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Definition: FRIT |
FRITTransitive verb1. To fritter; -- with away. 2. To prepare by heat (the materials for making glass); to fuse partially. 3. The material for glaze of pottery. 4. The material of which glass is made, after having been calcined or partly fused in a furnace, but before vitrification. It is a composition of silex and alkali, occasionally with other ingredients. |
| Domain | Definition |
Aerospace | A powdered ceramic prepared by fusing a physical mixture of oxides into a uniform melt, which is then quenched and milled into a fine, homogeneous powder. (references) |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Sponge | Noun: sponge, honeycomb, network; frit, filter. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: FRIT |
| English words defined with "FRIT": Calcar ♦ Frit brick, Fritted, Fritting ♦ Strockle. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "FRIT": button test ♦ CATHODE RAY TUBE SALVAGE PROCESSOR, ceramic dual-inline package, CHEMICAL PREPARER, continuous smelter ♦ enamel frit ♦ frit burner, frit maker, FRIT-MIXER-AND-BURNER ♦ pneumatic method ♦ Sawyear-Kjellgren process ♦ vitreous enamel. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "FRIT" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (fried), French Canadian (fried), Manx (bagatelle, coxcomb, fop, frivol, trifler). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Engang blir Danmark frit (1974) Kom frit frem (1966) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Nej til arbejdsloshed, indgreb i overenkomsterne ... ja Retsforbundet for et socialt retfaerdigt frit Danmark, x E. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "FRIT" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 60.00% of the time. "FRIT" is used about 5 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) | 60% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 40% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "FRIT": enamel frit ♦ Frit brick ♦ Oscinis frit. Additional references. | |
| 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 |
frit kentucky poulet | 19 |
frit | 9 |
glass frit | 7 |
frit nox | 3 |
fly frit | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "FRIT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | спичам (cake, sinter), фритувам, фрита. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | fritte. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | fritglazuur, filter van gesinterd glas. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | fritti. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | fritte. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Fritte, Frit. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | υαλώδες φίλτρο, τριμμένο γυαλί (ground glass, powdered glass). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | fritta. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | itfray frita (calcine, fritted glass, sinter glass, sintered glass). (various references) спекаться, фриттовать, фритта. (various references) frito (fried), fritar, frita, material sinterizado. (various references) fritta. (various references) porselen hamuru, cam hamuru, çini hamuru. (various references) фритувати, фрита. (various references) ruối frít (frit-fly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "FRIT": frith, friths, fritillaria, fritillarias, fritillaries, fritillary, frits, fritt, frittata, frittatas, fritted, fritter, frittered, fritterer, fritterers, frittering, fritters, fritting, fritts, fritz, fritzes. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "FRIT": afrit. (additional references) | |
Words containing "FRIT": afrits. (additional references) | |
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"FRIT" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: erit, farit, Fcit, feit, ffit, Fitr, forit, frait, frata, frati, frato, fratt, freat, freft, frept, frib, frict, frid, Frik, frin, frint, frio, frist, frita, frite, frito, fritt, frity, friut, frix, frizt, froit, frot, frrt, frut, Fryett, fryt, irit, krit, rfi, urit. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: rift. | |
| Words within the letters "f-i-r-t" | |
-1 letter: fir, fit, rif. | |
-2 letters: if, it, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "f-i-r-t" | |
+1 letter: afrit, drift, first, firth, flirt, frith, frits, fritt, fritz, fruit, grift, refit, rifts. | |
+2 letters: adrift, afrits, drifts, drifty, ferity, filter, firsts, firths, fitter, flirts, flirty, forint, forrit, fortis, fracti, fright, friths, fritts, fruits, fruity, grifts, lifter, maftir, profit, ratify, refits, resift, rifest, rifted, shrift, sifter, strife, tariff, thrift, titfer, trifid, trifle. | |
+3 letters: airlift, antifur, barefit, brutify, certify, drifted, drifter, fainter, fairest, faitour, farting, fatbird, fattier, ferrite, fertile, fighter, figwort, filbert, filters, firelit, firepot, firmest, firstly, fitters, fixture, flirted, flirter, flitter, florist, floruit, flutier, flytier, footier, forfeit, forints, forties, fortify, frailty, frantic, freight, frigate, frights, frisket, fritted, fritter, fritzes, fruited, fruiter, furmity, furtive, fustier, gratify, grifted, grifter, heftier, indraft, infarct, infract, ingraft, introfy, lifters, loftier, maftirs, metrify, mortify, niftier, nitrify, outfire, parfait, petrify, piefort, presift, profits, rafting, ratafia, ratfink, ratfish, rectify, refight, resifts, rifting, rotifer, shifter, shrifts, sifters, snifter, sportif, stiffer, stifler, strifes, surfeit, swifter, tariffs, terrify, thrifts, thrifty, titfers, torrify, traffic, trefoil, trifled, trifler, trifles, trifold, triform, tuftier, turfier, turfing, turfski, vitrify, wiftier. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 52 49 54 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. .-. .. - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01010010 01001001 01010100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F R I T |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0052 0049 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)40524354 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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