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Definition: Manicure |
ManicureNoun1. Professional care for the hands and fingernails. Verb1. Trim carefully; of fingernails. 2. Care for one's hand by cutting and shaping the nails, etc. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "manicure" was first used: 1880. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
19th Century Satire | The only woman who can beat a carpenter at soaking nails. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
Personal Care & Hotels | A treatment for the care of the hands and nails usu. including massage of the hand and cleaning, shaping and polishing of the nails. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A manicure is a beauty treatment for fingernails and hands. A manicure can treat just the hands or nails or both. A manicurist can provide various services for nails, such as the application of artificial nails such as tipss, acrylicss and gelss. A manicurist can also apply treatments to real nails, such as filing and polishing.A standard manicure usually includes filing and shaping of the nails and application of polish. Some specialty manicures, such as the French Manicure, may also be offered. Treatments for hands usually include soaking in a softening substance and application of lotion.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Manicure."
Synonym: ManicureSynonym: trim (v). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: manicuring (personal care & hotels). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Remedy | Verb: apply a remedy; Noun: doctor, dose, physic, nurse, minister to, attend, dress the wounds, plaster; drain; prevent; relieve; palliate; restore; drench with physic; bleed, cup, let blood; manicure. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Manicure |
| English words defined with "manicure": manicure set. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "manicure": dispensary attendant ♦ HANDMAIDEN ♦ PERSONAL ATTENDANT ♦ SUPPLY CLERK. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Manicure" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Italian (manicure, manicurist). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | Manicure, pedicure, so we look tight (No Matta What (Party All Night); performing artist: Toya) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Manicure Girl (1925) Flora the Manicure Girl (1917) The Manicure (1913) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Emile's Beauty Shop, 82 N. Village Ave., Rockville Centre, Long Island. Manicure tables. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Helena Rubenstein, 655 5th Ave. Hairdo, manicure, pedicure. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Molly the manicure girl. "Exercise is making a new girl out of me, Molly ...". Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Manicure set" by Vi Xs Commentary: "Manicure set." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| "Manicure" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 88.89% of the time. "Manicure" is used about 27 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) | 88.89% | 24 | 71,196 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 3.7% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 3.7% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.7% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 27 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "manicure": manicure case ♦ manicure set. 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. |
| Language | Translations for "manicure"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | manikyrist (manicurist), manikyr (polish). (various references) | |
Arabic | لون الأظافر, قلم (clip, cut, cut back, liner, pare, pen, prune, streak, stria, stripe, trim), تشذيب الأظافر, صباغة الأظافر, شذب (cut, cut back, lop, pare, prune, refine, tip, trim, truncate). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | маникюр, правя маникюр. (various references) | |
Czech | manikúra, manikýrovat. (various references) | |
Danish | manicure. (various references) | |
Dutch | manicuren. (various references) | |
Esperanto | manikuri. (various references) | |
Farsi | مانیکورزدن , مانیکور, ارایش کردن (Attire, Embellish). (various references) | |
Finnish | kynsienhoito. (various references) | |
French | soin des mains, manucure (manicurist). (various references) | |
German | maniküren, Nagelpflege (nail care), maniküre (manicurist), Handpflege. (various references) | |
Greek | μανικιούρ, περιποιούμαι τα χέρια και τα νύχια, περιποίηση νυχιών, περιποίηση των χεριών. (various references) | |
Hebrew | לעשות מניקור. (various references) | |
Hungarian | körömápolás (grooming of nails). (various references) | |
Italian | manicure (manicurist). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | マトリックス力学 (enthusiasm, enthusiast, madeleine, mademoiselle, madonna, Madras, Madras check, Madrid, madrigal, mania, maniac, manierisme, manifesto, Manila, manipulate, manipulation, manipulator, Manitoba, manners, mannish, mannish look, manual, manual manipulator, manufacture, manuscript, matrix dynamics, minutia, muddler, mutton, sailor). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | マニキュア . (various references) | |
Manx | laue-yeshaghey, laue-chiarail, jeshaghey ny laueyn, ingynys. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | anicuremay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | manicuro, manicura (manicurist), tratar das mãos, enrolar (coil, convolute, convolve, crisp, curl, furl, hank, lap, lap up, roll, roll up, twirl, twist, wind up, wrap, wrap up), cuidar das unhas, cuidados para com as mãos, arte do manicuro. (various references) | |
Romanian | manichiurã, face manichiurã. (various references) | |
Russian | маникюр. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | manikirati, manikir. (various references) | |
Spanish | manicura (manicurist), hacer la manicura. (various references) | |
Swedish | manikyrera, manikyr. (various references) | |
Turkish | manikür. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | робити манікюр, манікюр (chiropody). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự cắt sửa móng tay thợ cắt sửa móng tay. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | manus. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "manicure": manicured, manicures. (additional references) | |
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"Manicure" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: manacor, Mancur, maneure, Manouche, manucure, Mayibuye, megiture, monicre, Mujibur, Munichre, Nannacara. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "manicure" (pronounced ma"nikyer) |
| 4 | -i k y er | pedicure. |
| 3 | -k y er | insecure. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-m-n-r-u" | |
-1 letter: carmine, cranium, cumarin, numeric, uraemic. | |
-2 letters: acumen, aecium, airmen, anemic, anuric, carmen, carnie, cerium, cinema, crinum, curiae, iceman, manure, marine, mincer, murein, murine, neumic, remain, rumina, unciae, uranic, uremia, uremic. | |
-3 letters: aimer, amice, amine, amnic, anime, areic, aurei, auric, cairn, caner, ceria, crane, cream, crime, cumin, curia, curie, erica, inarm, incur, inure, macer. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-m-n-r-u" | |
+1 letter: manicured, manicures, muscarine, numerical. | |
+2 letters: androecium, cinerarium, innumeracy, lawrencium, muscarines, numeracies, oceanarium, unicameral. | |
+3 letters: acquirement, archegonium, curtailment, endocardium, euchromatin, intercampus, lawrenciums, macronuclei, mercurating, mercuration, microfaunae, numerically, oceanariums, pericranium, retinaculum, unempirical, unreclaimed. | |
+4 letters: acquirements, alphanumeric, anticonsumer, circumjacent, circumstance, counterclaim, counterimage, curtailments, epicureanism, euchromatins, hibernaculum, innumeracies, mercurations, multinuclear, nonmercurial, nonnumerical, uncommercial, undemocratic, unicamerally, unimportance. | |
+5 letters: alphanumerics, anticonsumers, antirheumatic, ceruloplasmin, circumambient, circumstanced, circumstances, counterclaims, counterimages, customariness, documentarian, documentaries, documentarily, documentarist, epicureanisms, gastrocnemius, hermeneutical, intercommunal, macronutrient, manufactories, mercurialness, multibranched, neuroanatomic, neurochemical, nonnumericals, numerological, paramountcies, recomputation, republicanism, supercriminal, superromantic, unimportances, unproblematic, unreclaimable, unsymmetrical, vermiculation, vernacularism. | |
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