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Definition: Mastication |
MasticationNoun1. Biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "mastication" was first used: sometime in the early 15th century. (references) |
Etymology: Mastication \Mas`ti*ca"tion\, noun. [Latin expression masticatio: compare to the French expression mastication.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Chemical Industry | Plasticization of rubber by mechanical and thermal means. Source: European Union. (references) |
Health | The act and process of chewing and grinding food in the mouth. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: MasticationSynonyms: chew (n), chewing (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Food | Noun: eating; Verb: deglutition, gulp, epulation, mastication, manducation, rumination; gluttony. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Mastication |
| English words defined with "mastication": fifth cranial nerve ♦ Masseter ♦ nervus trigeminus ♦ trigeminal, trigeminal nerve, trigeminus. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "mastication": depolymerized rubber ♦ Eat ♦ Mandibular Nerve ♦ Stomatognathic System ♦ trifacial nerve, Trigeminal Nerve Diseases. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Mastication" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (chew, chewing, mastication). |
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| Play | Caption |
 | Crunching; chewing; grinding; mastication; masticate; eat; eating; chew . |
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Health | Fibrosis of the muscles of mastication and the temporomandibular joint, while uncommon, may result in trismus. (references) | |
Many factors contribute to a different glycemic response from the same food. These include processing, cooking, and food storage time. Other considerations include the variable degree of mastication in the elderly with dental problems, the diurnal variation in absorption, and racial and ethnic differences. (references) | ||
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication, humectation, and deglutition. "I was in the drawing-room, enjoying my dinner," said Brillat- Savarin, beginning an anecdote. "What!" interrupted Rochebriant; "eating dinner in a drawing-room?" "I must beg you to observe, monsieur," explained the great gastronome, "that I did not say I was eating my dinner, but enjoying it. I had dined an hour before." |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Mastication" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Mastication" is used about 8 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) | 100% | 8 | 124,375 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
mastication | 10 |
mastication muscle | 5 |
deglutition mastication | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "mastication"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | përtypje (chew, crunch), përçapje (pass). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مضغ (chew, chewing, crunch, gum, masticate), علك (masticate), عجن (impaste, knead, masticate, puddle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | сдъвкване, дъвчене (chaw). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | žvýkání (chew, chewing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | tygning, sønderdeling (fragmentation), at gøre plastisk. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | plasticering, kauwen (chew), kauwarbeid. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | pureskelu (chewing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | mastication. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Kauen (champ, chaw, chew, chomp, masticate, mouthwash, to mouthwash). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μάσηση, μάλαξη (massage, mollification, pasting), ζύμωμα (pasting, wedging). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לעיס" (chewing, manducation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | rágás (chew, chewing), takarmánypépesítés, pépesítés, megdarálás, darálás (grind, grinding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | masticazione (chewing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | '嚼運動 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | そしゃくう"どう. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 작 (authoring). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | asticationmay mastigação (champ, chew). (various references) mestecare (chew), masticare. (various references) жевание (chew), пластицирование, пластикация. (various references) žvakanje (chew, chewing). (various references) masticación (chew, chewing). (various references) tuggning (chewning). (various references) çiğneme (breach, chew, chewing, contravention, infraction, masticatory, nonobservance, non-observance, run over, trample, tread under foot). (various references) жування (chaw, chew, chewing), пластикація. (various references) sự nhai (champ). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | mastikhan. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "mastication": mastications. (additional references) | |
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"Mastication" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gasication, massination, mastacation, mastecation, mastiction, mastrication, masturcation, mystication, Mysticeti, nastybation. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "mastication" (pronounced 'Mas`ti*ca"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-i-i-m-n-o-s-t-t" | |
-2 letters: anatomist, antiatoms, atomistic, citations, manicotti, satiation. | |
-3 letters: actinias, actinism, amitotic, amniotic, anatomic, antiatom, atticism, catmints, citation, iotacism, maniocas, mastitic, monastic, monistic, nomistic, oscitant, ostinati, simoniac, stiction, stomatic, tactions, titanias, titanism. | |
-4 letters: actinia, actions, anattos, animato, animist, anosmia, anosmic, astatic, atomics, atomist, atonics, attains, caimans, camions, camisia, cations, catmint, comitia, intimas, maniacs, manioca, maniocs. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-i-i-m-n-o-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: mastications. | |
+2 letters: antiromantics. | |
+3 letters: abstractionism, antimetabolics, antimonarchist, contaminations, matriculations, schematization. | |
+4 letters: abstractionisms, antimonarchists, antiromanticism, emancipationist, schematizations, semiabstraction. | |
+5 letters: acclimatizations, accommodationist, antiromanticisms, coadministration, decontaminations, democratizations, emancipationists, malpractitioners, nonmaterialistic, recontaminations, romanticizations, semiabstractions. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 61 73 74 69 63 61 74 69 6F 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- .- ... - .. -.-. .- - .. --- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01100001 01110011 01110100 01101001 01100011 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M a s t i c a t i o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0061 0073 0074 0069 0063 0061 0074 0069 006F 006E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4767858675696786758180 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Sounds 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Translations: Ancient 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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