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Definition: Vaginal |
VaginalAdjective1. Of or relating to the vagina; "vaginal suppository". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Vaginal \Vag"i*nal\, adjective. [Compare to the French expression vaginal.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | Of or having to do with the vagina, the birth canal. (references) |
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Screenplays | In a sense, yes. My art has been commended as being strongly vaginal which bothers some men. The word itself makes some men uncomfortable. (The Big Lebowski; writing credit: Ethan Coen; Joel Coen) This vaginal discharge won't let us partake in the party. (Van Wilder; writing credit: Brent Goldberg; David Wagner) | |
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Health | Unusual vaginal discharge or itching. (references) | |
For instance, estrogen creams are used for vaginal dryness. (references) | ||
There are products that can be used to stop vaginal dryness. (references) | ||
Human Rights | Brazil | In January the authorities accused Alexandre de Oliveira of Minas Gerais of rape after he took his infant daughter to the hospital for vaginal bleeding. (references) |
Honduras | According to her testimony, the woman was taken to and held naked at the prison where prison authorities performed a vaginal inspection despite the woman's assertions that she was pregnant. (references) | |
Turkey | Commonly employed methods of torture reported by the HRF's treatment centers include: Systematic beatings; stripping and blindfolding; exposure to extreme cold or high-pressure cold water hoses; electric shocks; beatings on the soles of the feet (falaka) and genitalia; hanging by the arms; food and sleep deprivation; heavy weights hung on the body; water dripped onto the head; burns; hanging sandbags on the neck; near-suffocation by placing bags over the head; vaginal and anal rape with truncheons and, in some instances, gun barrels; squeezing and twisting of testicles; and other forms of sexual abuse. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Vaginal" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.63% of the time. "Vaginal" is used about 270 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) | 99.63% | 269 | 17,948 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.37% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 270 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "vaginal": Estrace Vaginal Cream ♦ Ortho Dienestrol Vaginal Cream ♦ vaginal artery ♦ vaginal birth ♦ Vaginal Birth after Cesarean ♦ vaginal cramp ♦ vaginal diphtheria ♦ vaginal discharge ♦ Vaginal disorders ♦ vaginal douche ♦ Vaginal Dryness ♦ Vaginal Fistula ♦ vaginal hysterectomy ♦ Vaginal Inflammation ♦ vaginal lotion ♦ vaginal method ♦ Vaginal Neoplasms ♦ vaginal ring ♦ vaginal smear ♦ Vaginal Smears ♦ vaginal sponge. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "vaginal": penile-vaginal, pouch-vaginal, vulva-vaginal. | |
| 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 |
vaginal discharge | 710 |
vaginal infection | 623 |
vaginal yeast infection | 486 |
vaginal | 450 |
vaginal cum shot | 430 |
vaginal dryness | 421 |
vaginal bleeding | 309 |
vaginal itching | 274 |
vaginal wart | 245 |
vaginal odor | 242 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "vaginal"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | vaginal, i vaginës. (various references) | |
Arabic | مهبلي, غمدي. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | влагалищен. (various references) | |
Chinese | 阴" (vagina). (various references) | |
Czech | vaginální, poševní. (various references) | |
Danish | vaginal. (various references) | |
Dutch | vaginaal. (various references) | |
Finnish | vaginaalinen, emätin-. (various references) | |
French | vaginal. (various references) | |
German | vaginal. (various references) | |
Greek | κολπικός (sinusal). (various references) | |
Hebrew | רתיקי. (various references) | |
Hungarian | hüvelyi. (various references) | |
Italian | vaginale. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | トリコモナス膣炎 (TNT, trick, trick play, trick work, trickster, tricky, tricolore, trinitrotoluen, Trinity, trip, trip meter, Tripper, tripping, vaginal trichomoniasis), 悪露 (lochia, post-natal vaginal discharge), カンジダ膣炎 (border, Cambodia, Cambrian, campaign, camphor, candidal vaginitis, cantabile, cantaloupe, cantata, canvas, canzone, cedilla, cheat, comma, company, company economist, company magazine, company paper, company union, conversation, country, country and western, country club, country music, country risk, country wear, cunning, fund raising, Kant, school, torch, vaginal yeast infection). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おろ (lochia, post-natal vaginal discharge), トリコモナスちつえ" (vaginal trichomoniasis), カンジダちつえ" (candidal vaginitis, vaginal yeast infection). (various references) | |
Korean | 질 (Qualities, Quality, vagina). (various references) | |
Manx | fineagh. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aginalvay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | vaginal. (various references) | |
Russian | вагинальный, влагалищный. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | vaginalan. (various references) | |
Spanish | vaginal. (various references) | |
Swedish | vaginal. (various references) | |
Turkish | vajinal. (various references) | |
Ukranian | піхвовий. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | vaginalis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "vaginal": vaginally. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "vaginal" (pronounced vujī"nul) |
| 4 | -ī" n u l | final, polyvinyl, semifinal, spinal, Vinal, vinyl. |
| 3 | -n u l | abdominal, aberrational, aboriginal, additional, adrenal, anal, annal, annul, Arsenal, atonal, attitudinal, autumnal, binational, biphenyl, cantonal, Cardinal, carnal, channel, coeducational, collisional, Colonel, communal, compositional, computational, concessional, conditional, confessional, conformational, confrontational, congregational, congressional, connotational, constitutional, conventional, conversational, cornel, correctional, criminal, Darnel, delusional, denominational, departmental, depositional, devotional, diagonal, dimensional, directional, diurnal, divisional, doctrinal, duodenal, dysfunctional, educational, emotional, empanel, erosional, eternal, exceptional, external, factional, faunal, fennel, fictional, flannel, fluxional, foundational, fractional, fraternal, functional, funnel, gastrointestinal, generational, gravitational, hexagonal, hormonal, Hymnal, impanel, impersonal, improvisational, infernal, informational, inspirational, institutional, instructional, intentional, intergenerational, internal, international, interpersonal, intestinal, investigational, Invitational, irrational, journal, jurisdictional, juvenile, kennel, kernel, latitudinal, longitudinal, luminal, marginal, maternal, medicinal, monoclonal, monsoonal, morainal, motivational, multinational, national, navigational, nocturnal, nominal, noncriminal, nonprofessional, nontraditional, nutritional, obsessional, occasional, occupational, octagonal, operational, optional, organizational, original, panel, paternal, penal, personal, phenomenal, polygonal, processional, professional, promotional, proportional, provisional, rational, recreational, regional, relational, renal, representational, retinal, rotational, seasonal, sectional, seminal, sensational, sentinel, shrapnel, signal, situational, subliminal, superregional, supranational, terminal, tonal, traditional, transformational, transitional, transnational, tribunal, tunnel, unconditional, unconstitutional, unconventional, unemotional, unintentional, unprofessional, untraditional, venal, vernal, virginal, vocational. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-g-i-l-n-v" | |
-1 letter: agnail, gavial, laving, vagina. | |
-2 letters: again, alang, algin, align, anvil, avail, avian, lagan, lanai, liana, liang, ligan, linga, naval, nival, vagal, vinal. | |
-3 letters: agin, alan, alga, anal, anga, anil, gain, gala, glia, lain, lang, lava, ling, nail, vagi, vail, vain, vang, vial, viga, vina. | |
-4 letters: aal, aga, ail, ain, ala, ana, ani, ava, gal, gan, gin, lag, lav, lin, nag, nil, van, via, vig. | |
-5 letters: aa, ag, ai, al, an, in, la, li, na. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-g-i-l-n-v" | |
+1 letter: availing, galivant, galvanic. | |
+2 letters: galivants, gallivant, galvanise, galvanism, galvanize, navigable, navigably, salvaging, vaginally, valancing, valuating, vulgarian. | |
+3 letters: evaluating, galivanted, gallivants, galvanised, galvanises, galvanisms, galvanized, galvanizer, galvanizes, palavering, reavailing, salivating, travailing, unavailing, validating, vulgarians. | |
+4 letters: alleviating, autoclaving, avalanching, cavaliering, devaluating, evangelical, galavanting, galivanting, gallivanted, galvanising, galvanizers, galvanizing, laborsaving, revaluating, vacillating, vandalising, vandalizing. | |
+5 letters: evangelicals, gallivanting, galvanically, invalidating, navigability, navigational, reevaluating, revalidating, transvaluing, unavailingly, vegetational. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)56 61 67 69 6E 61 6C |
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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)...- .- --. .. -. .- .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010110 01100001 01100111 01101001 01101110 01100001 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)V a g i n a l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0056 0061 0067 0069 006E 0061 006C |
| 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)56677375806778 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Translations: Ancient 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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