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Definition: Rous |
RousNoun1. United States pathologist who discovered viruses that cause tumors (1879-1970). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: RousSynonyms: Francis Peyton Rous (n), Peyton Rous (n). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: Rous sarcoma virus (medicine), Rous Sarcoma Virus-Byran, Rous's sarcoma. |
Crosswords: Rous |
| English words defined with "Rous": Francis Peyton Rous ♦ Peyton Rous. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Rous": Genes, src ♦ Retroviridae Proteins ♦ src-Family Kinases. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Pictured is src protein which is associated with Rous virus and is labeled with black iron particles. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). |  | Barber and Rous, Sydney, Australia. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Rous" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 69.57% of the time. "Rous" is used about 23 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 (proper) | 69.57% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 30.43% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Total | 100.00% | 23 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Rous" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Rous | Last name | 130 | 68,476 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "Rous": Francis Peyton Rous ♦ Peyton Rous. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "Rous": Gemellipa-rous. | |
| 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 |
rous | 6 |
rous stanley | 4 |
charlotte rous | 2 |
abul dina rous | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "Rous"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
German | Rous-Sarkom-Virus (Rous sarcoma virus). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ousray | ||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Rous": rouse, rouseabout, rouseabouts, roused, rousement, rousements, rouser, rousers, rouses, rousing, rousingly, rousseau, rousseaus, roust, roustabout, roustabouts, rousted, rouster, rousters, rousting, rousts. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "Rous": acerous, adulterous, adventurous, ambidextrous, amentiferous, amorous, anestrous, anhydrous, anserous, anurous, aposporous, apterous, aquiferous, arborous, argentiferous, armigerous, auriferous, aurous, barbarous, bibliolatrous, biparous, blusterous, boisterous, brachypterous, butyrous, cadaverous, calciferous, cancerous, cankerous, canorous, cantankerous, carboniferous, carnivorous, cerous, chancrous, chivalrous, chlorous, cirrous, citrous, clamorous, clangorous, coleopterous, congenerous, coniferous, coumarous, cribrous, cruciferous, cumbrous, cupriferous, cuprous, dangerous. (additional references) | |
Words containing "Rous": adulterously, adventurously, adventurousness, adventurousnesses, ambidextrously, amorously, amorousness, amorousnesses, arousal, arousals, arouse, aroused, arouser, arousers, arouses, arousing, barbarously, barbarousness, barbarousnesses, boisterously, boisterousness, boisterousnesses, cadaverously, cancerously, canorously, canorousness, canorousnesses, cantankerously, cantankerousness, cantankerousnesses, carnivorously, carnivorousness, carnivorousnesses, carousal, carousals, carouse, caroused, carousel, carousels, carouser, carousers, carouses, carousing, carrousel, carrousels, chivalrously, chivalrousness, chivalrousnesses, clamorously, clamorousness, clamorousnesses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: ours, sour. | |
| Words within the letters "o-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: ors, our, sou. | |
-2 letters: or, os, so, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "o-r-s-u" | |
+1 letter: duros, euros, fours, hours, lours, pours, roues, roups, rouse, roust, routs, scour, sorus, sours, stour, sudor, torus, tours, yours. | |
+2 letters: amours, arouse, aurous, bourgs, bourns, bourse, burros, cerous, chorus, clours, cornus, corpus, course, courts, crocus, croups, crouse, cruors, curios, cursor, dorsum, douras, douser, drouks, durocs, erugos, flours, fluors, forums, furors, gourds, groups, grouse, grouts, guiros, houris, houser, humors, jorums, jurors, kouros, mohurs, mourns, mouser, mucors, mucros, occurs, odours, onrush, ouster, outers, parous, porous, poseur, ramous, rimous, robust, rogues, roques, rouens, rouges, roughs, rounds, roused, rouser, rouses, rousts, routes, rouths, rufous, rugosa, rugose, rugous, rumors, sapour, savour, scours, serous, shroud, souari, soucar, source, soured, sourer, sourly, souter, sprout, stoure, stours, stoury, stroud, stupor, suborn, succor, sudors, suitor, torous, trouts, tumors, turbos, tussor, tutors, uprose, upsoar, uredos, vrouws. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 6F 75 73 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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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 01101111 01110101 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R o u s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 006F 0075 0073 |
| 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)52818785 |
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