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Definition: UNDULATED |
UNDULATEDAdjective1. Formed with elevations and depressions resembling waves; having wavelike color markings; as, an undulated shell. 2. Waved obtusely up and down, near the margin, as a leaf or corolla; wavy. 3. Resembling, or in the nature of, waves; having a wavy surface; undulatory. Imperative & past participle1. Of Undulate |
Date "UNDULATED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1792. (references) |
Crosswords: UNDULATED |
| English words defined with "UNDULATED": Ipecacuanha ♦ Zebra parrakeet. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Each squadron undulated and swelled like the ring of a polyp |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | While I was surveying, the ice, which was sixteen inches thick, undulated under a slight wind like water |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "UNDULATED" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "UNDULATED" 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 50% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 33.33% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 16.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "UNDULATED": undulated parrot. Additional references. | |
| 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 |
undulated trigger | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "UNDULATED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | valëzohet (ripple). (various references) | |
Czech | zvlnìný (corrugated, rough, wavy). (various references) | |
Danish | krøllet garn (cockled yarn, corrugated yarn, undulated yarn, wavy yarn), bølget garn (corrugated yarn, undulated yarn, wavy yarn). (various references) | |
French | ondulatoire (undulatory). (various references) | |
German | wogte, wellenförmig (undulating, undulatory, wavelike, wave-like, wavy). (various references) | |
Greek | νήμα με κυματοειδή επιφάνεια (corrugated yarn, undulated yarn, wavy yarn). (various references) | |
Hungarian | hullámos (crisp, crispy, lumpy, undulate, undulatory, waved, wavy). (various references) | |
Italian | ondulatorio (undulatory, wavelike). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ulatedunday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | ondulado (corrugated, crimp, downy, fuzzy, ripply, rolling, undulate, waved, wavy). (various references) | |
Russian | быть волнистым. (various references) | |
Spanish | ondulado (corrugated, ripply, rolling, undulate, uneven, wavy). (various references) | |
Turkish | dalgalı (alternating, billowy, choppy, corrugated, flowing, restless, rough, undate, undated, undulating, waved, wavy). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | хвилястий (anfractuose, billowy, crimpy, ripply, sinuous, undulate, waved, wavy), хвилеподібний (sinuous, undulate, undulatory). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"UNDULATED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: endulate, ubdulate, undebated, undilate, unduated, undulata, undulose, undurated, unmutated, unulate. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-l-n-t-u-u" | |
-1 letter: undulate. | |
-2 letters: daunted, lunated, unadult, undated, unladed. | |
-3 letters: dandle, dauted, dental, dunted, eluant, landed, lauded, lunate, lunted, undead, unlade, unlead. | |
-4 letters: addle, adult, anted, dated, daunt, dealt, dedal, delta, eland, laded, laden, lated, laten, leant, lunet, lutea, luted, naled, tuned, ulnad, ulnae, undue, unled, unlet. | |
-5 letters: ante, auld, aunt, dale, date, daut, dead, deal, dean. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-d-e-l-n-t-u-u" | |
+2 letters: undauntedly. | |
+3 letters: pedunculated, unduplicated. | |
+4 letters: unadulterated. | |
+5 letters: underpopulated. | |
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