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Definition: Caseous |
CaseousAdjective1. Of damaged or necrotic tissue; cheeselike. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Caseous \Ca"se*ous\, adjective. [Latin expression caseus. Compare to Casein.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Density | Adjective: dense, solid; solidified. Verb: caseous; pukka; coherent, cohesive; compact, close, serried, thickset; substantial, massive, lumpish; impenetrable, impermeable, nonporous, imporous; incompressible; constipated; concrete. (hard); knotted, knotty; gnarled; crystalline, crystallizable; thick, grumous, stuffy. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Caseous |
| English words defined with "caseous": Tabes mesenterica. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "caseous": anapestifer infection, avian Pasteurella anapestifer infection ♦ duck septicemia ♦ goose influenza ♦ infectious serositis ♦ new duck disease ♦ Pasteurella anapestifer infection, pasteurellosis of ducks. (references) |
| "Caseous" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Caseous" is used about 4 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) | 75% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (proper) | 25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "caseous": Caseous degeneration. Additional references. | |
| 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 |
caseous lymphadenitis | 12 |
caseous goat | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "caseous"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | متجبن. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | ostet, osteagtig, kaseøs. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | caseosus, caseëus, verkaasd, kazig, kaasachtig. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | juustomainen (cheesy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | caséeux. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | caseosus, käsig (cheesy, pale, pasty), käseartig. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | καζεώδης, τυρώδησ (cheesy, curdy), τυρώδης, τυροειδής νέκρωση. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | elsajtosodás (caseous necrosis, cheesy necrosis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | caseoso. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | aseouscay caseoso (cheesy), de caso. (various references) ca brânza, brânzos (cheese-like, cheesy). (various references) сырный, творожистый (cheesy). (various references) caseoso (cheesy), de queso. (various references) ostliknande, ostaktig (cheesy, curdy). (various references) ที่เหมือนชีส. (various references) peynir ile ilgili, peynir gibi, peynir (cheese). (various references) cawsaidd (cheesy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Words rhyming with "caseous" (pronounced 'Ca"se*ous'): Abdominous, Abiogenous, Ablatitious, Abnormous, Absentaneous, Absonous, Abstemious, Abstentious, Abstractitious, Acanthaceous, Acanthocarpous, Acanthocephalous, Acanthophorous, Acanthopodious, Acanthopterous, Acanthopterygious, Acarpellous, Acarpous, Acclivitous, Acclivous, Acephalous, Acetabuliferous, Acetarious, Acetous, Achilous, Achlamydeous, Acholous, Achromatous, Achroous, Achylous, Achymous, Acidiferous, Acidulous, Acinaceous, Acotyledonous, Acrimonious, Acrocarpous, Acrogenous, Acronyctous, Acrosporous, Acrotomous, Actinophorous, Aculeous, Acuminous, Addititious, Adelphous, Adenophorous, Adenophyllous, Adenous, Adiaphorous. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-o-s-s-u" | |
-1 letter: causes, sauces, scouse. | |
-2 letters: ascus, cases, casus, cause, coses, cusso, oases, sauce, souse. | |
-3 letters: aces, case, cess, coss, cues, cuss, ecus, ocas, oses, ossa, sacs, seas, secs, sous, sues, uses. | |
-4 letters: ace, ass, cos, cue, eau, ecu, ess, oca, oes, ose, sac, sae, sau, sea, sec, sos, sou, sue, use. | |
-5 letters: ae, as, es, oe. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-o-s-s-u" | |
+1 letter: carouses, coassume, seascout. | |
+2 letters: aurochses, callouses, caroluses, carousels, carousers, cassoulet, cathouses, coassumed, coassumes, crusadoes, jacobuses, osculates, outcastes, rosaceous, seascouts, sebaceous, setaceous, soutaches. | |
+3 letters: autoecisms, backhouses, carrousels, cassoulets, castoreums, choraguses, coagulases, consensual, consulates, coruscates, courtesans, cousinages, croustades, housecarls, housecoats, moustaches, obfuscates, outclassed, outclasses, oversauces, sauceboats, sauceboxes, scabiouses, sequacious, subdeacons, submucosae, suffocates, testaceous, vouchsafes. | |
+4 letters: autocrosses, callousness, ceanothuses, cloudscapes, consumables, consummates, coursewares, crustaceous, decussation, discourages, glucosidase, goatsuckers, housecleans, inosculates, leucoplasts, pelycosaurs, racecourses, raucousness, sansculotte, saponaceous, scoriaceous, scoutmaster, sociosexual, solanaceous, speculators, succotashes, supercargos, supermachos, surrogacies, uncoalesces, uncrossable, vacuousness. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 61 73 65 6F 75 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- ... . --- ..- ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01110011 01100101 01101111 01110101 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a s e o u s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 0073 0065 006F 0075 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)37678571818785 |
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