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Definition: CARUS |
CARUSNoun1. Coma with complete insensibility; deep lethargy. |
Date "CARUS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
Etymology: Carus \Ca"rus\, noun. [New Latin expression, from the Greek]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: CARUS |
| English words defined with "CARUS": Titus Lucretius Carus. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "CARUS": Giants. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "CARUS": Caroche. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "CARUS" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Latin (beloved /costly, dear, expensive, high-priced, lovely, valuable). |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "CARUS" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 71.43% of the time. "CARUS" is used about 7 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 (proper) | 71.43% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (singular) | 28.57% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 7 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "CARUS": Titus Lucretius Carus. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "CARUS": Carus-wilson. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
carus | 21 |
carus chemical | 8 |
carus publishing | 7 |
carus chemical company | 4 |
carus verlag | 3 |
carus chemical co | 2 |
carus vernon | 2 |
carl carus gustav | 2 |
paul carus | 2 |
carus company publishing | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "CARUS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | Carus'krumming (Carus circle, Carus curve). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | cirkel van Carus (Carus circle, Carus curve), kromme van Carus (Carus circle, Carus curve). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | courbure de Carus (Carus circle, Carus curve). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Carus Kruemmung (Carus circle, Carus curve). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | καμπύλη Carus (Carus circle, Carus curve). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | curva di Carus (Carus circle, Carus curve). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | aruscay curva de Carus (Carus circle, Carus curve). (various references) curva de Carus (Carus circle, Carus curve). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "CARUS": acarus. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "CARUS" (pronounced 'Ca"rus'): Arcturus, Birrus, brontosaurus, Camarasaurus, Ceratosaurus, Churrus, Citrus, Coenurus, Elasmosaurus, Eosaurus, Eurus, gyrus, hadrosaurus, ichthyosaurus, Laurus, Malapterurus, Morosaurus, Morus, Mosasaurus, Paleosaurus, Palinurus, Papyrus, Pelorus, Pleiosaurus, Plesiosaurus, Pliosaurus, Proterosaurus, Pylorus, Pyrus, Scarus, Sciurus, Silurus, Strato-cirrus, Susurrus, Teleosaurus, thesaurus, torus, Trichiurus, urus, Varus, Virus, Walrus. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: arcus, scaur. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: arcs, cars, crus, curs, scar, sura, ursa. | |
-2 letters: arc, ars, car, cur, ras, sac, sau. | |
-3 letters: ar, as, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-r-s-u" | |
+1 letter: acarus, carpus, causer, cesura, sacrum, saucer, scaurs, soucar. | |
+2 letters: accrues, accurst, accuser, acerous, apercus, arcuses, aurochs, buckras, caesura, carfuls, carious, carolus, carouse, causers, cesurae, cesuras, chukars, cougars, crusade, crusado, crustal, cuirass, curaghs, curaras, curares, curaris, curates, curiosa, currans, curtals, custard, fractus, oculars, oscular, raucous, recusal, rubaces, sacrums, sarcous, saucers, saucier, scauper, secular, soucars, subrace, sucrase, surcoat, surface, turacos, uracils. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 41 52 55 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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| Semaphore (1791, in 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)01000011 01000001 01010010 01010101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C A R U S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0041 0052 0055 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)3735525553 |
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