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Definition: Plasticine |
PlasticineNoun1. (trademark) a synthetic material resembling clay but remaining soft; used as a substitute for clay or wax in modeling (especially in schools). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Industry | For children to play with. Source: European Union. (references) |
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| "Phoetus" by Cerys Jones Commentary: "At some point I'm going to be animating this plasticine foetus, but I decided to capture it for posterity before things go horribly wrong." | "Modelling 2" by Matt Williams Commentary: "Many hands make light work. Children making plasticine models." |
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| "Plasticine" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 78.95% of the time. "Plasticine" is used about 57 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) | 78.95% | 45 | 50,900 |
| Noun (proper) | 15.79% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 3.51% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.75% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 57 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "Plasticine": plasticine-like. | |
| 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 |
plasticine | 21 |
clay plasticine | 4 |
cartoon plasticine sex | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "Plasticine"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | plastelinë. (various references) | |
Arabic | مادة لدائنية. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | пластилин. (various references) | |
French | pâte à modeler. (various references) | |
German | plastilin, Knetmasse. (various references) | |
Greek | πλαστελίνη. (various references) | |
Hebrew | פלסטלינה (modelling clay). (various references) | |
Hungarian | plasztilin, gyurma. (various references) | |
Italian | plastilina. (various references) | |
Manx | plastaseen, marley (marl). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | asticineplay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | plasticina. (various references) | |
Romanian | plastilinã. (various references) | |
Russian | пластилин. (various references) | |
Spanish | arcilla de moldear. (various references) | |
Turkish | plastisin, mumlu kil. (various references) | |
Turkmen | plastilin (r). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | пластилін. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Plasticine": plasticines. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "Plasticine" (pronounced pla"stusē'n) |
| 4 | -u s ē' n | internecine, kerosene. |
| 3 | -s ē' n | glycine, overseen. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-i-l-n-p-s-t" | |
-1 letter: cisalpine, cisplatin, inelastic, pliancies, sciential. | |
-2 letters: alienist, alpinist, antislip, canities, capelins, ciliates, litanies, panelist, panicles, pantiles, pelicans, penicils, pintails, piscinae, piscinal, plainest, platinic, salicine, septical, silicate, tailspin, tieclasp. | |
-3 letters: acetins, alpines, aplites, aplitic, aseptic, cantles, capelin, caplets, caplins, catlins, catnips, centals, ciliate, cineast, clients, elastic, elastin, elicits, enclasp, entails, episcia, incepts, incisal, incites. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-i-l-n-p-s-t" | |
+1 letter: plasticines. | |
+2 letters: encephalitis, explications, replications, speciational. | |
+3 letters: antiparticles, coplanarities, incompatibles, neoplasticism, neoplasticist, nonspecialist, pantheistical, paternalistic, personalistic, pictorialness, punctualities. | |
+4 letters: antiepileptics, antineoplastic, antiseptically, cephalizations, compensability, encephalitides, exceptionalism, geopoliticians, incapabilities, isentropically, municipalities, neoplasticisms, neoplasticists, nonspecialists, pertinaciously, pinealectomies, principalities, quintuplicates, reapplications, recompilations, reduplications, republications, sextuplicating, specialisation, specialization, ultraprecision. | |
+5 letters: antispeculation, antispeculative, conceptualising, conceptualistic, conceptualities, exceptionalisms, implicativeness, introspectional, pantheistically, phenomenalistic, pictorialnesses, pinealectomizes, platinocyanides, prepublications, provincialities, recapitulations, specialisations, specializations, ultraprecisions, unpunctualities. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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