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EXFOLIATIVE

Definitions: EXFOLIATIVE

EXFOLIATIVE

Adjective

1. Having the power of causing exfoliation.

Noun

1. An exfoliative agent.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Exfoliative \Ex*fo"li*a"tive\, adjective. [Compare to French expression exfoliatif.]. (Websters 1913)

Crosswords: EXFOLIATIVE

Specialty definitions using "EXFOLIATIVE": Epidermal Necrolysis, Toxic, Exfoliatins. (references)

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Photo Album: EXFOLIATIVE

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General Exfoliative Epidemic Dermatitis.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

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

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Usage Frequency: EXFOLIATIVE

"EXFOLIATIVE" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "EXFOLIATIVE" is used about 20 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
Adjective (general or positive)100%2078,262

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: EXFOLIATIVE

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

  exfoliative dermatitis

12

  exfoliative keratolysis

6
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: EXFOLIATIVE

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

Danish

  

eksfoliativ. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

exfoliatief. (various references)

   

French

  

exfoliatif. (various references)

   

German

  

esfoliativus, entblätternd (defoliating), lamellös schuppend. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αποφολιδωτικός. (various references)

   

Italian

  

esfoliativo. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

exfoliativeay

   

Portuguese

  

exfoliativo. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

exfoliativo. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "EXFOLIATIVE"

Words rhyming with "EXFOLIATIVE" (pronounced 'Ex*fo"li*a"tive'): Abjunctive, Absorptive, Abstractive, Accretive, Active, Adductive, Adscriptive, Affective, Afflictive, Appetitive, Arbustive, Architective, Assumptive, Astrictive, Astructive, Attentive, Benedictive, Calefactive, Chylifactive, Circumscriptive, Circumspective, Coactive, Collative, Completive, Compunctive, Conceptive, Concretive, Conglutinative, Conjunctive, Contortive, Convective, Costive, Creative, Deceptive, Decretive, Defunctive, Depletive, Descriptive, Diffractive, Discerptive, Discretive, Distinctive, Distractive, Eductive, Elative, Electro-motive, Emotive, Ententive, Excalfactive, Excerptive. (additional references)

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Anagrams: EXFOLIATIVE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-f-i-i-l-o-t-v-x"

-2 letters: exfoliate.

-3 letters: fixative.

-4 letters: elative, filiate, foliate, foveate, foxtail, violate.

-5 letters: etoile, fetial, fixate, foetal, folate, foveae, foveal, iolite, oleate, oxtail, velate, violet.

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

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Alternative Orthography: EXFOLIATIVE


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

45 58 46 4F 4C 49 41 54 49 56 45

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)

01000101 01011000 01000110 01001111 01001100 01001001 01000001 01010100 01001001 01010110 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#88 &#70 &#79 &#76 &#73 &#65 &#84 &#73 &#86 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0058 0046 004F 004C 0049 0041 0054 0049 0056 0045

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. Crosswords
3. Images: Photo Album
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Rhymes
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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