MSG

Definition: MSG

MSG

Noun

1. White crystalline compound used as a food additive to enhance flavor; often used in Chinese cooking.

Abbreviations & Acronyms: MSG

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
MSG	English	Sodium glutamate	N/A
MSG	French	Satellite météorologique de seconde génération	N/A
MSG	German	Meldung	Post & Telecom, Transportation
MSG	Italian	Messaggio	Post & Telecom, Transportation
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonym: MSG

Synonym: monosodium glutamate (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: MSG

Specialty definitions using "MSG": MSG.84. (references)

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Commercial Usage: MSG

Domain	Title
Books	Anne of Green Gables Msg Order (reference) MINK : en finansiell ettermodell til MSG : en MSG-rapport (reference) Msg Charles Sellier Books (reference) MSG is Everywhere (reference) (more book examples)

High Tech	Brother Printers MFC-7050C 6/3PPM 1200DPI 2MB Col P/F Mono C/S Msg Ctr Video Port (reference) Private Pager Base Unit Up To1000 Pagers 2 Mile Range Led Msg (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: MSG

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		These transient reactions occur rapidly after eating large amounts of food to which MSG has been added. (references)
Business		China's main food additives are MSG (monosodium glutamate), enzyme preparation, citric acid, edulcorator, aromatics, emulsifiers, antiseptics, and antioxidants. (references)
		Therefore, China needs to import $100 million worth of food additives every year. These imports include sorbitol, dextrin and dematured starch, polyols, lysine, glutamic acid, MSG, propylene glycol, and enzyme preparations, among others. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: MSG

"MSG" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 58.82% of the time. "MSG" is used about 17 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 (proper)	58.82%	10	111,207
Noun (common)	29.41%	5	157,705
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	5.88%	1	339,140
Noun (singular)	5.88%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	17	N/A

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

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Expression: MSG

Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "MSG": msg-free.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: MSG

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	Expression	Frequency per Day
msg	971	coldplay msg	9
msg plus	297	msg sports	8
error msg	189	beta msg	8
msg msn	51	msg reaction	8
6.0 msg	47	chart msg seating	8
msg network	45	effects msg side	7
msg allergy	38	boards bull msg raging	7
6 msg	26	msg theater	7
download msg plus	20	aol instant msg	7
messenger msg	19	blocker.com msg	7
msg yahoo	18	3 msg	6
blocker msg	17	convert eml msg	6
6.0 msg msn	16	msg patchou plus	6
msg m128a	14	bin cgi f1mail.rediff.com folder.cgi formname gold msg read	6
file msg	13	text msg	6
msg msn plus	12	msg viewer	6
config cookie msg.edit.yahoo.com reset	11	2 msg plus	6
6 msg msn	11	food in msg	6
msg pregnancy	10	msg rogers txt	6
msg and food	10	90 msg	5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: MSG

Language		Translations for "MSG"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		信息 (information). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		味の� (monosodium glutamate). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		あじのもと (monosodium glutamate). (various references)

Korean		� �갈. (various references)

Pig Latin		msgay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: MSG

Derivations
	Words containing "MSG": almsgiver, almsgivers, almsgiving, almsgivings. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: MSG

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words containing the letters "g-m-s"
	+1 letter: gams, gems, gums, gyms, mags, megs, migs, mogs, mugs, smog, smug.
	+2 letters: agism, agmas, gamas, gambs, games, gamps, gaums, germs, geums, gimps, gismo, glims, gloms, grams, mages, magus, miggs, muggs, ogams, sagum, sigma, smogs.
	+3 letters: agamas, ageism, agisms, algums, almugs, amigas, amigos, begums, degums, dogmas, egoism, gamays, gambas, gambes, gamers, gamest, gamins, gammas, gamuts, gasman, gasmen, gemots, genoms, gimels, gimmes, gismos, gizmos, gleams, glimes, gloams, glomus, glooms, glumes, gnomes, golems, gombos, gramas, gramps, grimes, grooms, grumes, grumps, gumbos, gummas, gypsum, images, imagos, jugums, magics, magmas, magots, manges, mangos, marges, maskeg, megass, merges, midges, mights, moguls, mongos, mongst, mungos, musing, muskeg, oghams, ogrism, omegas, orgasm, sigmas, smegma, smidge, smoggy, smudge, smudgy, smugly, stigma, subgum, ugsome.
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