, Sulfotransferases ♦ Taurochenodeoxycholic Acid, Taurocholic Acid, Taurodeoxycholic Acid, Taurolithocholic Acid ♦ Ursodeoxycholic Acid ♦ Vater's Ampulla, Very Vulgar Vulgarisms. (references)

Etymologies containing "bile": Acholia ♦ Bilifuscin, Bilin, Biliprasin, Biliverdin ♦ Cholaemaa, Cholagogue, Cholate, Cholecystis, Choler, Choline, Cholochrome, Cholophaein. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Bile" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Albanian (even), French (bile, gall, petulance, spleen), Italian (bile, gall), Portuguese (bile, gall), Scottish (edge, lip, rim), Turkish (already, as well, even, even if, nor yet, very), Turkmen (together).

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Modern Usage: Bile

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	I am Jack's raging bile duct. (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls)
Movie/TV Titles	Kader ayirsa bile (1968)
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Commercial Usage: Bile

Domain	Title
References	The World Market for Ambergris, Castoreum, Civit, Musk, Cantharides, Bile, Glands, and Other Animal Products Used in the Preparation of Pharmaceutical Products: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Bile Ducts and Bile Duct Stones (reference) Aps Handbk Physio S6 Alimentary Canal V5 Bile Digestion Code (reference) Tumors of the Gallbladder, Extrahepatic Bile Ducts and Ampulla of Vater (reference) The inflammatory and atresia-inducing disease of the liver and bile ducts (reference) 21st Century Complete Medical Guide to Cancer of the Small Intestine, Gallbladder, and Bile Duct - Authoritative Government Documents and Clinical References for Patients and Physicians with Practical Information on Diagnosis and Treatment Options (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Urmur Bile Trax, Vols. 1 & 2 [CD-SINGLE] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Photo Album: Bile

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.		Tetrathionate enrichment broth contains bile salts, thereby, inhibiting the growth of gram-positive organisms, while salmonella, an organism which possess the enzyme tetrathionate reductase, grows uninhibited.Credit: CDC.
	Tetrathionate enrichment broth contains bile salts, thereby, inhibiting the growth of gram-positive organisms, while salmonella, an organism which possess the enzyme tetrathionate reductase, grows uninhibited.Credit: CDC.		Tracey Collier of NMFS dissects a flounder and removes bile to document exposure to oil.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.
	Tracey Collier of NMFS dissects a flounder and removes bile to document exposure to oil.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Bile

Author	Quotation
Horace	My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Bile

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		The bile is stored between meals in the gallbladder. (references)
		Drugs made from bile acid are used to dissolve the stones. (references)
		Bile products deposited in the skin may cause intense itching. (references)
Human Rights	Somalia	There were no developments in the arrests of the following persons arrested by the Somaliland authorities in 2000 for participating in the Djibouti Conference: Sultan Mohamed Abdulkadir, who was arrested in November; Bile Mahmud Qabowsadeh, who was arrested in October; and Abdi Hashi, who was arrested in May. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Bile

"Bile" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Bile" is used about 1,182 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%	1,182	6,534

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Bile

The following table summarizes the usage of "bile" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Bile	Last name	100	74,930
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: Bile

"Bile" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "to be bright", "to have brilliance".

The following table summarizes names related to "Bile."
Name	Gender	Language	Related Name
Cunobelinus	Male	Ancient Celtic (Latinized)	Belenus
Belenus	Male	Celtic Mythology (Latinized)	N/A
Bile	Male	Irish Mythology	Belenus
Beli	Male	Welsh Mythology	Belenus
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Expressions: Bile

Expressions using "bile": bile acid ♦ Bile Acid Sequestrant Drugs ♦ Bile Acid Sequestrants ♦ Bile Acids ♦ Bile Acids and Salts ♦ Bile Canaliculi ♦ bile duct ♦ Bile Duct Neoplasms ♦ Bile Ducts ♦ Bile Pigments ♦ Bile Reflux ♦ bile reservoir ♦ bile salt ♦ bile stone ♦ black bile ♦ Common Bile Duct ♦ Common Bile Duct Calculi ♦ Common Bile Duct Diseases ♦ Common Bile Duct Neoplasms ♦ Common Bile Duct Obstruction ♦ intrahepatic bile ducts ♦ man full of bile ♦ of the bile ♦ ox bile ♦ yellow bile. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "bile": bile-snorting.
	Ending with "bile": calcium-phosphate-bile, non-bile, peri-bile.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Bile

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	Expression	Frequency per Day
bile	212	bile zbozi.cz	6
bile duct	71	bile diarrhea salt	6
bile duct cancer	60	band bile	6
bile reflux	24	bile in stool	6
bile salt	22	bile fabius	6
common bile duct	19	bile in stomach	6
ox bile	18	bile doesn t work	5
bile lyrics	17	vanishing bile duct syndrome	5
bile duct stone	14	bile gastritis	5
vomiting bile	14	bile yellow	5
bile blockage duct	13	bile common duct stone	5
bile duct obstruction	12	bile duct tumor	5
bile acid	11	bile stomach	5
bile blocked duct	8	bile bovina	5
bile duct disease	8	bile music	5
abdomen bile into leak	8	bile duct surgery	5
bile liver	7	bile duct stone symptom	4
bile dog vomit	6	bile movement	4
bile dog vomiting	6	bile cancer common duct	4
bile mp3	6	bile black	4
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Modern Translations: Bile

Language		Translations for "bile"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏المرة مادة يفرزها الكبد, ‏النكد (petulance, spleen), ‏الصفراء. (various references)

Chinese		胆汁 (Biliary). (various references)

Czech		žluè (gall). (various references)

Danish		galde (gall). (various references)

Dutch		gal (galileo, gall, plant gall, salt, salt water, tumor, tumour). (various references)

Esperanto		galo (gall). (various references)

Faeroese		gall (gall). (various references)

Farsi		مراره , زهره (Gall), زرداب (Gall), صفرا (Gall, Yellowbile), خوی سوداءی . (various references)

Finnish		sappi (gall). (various references)

French		bile, fiel. (various references)

Frisian		galle (gall). (various references)

German		Galle (gall, gall bladder, nodule, plant gall, salt, salt water, tumor, tumour, virulence). (various references)

Greek		χολή (choler, gall, spleen). (various references)

Hebrew		מר�" (gall), מרר�" (bitterness, gall). (various references)

Hungarian		epe (gall). (various references)

Indonesian		empedu (gall). (various references)

Italian		bile (gall), fiele (gall, gallbladder). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		胆汁 (gall), 黄水 (gall). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		た�"じゅう (gall, pistol, revolver), おうすい (aqua regia, gall), きみず (gall). (various references)

Korean		담즙. (various references)

Manx		soo y ghailley, geaynid (greenness, verdure, vert), buighid (biliary, gall, sallowness, yellowness). (various references)

Papiamen		hal (gall). (various references)

Pig Latin		ilebay

Portuguese		bílis (gall), bile (gall). (various references)

Romanian		bilã (ball, bowl, chump, gall, pellet), iritabilitate (excitability, irritability, petulance, ticklishness), irascibilitate (fretfulness, irascibility, testiness), fiere (bitterness, gall, sorrows, troubles, venom). (various references)

Russian		желчь (gall), желчность (acrimony, gall, jaundice). (various references)

Scottish		domblas (gall). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		žuč (gall). (various references)

Spanish		bilis (gall). (various references)

Swedish		galla (choler, gall, salt, salt water, vitriol). (various references)

Thai		น้ำ�"ี, ความโกรธ (anger). (various references)

Turkish		safra (ballast, choler, gall), huysuzluk (acerbity, acrimony, bad temper, biliousness, crankiness, crossness, cussedness, devilry, disagreeableness, distemper, fractiousness, grouch, grouchiness, huff, moodiness, pettishness, petulance, sourness, spleen, surliness, temper, vice, viciousness), aksilik (awkwardness, contrariety, contrariness, contretemps, crossness, dourness, fractiousness, gruffness, hardness, hitch, ill luck, misadventure, misfortune, mishap, moodiness, moods, perversity, petulance, recalcitrance, reverse, rotten luck, setback, slip, slip up, sullenness, surliness, tantrum, testiness, trouble, vexatiousness), öd (choler, gall). (various references)

Ukranian		роздратованість (chafing, crossness), жовчність (acrimony, gall, jaundice), жовч (choler, gall). (various references)

Vietnamese		mặt tính cáu gắt chọc tức ai, l� m ai phát cáu (pecker). (various references)

Welsh		bustl (gall), geri (gall). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Bile

Language	Period	Translations
Sumerian	3100 BCE-2500 BCE	zi. (various references)
Greek	700 BCE-300 CE	khole. (various references)
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	bilis, fel, felle, fellis. (various references)
Late Latin	300-700	cholera. (various references)
Old French	900-1400	colre. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Bile

Derivations
	Words beginning with "bile": biles. (additional references)
	Words ending with "bile": airmobile, automobile, bloodmobile, bookmobile, cantabile, habile, immobile, jubile, labile, mobile, nonmobile, nubile, pimpmobile, skimobile, snowmobile, stabile, strobile, thermolabile, verbile. (additional references)
	Words containing "bile": automobiled, automobiles, bloodmobiles, bookmobiles, jubilee, jubilees, jubiles, mobiles, pimpmobiles, skimobiles, snowmobiler, snowmobilers, snowmobiles, stabiles, strobiles, verbiles. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Bile" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bacle, bael, baile, Baille, Baleh, Balle, ballee, Bcie, beale, beile, bele, Belem, Beloe, biae, bial, Biala, biale, bibe, Bidle, Bidlea, bie, Biel, Biela, Bieleu, Bielle, bife, Biglen, bihl, bije, Bijl, bil, Bila, bild, biled, Bilek, Bileka, bilen, biles, bilet, biley, bilg, bili, Bilic, bilie, bilio, bilip, bilke, Bilkey, billa, Bille, billee, biller, billi, billo, biln, bilo, Bilou, bilt, bilx, bily, bime, biolo, bipe, biqe, biul, bive, Bixle, Bixler, ble, bleh, blei, blej, blev, bli, blide, Bliecq, blih, blime, bline, blipe, blir, bliv, blix, blize, boilee, bolen, bolex, bolle, Bollee, boloe, bolve, brile, brille, brilo, buel, buile, bule, buloe, byel, byl, byle, bylie, bylo, ibel, Ibl, ible, iblet, iboe, Mbila, Sbili, uile. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Bile"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "bile" (pronounced bī"l)
2	-ī" l	aisle, Argyll, awhile, beguile, compile, file, guile, Heil, Isle, mile, Phyle, pile, refile, restyle, revile, rile, smile, stile, style, tile, vile, while, wile, worthwhile, Wyle.
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Anagrams: Bile

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-e-i-l"
	-1 letter: bel, lei, lib, lie.
	-2 letters: be, bi, el, li.
	Words containing the letters "b-e-i-l"
	+1 letter: belie, bezil, bible, bield, biles, bilge, birle, blite, libel, liber, obeli.
	+2 letters: abelia, abseil, albeit, albite, alible, bailed, bailee, bailer, bailey, bailie, belied, belief, belier, belies, belike, belive, berlin, bewail, beylic, beylik, bezils, bibles, bields, biflex, bilged, bilges, bilked, bilker, billed, biller, billet, billie, bindle, birled, birler, birles, blimey, blites, blithe, blivet, blooie, boiled, boiler, boleti, bolide, bridle, byline, dibble, edible, emboli, fimble, foible, gerbil, giblet, habile, jubile, kibble, labile, lambie, liable, libber, libels, libers, librae, limbed, limber, milneb, mobile, nibble, nimble, nubile, obelia, oblige, rebill, reboil, riblet, viable, wimble.
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