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Definition: Calomel |
CalomelNoun1. A tasteless colorless powder used medicinally as a cathartic. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "calomel" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Chemistry | Tetragonal mineral; it is a colourless, white, or faintly tinted tasteless salt, and is used as a cathartic, fungicide and insecticide; when fused, it has a horny appearance. Source: European Union. (references) |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of calomel shows some person is seeking to deceive and injure you through the unconscious abetting of friends. For a young woman to dream of taking it, foretells that she will be victimized through the artful designing of persons whom she trusts. If it is applied externally, she will close her eyes to deceit in order to enjoy a short season of pleasure. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Literature | Calomel Hooper says- "This name, which means `beautiful black,' was originally given to the Æthiop's mineral, or black sulphuret of mercury. It was afterwards applied in joke by Sir Theodore Mayerne to the chloride of mercury, in honour of a favourite negro servant whom he employed to prepare it. As calomel is a white powder, the name is merely a jocular misnomer."- Medical Dictionary. Greek, ????? beautiful ,????? black. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mining | A tetragonal mineral, 2[Hg2 Cl2 ] ; a secondary alteration of mercury-bearing minerals. Syn:calomelite; calomelano;horn quicksilver; mercurial horn ore. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: CalomelSynonym: mercurous chloride (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Remedy | Agueweed, arnica, benzoin, bitartrate of potash, boneset, calomel, catnip, cinchona, cream of tartar, Epsom salts; feverroot, feverwort; friar's balsam, Indian sage; ipecac, ipecacuanha; jonquil, mercurous chloride, Peruvian bark; quinine, quinquina; sassafras, yarrow. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Calomel |
| English words defined with "calomel": Aquila alba ♦ Horn quicksilver ♦ mercurous chloride. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Calomel" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Portuguese (calomel), Spanish (calomel). |
| "Calomel" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Calomel" is used about 6 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% | 6 | 143,867 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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 |
calomel | 9 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "calomel"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Bulgarian | каломел. (various references) | |
Chinese | "汞. (various references) | |
Danish | calomel (dimercury dichloride, mercurous chloride), mercuroklorid (calomelite, horn mercury, horn quicksilver, mercurous chloride), kviksoelvchlorid (dimercury dichloride, mercuric chloride, mercurous chloride), kalomel (calomelite, horn mercury, horn quicksilver, mercurous chloride), dikviksoelvdichlorid (dimercury dichloride, mercurous chloride). (various references) | |
Dutch | calomel (calomelite, dimercury dichloride, horn mercury, horn quicksilver, mercurous chloride), kwikchloride (dimercury dichloride, mercuric chloride, mercurous chloride), dikwikdichloride (dimercury dichloride, mercurous chloride). (various references) | |
Finnish | kalomeli (calomelite, horn mercury, horn quicksilver, mercurous chloride), elohopeakloridi (calomelite, horn mercury, horn quicksilver, mercurous chloride). (various references) | |
French | chlorure mercureux, calomel (calomelite), sublimé doux (calomelite), dichlorure de dimercure. (various references) | |
German | Quecksilberchlorid (dimercury dichloride, mercuric chloride, mercurous chloride), Kalomel (dimercury dichloride, mercurous chloride), Horn-Quecksilber (calomelite, horn mercury, horn quicksilver, mercurous chloride), Diquecksilberdichlorid (dimercury dichloride, mercurous chloride). (various references) | |
Greek | καλομέλανο, καλομέλας (calomelite, horn mercury, horn quicksilver, mercurous chloride), υποχλωριούχοσ υδράργυροσ. (various references) | |
Hungarian | higanyklorid. (various references) | |
Indonesian | obat urus-urus (physic). (various references) | |
Italian | calomelano (calomelite, dimercury dichloride, horn mercury, horn quicksilver, mercurous chloride). (various references) | |
Korean | 감홍. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | alomelcay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | calomelano (calomelite, horn mercury, horn quicksilver, mercurous chloride), calomel, protocloreto de mercúrio. (various references) | |
Russian | каломель. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | kalomel. (various references) | |
Spanish | calomel (calomelite, horn mercury, horn quicksilver, mercurous chloride). (various references) | |
Swedish | kalomel (calomelite, horn mercury, horn quicksilver, mercurous chloride). (various references) | |
Turkish | tatlısülümen, kalomel. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "calomel": calomels. (additional references) | |
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"Calomel" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: accommol, caloe, Camomella, celutel, chalone, Clonmell, Colomer, cyalume. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-l-l-m-o" | |
-1 letter: locale. | |
-2 letters: amole, camel, cameo, cella, cello, celom, comae, comal, local, macle, molal. | |
-3 letters: acme, alec, alme, aloe, call, calm, calo, came, cell, clam, coal, cola, cole, coma, come, lace, lame, leal, loam, loca, mace, male, mall, meal, mell, mola, mole, moll, olea, olla. | |
-4 letters: ace, ale, all, cam, cel, col, ell, elm, lac, lam, lea, mac, mae, mel, moa, moc, mol, oca, ole. | |
-5 letters: ae, al, am, el, em, la, lo, ma, me, mo, oe, om. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-l-l-m-o" | |
+1 letter: calomels. | |
+2 letters: collimate, columella, molecular, polemical. | |
+3 letters: allometric, collimated, collimates, columellae, columellar, melancholy. | |
+4 letters: bimolecular, collembolan, collenchyma, comedically, commensally, compellable, demonically, gemological, homiletical, lamellicorn, malevolence, medicolegal, meiotically, melancholia, melancholic, melodically, misallocate, molecularly, nonmetallic, nucleoplasm, nucleosomal, polemically, sarcolemmal. | |
+5 letters: biomolecular, ceremonially, collembolans, collenchymas, commercially, compellation, complacently, complemental, complexional, cosmetically, demoniacally, domestically, economically, etymological, hemerocallis, lachrymosely, lamellicorns, malacologies, malevolences, melancholiac, melancholias, melancholics, melancholies, meteorically, methodically, metrological, misallocated, misallocates, mnemonically, monometallic, museological, myeloblastic, nonmolecular, nucleoplasms, phonemically, semicolonial, semiological, smallclothes. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 61 6C 6F 6D 65 6C |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- .-.. --- -- . .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01101100 01101111 01101101 01100101 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a l o m e l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 006C 006F 006D 0065 006C |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)37677881797178 |
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