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Definition: EFFLUVIA |
EFFLUVIAPlural1. Of Effluvium |
Date "EFFLUVIA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1726. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
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. |
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Crosswords: EFFLUVIA |
| English words defined with "EFFLUVIA": Effluvial ♦ Penetrancy ♦ Rose cold. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "EFFLUVIA": Phenomena. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "EFFLUVIA": Effluvium. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
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. |
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| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 16 | 87,710 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. | ||
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). | |
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 46 46 4C 55 56 49 41 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). ..-. ..-. .-.. ..- ...- .. .- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01000110 01000110 01001100 01010101 01010110 01001001 01000001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E F F L U V I A |
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)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3940404655564335 |
| 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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