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Definition: Urine |
UrineNoun1. Liquid excretory product; "there was blood in his urine"; "the child had to make water". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "urine" was first used: 13th century. (references) |
Note: Urine \U"rine\, intransitive verb. To urinate. [Obsolete]. (Websters 1913) |
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Dream Interpretation | To dream of seeing urine, denotes ill health will make you disagreeable and unpleasant with your friends. To dream that you are urinating, is an omen of bad luck, and trying seasons to love. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Health | Fluid containing water and waste products. Urine is made by the kidneys, stored in the bladder, and leaves the body through the urethra. (references) |
Multilingual Slang | Bielorussian (scaki , sculi), Breton (stot ), Polish (szczyny), Ukrainian (pissia ). (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Urine is liquid waste excreted by the kidneys. The urine collects in the bladder for elimination at a convenient time. The latter is called urination, which means expelling the urine from the body through the urethra. In addition to the excretory function urine serves for the homeostasis of the body liquids and -- in many species -- for olfactory communication.
Urine is the primary method for excreting chemicals and drugs from the body. These chemicals can be detected and analysed by urinalysis.
Urine contains large amounts of urea, an excellent source of nitrogen for plants. As such it is a useful accelerator for compost.
Although urine is commonly believed to be 'dirty' this is not actually the case. In cases of kidney or urinary tract infection (UTI) the urine will contain bacteria, but otherwise urine is virtually sterile when it leaves the body. The distinctive smell of urine is due to ammonium, and not related to the presence of germs.
Some diseases alter the quantity and consistency of the urine, (e.g. sugar in the urine is a sign of diabetes). Urine therapy is the use of urine topically or consumed, especially as recommended by the traditional Indian medicine, Ayurveda, under the name Amaroli.
Urine is a major excretory product of animals, made up of a watery solution of metabolic wastes and other substances. The fluid collects generally from the blood or interstitial fluid. The composition of urine is adjusted by returning the necessary substances to the body fluid and the excretory product that contains excess or potentially toxic substances is released from the body. Urine flows through the following structures: the kidney, ureter, urinary bladder, and finally the urethra. Urine is produced by a process of filtration, reabsorption, and tubular secretion.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Urine."
Synonyms: UrineSynonyms: pee (n), piddle (n), piss (n), water (n), weewee (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Urine |
| English words defined with "urine": maple syrup urine disease. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "urine": Urine Testing. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "urine": Acetonuria, Albuminuria, Azoturia ♦ Chyluria ♦ Enuresis ♦ Glucosuria ♦ hematuria ♦ Kynurenic ♦ Ouretic, Ouroscopy ♦ Peptonuria, Phosphaturia, Pismire, Poluria, Pyuria ♦ Strangury ♦ Urachus, uraemia, urea, ureter, urethra, Uretic, Uric, Urinative, Uronology. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Urine" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (urine), French (urine). |
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Screenplays | One bucket for urine, one for feces and one for vomitus. (Trainspotting; writing credit: Irvine Welsh; John Hodge) Tyler was now involved in a class action lawsuit against the Pressman Hotel over the urine content of their soup. (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls) Urine sample! (Lethal Weapon 4; writing credit: Shane Black; Jonathan Lemkin) The urine stain on your pants signifies that you are a single-shake man, far too busy for the follow-up jiggle. (Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls; writing credit: Steve Oedekerk) I'm afraid it's your urine, Elaine! (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) | |
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 | Cytomegalovirus infection of cell in urine. Credit: CDC. |  | A urine specimen is observed 24 - 48hrs in a lab for the presence of any bacterial growth. Even without symptoms, the presence of at least 100,000 colonies of any single type of bacterium per/ml of urine, usually shows evidence of infection. Credit: CDC. |
 | [Instruction in urine examination]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | [Diagnosis through urine analysis at patient's bedside]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | [Physician examines the contents of a urine flask]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Testing urine for sugar is a serious business for the young campers at Camp Glyndon, Maryland. / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by J. Gordon (Baltimore City Health Dept.).. |
 | [A chart used for urine analysis]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | [A physician examines the contents of a urine flask] / Caspar Netscher, pinx. Hugo Henneberger, sculp. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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William Shakespeare | Macduff: What three things does drink especially provoke? Porter: Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine. |
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Health | Reddish or bloody urine. (references) | |
Urine remains in the bladder. (references) | ||
Containers for collecting urine. (references) | ||
Business | Among these products are urine bags and accessories. (references) | |
Only one urine bag and accessories are reimbursed during a treatment period. (references) | ||
Human Rights | India | The two men's toenails allegedly were pulled out and they were forced to drink urine. (references) |
Cote d'Ivoire | They frequently forced detainees to perform degrading and humiliating tasks, such as crawling, eating dirt, doing push-ups while under threat of physical harm, drinking urine or blood, and eating excrement. (references) | |
Belize | Balcarcel's report to the Human Rights Commission and the Guatemalan Embassy claimed that he was stripped, handcuffed, burned with a lighter and habanero peppers on his genitals, beaten with a stick, and forced to drink his own urine. (references) | |
Minorities | United Kingdom | Although the residents claimed that their demonstration "was not against the children," the protest involved shouting sectarian abuse and throwing debris (including bags of urine) at the children. (references) |
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| "Urine" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Urine" is used about 805 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 (singular) | 100% | 805 | 8,650 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "urine": Fractional Urine ♦ Maple Syrup Urine Disease ♦ retention of urine ♦ urine catheter ♦ Urine Testing ♦ Urine therapy. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "urine": urine-encrusted, urine-scented, urine-soaked, urine-spraying, urine-stained, urine-testing. | |
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| 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 |
blood in urine | 992 | urine smell | 62 |
urine | 670 | dark urine | 57 |
protein in urine | 435 | urine color | 56 |
urine test | 325 | urine drug screen | 54 |
cat urine | 267 | fox urine | 47 |
urine therapy | 154 | urine luck | 45 |
urine drug test | 143 | blood cell in urine white | 45 |
cloudy urine | 128 | pet urine | 43 |
cat urine odor | 114 | coyote urine | 39 |
urine odor | 102 | bloody urine | 38 |
urine infection | 92 | cat urine removal | 37 |
urine drinking | 92 | alcohol urine test | 37 |
urine testing | 87 | urine yellow | 36 |
dog urine | 80 | pass drug test urine | 36 |
pass urine test | 80 | passing urine test | 35 |
urine drug testing | 75 | removing cat urine odor | 34 |
urine protein | 72 | cleaning cat urine | 34 |
blood urine | 72 | clean urine | 33 |
bad odor strong urine | 69 | maple syrup urine disease | 33 |
blood cause in urine | 62 | green urine | 33 |
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| Language | Translations for "urine"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | urinë, ujët e hollë, shurrë (pee, piss). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | بول (empty, evacuate, evacuation, make water, micturition, pass water, pee, piddle, piss, wee, wet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | урина (matter), пикоч (pee, piss, stale, water). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 尿 (urinate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | moè. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | urin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | urine, pis, pies. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | urino. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | land (country, land, state). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | پیشاب (Water), زهراب , ادرار, شاش (Piss), بول . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | virtsa. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | urine. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Harn (urinary), Urin (pee, uric). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ούρο (piss). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מי ר'לים, שתן, "שת " (change, micturition, urination). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | vizelet (piddle, piss, uric). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | air seni. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | urina, orina. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 小" (trifling matter, urination), 小水 (small quantity of water, urination), 小便 (piss), 尿 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しょうすい (becoming emaciated, commander, emaciation, great grief, haggardness, small quantity of water, urination), しょうべ" (piss), しょうよう (admiration, business purpose, calm, composure, exalting, extolling, for business, on business, praise, ramble, saunter, stroll, trifling matter, urination, walk, wandering), しょ"べ" (piss), にょう, "よう (employment, hire, trifling matter, urination). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 소변 (Piss). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | mooyn (piss), moon, feayl (piss). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Papiamen | orina. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ineuray urina (piss). (various references) urinã (piss, water). (various references) моча (pee, piss, wee). (various references) maistir, fual. (various references) urin, mokraća (pee, piss, stale, urea). (various references) orina (water). (various references) urin (stale). (various references) sidik (pee, piss, stale, urinary), idrar (uretic, urinary), çiş (excreta, pee, piss, stale, wee, wee-wee). (various references) peюew. (various references) сеча (pee, piss). (various references) nước tiểu, nước đái. (various references) trwnc (lye, trunk). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | ka. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | aqua, aquae, aquam, aquarum, aquarumque, aquas, aquasque, aquis, urina, urinam. (various references) |
| Avestan | 200-600 | maêsmana. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "urine": urinemia, urinemias, urinemic, urines. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "urine": aventurine, dourine, figurine, lemurine, mercaptopurine, murine, neurine, purine, sciurine, tambourine, taurine, vulturine. (additional references) | |
Words containing "urine": aventurines, dourines, figurines, mercaptopurines, murines, neurines, purines, sciurines, tambourines, taurines. (additional references) | |
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"Urine" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: arine, arrine, aurine, curine, durine, erine, errine, Euxine, Guerino, hrivna, irwinii, juranon, jurtina, Kurien, lurina, Nurina, Nurminen, orine, Purvine, rinne, Ruanne, ruien, ruine, ruone, surine, turine, Ugine, Uginox, Ugrin, uie, uinl, uirn, unire, uran, urany, ureme, uren, urena, urens, urian, urice, uride, uriel, urien, urile, urime, urin, urina, urined, urinee, urinel, uriner, urinex, urini, urino, uripe, urna, urnae, urne, urone, urri, usine, utin, uvine, uzine. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "urine" (pronounced yer"un or yuh"run) |
| 3 | -er" u n | Curran. |
| 3 | -r u n | apron, aspirin, Baron, barren, brethren, Buran, cauldron, Chevron, children, citron, doctrine, fibrin, foreign, garron, giron, grandchildren, heron, intron, Marron, matron, octahedron, patron, perron, Philodendron, polyhedron, rhododendron, saffron, schoolchildren, siren, sovereign, sovran, squadron, stepchildren, tetrahedron, Warren. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: inure. | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-n-r-u" | |
-1 letter: rein, ruin, rune. | |
-2 letters: ern, ire, rei, rin, rue, run, urn. | |
-3 letters: en, er, in, ne, nu, re, un. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-n-r-u" | |
+1 letter: burnie, injure, insure, inured, inures, lunier, murein, murine, punier, purine, requin, ruined, ruiner, rusine, triune, uniter, unripe, urines, ursine. | |
+2 letters: aneurin, brucine, burnies, coenuri, dourine, dungier, enquire, enquiry, enuring, funkier, funnier, gunfire, hunkier, incurve, inducer, infuser, inhumer, injured, injurer, injures, inquire, insured, insurer, insures, intrude, inurned, juniper, junkier, minuter, mureins, murines, murrine, neurine, neuroid, nubbier, numeric, nutsier, nuttier, punkier, punnier, purines, purline, reincur, requins, retinue, reunify, reunion, reunite, reusing, rhenium, routine, ruinate, ruiners, runnier, runtier, suberin, sunnier, sunrise, taurine, tribune, triunes, trueing, turbine, turdine, unaired, undried, unfired, unhired, unifier, uniquer, uniters, unmiter, unmitre, unrimed, unriper, unrisen, untired, untried, unwiser, uprisen, uranide, uranite, uridine, urinate, urinose, urnlike, uterine, venturi. | |
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