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Definition: PENTANE |
PENTANENoun1. Any one of the three metameric hydrocarbons, C5H12, of the methane or paraffin series. They are colorless, volatile liquids, two of which occur in petroleum. So called because of the five carbon atoms in the molecule. |
Note: Pentane \Pen"tane\, noun. [See Penta-.]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: PENTANE |
| English words defined with "PENTANE": Pentoic, Pentyl. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "PENTANE": natural gas liquid. (references) |
| "PENTANE" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "PENTANE" is used about 5 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% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "PENTANE": pentane-oxy-ethane. | |
| 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 |
pentane | 28 |
msds pentane | 2 |
pentane properties | 2 |
isomers pentane | 2 |
pentane use | 2 |
density pentane | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "PENTANE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 戊烷. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | pentan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | pentaan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | pentane. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Pentan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | πεντάνιο. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | pentano. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | entanepay pentano. (various references) pentano. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "PENTANE": pentanes. (additional references) | |
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"PENTANE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Lentinue, Pantano, pantene, pantine, Panzani, Panzano, Patane, peetane, penae, Penand, penate, Pencannow, pendine, pennanted, pentaene, Pentan, pentance, pentate, pentence, Pernetiana, Pestano, petance, Pettnau, phentanyl, pintade, Pontano, Pontcanna, Pontianak, Prendine, puntine, putane. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "PENTANE" (pronounced pe"ntā'n) |
| 3 | -t ā' n | bloodstain. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: pennate. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-n-n-p-t" | |
-1 letter: neaten, pennae. | |
-2 letters: anent, eaten, enate, etape, panne, paten, penna, penne. | |
-3 letters: ante, etna, nape, neap, neat, neep, nene, pane, pant, pate, pean, peat, peen, pent, tape, teen, tepa. | |
-4 letters: ane, ant, ape, apt, ate, eat, eta, nae, nan, nap, nee, net, pan, pat, pea, pee, pen, pet, tae, tan, tap, tea, tee, ten. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-n-n-p-t" | |
+1 letter: pennated, pentanes. | |
+2 letters: dependant, naphthene, panettone, penetrant, pentangle, perennate, permanent, repentant, trepanned. | |
+3 letters: antependia, antepenult, dependants, encampment, entrapment, naphthenes, nepenthean, nonseptate, panettones, pangenetic, penetrance, penetrants, pentangles, perennated, perennates, permanents, phenacetin, purtenance, repentance, septennial, unparented. | |
+4 letters: antependium, antepenults, counterpane, elephantine, encampments, entrapments, exponential, impermanent, inappetence, inaptnesses, naphthalene, neuropteran, penetrances, penetrating, penetration, penitential, pentahedron, pentamidine, pentavalent, pentazocine, pentlandite, perennating, perennation, permanently, phenacetins, preenacting, prenominate, purtenances, repentances, repentantly, unaptnesses, unrepentant. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 45 4E 54 41 4E 45 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. . -. - .- -. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01000101 01001110 01010100 01000001 01001110 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P E N T A N E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0045 004E 0054 0041 004E 0045 |
| 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)50394854354839 |
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