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IRRITANCY

Definition: IRRITANCY

IRRITANCY

Noun

1. The state o quality of being irritant or irritating.

2. The state or quality of being null and void; invalidity; forfeiture.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Crosswords: IRRITANCY

Specialty definitions using "IRRITANCY": Skin Irritancy Tests. (references)

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Commercial Usage: IRRITANCY

DomainTitle

Books

  • Toxicology of Contact Dermatitis: Allergy, Irritancy and Urticaria (Current Toxicology Series) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: IRRITANCY

"IRRITANCY" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "IRRITANCY" is used about 4 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%4175,879

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: IRRITANCY

Expression using "IRRITANCY": Skin Irritancy Tests. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: IRRITANCY

Language Translations for "IRRITANCY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

slimhindeirritation (mucous membranes irritancy), hudirritationsevne (skin irritancy). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

het kunnen veroorzaken van irritatie van slijmvliezen (mucous membranes irritancy). (various references)

   

French

  

pouvoir irritant pour les muqueuses (mucous membranes irritancy). (various references)

   

German

  

Reizwirkung auf die Schleimhaüte (mucous membranes irritancy). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ερεθιστική δράση για τους βλεννογόνους (mucous membranes irritancy). (various references)

   

Italian

  

potere irritante per le mucose (mucous membranes irritancy). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

irritancyay

   

Portuguese

  

irritação (aggravation, anger, chafe, exact, exasperation, fret, inflammation, irritation, pique, provocation, resentment, spunk), irascível (fractious, fretful, gusty, hot-blooded, intractable, irascible, quarrelsome, spunky, techy, testy, tetchy, touchy, waspish). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

efecto irritante sobre las mucosas (mucous membranes irritancy). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

sự l m cáu. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: IRRITANCY

Misspellings

"IRRITANCY" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: irriacs, irritantcy. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: IRRITANCY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-i-i-n-r-r-t-y"

-2 letters: trinary.

-3 letters: cairny, citrin, iatric, nitric, rarity.

-4 letters: acini, actin, antic, cairn, canty, carny, carry, cirri, naric, rainy, riant, ricin, tarry, train, triac.

-5 letters: airn, airt, airy, anti, arty, ayin, cain, cant, carn, carr, cart, city, cyan, inia, inti, narc, nary, racy, rain, rani, rant, tain, tarn, tiny, tray, tyin, yarn, yirr.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-i-i-n-r-r-t-y"
 

+4 letters: acrylonitrile, discretionary, incriminatory, interracially, recriminatory, rectilinearly.

 

+5 letters: acrylonitriles, antiarrhythmic, curvilinearity, discriminatory, intracardially, intracranially, reactionaryism, reconciliatory.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: IRRITANCY


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

49 52 52 49 54 41 4E 43 59

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..    .-.    .-.    ..    -    .-    -.    -.-.    -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001001 01010010 01010010 01001001 01010100 01000001 01001110 01000011 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#73 &#82 &#82 &#73 &#84 &#65 &#78 &#67 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 0052 0052 0049 0054 0041 004E 0043 0059

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

435252435435483759

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Non-English Dictionaries with "IRRITANCY"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Danish

ordbog, deskriptordefinition, oversættelsedanois, dänisch, δανικόσ, δανόσ, danese, dinamarquês, danés, tiếng Đan-mạch

Dutch

woordenboek, definitie, translatiehollandsk, néerlandais, holländisch, ολλανδικόσ, ολλανδόσ, olandese, holandês, holandés, ngôn ngữ khó hiểu, "b xã"

French

dictionnaire, définition, traductionfrançais, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, francese, francês, francés

German

Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definitiontysker, Duitse, allemand, "ερμανός, tedesco, alemão, alemán, $sisters german$ chị em ruột, $cousin german$ anh chị em con chú bác ruột, sister

Greek

λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφρασηgræker, grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, greco, grego, griego, quân bạc bịp tôi không thể hiểu được điều đó thật l kỳ phùng địch thủ, kẻ lừa đảo, kẻ cắp b gi gặp nhau, người Hy-lạp tiếng Hy-lạp kẻ bịp bợm

Italian

dizionario, definizione, traduzioneitaliener, italien, italienisch, Ιταλός, italiano

Portuguese

dicionário, definição, traduçãoportugiser, portugais, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portoghese, português, portugués, người B"-đ o-nha tiếng B"-đ o-nha

Spanish

diccionario, definición, traducciónSpaans, espagnol, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, spagnolo, espanhol, español

Vietnamese

có tính chất sách vở, sự định rõ, sự định nghĩa, lời định nghĩa sự định, sự dịch, sự biến th nh sự giải thíchvietnameser, vietnamien, vietnamesin, vietnamesisch, vietnamese, 'ιετναμέζος, vietnamita, người Việt nam tiếng Việt

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationanglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, inglese, inglês, inglés
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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