PUNCTURES

Domain	Definition
Health	Incision of tissues for injection of medication or for other diagnostic or therapeutic procedures. Punctures of the skin, for example may be used for diagnostic drainage; of blood vessels for diagnostic imaging procedures. (references)
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Commercial Usage: PUNCTURES

Domain	Title
Books	Life and other punctures (reference) Slow Punctures (reference) (more book examples)
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Non-Fiction Usage: PUNCTURES

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		The fungus can be found in sphagnum moss, in hay, in other plant materials, and in the soil. It enters the skin through small cuts or punctures from thorns, barbs, pine needles, or wires. (references)
		Then a special instrument is used to make a tiny puncture in the skin and stretch the opening so the vas can be cut and tied. This approach produces very little bleeding, and no stitches are needed to close the punctures, which heal quickly by themselves. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	LOGOMACHY, n. A war in which the weapons are words and the wounds punctures in the swim-bladder of self-esteem -- a kind of contest in which, the vanquished being unconscious of defeat, the victor is denied the reward of success. 'Tis said by divers of the scholar-men That poor Salmasius died of Milton's pen. Alas! we cannot know if this is true, For reading Milton's wit we perish too.
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Usage Frequency: PUNCTURES

"PUNCTURES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "PUNCTURES" is used about 25 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)

Modern Translation: PUNCTURES

Language		Translations for "PUNCTURES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
German		durchsticht (transfixes). (various references)

Pig Latin		uncturespay.(various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations & Misspellings: PUNCTURES

Derivations
	Words ending with "PUNCTURES": acupunctures, micropunctures, venipunctures. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"PUNCTURES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Pinturas, pucture, punture. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Rhyming with "PUNCTURES"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "PUNCTURES" (pronounced pu"ngkkherz or pu"ngksherz)
6	-u" ng k kh er z	junctures.
5	-ng k kh er z	tinctures.
4	-k kh er z	architectures, conjectures, fractures, infrastructures, lectures, manufactures, pictures, restructures, strictures, structures, superstructures.
3	-kh er z	adventures, benchers, bleachers, butchers, captures, caricatures, catchers, creatures, crunchers, cultures, debentures, dentures, departures, dispatchers, divestitures, expenditures, features, fixtures, forfeitures, futures, gestures, indentures, launchers, legislatures, marchers, miniatures, misadventures, mixtures, natures, nurtures, pastures, pinchers, pitchers, poachers, postures, preachers, quenchers, ranchers, researchers, ruptures, schoolteachers, scriptures, sculptures, searchers, signatures, snatchers, stretchers, subcultures, sutures, switchers, teachers, temperatures, textures, tortures, ventures, vouchers, vultures, watchers.
3	-sh er z	bashers, crushers, dishwashers, extinguishers, finishers, fishers, fissures, flashers, glaciers, gushers, kingfishers, mushers, photofinishers, pressures, publishers, pushers, ushers, washers, wishers.
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Anagrams: PUNCTURES

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-n-p-r-s-t-u-u"
	-1 letter: cutpurse, puncture.
	-2 letters: encrust, precuts, punster, punters, tuneups, turnups, upturns.
	-3 letters: cruets, cruset, curets, cutups, eructs, erupts, precut, prunes, prunus, punter, purest, pursue, rectus, recuts, sprent, spruce, suture, truces, tuners, tuneup, turnup, uncute, unpure, unrest, unstep, unsure, untrue, upsent, upturn, uterus.
	-4 letters: cents, centu, crept, crest, cruet, cruse, crust, cures, curet, curns, curse, curst.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-n-p-r-s-t-u-u"
	+3 letters: acupunctures, countercoups, percutaneous, superconduct, supercurrent.
	+4 letters: superconducts, supercurrents, unpicturesque, unspectacular, venipunctures.
	+5 letters: counterpunches, micropunctures, percutaneously, prestructuring, proventriculus, repunctuations, superconducted, superconductor, superincumbent, superinduction.
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Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (plural)	80%	20	78,262
Lexical Verb (-s form)	20%	5	157,705
Total	100.00%	25	N/A

PUNCTURES

Specialty Definition: PUNCTURES

Health

Crosswords: PUNCTURES

Commercial Usage: PUNCTURES

Books

Non-Fiction Usage: PUNCTURES

Health

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

Usage Frequency: PUNCTURES

Modern Translation: PUNCTURES

German

Pig Latin

Derivations & Misspellings: PUNCTURES

Derivations

Misspellings

Rhyming with "PUNCTURES"

Anagrams: PUNCTURES

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