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"RETINAS" is a plural of: retina. |
Date "RETINAS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1980. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | A membrane at the back of the eye which is sensitive to light stimuli and composed of the photoreceptors proper, i. e. the cones and rods, and the nerve cells which transmit to the optic nerve the stimulation of the receptor elements. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: RETINAS |
| Specialty definitions using "RETINAS": Balloon Dilatation ♦ Vision Disparity. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Many people with total blindness experience life-long sleeping problems because their retinas are unable to detect light. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "RETINAS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "RETINAS" is used about 31 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 (plural) | 100% | 31 | 62,296 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Misspellings | |
"RETINAS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aretinus, krajinas, Ratana, Redina, regias, reginas, Reinach, reinas, reithian, reminis, retean, retena, retian, retinals, retines, retinex, retinne, retna, retnia, ruinas, rutines. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: anestri, antsier, nastier, ratines, retains, retsina, stainer, stearin. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-n-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: airest, antres, arisen, arsine, astern, estrin, inerts, insert, instar, inters, niters, nitres, ratine, retain, retina, santir, satire, sinter, sterna, strain, striae, tenias, terais, tineas, tisane, trains, triens, trines. | |
-2 letters: airns, airts, anise, antes, antis, antre, arise, aster, astir, earns, entia, etnas, inert, inset, inter, irate, nares, naris, nates, nears, neats, neist, nerts. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-n-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: angriest, antisera, arenites, arsenite, artiness, astringe, banister, barniest, canister, ceratins, cisterna, creatins, detrains, entrails, entrains, fainters, ganister, gantries, granites, hairnets, inearths, inertias, ingrates, intreats, keratins, latrines, minarets, nitrates, notaries, painters, pantries, pertains, pinaster, pristane, raiments, rainiest, randiest, rangiest, ratanies, ratlines, repaints, resinate, restrain, retinals, retrains, retsinas, ruinates, scantier, seatrain, senorita, stainers, stearine, stearins, strained, strainer, straiten, tacrines, taurines, terrains, tertians, tinwares, trainees, trainers, trenails, uranites, urinates. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 45 54 49 4E 41 53 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . - .. -. .- ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01000101 01010100 01001001 01001110 01000001 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R E T I N A S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0045 0054 0049 004E 0041 0053 |
| 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)52395443483553 |
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