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Definition: PROSECTOR |
PROSECTORNoun1. One who makes dissections for anatomical illustration; usually, the assistant of a professional anatomist. |
Etymology: Prosector \Pro*sec"tor\, noun. [Latin expression, an anatomist, from prosecare to cut up; pro before secare to cut.]. (Websters 1913) |
"PROSECTOR" is a common misspelling or typo for: projector, prosecutor, prospector, protector. |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | [Dr. August Carl Bock.] : Prosector Theatr. Anatom. Lips. / Röder ad Nat. Steindr. v. A. Kneisel. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "PROSECTOR" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "PROSECTOR" 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 66.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (proper) | 33.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "PROSECTOR"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | محضر التشريح. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | просектор. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | prosektor. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | prosector. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | prosecteur. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Prosektor. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | proszektor. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | prosettore. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | osectorpray prossector. (various references) прозектор (dissector). (various references) prosektor. (various references) prosektor. (various references) прозектор (anatomist, dissector). (various references) trợ lý giải phẫu. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "PROSECTOR": prosectors. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "PROSECTOR" (pronounced 'Pro*sec"tor'): Abactor, Abator, Abductor, Accentor, Actor, Adductor, Adjutor, Administrator, Agistator, Alienator, Amputator, Archtraitor, Arendator, Arpentator, Assentator, BENEFACTOR, Bettor, Betutor, Bisector, Bivector, Buccinator, Calefactor, Calorimotor, Calumniator, Cantor, Captor, Castigator, Causator, Circumferentor, Citator, Coadjutor, Collator, Cornutor, Cremator, Cretor, Cunctator, Curator, Deductor, Delator, Devotor, fetor, Fictor, Flector, foetor, Glossator, IMPOSTOR, laudator, lector, Lentor, Levator. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-o-o-p-r-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: proctors, troopers. | |
-2 letters: coopers, cooters, copters, poorest, porrect, porters, presort, pretors, proctor, prosect, rectors, reports, rooster, rooters, scooper, scooter, sporter, stooper, toreros, torpors, trooper. | |
-3 letters: cooers, cooper, coopts, cooter, copers, copter, corers, corpse, corset, coster, crores, escort, poorer, porose, porter, poster, presto, pretor, proser, rector, rectos, report, repots, repros, resort, respot, retros, rooser. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-o-o-p-r-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: projectors, prosectors, prosecutor, prospector, protectors. | |
+2 letters: arthroscope, baroceptors, colporteurs, cooperators, copromoters, crapshooter, percolators, procaryotes, procreators, prosecutors, prospectors, prothoraces. | |
+3 letters: arthroscopes, comptrollers, coprosperity, corporeities, crapshooters, cyproterones, incorporates, macropterous, overprotects, procreations, protectories, provocateurs, trochophores, tropospheric, urethroscope. | |
+4 letters: arthroscopies, baroreceptors, coproprietors, corporalities, correspondent, cotransported, counterpowers, electrophorus, exteroceptors, interoceptors, outreproduces, photocurrents, prosecutorial, protectorates, protectorship, reciprocators, reproductions, retrospection, scleroprotein, urethroscopes, velociraptors. | |
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