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PHENYLENE

Definition: PHENYLENE

PHENYLENE

Noun

1. A hypothetic radical (C6H4) occurring in certain derivatives of benzene; as, phenylene diamine.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Synonyms: PHENYLENE

Synonyms by domain: Poly p phenylene oxydiphenylene terepthalamide (geography, transportation), poly(para phenylene benzobisimidazole) (engineering & technology).

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Crosswords: PHENYLENE

English words defined with "PHENYLENE": Thionine. (references)

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Usage Frequency: PHENYLENE

"PHENYLENE" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "PHENYLENE" is used about 3 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%3202,518

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: PHENYLENE

Expression using "PHENYLENE": phenylene violet. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "PHENYLENE": meta-phenylene, m-phenylene, p-phenylene.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: PHENYLENE

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  diamine para phenylene

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: PHENYLENE

Language Translations for "PHENYLENE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

苯撑. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

enylenephay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "PHENYLENE"

Words rhyming with "PHENYLENE" (pronounced 'Phe"nyl*ene'): Abietene, Acetylene, Advene, Aliene, Allylene, Alpigene, Amphigene, Amylene, Antenicene, Anthracene, Arrasene, Azobenzene, Benzene, Butylene, Cadene, Cajuputene, Cannabene, Carene, Carvene, Cedrene, Cerotene, Cetene, Chrysene, Colophene, Contravene, Conylene, Coryphene, Cottolene, Crotonylene, Cumene, Cymene, Cymogene, Decene, Durene, Fluoranthene, Fluorene, gasolene, Hellene, Homogene, indigene, kerosene, Leucoxene, Megasthene, Meiocene, Melene, Menthene, Mesitylene, methylene, Microsthene, Mimetene. (additional references)

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Anagrams: PHENYLENE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-e-h-l-n-n-p-y"

-3 letters: phenyl.

-4 letters: penne, penny, phyle.

-5 letters: eely, epee, eyen, eyne, heel, help, hype, neep, nene, peel, peen, pele, yelp.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-e-h-l-n-n-p-y"
 

+4 letters: phenylephrine.

 

+5 letters: myelencephalon, phenylephrines.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: PHENYLENE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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Bibliographic Items: "PHENYLENE"


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Amazon.com BOOKS: Search for: "PHENYLENE"

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Public Service or Web Sites Triggered by: PHENYLENE