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Definitions: MASTICATORY |
MASTICATORYAdjective1. Chewing; adapted to perform the office o/ chewing food. Noun1. A substance to be chewed to increase the saliva. |
Date "MASTICATORY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1871. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | 1. subserving or pertaining to mastication; affecting the muscles of mastication. 2. a remedy to be chewed but not swallowed. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: MASTICATORY |
| English words defined with "MASTICATORY": -ries. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "MASTICATORY": Activator Appliances ♦ Bite Force ♦ chewing cycle, Craniomandibular Disorders ♦ Masseter Muscle ♦ Pterygoid Muscles ♦ Temporomandibular Joint Dysfunction Syndrome. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Expression using "MASTICATORY": Masticatory Muscles. 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
masticatory muscle myositis | 4 |
masticatory myositis | 3 |
masticatory muscle | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "MASTICATORY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | mastikatorisk. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | masticatoir, kauwpreparaat, kauw-. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | mastikatorinen, pureskeluun liittyvä, pureskelu-, puremis-. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | masticateur. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | mastikatorisch, Kaumasse, Kaugummi (chewing gum, chewing-gum, gum), Kau-. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μασσώμενο κόμμι, μασητήριος, τσίχλα (bubble gum, chewing gum, chewing-gum, chicle, sweetened chewing gum, thrush). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | rágóizom (masticatory muscle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | masticatorio. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | asticatorymay mastigatório (mastiff), mastigatório, mastigador (masticator), triturador (crusher, crushing machine, garbage disposer, garbage grinder, grape mill, grinder, pulverizer, waste grinder, waste mill, wood hog). (various references) жевательный желудок (masticatory stomach). (various references) masticatorio. (various references) masticatorium. (various references) sakız (chewing gum, gum, gummastic, mastic, resin), çiğnenen şey (quid), çiğneme (breach, chew, chewing, contravention, infraction, mastication, nonobservance, non-observance, run over, trample, tread under foot). (various references) жувальний. (various references) để nhai; để nghiền. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-i-m-o-r-s-t-t-y" | |
-1 letter: masticator. | |
-2 letters: aromatics. | |
-3 letters: acrotism, aromatic, atrocity, castrati, castrato, citators, citatory, costmary, cramoisy, cryostat, ramosity, ricottas, stomatic, stromata, tritomas. | |
-4 letters: acromia, amatory, amorist, amritas, amtracs, astatic, astrict, atomics, atomist, caritas, citator, cottars, cymatia, marcato, myotics, myricas, osmatic, ostiary, ostraca, ricotta, sarcoma, satyric, somatic, stomata, tamaris, tarmacs, tatamis, tomcats, tricots, trisomy, tritoma, trymata, yttrias. | |
-5 letters: actors. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-i-m-o-r-s-t-t-y" | |
+5 letters: syncategorematic, thermostatically. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 41 53 54 49 43 41 54 4F 52 59 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- .- ... - .. -.-. .- - --- .-. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01000001 01010011 01010100 01001001 01000011 01000001 01010100 01001111 01010010 01011001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M A S T I C A T O R Y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0041 0053 0054 0049 0043 0041 0054 004F 0052 0059 |
| 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)4735535443373554495259 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Expressions | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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