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EFFLUVIA

Definition: EFFLUVIA

EFFLUVIA

Plural

1. Of Effluvium

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "EFFLUVIA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1726. (references)



Specialty Definitions: EFFLUVIA

DomainDefinitions

Tips from 1870

Usage: Phenomena, Effluvia. "A strange phenomena," "A disagreeable effluvia" are incorrect forms not infrequently met with. Both words are plural, and require plural verbs and also the omission of the article a. Source: Slips of Speech.

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

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Crosswords: EFFLUVIA

English words defined with "EFFLUVIA": EffluvialPenetrancyRose cold. (references)
Specialty definitions using "EFFLUVIA": Phenomena. (references)
Etymologies containing "EFFLUVIA": Effluvium. (references)

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Commercial Usage: EFFLUVIA

DomainTitle

Books

  • Effluvia (reference)

  • Getting Organized -- Empty Your Head Of Effluvia; Use Your Brain For Thinking, Efficiency Expert Says [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Use in Literature: EFFLUVIA

TitleAuthorQuote

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

That the face of the sun will by degrees be encrusted with its own effluvia, and give no more light to the world.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: EFFLUVIA

"EFFLUVIA" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "EFFLUVIA" is used about 16 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
Noun (singular)100%1687,710

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

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Modern Translations: EFFLUVIA

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

Pig Latin

  

effluviaay.(various references)

   

Scottish

  

sgamal (a scale). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: EFFLUVIA

Misspellings

"EFFLUVIA" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: effluvian, efluvi, iffluvia. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: EFFLUVIA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-f-f-i-l-u-v"

-2 letters: eluvia.

-3 letters: alive, fauve, luffa, uveal, value.

-4 letters: alef, alif, evil, fail, fave, feal, fief, fife, fila, file, five, flea, flue, fuel, ilea, lave, leaf, leva, lief, lieu, life, live, luff, ulva, uvea, vail, vale, veal, veil, vela, vial, vile.

-5 letters: aff, ail, ale, ave, eau, eff, elf, feu, fie, fil, flu, iff, lav, lea, lei, leu, lev, lie, luv, vau, via, vie.

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

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Alternative Orthography: EFFLUVIA


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

45 46 46 4C 55 56 49 41

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)

.    ..-.    ..-.    .-..    ..-    ...-    ..    .-

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

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

01000101 01000110 01000110 01001100 01010101 01010110 01001001 01000001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#70 &#70 &#76 &#85 &#86 &#73 &#65

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0046 0046 004C 0055 0056 0049 0041

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

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

3940404655564335

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Fiction
5. Usage Frequency
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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