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SEMINATION

Definitions: SEMINATION

SEMINATION

Noun

1. Natural dispersion of seeds.

2. The act of sowing or spreading.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Synonyms within Context: SEMINATION

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Preparation

Training; (education); inurement; (habit); novitiate; cooking, cookery; brewing, culinary art; tilling, plowing, sowing; semination, cultivation.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: SEMINATION

Non-English Usage: "SEMINATION" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Swedish (insemination).

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: SEMINATION

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  artificial semination

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: SEMINATION

Language Translations for "SEMINATION"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

përhapje (diffusion, dilatation, dilation, dissemination, distribution, divulge, expansion, extension, leakage, occurrence, permeation, pervasion, prevalence, promulgation, propagation, spread, spreading, transmission, waft), mbjellje (insemination, sowing). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

осеменяване (insemination). (various references)

   

Czech

  

setí (sowing). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

magszóródás. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eminationsay

   

Portuguese

  

seminação. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

оплодотворение (fertilization, impregnation, insemination). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

sejanje (sowing), zasejavanje. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

tohumlama (insemination, spermological), ekme (planting, sowing, sprinkle, sprinkling), üreme (breeding, increase, proliferation, propagation, reproduction, reproductive, seminal). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

cách kết hạt. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: SEMINATION

Derivations

Words ending with "SEMINATION": dissemination, insemination. (additional references)

Words containing "SEMINATION": disseminations, inseminations. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "SEMINATION"

Words rhyming with "SEMINATION" (pronounced 'Sem`i*na"tion'): Aration, Argumentation, Argutation, Botheration, Flusteration, Junction, Paction, Pagination, Palification, Palliation, Palpation, Palpitation, Pandiculation, Panelation, Panification, Paralyzation, Parentation, Participation, Particularization, Parturition, Pasteurization, Patefaction, Patrocination, Patronization, Pauperization, Pectination, Peculation, Pediculation, Peragration, Perambulation, Perception, Percolation, Perdition, Peregrination, Peremption, Pererration, Perflation, Perforation, Periclitation, Perlustration, Permeation, Permistion, Pernoctation, Peroration, Peroxidation, Perpetration, Perpetuation, Perpotation, Perquisition, Perscrutation. (additional references)

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Anagrams: SEMINATION

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: antimonies, antinomies.

Words within the letters "a-e-i-i-m-n-n-o-s-t"

-1 letter: antinoise, nominates.

-2 letters: amniotes, enations, insomnia, mannites, mentions, misatone, montanes, nominate, sonatine.

-3 letters: amities, amnions, amniote, amosite, animist, anoints, anomies, asinine, atomies, atomise, atonies, enation, etamins, inanest, inmates, inosite, intimae, intimas, intines, intones, isatine, manitos, mannite, mannose, mansion, mention, mestino, minions, minnies, moisten, montane, nations, nonmeat, onanism, onanist, santimi, sentimo, stanine, tameins, tension.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-i-i-m-n-n-o-s-t"
 

+1 letter: anonymities, antimonides, geminations, inseminator, nitrosamine, nominatives.

 

+2 letters: aminopterins, antinepotism, deaminations, eliminations, examinations, germinations, insemination, inseminators, manifestoing, mountainside, nitrosamines, reanimations, sanctimonies, semidominant, somnifacient, terminations.

 

+3 letters: alimentations, amniocentesis, antimodernist, antinepotisms, delaminations, demonizations, denominations, denominatives, dissemination, emancipations, emarginations, feminizations, impersonating, impersonation, impregnations, indomethacins, infotainments, inseminations, longanimities, manifestation, melanizations, miscegenation, modernisation, monetizations, mountainsides, nicotinamides, pigmentations, renominations, sedimentation, solemnization, somnifacients.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: SEMINATION


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 45 4D 49 4E 41 54 49 4F 4E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...    .    --    ..    -.    .-    -    ..    ---    -.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01000101 01001101 01001001 01001110 01000001 01010100 01001001 01001111 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#69 &#77 &#73 &#78 &#65 &#84 &#73 &#79 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0045 004D 0049 004E 0041 0054 0049 004F 004E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

53394743483554434948

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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