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Definition: SPUTTERED |
SPUTTEREDImperative & past participle1. Of Sputter |
Date "SPUTTERED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references) |
Crosswords: SPUTTERED |
| Specialty definitions using "SPUTTERED": Reflective Coatings ♦ Spectrometry, Mass, Secondary Ion. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "SPUTTERED": Sputter. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | They rumbled along, putting a little earthquake in the ground, and the standing exhaust pipes sputtered blue smoke from the Diesel oil. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Philippines | First-quarter government estimates showed that real year-on-year GDP growth had sputtered to 2.5 percent. (references) |
Philippines | However, the capital and financial account--which ended 1999 $1.6 billion in the red--plunged deeper into deficit ($6.8 billion) as net foreign investments sputtered, combining with net repayments of foreign loans and short-term trade credits, and net outflows of other short-term capital. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "SPUTTERED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 77.78% of the time. "SPUTTERED" is used about 9 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 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 77.78% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 22.22% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 9 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "SPUTTERED": sputtered dielectric film ♦ sputtered oxide. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "SPUTTERED": sputtered-oxide. | |
| 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 |
sputtered film | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "SPUTTERED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 飞溅 (splash, splashed, splashing, sputter, sputtering). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | sputtered oxyd film (sputtered-oxide film), sputtered oxyd (sputtered oxide), sputtered dielektrisk film (sputtered dielectric film). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | massaspectrometrie m.b.v.nageioniseerde neutrale deeltjes (sputtered neutral mass spectroscopy), gesputterde oxidelaag (sputtered-oxide film), gesputterde diëlektrische laag (sputtered dielectric film), gesputterd oxide (sputtered oxide). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | suihkutettu oksidikalvo (sputtered-oxide film), suihkutettu dielektinen kalvo (sputtered dielectric film), sputteroitu oksidikalvo (sputtered-oxide film), ruiskutettu oksidi (sputtered oxide). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | spectrométrie de masse par pulvérisation de neutrons (sputtered neutral mass spectroscopy), oxyde déposé par pulvérisation cathodique (sputtered oxide), film d'oxyde déposé par pulvérisation cathodique (sputtered-oxide film), couche diélectrique déposée par pulvérisation réactive (sputtered dielectric film). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | plapperte (burbled, gabbed, jabbered, quacked), gesprudelt. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | στρώμα οξειδίου από καθοδικό διασκορπισμό (sputtered-oxide film), στρώμα διηλεκτρικού από καθοδικό διασκορπισμό (sputtered dielectric film), οξείδιο από καθοδικό διασκορπισμό (sputtered oxide), Φασματοσκοπία μάζης με βομβαρδισμό νετρονίων (sputtered neutral mass spectroscopy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | spettroscopia di massa per bombardamento di neutroni (sputtered neutral mass spectroscopy), pellicola dielettrica ottenuta per polverizzazione (sputtered dielectric film), pellicola di ossido depositato per polverizzazione (sputtered-oxide film), ossido depositato per polverizzazione (sputtered oxide). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | utteredspay pelicula dielectrica aspergida (sputtered dielectric film), pelicula de oxido aspergido (sputtered-oxide film), oxido aspergido (sputtered oxide), espectroscopia de massa por bombardeamento de neutrões (sputtered neutral mass spectroscopy). (various references) película dieléctrica pulverizada (sputtered dielectric film), película de óxido pulverizado (sputtered-oxide film), espectrometría de masas por proyección de neutrones (sputtered neutral mass spectroscopy), óxido pulverizado (sputtered oxide). (various references) sputtrat oxidskikt (sputtered-oxide film), sputtrat dielektriskt skikt (sputtered dielectric film), sputtrad oxid (sputtered oxide). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"SPUTTERED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aspettare. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "SPUTTERED" (pronounced spu"terd) |
| 4 | -u" t er d | buttered, cluttered, fluttered, guttered, muttered, shuttered, uncluttered, uttered. |
| 3 | -t er d | administered, altered, bantered, bartered, bastard, battered, bettered, blistered, bolstered, bustard, catered, centered, chartered, cloistered, clustered, countered, cratered, custard, doctored, embittered, encountered, entered, factored, faltered, festered, fettered, filibustered, filtered, flattered, flustered, fostered, frittered, glittered, headquartered, lettered, littered, martyred, mastered, mattered, mentored, metered, monitored, mustard, mustered, neutered, pattered, pestered, petard, petered, plastered, reentered, registered, scattered, sequestered, shattered, sheltered, slaughtered, spattered, splattered, splintered, tattered, teetered, tutored, unaltered, unchartered, unfettered, unfiltered, unregistered, upholstered, watered, wintered. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-p-r-s-t-t-u" | |
-1 letter: puttered, trusteed, upsetter. | |
-2 letters: deputes, erupted, perdues, pertest, perused, petters, pretest, puttees, putters, reputed, reputes, spurted, sputter, supered, trusted, trustee, uttered. | |
-3 letters: depute, desert, deters, detest, drupes, dupers, duster, erupts, etudes, perdue, perdus, peruse, pester, peters, petted, petter, preset, prudes, pureed, purees, purest, pursed, putted, puttee, putter, repute, rested, retest, retted, retuse, reused. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-p-r-s-t-t-u" | |
+1 letter: spluttered. | |
+2 letters: superfatted. | |
+3 letters: stepdaughter. | |
+4 letters: prestructured, stepdaughters, subdepartment. | |
+5 letters: counterstepped, distemperature, preconstructed, subdepartments, superintendent, supersaturated. | |
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