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Vivisect

Definition: Vivisect

Vivisect

Verb

1. Cut (a body) open while still alive; "people no longer vivisect animals--it's considered unethical".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "vivisect" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1904. (references)

Note: Vivisect \Viv"i*sect`\, transitive verb. To perform vivisection upon; to dissect alive. [Colloq.]. (Websters 1913)

 

Commercial Usage: Vivisect

DomainTitle

Music

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Vivisect

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

vivisect

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Vivisect

Language Translations for "vivisect"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

eksperimentoj mbi kafshë të gjalla. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

подлагам на вивисекция, извършвам вивисекция. (various references)

   

Czech

  

provádìt vivisekci. (various references)

   

German

  

vivisezieren. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ζωοτομώ. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

élve boncol. (various references)

   

Italian

  

vivisezionare. (various references)

   

Manx

  

bio-ghiarrey (vivisection). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ivisectvay

   

Russian 

  

подвергать вивисекции. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

izvršiti vivisekciju. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

företa vivisektion på. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

üzerinde deney yapmak. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Vivisect

Derivations

Words beginning with "vivisect": vivisected, vivisecting, vivisection, vivisectional, vivisectionist, vivisectionists, vivisections, vivisector, vivisectors, vivisects. (additional references)

Words containing "vivisect": antivivisection, antivivisectionist, antivivisectionists. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Vivisect" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: vivasect, vivesect. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Vivisect

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-i-i-s-t-v-v"

-1 letter: civvies.

-2 letters: cities, civets, civies, evicts, iciest, visive.

-3 letters: cesti, cites, civet, civie, evict, ivies, vices, visit.

-4 letters: cist, cite, etic, ices, sect, sice, site, tics, ties, vest, vets, vice, vies, vise, vive.

-5 letters: cis, ice, its, sec, sei, set, sic, sit, tic, tie, tis, vet, vie, vis.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-i-i-s-t-v-v"
 

+1 letter: vivisects.

 

+2 letters: invectives, vivacities, vivisected, vivisector.

 

+3 letters: reviviscent, vivisecting, vivisection, vivisectors.

 

+4 letters: revivalistic, vivisections.

 

+5 letters: invectiveness, vivisectional.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Vivisect


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

56 69 76 69 73 65 63 74

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 01101001 01110110 01101001 01110011 01100101 01100011 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#86 &#105 &#118 &#105 &#115 &#101 &#99 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0056 0069 0076 0069 0073 0065 0063 0074

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

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

5675887585716986

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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