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THC

Definition: THC

THC

Noun

1. Psychoactive substance present in marijuana.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

"THC" is a common misspelling or typo for: the, tic.

 

Abbreviations & Acronyms: THC

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

THC

EnglishTetrahydrocannabinolN/A

THC

FrenchTétrahydrocannabinolN/A

THC

GreekτετραϋδροκανναβινόληN/A

THC

ItalianTetraidrocannabinoloN/A

THC

PortugueseTetrahidrocanabinolN/A

THC

SpanishTetrahidrocannabinolN/A

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

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Specialty Definition: THC

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The acronym THC when used alone, has several possible meanings in the English language.

"THC", when used by itself can stand for:

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "THC."

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Synonym: THC

Synonym: tetrahydrocannabinol (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: THC

Specialty definitions using "THC": carbon bitkeifM.E. 6 exploder, Marinol. (references)

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Commercial Usage: THC

DomainTitle

Books

  • Market Guide / ProVestor Plus Company Report for Tenet Healthcare Corp. - THC [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: THC

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

THC in marijuana is readily absorbed by fatty tissues in various organs. (references)

THC affects the nerve cells in the part of the brain where memories are formed. (references)

The oral THC is also used to help AIDS patients eat more to keep up their weight. (references)

Economic History

Hungary

Peter Boross succeeded as Prime Minister after Antall died in December 1993. Thc Antall/Boross coalition governments achieved a reasonably well-functioning parliamentary democracy and laid the foundation for a free market economy. (references)

Political Economy

Ecuador

The government's efforts to maintain macroeconomic stability, decrease the extent to which it provides social services, which it has done, and modernize the state bureaucracy, which it is endeavoring to do, are the major internal political issues affecting thc Ecuadorian business climate. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: THC

"THC" is generally used as a noun (common) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "THC" is used about 6 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (common)66.67%4175,879
Noun (proper)16.67%1339,140
Noun (singular)16.67%1339,140
                    Total100.00%6N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: THC

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "THC": carboxy-THC, Delta9-THC.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: THC

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
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

thc

752

thc calculator

8

thc testing

22

get thc out of your system

8

does in long stay system thc

21

thc in urine

8

thc test

19

thc urine test

7

body does in long stay thc

17

lyrics thc

7

calc thc.exe

17

thc oil

7

thc detox

17

pass a thc drug test

7

thc drug test

17

thc urine

7

body in thc

15

thc detection times

7

pill thc

15

in long system thc

6

thc extraction

14

extracting thc

6

thc level

13

thc molecule

6

thc effects

12

thc removal

6

rapper thc

12

fact thc

6

seed thc

9

drug thc

6

cleansing natural thc

9

body get thc

5

in system thc

9

information thc

5

extract thc

9

niacin thc

5

thc detection

8

thc cleansing

5

thc drug testing

8

thc butter

5

half life thc

5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: THC

Derivations

Words containing "THC": deathcup, deathcups, forthcoming, unforthcoming. (additional references)


Misspellings

"THC" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Thuc, Uhc. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: THC

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

 Words containing the letters "c-h-t"
 

+1 letter: chat, chit, etch, itch, tach.

 

+2 letters: aitch, batch, bitch, botch, butch, catch, chant, chapt, chart, chats, cheat, chert, chest, cheth, chits, chott, chute, cloth, couth, crwth, cutch, ditch, dutch, ethic, fetch, fitch, hatch, hitch, hotch, hutch, itchy, ketch, latch, letch, licht, match, mutch, natch, notch, patch, pitch, ratch, retch, rotch, stich, tache, tachs, teach, techy, tench, teuch, thack, theca, thick, torch, touch, vetch, watch, wecht, witch, yacht.

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

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Alternative Orthography: THC


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

54 48 43

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)

01010100 01001000 01000011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#72 &#67

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0048 0043

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

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

544237

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Abbreviations
10. Acronyms
11. Derivations
12. Anagrams
13. Orthography
14. Bibliography


  

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