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Definition: THC |
THCNoun1. Psychoactive substance present in marijuana. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| 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. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
THC | English | Tetrahydrocannabinol | N/A |
THC | French | Tétrahydrocannabinol | N/A |
THC | Greek | τετραϋδροκανναβινόλη | N/A |
THC | Italian | Tetraidrocannabinolo | N/A |
THC | Portuguese | Tetrahidrocanabinol | N/A |
THC | Spanish | Tetrahidrocannabinol | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
"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."
Synonym: THCSynonym: tetrahydrocannabinol (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: THC |
| Specialty definitions using "THC": carbon bit ♦ keif ♦ M.E. 6 exploder, Marinol. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (common) | 66.67% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (proper) | 16.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (singular) | 16.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "THC": carboxy-THC, Delta9-THC. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency 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. | |||
Derivations | |
Words containing "THC": deathcup, deathcups, forthcoming, unforthcoming. (additional references) | |
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"THC" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Thuc, Uhc. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 48 43 |
| 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)01010100 01001000 01000011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T H C |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0048 0043 |
| 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)544237 |
| 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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