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Definition: Pasteur |
PasteurNoun1. French chemist and biologist whose discovery that fermentation is caused by microorganisms resulted in the process of pasteurization (1822-1895). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Pasteur" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1880. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Biographical Satire | PASTEUR, Doctor, discoverer. Experimented with mad dogs until he came to the conclusion they should be shot or chained. A subway station in Paris has been named after him. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914. |
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Synonym: PasteurSynonym: Louis Pasteur (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Receptacle | Beaker, flask, Erlenmeyer flask, Florence flask, round-bottom flask, graduated cylinder, test tube, culture tube, pipette, Pasteur pipette, disposable pipette, syringe, vial, carboy, vacuum flask, Petri dish, microtiter tray, centrifuge tube. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Pasteur |
| English words defined with "Pasteur": Louis Pasteur ♦ Pasteurian, Pasteurism. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Pasteur": Heart ♦ Sharps. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "Pasteur": Pasteurism. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Pasteur" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (clergy, clergyman, minister, parson, pastor, preacher, rector, Shepherd, vicar), German (pastor). |
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Screenplays | Newton, Pasteur, Einstein (Crack in the World; writing credit: Jon Manchip White) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Le Bon Pasteur Québec (1949) Pasteur (1947) The Story of Louis Pasteur (1935) La Préparation du sérum antidiphtérique l'institut Pasteur Bruxelles (1922) Pasteur (1922) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Louis Pasteur at his laboratory. Original painting at the Institute Pasteur, Paris.Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | Vie Et Oeuvre De Pasteur : centenaire du vaccin contre la rage.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | IPAD DTCP PASTEUR : Pour La Protection Du Monde De L'Enfance / A. Godard.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Les Serpents Africains Enfin Vaincus! : Ipser Afrique Pasteur / A. Godard.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | A Pasteur le Jour de Ses 70 Ans la Science et l'Humanite Reconnaissantes XXVII Decembre MDCCCXCII.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Men of Mark. No. 6. : M. Louis Pasteur.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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Louis Pasteur | In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared minds. |
| Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind. | |
| In the fields of observation chance favors only those minds which are prepared. | |
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Health | In 1885, Joseph Meister was bitten by a rabid dog. His parents went to the famous French biologist Louis Pasteur. (references) | |
They begged him to help their son. Pasteur thought that if he injected a weak form of virus from one rabid animal into another, the second animal might be able to fight off the disease. (references) | ||
Human Rights | Rwanda | The investigation still was ongoing at year's end into the 2000 killing of Assiel Kabera, an advisor to former President Pasteur Bizimungu, by three men in military uniform. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | HEART, n. An automatic, muscular blood-pump. Figuratively, this useful organ is said to be the esat of emotions and sentiments -- a very pretty fancy which, however, is nothing but a survival of a once universal belief. It is now known that the sentiments and emotions reside in the stomach, being evolved from food by chemical action of the gastric fluid. The exact process by which a beefsteak becomes a feeling -- tender or not, according to the age of the animal from which it was cut; the successive stages of elaboration through which a caviar sandwich is transmuted to a quaint fancy and reappears as a pungent epigram; the marvelous functional methods of converting a hard-boiled egg into religious contrition, or a cream-puff into a sigh of sensibility -- these things have been patiently ascertained by M. Pasteur, and by him expounded with convincing lucidity. (See, also, my monograph, The Essential Identity of the Spiritual Affections and Certain Intestinal Gases Freed in Digestion -- 4to, 687 pp.) In a scientific work entitled, I believe, Delectatio Demonorum (John Camden Hotton, London, 1873) this view of the sentiments receives a striking illustration; and for further light consult Professor Dam's famous treatise on Love as a Product of Alimentary Maceration. |
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| "Pasteur" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 69.23% of the time. "Pasteur" is used about 26 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) | 69.23% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Noun (proper) | 30.77% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Total | 100.00% | 26 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "Pasteur": louis pasteur ♦ pasteur pipette. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "Pasteur": Pasteur-lille, Pasteur-lyon, Pasteur-merieux. | |
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| 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 "Pasteur"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | Pasteur's teori (Pasteur theory), Pasteur's rabies-vaccination (Pasteur vaccination), Pasteur's pipette (Pasteur pipet), Pasteur's metode (Pasteur method), Pasteurpipette (Pasteur tube), Pasteur-effekt (Pasteur effect). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | Pasteur-pipette (Pasteur tube), pasteurpipet (Pasteur pipet), theorie van Pasteur (Pasteur theory), effect van Pasteur (Pasteur effect). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | Pasteur-pipetti (Pasteur tube). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | pipette Pasteur (Pasteur pipet, Pasteur tube), vaccination antirabique (Pasteur vaccination), théorie de l'épuisement de Pasteur (Pasteur theory), réaction de Pasteur (Pasteur effect), méthode de Pasteur (Pasteur method). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Pasteur-Pipette (Pasteur tube), Pasteur-Methode (Pasteur method), Pasteur-Effekt (Pasteur effect), Pasteur Pipette (Pasteur pipet), Pasteur Impfung (Pasteur vaccination), Pasteur Erschöpfungstheorie (Pasteur theory). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | σιφώνιο Pasteur (Pasteur pipet, Pasteur tube), μέθοδος του Pasteur (Pasteur method), πιπέτα Pasteur (Pasteur tube), πιπέττα Pasteur (Pasteur pipet), αντιλυσσικός εμβολιασμός (Pasteur vaccination), αντίδρασις του Pasteur (Pasteur effect), αποτέλεσμα του Pasteur (Pasteur effect), θεωρία ανοσίας του Pasteur (Pasteur theory). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | pipetta Pasteur (Pasteur tube), vaccinazione antirabica (Pasteur vaccination), teoria di Pasteur (Pasteur theory), reazione di Pasteur (Pasteur effect), metodo di Pasteur (Pasteur method), effetto Pasteur (Pasteur effect). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | asteurpay pipeta Pasteur (Pasteur pipet), vacinação anti-rábica (Pasteur vaccination), teoria de Pasteur (Pasteur theory), método de Pasteur (Pasteur method), efeito de Pasteur (Pasteur effect). (various references) pipeta pasteur (Pasteur pipet), pipeta (drop tube, dropper, elevator, levator, medicine dropper, Pasteur tube, pipet, pipette, rod thief, thief), vacunación antirrábica (Pasteur vaccination), teoría de Pasteur (Pasteur theory), reacción de Pasteur (Pasteur effect), método de Pasteur (Pasteur method). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Pasteur": pasteurise, pasteurised, pasteurises, pasteurising, pasteurization, pasteurizations, pasteurize, pasteurized, pasteurizer, pasteurizers, pasteurizes, pasteurizing. (additional references) | |
Words containing "Pasteur": unpasteurized. (additional references) | |
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"Pasteur" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Batsuur, pasteor, Pattimura, Penseur, Pescheor, Pimsleur, pisteur. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: pasture, uprates, upstare, uptears. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-p-r-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: erupts, pareus, paster, paters, pauser, prates, purest, repast, tapers, taupes, trapes, uprate, uptear, urates. | |
-2 letters: apers, apres, apter, asper, aster, aures, erupt, pares, pareu, parse, parts, paste, pater, pates, pause, pears, peart, peats, prase, prate, prats, praus, presa, prest, pruta, purse, rapes, rates, reaps, saute, septa, setup, spare, spate, spear, sprat, sprue, spurt, sputa, stare, strap, strep, stupa, stupe, super, supra, sutra, taper, tapes, tares, tarps, taupe, tears, tepas, traps, trues, turps, upset, urase, urate, ureas, ursae. | |
-3 letters: aper, apes, apse, ares, arse, arts, ates, ears, east, eats, eras, erst, etas, pare, pars, part, pase, past, pate, pats, pear, peas, peat, pert, pest, pets, prat, prau, pure, purs, puts, rape, raps, rapt, rase, rasp, rate, rats, reap, reps, rest, rets, rues, ruse, rust, ruts, sate, sear, seat, sept, sera, seta, spae, spar, spat, spue, spur, star, step, suer, suet, supe, sura, sure, tape, taps, tare, tarp, tars, taus, tear, teas, tepa, trap, true, tsar, tups, upas, urea, ursa, user, utas. | |
-4 letters: ape, apt, are, ars, art, asp, ate, ear, eat, eau, era, ers, eta, par, pas, pat, pea, per, pes, pet, pur, pus, put, rap, ras, rat, rep, res, ret, rue, rut, sae, sap, sat, sau, sea, ser, set, spa, sue, sup, tae, tap, tar, tas, tau, tea, tup, ups, use, uta, uts. | |
-5 letters: ae, ar, as, at, er, es, et, pa, pe, re, ta, up, us, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-p-r-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: apterous, captures, parquets, pastured, pasturer, pastures, raptures, supertax, tempuras, updaters, upstared, upstares, upstater, upstream. | |
+2 letters: abruptest, apertures, capturers, depurates, eupatrids, mousetrap, outcapers, outspread, paraquets, paroquets, pasturage, pasturers, perfusate, peripatus, pratiques, preaudits, prosateur, pterosaur, pyruvates, septarium, sporulate, superfast, superheat, superstar, suppurate, trapezius, upgathers, upstarted, upstaters. | |
+3 letters: abruptness, departures, enraptures, expurgates, metacarpus, mousetraps, outsparkle, outspreads, parachutes, pasteurise, pasteurize, pasticheur, pasturages, peculators, perfusates, prelatures, prematures, prosateurs, psalterium, pterosaurs, purgatives, recaptures, repudiates, resupinate, speculator, spermatium, sporulated, sporulates, subchapter, subprimate, superagent, supergiant, superheats, supersmart, superstars, superstate, supertaxes, supplanter, suppurated, suppurates, trapeziums, tropopause, underpants, underparts, unstrapped, upperparts, waterspout. | |
+4 letters: apicultures, apparatuses, champertous, euphoriants, expurgators, grapefruits, houseparent, intercampus, lepromatous, outpreaches, outsparkled, outsparkles, parquetries, parturients, pasteurised, pasteurises, pasteurized, pasteurizer, pasteurizes, pasticheurs, pastureland, pentamerous, peripatuses, perpetuates, petrolatums, pituitaries, plateresque, platterfuls, plattersful, pluralities, precautions, procrustean, promulgates, purgatories, purtenances, quadruplets, rapporteurs, recuperates, repopulates, repudiators, reputations, septenarius, spectacular, specularity, speculators, sporulative, subchapters, subprimates, superagents, superaltern, superfatted, supergiants, superheated, superheater, superjacent, superlative, supermarket, supernatant, supernation, supernature, superstates, superstrata, supertanker, supplanters, supportable, suppressant, suppurative, supremacist, suprematism, suprematist, therapeuses, therapeusis, trapeziuses, tropopauses, ultrasimple, unaspirated, unseparated, vituperates, waterspouts. | |
+5 letters: abruptnesses, acupunctures, antipleasure, appurtenants, autographies, autotrophies, auxotrophies, bankruptcies, capitularies, counterpanes, counterparts, counterplans, counterplays, counterpleas, deuteranopes, disreputable, disreputably, expurgations, housepainter, houseparents, laureateship, macropterous, mousetrapped, neuropathies, neuropterans, outspreading, paintbrushes, particulates, pasteurising, pasteurizers, pasteurizing, pasturelands, perambulates, percutaneous, permutations, perpetuators, pertinacious, planetariums, plutocracies, popularities, portmanteaus, portraitures, postfracture, postgraduate, premenstrual, preslaughter, proconsulate, proctodaeums, prosecutable, proteinurias, prothalluses, provocateurs, purplehearts, reassumption, reduplicates, repudiations, somatopleure, spectaculars, spiritualize, stepdaughter, subtemperate, superalterns, superannuate, superathlete, supercabinet, superelevate, supergravity, superheaters, superheating, superlatives, supermarkets, supernatants, supernations, supernatural, supernatures, superovulate, superpatriot, superplastic, superquality, superstardom, superstation, superstratum, supertankers, suppressants, supremacists, suprematisms, suprematists, temperatures, therapeutics, thunderclaps, ultraprecise, vituperators, voluptuaries. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 61 73 74 65 75 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .- ... - . ..- .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100001 01110011 01110100 01100101 01110101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P a s t e u r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0061 0073 0074 0065 0075 0072 |
| 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)50678586718784 |
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