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Definition: EXTREMITIES |
EXTREMITIESPlural1. Of Extremity |
Date "EXTREMITIES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
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Energy | The hands, forearms, elbows, feet, knee, leg below the knee, and ankles (permissible radiation exposures in these regions are generally greater than in the whole body because they contain less blood forming organs and have smaller volumes for energy absorption) (see 10 CFR 20.1003). (references) |
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Screenplays | Incidentally, I've taken your little wisecracks for a few years now, you hideous gargoyle, and if you ever open that gateway to hell you call a mouth in my direction again, I'll snap off your extremities like dead branches and feed them to you at gunpoint (Cheers; writing credit: Isaac Cronin; Wayne Wang) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Extremities (1913) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Physical Therapy Department, Deshon General Hospital, Butler, Pennsylvania : Pulleys being used for the exercise of both upper extremities including shoulder, elbow and wrist. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Destiny has certain extremities precipitous upon the impossible, and beyond which life is no more than an abyss |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | I trebled the cable to make it stronger, and for the same reason I twisted three of the iron bars together, binding the extremities into a hook |
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Health | The spasms usually involve the muscles of the neck, trunk, and extremities. (references) | |
Generalized numbness of the extremities and muscular incoordination also may occur. (references) | ||
Unlike NMSC, melanomas occur most frequently on the upper back in males and lower extremities in females. (references) | ||
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Dennis Miller | There's nothing I love better than going through a drive-thru window on a cold day, getting that perfectly balanced bag, setting it between my legs and driving away while that mothering heat radiates through my lower extremities. |
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| "EXTREMITIES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 99.15% of the time. "EXTREMITIES" is used about 117 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 (plural) | 99.15% | 116 | 29,969 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.85% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 117 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "EXTREMITIES": be reduced to extremities. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "EXTREMITIES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | metra të jashtëzakonshme, gjymtyrë (limb, member, side). (various references) | |
Arabic | أطراف الجسم. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | крайници (points), крайни мерки. (various references) | |
Chinese | 肢 (Extremity). (various references) | |
Czech | konèetiny. (various references) | |
Danish | yderste del af transmissionsvej (extremities of the path), sammentrækning af blodkar i ekstremiteterne (constriction of blood vessels in the extremities), Gianotti-Crosti's sygdom (eruptive dermatitis, eruptive papulous dermatitis of extremities). (various references) | |
Dutch | zijwaarts eruitglijden aan de uiteinden (lateral disengagement at the extremities), vernauwing van de perifere bloedvaten (constriction of blood vessels in the extremities), uiteinden van de verbinding (extremities of the path), syndroom van Gianotti-Crosti (eruptive dermatitis, eruptive papulous dermatitis of extremities), perifere vasoconstrictie (constriction of blood vessels in the extremities), acrodermatitis papulosa eruptiva infantilis (eruptive papulous dermatitis of extremities). (various references) | |
Finnish | raajat. (various references) | |
French | extrémités. (various references) | |
German | Gliedmaßen (limbs). (various references) | |
Greek | ακρότητεσ. (various references) | |
Hungarian | végtagok (limbs). (various references) | |
Italian | estremità del percorso (extremities of the path), sfilamento laterale dalle estremità (lateral disengagement at the extremities), costrizione dei vasi sanguigni periferici (constriction of blood vessels in the extremities). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 末端 (end, tip), 四肢 (limbs). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しし (corpse, heir, historical poem, limbs, lion, market storehouse, patriot, public-spirited person, relying on someone as one's teacher, store), まったん (end, tip). (various references) | |
Korean | 말단 (Extremity). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | extremitiesay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | extremidades da trajectória (extremities of the path), síndrome de Gianotti-Crost (eruptive papulous dermatitis of extremities), desengate lateral nas extremidades (lateral disengagement at the extremities), dermatite eruptiva papulosa das extremidades (eruptive papulous dermatitis of extremities), constrição dos vasos sanguíneos periféricos (constriction of blood vessels in the extremities). (various references) | |
Romanian | fi la ananghie (be in a fix, be in a pretty mess, be on one's beam-ends, be reduced to extremities). (various references) | |
Russian | чрезвычайные меры (emergency measures, extraordinary measures), конечности. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | udovi (parts). (various references) | |
Spanish | extremos del trayecto (extremities of the path), síndrome de Gianotti-Crost (eruptive papulous dermatitis of extremities), constricción de los vasos sanguíneos periféricos (constriction of blood vessels in the extremities). (various references) | |
Swedish | sammandragning i perifera blodkärl (constriction of blood vessels in the extremities). (various references) | |
Turkish | eller ve ayaklar, uzantı (appendage, bill, extension, offset, scape, Stipe, tongue). (various references) | |
Welsh | eithafoedd (extremes). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"EXTREMITIES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: extermities, extremeties, extremidies. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "EXTREMITIES" (pronounced ikstre"mutēz) |
| 5 | -m u t ē z | calamities, deformities, enmities, infirmities. |
| 4 | -u t ē z | absurdities, abilities, abnormalities, activities, affinities, ambiguities, amenities, animosities, annuities, antiquities, anxieties, atrocities, authorities, availabilities, banalities, brutalities, capabilities, capacities, causalities, cavities, celebrities, charities, commodities, commonalities, communities, complexities, curiosities, deities, densities, deputies, disabilities, disability, disparities, divinities, eccentricities, entities, equities, facilities, fatalities, festivities, fidelities, formalities, fraternities, generalities, gratuities, hostilities, humanities, humanity, identities, illegalities, immunities, improprieties, impurities, indemnities, indignities, inequalities, inequities, infidelities, insecurities, instabilities, intensities, irregularities, legalities, liabilities, liquidities, localities, majorities, maturities, minorities, modalities, municipalities, nationalities, necessities, niceties, obscenities, oddities, opportunities, parities, peculiarities, personalities, pieties, possibilities, principalities, priorities, probabilities, proclivities, propensities, qualities, quantities, rarities, realities, responsibilities, rigidities, securities, sensibilities, sensitivities, similarities, societies, sororities, technicalities, tonalities, unfamiliarities, universities, utilities, vanities, varieties, velocities, verities, vulnerabilities. |
| 3 | -t ē z | amnesties, Antes, beauties, booties, bounties, casualties, certainties, christies, cities, committees, counties, cruelties, diabetes, difficulties, ditties, duties, dynasties, eighties, empties, entreaties, faculties, fatties, fifties, forties, frailties, lefties, liberties, loyalties, Montes, nineties, novelties, panties, parties, patties, penalties, pretties, properties, royalties, seventies, shanties, sixties, sorties, specialities, specialties, subcommittees, subtleties, thirties, travesties, treaties, twenties, uncertainties, vigilantes, warranties, zlotys. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-e-i-i-m-r-s-t-t-x" | |
-1 letter: temerities. | |
-2 letters: extremest, extremist. | |
-3 letters: emitters, eremites, extremes, metritis, termites. | |
-4 letters: eeriest, emeries, emeriti, emitter, eremite, extreme, itemise, meeters, metiers, metrist, mirexes, miriest, mistier, mitiest, reemits, remeets, remixes, retimes, rimiest, teemers, teeters, termite, testier, triseme. | |
-5 letters: emeers, esteem, exerts, exsert, meeter, merest, merits, mestee, meters, metier, metres, mister, miters, mitier, mitres, mixers, reemit, remeet, remise. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-e-i-i-m-r-s-t-t-x" | |
+4 letters: ambidexterities, excrementitious, exothermicities, experimentalist. | |
+5 letters: experimentalists, experimentations, extemporaneities. | |
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