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Effervesce

Definition: Effervesce

Effervesce

Verb

1. Of liquids; "The boiling soup was frothing".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "effervesce" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references)

Note: Effervesce \Ef`fer*vesce"\, intransitive verb. [imperative past participle Effervesced; present participle verb or noun Effervescing.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Effervesce

Synonyms: fizz (v), foam (v), froth (v), sparkle (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Effervesce

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Agitation

Ferment, effervesce, foam; boil, boil over; bubble up; simmer.

Bubble

Verb: bubble, boil, foam, froth, mantle, sparkle, guggle, gurgle; effervesce, ferment, fizzle.

Vaporization

Bubble, sparge, effervesce, boil.

Violence

Verb: be -violent; Adjective: run high; ferment, effervesce; romp, rampage, go on a rampage; run wild, run amuck, run riot; break the peace; rush, tear; rush headlong, rush foremost; raise a storm, make a riot; rough house; riot, storm; wreak, bear down, ride roughshod, out Herod, Herod; spread like wildfire.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Effervesce

English words defined with "effervesce": Effervesced, Emboil, Exestuate. (references)
Specialty definitions using "effervesce": Poison Detectors. (references)

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Sounds Captioned with "Effervesce".

PlayCaptionPlayCaption
Carbonated; carbonation; pour; buzz; effervesce; fizzle; froth; hiss; seethe; sibilate; simmer; sparkle; sputter; whisper; whoosh; bubble.Buzz; effervesce; fizzle; froth; hiss; seethe; sibilate; simmer; sparkle; sputter; whisper; whoosh.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Effervesce

"Effervesce" is generally used as a lexical verb (base form) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "Effervesce" 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (base form)80%4175,879
Lexical Verb (infinitive)20%1339,140
                    Total100.00%5N/A

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Effervesce

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

effervesce

23
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Effervesce

Language Translations for "effervesce"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

ziej (boil, boil over, poach, seethe, simmer, stew), shkumëzoj (foam, froth, lather, seethe), flluskoj (bubble). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏فور (fizz, sink), ‏إهتاج (be agitated, be excited, be nervous, be upset, boil, ferment, flurry, flutter, fuss, seethe, simmer), ‏إنفعل (carry on), ‏رغا (cream, foam, froth, lather, ramble). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

шупвам (yeast), кипя (boil, churn, ferment, seethe, wallop, work), вълнувам се (flutter, get excited, pulsate, roll, surge, take on, thrill, throb), ликувам (exult, glory, rejoice, triumph), пеня се (bubble, churn, cream, fizz, foam, froth, froth up, fume, lather, scum, spume). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

兴奋 (Effervesced, Effervescing, Exaltation, Excitatory, Excitement, Exhilarate, Exhilarated, Exhilarating, heady, mind-blowing, thrill, thrilled, thrilling, tingle). (various references)

   

Czech

  

pìnit se (spume), šumìt (bubble, fizz, swash, whisper). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

گازدارکردن(مشروبات وغیره), جوش زدن (Breakout). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

vaahdota (foam, froth, lather), juomasta. (various references)

   

French

  

entrer en effervescence, pétiller, déborder, être tout excité. (various references)

   

German

  

sprudeln (bubble, bubbling, effervescence, fizz, pour out, sputter). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

βράζω (boil, brew, decoct, ferment, malt, seethe), αναβράζω (ferment, to prime, to seethe). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ל"תסיס (agitate, excite, ferment). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

pezseg (ferment, fizz, to bubble, to churn, to effervesce, to fizz, to fizzle, to seethe), habzik (foam, froth, lather, scum, to cream, to effervesce, to feather, to foam, to froth, to mantle, to ream, to scum, to yeast). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

muai, bergelora (fiery, impassioned, seethe). (various references)

   

Italian

  

essere effervescente (bubble), spumeggiare (bubble, fizz, fizzle, foam, froth, sparkle). (various references)

   

Manx

  

keshal (cream, cream of ale etc., effervescence, fizz, foam, foaming, froth, frothing, lather, lathering), broie (boil, effervescence, overdo, parch, seethe, stew). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

effervesceay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

aferente (afferent). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

fierbe (boil, bubble over, cook, ferment, fizz, heat, poach, pot, rage, resound, roar, seethe, simmer, torment, torture), fi în stare de efervescenţã. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

быть в возбуждении, пузыриться (bubble). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

ispuštati mehuriće (bubble), biti živahan. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

estar en efervescencia. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

skumma (browse, foam, froth, scan, scum, skim), bubbla (bubble). (various references)

   

Thai

  

เป็นฟอง (bubbly), มีชีวิตชีวา (kickin', scintillating, sprightly, swinging). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

köpürmek (be hopping mad, boil, boil over, bubble, churn, cream, explode, fizz, fly off the handle, foam, froth, lather, rage, ramp, ramp and rage, seethe, sparkle, yeast), galeyana gelmek (be agitated, boil, boil over), coşmak (boil up, bubble over, enthuse, glow, gush, let oneself go, overflow, slop over). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

хвилюватися (bother, care, create, fidget, flutter, grizzle, mind, raise a dust, run high, stew, throb, wave, welter), пускати бульбашки, пінитися (cream, fizz, foam, froth, mantle, ream, scum, spume). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

berwi (boil, seethe). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Effervesce

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

bullas, efferbuerunt, efferbuit. (various references)

Avestan200-600

uzdâtât. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations: Effervesce

Derivations

Words beginning with "effervesce": effervesced, effervescence, effervescences, effervescent, effervescently, effervesces. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Effervesce

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-e-e-e-f-f-r-s-v"

-4 letters: creese, fevers, reeves, severe.

-5 letters: ceres, feces, feres, fever, frees, reefs, reeve, resee, scree, serve, sever, veers, verse.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-e-e-e-f-f-r-s-v"
 

+1 letter: effervesced, effervesces.

 

+2 letters: effervescent.

 

+3 letters: effervescence.

 

+4 letters: effervescences, effervescently, supereffective.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Effervesce


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

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HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

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British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Sounds
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Translations: Ancient
9. Derivations
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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