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VARIOLE

Etymology: Variole \Va"ri*ole\, noun. [Compare to the French expression variole smallpox. See Variola.]. (Websters 1913)


Specialty Definition: VARIOLE

DomainDefinition

Mining

A pea-size spherule, usually composed of radiating crystals of plagioclase or pyroxene. This term is generally applied only to such spherical bodiesin basic igneous rock, e.g., variolite. CF:spherulite. (references)

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

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Crosswords: VARIOLE

Non-English Usage: "VARIOLE" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (cowpox, pox, smallpox, variola).

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Commercial Usage: VARIOLE

DomainTitle

Books

  • Ce bon docteur Jenner : grâce à la première vaccination (14 mai 1796), il délivra le monde du fléau de la variole (9 décembre 1979) : la première (et la seule) éradication d'une maladie infectieuse humaine (reference)

  • Histoire des virus : de la variole au SIDA (reference)

  • La longue traque de la variole : les pionniers de la médecine préventive (reference)

  • La variole, les nobles et les princes : la petite vérole mortelle de Louis XV : 1774 (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: VARIOLE

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

variole

8

du singe variole

7
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations: VARIOLE

Derivations

Words beginning with "VARIOLE": varioles. (additional references)

Words ending with "VARIOLE": ovariole. (additional references)

Words containing "VARIOLE": ovarioles. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "VARIOLE"

Words rhyming with "VARIOLE" (pronounced 'Va"ri*ole'): Alepole, Alveole, Amphibole, Antipole, Arboricole, Areole, Armhole, Arteriole, Arvicole, Azarole, Azole, Bibliopole, Blowhole, Borecole, Bracteole, Bronchiole, Bunghole, Cabriole, Cajole, Camisole, Caprifole, Cariole, Carmagnole, Casserole, Cat-hole, Citole, Clycerole, Cole, Counterpole, Creephole, Dariole, Foliole, Fredstole, Fumarole, Fusarole, girandole, Gladiole, Gloriole, heart-whole, insole, keyhole, loophole, manhole, maypole, Mendole, Metropole, Mousehole, Mudhole, Nole, Nucleole. (additional references)

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Anagrams: VARIOLE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-i-l-o-r-v"

-2 letters: aiver, alive, ariel, ervil, laevo, laver, liver, livre, lover, oiler, olive, oriel, ravel, reoil, rival, valor, velar, viler, viola, viral, vireo, voila, voile, volar.

-3 letters: aero, aloe, aril, arvo, aver, earl, evil, ilea, lair, lari, lave, lear, leva, levo, liar, lier, lira, lire, live, lore, love, olea, oral, orle, oval, over, rail.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-i-l-o-r-v"
 

+1 letter: ovariole, overlaid, overlain, valorise, valorize, varioles, violater.

 

+2 letters: bolivares, ovarioles, overclaim, overplaid, valorised, valorises, valorized, valorizes, vectorial, versional, violaters, vocalizer.

 

+3 letters: abortively, adenoviral, alleviator, behavioral, forgivable, improvable, labiovelar, lavatories, outrivaled, overclaims, overfacile, overlading, overlavish, overlaying, overplaids, prevocalic, proverbial, retroviral, revalorize, revelation, rotatively, tolerative, varicocele, ventilator, vocalizers, vorticella.

 

+4 letters: advertorial, alleviators, correlative, countervail, disprovable, elaborative, enteroviral, explorative, formatively, hortatively, inventorial, involucrate, irremovable, irremovably, irrevocable, irrevocably, labiovelars, meliorative, nonrelative, normatively, operatively, outrivalled, overcalling, overclaimed, overexplain, overhauling, overinflate, overlapping, overleaping, overliteral, overloading, overplaided, overplaying, oversalting, overtalking, overvaluing, previsional, revalorized, revalorizes, revaluation, revelations, reversional, sporulative, ultraviolet, vainglories, valedictory, vaporizable, varicoceles, varicolored, vectorially, ventilators, ventilatory, veraciously, vibratoless, viceroyalty, voluntaries, vorticellae, vorticellas.

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

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Alternative Orthography: VARIOLE


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

56 41 52 49 4F 4C 45

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)

01010110 01000001 01010010 01001001 01001111 01001100 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#86 &#65 &#82 &#73 &#79 &#76 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0056 0041 0052 0049 004F 004C 0045

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

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

56355243494639

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Derivations
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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