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Definitions: Neural |
NeuralAdjective1. Of or relating to the nervous system; "nervous disease"; "neural disorder". 2. Of or relating to neurons; "neural network". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "neural" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1985. (references) |
Etymology: Neural \Neu"ral\, adjective. [Greek expression nerve.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | 1. pertaining to a nerve or to the nerves. 2. situated in the region of the spinal axis, as the neutral arch. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 |
| NERVES | English | Innovative Architectures for Neurocomputing Machines and VSLI Neural Networks | Computing, European Union |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: NeuralSynonyms: nervous (adj), neuronal (adj), neuronic (adj). (additional references) |
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Note the typical features of neuro-ocular syphilis, which includes severe optic nerve atrophy, and chorioretinitis, or inflammation of the choroidal and neural layers of the retina.Credit: CDC. | ![]() | Mapping out the Neural Networks.Credit: NASA. | |
![]() | Outline of the subtractive RNA hybridization process to isolate and identify genes whose expression is increased by alcohol. The technique uses cultured cells (e.g., neural cells) grown in the presence or absence of alcohol.Credit: NIAA. | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Balster, R.L. Neural basis of inhalant abuse. (references) | |
Thomas, J, et al. Anencephaly and Other Neural Tube Defects. (references) | ||
The extent to which these neural changes contribute to NIHL is not clear. (references) | ||
Business | This campaign publicised the findings of a DOH expert committee, which recommended that women take folic acid supplements before conception and for the first 12 weeks of pregnancy to drastically reduce the likelihood of their baby being born with neural tube defects, such as spina bifida. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Neural" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 96.11% of the time. "Neural" is used about 334 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 96.11% | 321 | 16,086 |
| Noun (singular) | 2.1% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.2% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.3% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (common) | 0.3% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 334 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "neural": artificial neural network ♦ cellular Neural Network ♦ neural arch ♦ Neural Cell Adhesion Molecules ♦ neural computer ♦ Neural Crest ♦ neural lymphomatosis ♦ neural model ♦ neural net ♦ neural nets ♦ neural network ♦ Neural Networks (Computer) ♦ Neural Organization Technique ♦ Neural Pathways ♦ neural structure ♦ neural tube ♦ Neural tube defects ♦ optical neural computer ♦ symmetrical neural net. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "neural": neural-driven, neural-specific, neural-tube. | |
Ending with "neural": non-neural. | |
| 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 |
neural network | 366 |
neural tube defect | 52 |
neural | 45 |
neural net | 40 |
finance network neural | 35 |
invest network neural | 35 |
neural network software | 24 |
neural terapia | 18 |
foramina neural | 13 |
neural network tutorial | 12 |
neural therapy | 10 |
neural linguistic programming | 10 |
neural tissue | 9 |
foramen neural | 8 |
neural crest | 7 |
application artificial network neural | 7 |
neural organisation therapy | 6 |
neural plasticity | 6 |
forecasting network neural | 6 |
neural tubo | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "neural"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | nervoz (edgy, excitable, fidgety, irritable, jittery, nervous, restless), nervor (nervous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | عصبي (apprehensive, edgy, fidgety, fretful, jitterbug, jumpy, nervous, nervy, neuralgic, on edge, pithy, restless, spooky, testy, up the wall, uptight). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | нервен (edgy, fidgety, jerky, jittery, jumpy, nervous, nervy, neurotic, on edge, ratty, restless, snuffy, spooky, windy), неврален. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 神经系统. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | nervový (nervous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | neural (nerve-related). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | neuraal. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | neuroverkko (neural model, neural network, neurally inspired model), neuronipiiri (neural circuit, neuronlike circuit), neurolymfomatoosi (avian lymphomatosis, avian neurolymphomatosis, fowl paralysis, Marek's disease, neural lymphomatosis, neurolymphomatosis gallinarum), symmetrinen hermoverkko (symmetrical neural net), optinen hermoverkkotietokone (optical neural computer), muistitoimintoja välittävä hermojärjestelmä (neural system mediating memory), MD (avian lymphomatosis, avian neurolymphomatosis, fowl paralysis, Marek's disease, Moldova, neural lymphomatosis, neurolymphomatosis gallinarum, Republic of Moldova), Marekin tauti (avian lymphomatosis, avian neurolymphomatosis, fowl paralysis, Marek's disease, neural lymphomatosis, neurolymphomatosis gallinarum), keinotekoinen neuraaliverkko (artificial neural network, network of artificial neurons), hermoverkkotietokone (neural computer, neuro-computer), hermoverkkopiiri (neural circuit, neuronlike circuit), hermorata (neural pathway). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | neural. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | neural. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | νευρικόσ (edgy, fidgety, jerky, jittery, jumpy, nervous, nervy, petulant, self conscious). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | עצבי (nervous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | ideg- (nervous, neurotic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | neurale. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | ニューヨーク州 (neural net, neural network, neuro-, neuro-computer, neuro-computing, neuron, new layers look, new leader, new left, new look, new realism, New Right, new roller, New York State, nimbus gray, nuance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ニューラル . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 경 (nerve, nerves, Nervous, neuron, Neurotic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | neayragh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | euralnay neural. (various references) neural. (various references) нервный (edgy, fussy, high-strung, jittery, jumpy, nervious, nervous, nervy, neurotic, wrought-up). (various references) nervni (nervous), živčani (nervous). (various references) neural. (various references) nerv-. (various references) เกี่ยวกับเส้นประสาทหรือระบบประสาท. (various references) sinirsel (neurotic), sinir (fury, nerve, nervous, pet, sinew, tantrum, temper). (various references) нервовий (high strung, highly strung, jittery, jumpy, nerval, nervous, nervy, neurotic). (various references) gieuol (of nerves). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "neural": neuralgia, neuralgias, neuralgic, neurally. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "neural": myoneural, sensorineural. (additional references) | |
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"Neural" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eural, naral, Narula, Nayral, Neacail, Nearula, necra, Neeruam, negram, neoral, Nequam, nerol, neru, Neubau, neur, neurop, neurot, Neuva, Neyra, niduari, Nirali, nueral, nural, nurle, peural, Pneupac. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "neural" (pronounced nuh"rul or nyuh"rul) |
| 4 | -uh" r u l | intramural, mural, plural, rural. |
| 3 | -r u l | amoral, ancestral, antiviral, apparel, astral, aural, auroral, austral, Balmoral, barrel, Beryl, boral, Carle, Carol, carrel, cathedral, central, cerebral, choral, coral, feral, floral, gambrel, goral, immoral, imperil, integral, laurel, Loral, minstrel, mistral, mitral, moral, neutral, nostril, octahedral, oral, orchestral, peril, quarrel, scoundrel, several, Sorel, Sorrel, spiral, sterile, tetrahedral, ventral, vertebral, viral, virile. |
| 5 | -y uh" r u l | intramural, mural. |
| 4 | -uh" r u l | plural, rural. |
| 3 | -r u l | amoral, ancestral, antiviral, apparel, astral, aural, auroral, austral, Balmoral, barrel, Beryl, boral, Carle, Carol, carrel, cathedral, central, cerebral, choral, coral, feral, floral, gambrel, goral, immoral, imperil, integral, laurel, Loral, minstrel, mistral, mitral, moral, neutral, nostril, octahedral, oral, orchestral, peril, quarrel, scoundrel, several, Sorel, Sorrel, spiral, sterile, tetrahedral, ventral, vertebral, viral, virile. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: unreal. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-l-n-r-u" | |
-1 letter: learn, lunar, renal, ulnae, ulnar, ureal. | |
-2 letters: earl, earn, elan, lane, lean, lear, luna, lune, lure, near, nurl, rale, real, rule, rune, ulan, ulna, urea. | |
-3 letters: ale, ane, are, ear, eau, era, ern, lar, lea, leu, nae, ran, rue, run, urn. | |
-4 letters: ae, al, an, ar, el, en, er, la, na, ne, nu, re, un. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-l-n-r-u" | |
+1 letter: aleuron, flaneur, frenula, funeral, granule, launder, lucarne, lurdane, nebular, neurula, neutral, nuclear, numeral, ranulae, unclear, unlearn, unravel, venular. | |
+2 letters: aleurone, aleurons, auntlier, burnable, caruncle, cerulean, dentural, flaneurs, flaunter, fraulein, funerals, funereal, granules, inhauler, launcher, launders, lucarnes, lurdanes, mensural, neurally, neuronal, neurosal, neurulae, neurulas, neutrals, nucellar, numerals, outlearn, pendular, prunable, prunella, purslane, relaunch, retinula, revenual, ruinable, supernal, tenurial, turnable, underlap, underlay, unlearns, unlearnt, unloader, unravels, unreally, uplander, urbanely. | |
+3 letters: aleurones, antiulcer, aureoling, auslander, avirulent, burnables, calenture, carbuncle, caruncles, ceruleans, crenulate, endurable, endurably, flaunters, flauntier, frauleins, gardenful, granulate, granulite, granulose, harlequin, herculean, incurable, inhaulers, insurable, larcenous, launchers, laundered, launderer, laundress, laundries, laureling, lumberman, luminaire, menstrual, myoneural, neuralgia, neuralgic, neuroglia, neutrally, nucleator, nucleolar, numerable, numerally, numerical, outlander, outlearns, outlearnt, penumbral, prelaunch, prunellas, purslanes, reluctant, resultant, retinulae, retinular, retinulas, revaluing, roundelay, semilunar, subaltern, superlain, tellurian, tenurable, tremulant, turntable, ultrafine, unaltered, unawarely, uncleaner, unclearer, underlaid, underlain, underlaps, underlays, underplay, unearthly, unilinear, universal, unlearned, unloaders, unmanlier, unraveled, unreality, unrelated, unrelaxed, unridable, unrivaled, unsnarled, unstabler, unwarlike, uplanders, uredinial, vulnerary. | |
+4 letters: adulterant, adulterine, allurement, aneurysmal, antennular, aquaplaner, artfulness, auslanders, bladdernut, calentures, carbuncled, carbuncles, censurable, clangoured, crenulated, crunchable, enfleurage, enumerable, euryhaline, fluorinate, fraudulent, funereally, gardenfuls, granduncle, granulated, granulates, granulites, granuloses, harlequins, honourable, inarguable, incurables, interlunar, intermural, journalese, journalize, lacquering, lacustrine, lambrequin, landlubber, langlaufer, languisher, launderers, laundering, laundrette, laundrymen, laureating, laureation, laurelling, lawrencium, leaguering, lebensraum, lenticular, leprechaun, loungewear, luminaires, luminaries, luxuriance, mensurable, multirange, naturalise, naturalize, neuralgias, neurilemma, neuroglial, neuroglias, neutralise, neutralism, neutralist, neutrality, neutralize, nondurable, nonnuclear, nucleators, numberable, outgeneral, outlanders, outlearned, painfuller, peduncular, peninsular, pleasuring, prenuptial, pronuclear, prudential, quadrangle, quarreling, ravenously, refundable, regulating, regulation, relaunched, relaunches, reluctance, reluctancy, republican, resaluting, resultants, retinacula, returnable, roundelays, roundtable, rudimental, slanderous, subalterns, subcentral, subnuclear, superclean, superlunar, supernally, superplane, supplanter, suprarenal, tarantulae, tentacular, tenurially, tourmaline, tranquiler, transvalue, turntables, ulcerating, ulceration, ultraclean, ultradense, unarguable, unbearable, unbearably, unburnable, unclearest, undeclared, underclass, underglaze, underplays, undervalue, unenlarged, ungainlier, ungraceful, ungrateful, unheralded, unicameral, unilateral, universals, unlearning, unliterary, unmannerly, unprovable, unraveling, unravelled, unreadable, unrealized, unreliable, unrevealed, unrivalled, unsalaried, unscramble, untraveled, unwearable, unworkable, urinalyses, urogenital, vernacular, vulcanizer, vulnerable, vulnerably, wanderlust. | |
+5 letters: adulterants, allurements, anticruelty, antinuclear, aquaplaners, arenicolous, belabouring, bladdernuts, cancerously, candelabrum, carefulness, cavernously, centrifugal, conjectural, construable, counterplan, counterplay, counterplea, countervail, crenulation, curableness, curtailment, curtainless, curvilinear, dangerously, delusionary, denumerable, denumerably, durableness, elutriating, elutriation, enfleurages, entablature, equiangular, equilibrant, exuberantly, faultfinder, fearfulness, fluorinated, fluorinates, fortunately, fraudulence, gradualness, granduncles, granulocyte, harmfulness, hibernacula, homonuclear, innumerable, innumerably, inscrutable, insuperable, insuperably, interannual, interlunary, intersexual, involucrate, journaleses, journalized, journalizer, journalizes, lambrequins, landlubbers, langlaufers, languishers, larcenously, launderette, laundresses, laundrettes, laureations, lawrenciums, lebensraums, leprechauns, luxuriances, macronuclei, mononuclear, nailbrushes, naturalised, naturalises, naturalized, naturalizes, naturalness, nefariously, neurilemmal, neurilemmas, neurulation, neutralised, neutralises, neutralisms, neutralists, neutralized, neutralizer, neutralizes, neutralness, nonburnable, noncellular, nondurables, nonreusable, numerically, outgenerals, outlearning, overhauling, overvaluing, pastureland, pecuniarily, pelargonium, planetarium, polynuclear, quadrangles, quadrennial, quarrelling, quaveringly, radiolucent, rectangular, reductional, redundantly, regulations, reinoculate, relaunching, reluctances, reluctantly, reluctating, reluctation, republicans, repugnantly, resultantly, retinaculum, returnables, revaluating, revaluation, roundtables, seigneurial, semidiurnal, seminatural, singularize, strangulate, subinterval, subregional, subterminal, superaltern, superlunary, supernormal, superplanes, supplanters, suprarenals, surveillant, tearfulness, thankfuller, thunderclap, tourmalines, tranquilest, tranquilize, tranquiller, translucent, transsexual, transvalued, transvalues, triangulate, ulcerations, ultramarine, ultramodern, umbrellaing, unalterable, unalterably, unbreakable, uncertainly, unclarified, unclarities, uncrossable, uncrushable, underglazes, underlapped, underlaying, underplayed, undervalued, undervalues, undesirable, undesirably, undrinkable, unelaborate, unempirical, unendurable, unendurably, unfaltering, unfavorable, ungraspable, unguardedly, unhealthier, unicellular, unignorable, uninsurable, uniparental, universally, unlaundered, unlearnable, unliberated, unmemorable, unmemorably, unpolarized, unprintable, unravelling, unreachable, unrealistic, unrealities, unreclaimed, unregulated, unreluctant, unremovable, unscrambled, unscrambler, unscrambles, untraceable, untrammeled, unutterable, unutterably, unweariedly, unworkables, ventricular, vernaculars, voluntaries, vulcanizers, vulneraries, wanderlusts. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 65 75 72 61 6C |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-. . ..- .-. .- .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01100101 01110101 01110010 01100001 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N e u r a l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0065 0075 0072 0061 006C |
| 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)487187846778 |
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