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Definition: Flatus |
FlatusNoun1. A reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "flatus" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1726. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | Gas passed through the rectum. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: FlatusSynonyms: breaking wind (n), fart (n), farting (n), wind (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Gaseity | Elastic fluid, gas, air, vapor, ether, steam, essence, fume, reek, effluvium, flatus; cloud; ammonia, ammoniacal gas; volatile alkali; vacuum, partial vacuum. |
Wind | Noun: wind, draught, flatus, afflatus, efflation, eluvium; air; breath, breath of air; puff, whiff, zephyr; blow, breeze, drift; aura; stream, current, jet stream; undercurrent. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Flatus |
| English words defined with "flatus": Flatuses ♦ Phantom tumor. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "flatus": Fecal Incontinence. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "flatus": Lithophyse. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Flatus" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Latin (a blowing, a breaking wind, arrogance, blast, blow, blowing, breath, breathe, breathing, breeze, flatulent, haughtiness, snorting), Serbo-Croatian (flatus). |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Flatus" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Flatus" 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.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "flatus": flatus-relieving. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
flatus | 27 |
flatus woman | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "flatus"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | gazra në stomak. (various references) | |
Arabic | غاز البطن, ريح البطن (wind). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | газове. (various references) | |
Czech | závan (blast, blow, guff, gust, puff, wag, whiff). (various references) | |
Finnish | ilma (air, weather, wind). (various references) | |
French | flatuosité. (various references) | |
German | Flatus, Wind (wind), Darmwind. (various references) | |
Greek | πομπώδησ (bombastic, consequential, grandiloquence, grandiose, highfaluting, magniloquent, pompous, splurge, stilted, turgid). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szél (border, breeze, confine, edge, heel, hem, ledge, let's see how the land lies, margin, periphery, shelf, shelves, to be in the wind's eye, wind). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | atusflay.(various references) | |
Russian | порыв ветра (blow, gust, gust of wind, onset of wind, windflaw), дуновение (blow, blowing, breath, puff), дыхание (blowing, breath, breathing, respiration, wind). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | flatus. (various references) | |
Spanish | flato (flatulence, flatulency, wind). (various references) | |
Turkish | rüzgâr (blast, blow, breeze, wind), mide gazı. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | здуття (puff), подув (air, blow, blowing, breath, breathing, sigh, waft, waftage, whiff), подих (blow, breath, breathing, waft). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Isaiah Chapter 57, Verse 16 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Ouk eiV ton aiwna ekdikhsw umaV oude dia pantoV orgisqhsomai umin pneuma gar par' emou exeleusetai kai pnohn pasan egw epoihsa |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Non enim in sempiternum litigabo neque usque ad finem irascar quia spiritus a facie mea egredietur et flatus ego faciam |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Forsothe not in to euermor I shal striue, ne vnto the ende I shal wrathe; for a spirit fro my face shal gon out, and blastis I shal maken. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit would fail before me, and the souls which I have made. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | For I will not give punishment for ever, or be angry without end: for from me breath goes out; and I it was who made the souls. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Isaiah Chapter 57, Verse 16 |
| Cebuano | Kay ako dili makigbisug sa walay katapusan, ni ako magakanunay sa pagpakasuko; kay ang espiritu magakaluya sa akong atubangan, ug ang mga kalag nga akong gibuhat. |
| Croatian | Jer neæu se prepirati dovijeka ni vjeèno se ljutiti: preda mnom bi podlegao duh i duše što sam ih stvorio. |
| Danish | Thi evigt går jeg ikke i Rette, evindelig vredes jeg ej; så vansmægted Ånden for mit Ansigt, Sjæle, som jeg har skabt, |
| Dutch | Want Ik zal niet eeuwiglijk twisten, en Ik zal niet geduriglijk verbolgen zijn; want de geest zou van voor Mijn aangezicht overstelpt worden, en de zielen, die Ik gemaakt heb. |
| Finnish | Sillä en minä iankaiken riitele enkä vihastu ainiaaksi; muutoin henki nääntyisi minun kasvojeni edessä, ne sielut, jotka minä tehnyt olen. |
| French | Je ne veux pas contester toujours, Ni garder une éternelle colère, Quand devant moi tombent en défaillance les esprits, Les âmes que j`ai faites. |
| German | Ich will nicht immerdar hadern und nicht ewiglich zürnen; sondern es soll von meinem Angesicht ein Geist wehen, und ich will Odem machen. |
| Hungarian | Mert nem örökké perlek, és nem mindenha haragszom, mert a lélek elõttem megepedne, és a leheletek, a kiket én teremtettem. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Tidak untuk selamanya Aku mempersalahkan umat-Ku; tidak untuk seterusnya Aku marah, supaya mereka jangan patah semangat, padahal Akulah yang menghidupkan mereka. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Karena tiada Aku hendak berbantah-bantah sampai selama-lamanya dan tiada Aku hendak murka dengan tiada berkeputusan; apabila nyawa diliputi di hadapan hadirat-Ku Kujadikan kesenangan baginya. |
| Italian | Poiché io non voglio discutere sempre né per sempre essere adirato; altrimenti davanti a me verrebbe meno lo spirito e l'alito vitale che ho creato. |
| Maori | E kore hoki ahau e whawhai a ake ake, e kore ano e mau tonu toku riri: pena ka pehia rawatia te wairua i toku aroaro, me nga manawa i hanga e ahau. |
| Norwegian | For ikke til evig tid går jeg i rette, og ikke for alle tider er jeg vred; for da måtte ånden vansmekte for mitt åsyn, de sjeler som jeg har skapt. |
| Portuguese | Pois eu não contenderei para sempre, nem continuamente ficarei irado; porque de mim procede o espírito, bem como o fôlego da vida que eu criei. |
| Rumanian | Nu vreau sq cert kn veci, nici sq yin o mknie necurmatq, cknd knaintea Mea cad kn lewin duhurile, wi sufletele pe cari le-am fqcut. |
| Spanish | Porque no he de contender para siempre, ni para siempre he de estar airado, pues se desmayaría delante de mí el espíritu y las almas que he creado. |
| Swedish | Ja, jag vill icke evinnerligen gå till rätta och icke ständigt förtörnas; eljest skulle deras ande försmäkta inför mig, de själar, som jag själv har skapat. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "flatus": flatuses. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "flatus": afflatus. (additional references) | |
Words containing "flatus": afflatuses. (additional references) | |
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"Flatus" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: falous, faluts, fatum, fatus, fatuus, Filabusi, flaitus, flatbush, flates, flaut, flauto, flavum, flavus, Floaties, latus. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: faults. | |
| Words within the letters "a-f-l-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: fault, flats, sault, sulfa, talus, tufas. | |
-2 letters: alts, fast, fats, flat, flus, last, lats, lust, salt, saul, slat, taus, tufa, utas. | |
-3 letters: aft, als, alt, fas, fat, flu, las, lat, sal, sat, sau, tas, tau, uta, uts. | |
-4 letters: al, as, at, fa, la, ta, us, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-f-l-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: fistula, flaunts, hatfuls, hatsful, sulfate, vatfuls. | |
+2 letters: afflatus, boastful, boatfuls, defaults, fabulist, fallouts, feastful, fistulae, fistular, fistulas, flatuses, flautist, ghastful, hasteful, mudflats, outfalls, refutals, stageful, sufflate, sulfated, sulfates, tankfuls, tasteful, trayfuls, wasteful. | |
+3 letters: affluents, awfullest, basketful, bisulfate, calctufas, calctuffs, fabulists, faculties, faithfuls, fatuously, faultiest, faultless, fauteuils, feudalist, filatures, flameouts, flashtube, flaunters, flautists, fluxgates, masterful, outfables, outflanks, platefuls, platesful, postfault, stagefuls, sufflated, sufflates, sulfatase, sulfating, sulfonate, tablefuls, tablesful, trainfuls, ultrafast, ultrasafe, ultrasoft. | |
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