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Definition: INNOMINATE |
INNOMINATEAdjective1. A term used in designating many parts otherwise unnamed; as, the innominate artery, a great branch of the arch of the aorta; the innominate vein, a great branch of the superior vena cava. 2. Having no name; unnamed; as, an innominate person or place. |
Date "INNOMINATE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references) |
Etymology: Innominate \In*nom"i*nate\, adjective. [Latin expression innominatus; prefix in- not nominare to name.]. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Misnomer | Nameless, anonymous; without a having no name; innominate, unnamed; unacknowledged. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: INNOMINATE |
| English words defined with "INNOMINATE": haunch bone, Hip bone, hip socket ♦ inferior thyroid vein ♦ Obturator foramen ♦ Pelvic arch, Pelvic girdle. (references) |
| "INNOMINATE" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "INNOMINATE" is used about 13 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 13 | 97,576 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "INNOMINATE": innominate artery ♦ innominate bone ♦ Innominate contracts ♦ innominate vein. 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 |
artery innominate | 3 |
innominate | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "INNOMINATE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | glandula galeni (Galen innominate gland), Galen's kirtel (Galen innominate gland). (various references) | |
French | innominé. (various references) | |
German | innominatus. (various references) | |
Italian | innominato (nameless), anonimo (anonym, anonymous). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 腰骨 (fortitude, hipbone, innominate bone). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | こしぼね (fortitude, hipbone, innominate bone). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | innominateay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | inominado, sem nome (nameless). (various references) | |
Russian | не имеющий названия, безымянный (anonymous, nameless, unnamed). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vô danh (unnamed), không có tên. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "INNOMINATE" (pronounced i'nÄ"munut) |
| 5 | -m u n u t | effeminate, geminate, indeterminate, indiscriminate, laminate. |
| 4 | -u n u t | affectionate, baronet, bicarbonate, cabinet, compassionate, coordinate, definite, diaconate, dispassionate, disproportionate, extortionate, fortunate, indefinite, infinite, inordinate, obstinate, passionate, proportionate, sultanate, unfortunate. |
| 3 | -n u t | alternate, Bennet, bluebonnet, bonnet, incarnate, electromagnet, ferromagnet, garnet, granite, hornet, magnate, magnet, minute, peanut, Pinot, planet, rennet, senate, Sennet, tenet, unit. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-i-m-n-n-n-o-t" | |
-2 letters: nominate. | |
-3 letters: amniote, enation, intimae, mannite, mention, montane, nonmeat. | |
-4 letters: amnion, anoint, anomie, eonian, etamin, inmate, innate, intima, intime, intine, intone, manito, minion, nannie, nation, nomina, nonman, nonmen, omenta, tamein, tannin, tinman, tinmen. | |
-5 letters: ament, amine, amino, amnio, anent, anime, animi, anion, atone, entia, imine, imino, inane, inion, matin, meant, menta, minae, monie, monte. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-i-m-n-n-n-o-t" | |
+2 letters: denominating, denomination, infotainment, insemination, renominating, renomination. | |
+3 letters: denominations, infotainments, inseminations, intermountain, prenominating, prenomination, renominations. | |
+4 letters: denominational, envenomization, interanimation, mountaineering, nonmechanistic, nonterminating, prenominations. | |
+5 letters: conventionalism, decontaminating, decontamination, envenomizations, indemnification, indetermination, instrumentation, interanimations, monumentalizing, mountaineerings, recontaminating, recontamination. | |
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