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"GNATS" is a plural of: gnat. |
Date "GNATS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | GNATS The GNU Problem Report Management System - Users who experience problems use electronic mail, web-based or other clients communicating with the GNATS network daemon running at the support site or direct database submissions to communicate these problems to maintainers at that Support Site. http://www.gnu.org/software/gnats/4_0_manual/index.html#SEC_Top. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: GNATS |
| English words defined with "GNATS": Diptera ♦ family Mycetophylidae, family Sciaridae ♦ Gnat snapper ♦ Mycetophilidae ♦ Nematocera ♦ order Diptera ♦ Sciaridae, suborder Nematocera. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "GNATS": Bug Tracking System, Bunyavirus ♦ Loose-strife ♦ Misnomers. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Male gnat, with details of two heads, and two smaller gnats, as seen through a microscope. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "GNATS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "GNATS" is used about 28 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) | 75% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Noun (proper) | 17.86% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 7.14% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 28 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "GNATS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Arabic | سكيت بعوض أو برغش (midges). (various references) | ||||
French | moustique (gnat). (various references) | ||||
German | Stechmücken (mosquitoes), Schnaken, Mücken (midges). (various references) | ||||
Hungarian | semmiségeken lovagol (to be a stickler for sg, to strain at a gnat, to strain at gnats). (various references) | ||||
Korean | 모기 (Gnat, mosquito, Mosquitoes). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | atsgnay | ||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Culex. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "GNATS": assignats. (additional references) | |
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"GNATS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ganat, ganst, gantt, gantz, geates, ghat, gmat, gna, gnaes, gnant, gnars, gnart, gnast, gnath, gnatt, gnatus, gnctu, gnet, gnit, gnoat, gnosts, gnot, gnust, gonat, Gtatc, Gtatcc, inats, nats, ngat, Ngati. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "GNATS" (pronounced na"ts) |
| 3 | -a" t s | bats, batts, brats, cats, chats, combats, fats, flats, hats, Kats, mats, mattes, Matts, pats, prats, rats, slats, spats, stats, vats. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: angst, stang, tangs. | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-n-s-t" | |
-1 letter: ants, gast, gats, gnat, nags, sang, snag, stag, tags, tang, tans. | |
-2 letters: ant, gan, gas, gat, nag, sag, sat, tag, tan, tas. | |
-3 letters: ag, an, as, at, na, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-n-s-t" | |
+1 letter: agents, angsts, gainst, giants, grants, satang, sating, stangs, strang, tangos, tongas, twangs. | |
+2 letters: actings, against, agnates, agonist, amongst, antings, antisag, argents, basting, casting, easting, eatings, fasting, gannets, garnets, gasting, gastrin, gelants, gitanos, gratins, gymnast, hasting, ingates, ingesta, lasting, magnets, masting, matings, mustang, naughts, negates, nougats, onstage, outsang, pasting, ratings, salting, satangs, seating, skating, slating, staging, staking, staling, stanged, staning, staring, stating, staving, staying, stengah, strange, stygian, takings, tangles, tasking, tasting, tawsing, teasing, wasting. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Usage Frequency 7. Translations: Modern 8. Translations: Ancient | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Bibliography |
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