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Definition: Islet |
IsletNoun1. A small island. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "islet" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
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Health | Cell producing insulin in pancreas. (references) |
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Mōkōlea Rock in Kailua Bay, Oahu, Hawaii
2.2 km off North Beach, MCBH
(Click here to enlarge image)An islet is a small island. A rock, a sometime synonym for a type of "islet", is a landform comprised of rock, lying offshore, having no or minimal vegetation, and uninhabited (see Mōkōlea Rock at left).
An exposed sandbar would be another type of islet. A more technical application is to small land features, isolated by water, laying off the shore of a larger island. And in related fashion, any emergent land on an atoll (a type of island) would also be called an islet.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Islet."
Synonym: IsletSynonym: isle (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Island | Noun: island, isle, islet, eyot, ait, holf, reef, atoll, breaker; archipelago; islander. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Islet |
| English words defined with "islet": Ait ♦ Holm. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "islet": Gastrinoma ♦ huntilite ♦ neuroendocrine tumor. (references) |
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 | Focal hemorrhage in islet of Langerhans. Credit: CDC. |  | Shore camp on small coral islet Party off the MARINDUQUE. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Small tower on a coral islet. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Erosion of coral leaving undercut mushroom-type islet. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Plane table setup on undercut coral islet Crew off of PATHFINDER. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Small islet in Hobart Bay on east side of Stephens Passage. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
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Health | Promising results with islet transplantation for type 1 diabetes reported by the University of Alberta in Canada. (references) | |
People with insulin-producing tumors, which arise in the islet cells of the pancreas, suffer from severe episodes of hypoglycemia. (references) | ||
Other less common types of tumors that can produce ACTH are thymomas, pancreatic islet cell tumors, and medullary carcinomas of the thyroid. (references) | ||
Economic History | Greece | In January 1996, Greece and Turkey came close to an armed confrontation over the question of which country had sovereignty over an islet in the Aegean. (references) |
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| "Islet" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 93.94% of the time. "Islet" is used about 33 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) | 93.94% | 31 | 62,296 |
| Noun (proper) | 6.06% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 33 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "islet": islet cell ♦ islet cell cancer ♦ rocky islet. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "islet": non-islet. | |
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| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "islet"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | ishull (ait, Holm, island, Isle). (various references) | |
Arabic | وضع على جزيرة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | островче (ait). (various references) | |
Chinese | 陼 (bank), 沚 , 渚 (bank), 嶼 , 小岛 (Isle), 坻 (place name, rock in river). (various references) | |
Czech | ostrùvek (Isle). (various references) | |
Danish | insulinoma (insulinoma, insuloma, islet adenoma, langerhansian adenoma), insulinom (insulinoma, insuloma, islet adenoma, langerhansian adenoma), klippeø i havet (rocky offshore islet), blodøer (blood-islet, Pander blood island), ø-celle-adenom (islet adenoma), ø-celle tumor (insulinoma, insuloma, islet adenoma, langerhansian adenoma). (various references) | |
Dutch | insuloom (insulinoma, insuloma, islet adenoma, langerhansian adenoma), insulinoom (insulinoma, insuloma, islet adenoma, langerhansian adenoma), insulae van Pander (blood-islet, island of Pander, Pander blood island), uit de kust gelegen rotsachtig eilandje (rocky offshore islet), rotsachtig eilandje buiten de kustwateren (rocky offshore islet), nesidioblastoom (insulinoma, insuloma, islet adenoma, langerhansian adenoma), Langerhanseilandje (pancreatic islet), eilandje van Langerhans (islet of Langerhans, pancreatic islet). (various references) | |
Finnish | insulinooma (insulinoma, insuloma, islet adenoma, langerhansian adenoma), luoto (reef, rock, rocky islet, shoal). (various references) | |
French | mètre dans une île, îlot (island zone). (various references) | |
German | inselchen. (various references) | |
Greek | νησάκι (isle), νησίδιο, νησίδα (island). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szigetecske. (various references) | |
Italian | isoletta. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 小島 (small island). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | "じま (small island). (various references) | |
Manx | insheen, innis (island), ellaneen (eyot). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | isletay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | ilhota (ait, cay, inch), pequena ilha (holm, isle). (various references) | |
Romanian | insuliţã (ait, Holm). (various references) | |
Russian | островок (ait, isle). (various references) | |
Scottish | fidean (a green islet or spit uncovered at high tide). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | ostrvce (holm). (various references) | |
Spanish | isleta (divisional island, refuge, traffic island). (various references) | |
Swedish | kobbe, holme (holm, inch, single combat). (various references) | |
Thai | เกาะเล็ก. (various references) | |
Turkish | adacık (eyot, Holm, Isle). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | стрівець. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vùng cách biệt, hòn đảo nhỏ mảnh đất hiu quạnh. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "islet": islets. (additional references) | |
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"Islet" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aslet, Elsnet, eslet, iblet, Ibsley, icsltm, ilet, ilse, iolet, iplet, isel, Iseler, isfet, isl, isla, islant, islea, islee, islu, Isolt, ispe, izel, izzet, Nisbett, oslet, silat, Sillet, slet, Zissler. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "islet" (pronounced 'Is"let'): Armlet, Ballet, Batlet, Beamlet, Bendlet, Birdlet, Bloodlet, Booklet, Bracelet, Bractlet, Branchlet, Brooklet, Budlet, Bullet, Camlet, Cantlet, Chainlet, Chamlet, Cloudlet, Corselet, Corslet, Couplet, Croslet, Cross-crosslet, Crownlet, Cutlet, Finlet, Flamelet, Fortlet, Frislet, Frondlet, frontlet, Giblet, Goblet, gullet, Hamlet, Haslet, Inlet, kinglet, leaflet, Liplet, Lobelet, mallet, Martlet, millet, Mountlet, Murrelet, necklet, Notelet, Nutlet. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: istle, stile, tiles. | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-l-s-t" | |
-1 letter: isle, leis, lest, lets, lies, list, lite, lits, silt, site, slit, tels, ties, tile, tils. | |
-2 letters: els, its, lei, let, lie, lis, lit, sei, sel, set, sit, tel, tie, til, tis. | |
-3 letters: el, es, et, is, it, li, si, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-l-s-t" | |
+1 letter: blites, delist, elints, elites, enlist, filets, fliest, flites, idlest, illest, inlets, islets, istles, itself, ixtles, legist, legits, likest, listed, listee, listel, listen, lister, liters, litres, livest, relist, saltie, silent, silted, sliest, stelai, stelic, stifle, stiles, stipel, tildes, tilers, tinsel, titles, toiles, vilest. | |
+2 letters: aiglets, albites, aplites, astilbe, bastile, bestial, billets, bilsted, blastie, blister, blitzes, blivets, bristle, cellist, citoles, clients, delicts, delists, dentils, details, dilates, dilutes, duelist, eeliest, elastic, elastin, elegist, elegits, elicits, elitism, elitist, elmiest, enlists, entails, entoils, eoliths, epistle, estival, estriol, etoiles, evilest, felsite, fetials, fillets, filmset, filters, giblets, giglets, gimlets, glisten, glister, glitzes, gluiest, gristle, halites, heliast, hitless, holiest, hostile, ileitis, illites, iolites, isolate, jilters, kilters, kilties, kirtles, kittles, klister, laciest, laities, lakiest, latices, laziest, lectins, lefties, leftish, leftism, leftist, legists, leister, lentils, lentisk, liefest, lievest, lifters, ligates, limiest, limites, limpest, limpets, liniest, linnets, lintels, linters, lisente, listees, listels, listens, listers, lithest, litotes, litters, littles, logiest, loiters, luetics, luniest, lustier, luteins, mildest, millets, milters, motiles, nailset, oiliest, oolites, ostiole, outlies, paliest, pelites, piglets, pintles, piolets, pistole, platies, plenist, realist, relicts, relists, resplit, retails, retiles, riblets, rillets, ruliest, rutiles, salient, saltier, salties, saltine, saltire, sectile, setline, sextile, sheltie, silents, siltier, singlet, skelpit, skillet, skittle, slainte, slatier, sleekit, sleight, slither, slitted, slitter, spittle, stabile, steelie, stencil, sterile, stickle, stifled, stifler, stifles, stilled, stiller, stilted, stipels, stipple, stipule, stoolie, stylise, stylite, stylize, subtile, sulfite, sylvite, tailers, tailles, talipes, talkies, tallies, telesis, tellies, tenails, tensile, testily, thistle, tickles, tieless, tillers, tilters, tingles, tinkles, tinsels, tipless, tipples, tittles, toilers, toilets, trellis, trifles, triples, tuilles, ugliest, utensil, utilise, velites, violets, vittles, whistle, wiglets, wildest, wiliest, willets, wintles, witless, zloties. | |
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