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Definition: ENCYST |
ENCYSTTransitive verb1. To inclose in a cyst. |
Crosswords: ENCYST |
| English words defined with "ENCYST": Incyst. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Within the muscles, the worms curl into a ball and encyst (become enclosed in a capsule). (references) | |
Immature eggs are discharged into the intestine and stool . Eggs become embryonated in water , eggs release miracidia , which invade a suitable snail intermediate host . In the snail the parasites undergo several developmental stages (sporocysts , rediae , and cercariae ). The cercariae are released from the snail and encyst as metacercariae on aquatic plants . The mammalian hosts become infected by ingesting metacercariae on the aquatic plants. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "ENCYST" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "ENCYST" is used about 3 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 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 66.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (singular) | 33.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "ENCYST"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | كيس (bag, budget, capsule, courteous, cyst, elegant, graceful, pocket, polite, pouch, sac, sack). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | ensacher. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | betokosodik (to encapsulate, to encyst), betokolódik (to encyst). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | incistarsi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | encystay enciclopedista. (various references) капсулу, образовать оболочку. (various references) crear envoltura. (various references) kese içine almak. (various references) утворювати оболонку. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ENCYST": encysted, encysting, encystment, encystments, encysts. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-n-s-t-y" | |
-1 letter: cents, scent, tynes. | |
-2 letters: cent, cyst, nest, nets, sect, sent, snye, stey, stye, syce, sync, syne, tens, tyes, tyne, yens. | |
-3 letters: ens, net, sec, sen, set, sty, syn, ten, tye, yen, yes, yet. | |
-4 letters: en, es, et, ne, ye. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-n-s-t-y" | |
+1 letter: cygnets, cystein, cystine, encysts, stenchy. | |
+2 letters: ancestry, chanteys, chutneys, cyanates, cyanites, cysteine, cysteins, cystines, cytosine, encrypts, encysted, secantly, syenitic, syndetic, synectic. | |
+3 letters: asyndetic, cysteines, cytidines, cytokines, cytosines, encysting, gonocytes, hesitancy, insectary, intestacy, monocytes, necessity, obscenity, sincerity, stridency, syncopate, syncretic, syndicate, synthetic, yachtsmen. | |
+4 letters: acetylenes, coenocytes, copayments, corybantes, cotyledons, counterspy, curtseying, cysteamine, cytogenies, dysenteric, dyskinetic, encystment, insecurity, insistency, isocyanate, myasthenic, nematocyst, pachytenes, phenocryst, postsynced, stringency, strychnine, subpotency, subtenancy, syncopated, syncopates, syncretise, syncretism, syncretist, syncretize, syndicated, syndicates, synergetic, synthetics, thylacines, transiency, unchastely. | |
+5 letters: actinomyces, ancestrally, antisecrecy, ascendantly, astringency, chatoyances, cherrystone, choanocytes, consistency, controversy, countlessly, countryseat, countryside, courtesying, crystalline, cutaneously, cybernetics, cysteamines, cytokineses, cytokinesis, decryptions, encryptions, encystments, endocytoses, endocytosis, hypocenters, incessantly, insincerity, isocyanates, melanocytes, myasthenics, mycetozoans, nematocysts, nonsystemic, persistency, persnickety, phenocrysts, pinocytoses, predynastic, presciently, presynaptic, pycnometers, quiescently, retinoscopy, sectionally, splenectomy, strychnines, subjacently, succulently, syncopative, syncretised, syncretises, syncretisms, syncretists, syncretized, syncretizes, synergistic, synesthetic, tenaciously, trichogynes, typecasting, typicalness, tyrocidines. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 4E 43 59 53 54 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). -. -.-. -.--. ... - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01001110 01000011 01011001 01010011 01010100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E N C Y S T |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 004E 0043 0059 0053 0054 |
| 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)394837595354 |
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