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Definitions: Wart |
WartNoun1. Any small rounded protuberance (as on certain plants or animals). 2. (pathology) a firm abnormal elevated blemish on the skin; caused by a virus. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "wart" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Etymology: Wart \Wart\, noun. [from Old English expression werte, Anglo-Saxon wearte; akin to Dutch wrat, German warze, Old High German. warza, Icelandic varta, Swedish v[*a]rta, Danish vorte; perhaps originally, growth, and akin to English wort; or compare to Latin verruca wart.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Computing | Wart n. A small, crocky feature that sticks out of an otherwise clean design. Something conspicuous for localized ugliness, especially a special-case exception to a general rule. For example, in some versions of `csh(1)', single quotes literalize every character inside them except `!'. In ANSI C, the `??' syntax used for obtaining ASCII characters in a foreign environment is a wart. See also miswart. Source: Jargon File. |
Food & Agriculture | Small excrescence on the green parts of the vine. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A microscopic protuberance, sometimes branched, from the S3 layer of a cell wall into the lumen, common in some tree species. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Health | A raised growth on the surface of the skin or other organ. (references) |
Medicine | A circumscribed, cutaneous excrescence having a papilliferous surface; a small, circumscribed, epidermal tumour. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Possible treatments for warts include:
A following household remedy is recommended for three following each other days: Put the "wart cells" in hot water with washing liquid. However it is difficult to prove whether the warts disappear because of the household remedy or by an immune reaction.
See also Genital wart.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Wart."
Synonym: WartSynonym: verruca (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Convexity | Pimple, zit; wen, wheel, papula, pustule, pock, proud flesh, growth, sarcoma, caruncle, corn, wart, pappiloma, furuncle, polypus, fungus, fungosity, exostosis, bleb, blister, blain; boil; (disease); airbubble, blob, papule, verruca. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Wart |
| English words defined with "wart": Ambury ♦ cauterant, cautery, common wart, condyloma acuminatum, crown wart ♦ Emgalla ♦ genital wart ♦ juvenile wart ♦ Oak wart ♦ Phacochere, plantar wart, potato wart, potato wart fungus ♦ Synchytrium endobioticum ♦ venereal wart, verruca acuminata, Verruciform ♦ Wart cress, Wart hog, Wart snake, Wart spurge, Wartless, Wert. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "wart": anatomic wart, asbestos wart ♦ BUDDHA ♦ Emajaguilla ♦ milker's wart, miswart ♦ SHANKER. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "wart": Phacochere ♦ Verruciform, Verrucose, Verruculose. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | You mean the one with the wart on her? (His Girl Friday; writing credit: Ben Hecht; Charles MacArthur) A wart on the nose of humanity and I'm going to blast it off. (Nine to Five; writing credit: Colin Higgins) Grow a few warts and you'll never get punched; nobody wants to punch a wart. (Moron Movies; writing credit: Griff Rhys Jones; Mel Smith) I'm having a wart removed then. (Hey Arnold!; writing credit: Lus Filipe Rocha) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Wart on the Wire (1917) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Plantlets of St. John's wart, Hypericum perforatum. P.Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Peggy Greb.. |  | St. John's Wart, also called Klamath Weed, (Hypericum perforatum) along Upper Trail Creek.Credit: Terry Tuttle. |
 | Close up of the blossom on St. John's Wart, also called Klamath Weed, (Hypericum perforatum) along Upper Trail Creek.Credit: Terry Tuttle. |  | The capture of Andre: By John Paulding, David Williams and Isaac Van Wart, at Tarrytown, N.Y., Sept. 23rd, 1780.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Attention! : change in size or color of a wart or mole.Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| Author | Quotation |
Lao Tse | The ungrateful son is a wart on his father's face; to leave it is a blemish, to cut it off is painful. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Monastic communities are to the great social community what the ivy is to the oak, what the wart is to the human body. |
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| "Wart" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 91.89% of the time. "Wart" is used about 37 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) | 91.89% | 34 | 59,261 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 2.7% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 2.7% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Unclassified Items | 2.7% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 37 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "wart": anatomic wart ♦ asbestos wart ♦ common wart ♦ crown wart ♦ Fig wart ♦ genital wart ♦ juvenile wart ♦ milker's wart ♦ moist wart ♦ oak wart ♦ plantar wart ♦ pointed wart ♦ potato wart ♦ potato wart fungus ♦ venereal wart ♦ wall wart ♦ wart cress ♦ wart hog ♦ wart snake ♦ wart spurge. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "wart": wart-biter, wart-biters, wart-charmer, Wart-face, wart-hog, wart-hogs, wart-like. | |
Ending with "wart": oak-wart, st-wart. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
genital wart | 4,388 | cure for wart | 92 |
wart | 2,349 | wart remover | 77 |
genital wart picture | 1,075 | cure for genital wart | 76 |
planter wart | 737 | picture plantar wart | 74 |
plantar wart | 487 | picture planter wart | 70 |
wart removal | 333 | facial wart | 62 |
gential wart | 263 | genetal wart | 60 |
st johns wart | 249 | seed wart | 60 |
vaginal wart | 245 | foot wart | 58 |
wart treatment | 217 | get rid of wart | 55 |
duct tape wart | 194 | common wart | 50 |
venereal wart | 168 | home remedy for wart | 48 |
flat wart | 153 | veneral wart | 46 |
plantars wart | 149 | hpv genital wart | 44 |
photo genital wart | 148 | penis wart | 44 |
treatment for genital wart | 147 | genital wart information | 44 |
picture of wart | 138 | what do genital wart look like | 43 |
anal wart | 136 | picture of vaginal wart | 43 |
pic of genital wart | 131 | venerial wart | 41 |
genital wart symptom | 121 | genital wart image | 40 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "wart"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | lyth (callus, papilloma, Wen), lez. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | نتوء صغير, ثؤلول (verruca), بثرة (acne, bleb, botch, pap, pimple, pock, pustule, vesicle, whelk). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | неприятен човек (hedgehog, nuisance, rasper, tick, undesirable), нарастък върху ствол на дърво, брадавица (pustule, verruca). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 疣 (nodule). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | bradavice (verruca). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | vorte (cellular nevus, common wart, gall, naevocellular naevus, nevocytic nevus, nevus vcerrucosus, nevus-cell nevus, verruca, verruca vulgaris, verrucoid nevus). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | wrat (gall, wattle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | veruko. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | vørta (nipple), kambfjøður. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | گندمه , زگیل پیداکردن , زگیل دارشدن , زگیل (Tuber). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | nystyrä (node, nodule, tit), heltta (gill, wattle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | verrue. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Warze (gall, nipple, projection, verruca, wattle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κόκκινο λιρί (wattle), κρεατοελλιά, όζος (gall, node), μικρό εξόγκωμα (tit), εξόγκωμα (blister, blister figure, bruise, bulge, bulging, bull's eye, chromosomal puff, dent, dimple, gall, lens, protuberance, protuberancy, puff), ακροχόρδων. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | יבלת (blister, callus, corn, verruca), פטומת, 'בשוש (tuber, tubercle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szemölcs (mole, molluscum, verruca), bibircsók. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | kutil. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | verruca (gall, verruca, wattle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 疣 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | いぼ (different mother). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 사마귀. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | fahney (verruca). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Papiamen | frèt. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | artway verruga (birthmark, gall, haemagioma, mole, mole 2.nevus, naevus, wattle). (various references) negel, neg. (various references) бородавка (verruca). (various references) foinne (a wart). (various references) bradavica (mammilla, nipple, papula). (various references) verruga (gall, gnarl, verruca). (various references) vårta (gall, nipple, projection, verruca, wattle), utväxt (burr, excrescence, growth, knob, knot, outgrowth, wen). (various references) yumru (bump, concretion, cupola, excrescence, gallnut, knob, knot, knurl, lump, node, nodule, nub, nubble, protuberance, swelling, torus, tuber, tuberose, tuberosity, tuberous), siğil (papilloma, verruca), şiş (blown up, broach, bulge, concretion, knitting needle, needle, protuberant, rising, roasting jack, skewer, spit, swell, swelling, tumefaction, turgescence, turgid). (various references) наростень, бородавка (verruca). (various references) mụn cóc bướu cây. (various references) dafaden, dafad (sheep). (various references) aax. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | verruca. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "wart": warted, warthog, warthogs, wartier, wartiest, wartime, wartimes, wartless, wartlike, warts, warty. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "wart": athwart, stalwart, swart, thrawart, thwart, worrywart. (additional references) | |
Words containing "wart": athwartship, athwartships, stalwartly, stalwartness, stalwartnesses, stalwarts, swarth, swarthier, swarthiest, swarthiness, swarthinesses, swarths, swarthy, swartness, swartnesses, swarty, thwarted, thwarter, thwarters, thwarting, thwartly, thwarts, thwartwise, worrywarts. (additional references) | |
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"Wart" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aart, awrit, Awwrr, ewarti, kwart, qart, twart, uart, waar, waart, wadt, waet, wairt, wamt, wapt, waqtt, warb, warf, warg, waro, warot, warpt, warr, warsh, warst, warti, warx, warz, wat, wayt, weret, werg, werlt, werth, wertz, wetr, whart, wirth, worot, wraf, wraft, wrant, wraq, wrart, wrat, wrt, wurt, zart. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "wart" (pronounced wô"rt) |
| 4 | w ô" r t | athwart, quart, Swart, thwart. |
| 3 | -ô" r t | abort, assort, boart, bort, cavort, comport, consort, contort, court, deport, distort, escort, exhort, extort, Fort, forte, import, misreport, Mort, ort, port, report, resort, short, snort, sort, sport, support, teleport, tort, torte, transport, underreport. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-r-t-w" | |
-1 letter: art, rat, raw, tar, taw, twa, war, wat. | |
-2 letters: ar, at, aw, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-r-t-w" | |
+1 letter: straw, swart, tawer, thraw, trawl, warts, warty, water, wrapt, wrath. | |
+2 letters: outwar, rawest, straws, strawy, swarth, swarty, tawdry, tawers, thawer, thrawn, thraws, thwart, toward, trawls, wafter, waiter, wanter, warmth, warted, waster, wastry, waters, watery, watter, wraith, wraths, wrathy, wreath. | |
+3 letters: antiwar, artwork, athwart, awaiter, awlwort, bewrapt, brawest, dewater, fanwort, fretsaw, madwort, outdraw, outward, outwars, outwear, partway, postwar, ragwort, rewrapt, ringtaw, rowboat, steward, strawed, swarths, swarthy, swather, swatter, sweater, tarweed, tawnier, teaware, thawers, thrawed, thruway, thwarts, tinware, towards, tramway, trawled, trawler, trawley, trishaw, twanger, wafters, wafture, waister, waiters, waltzer, wanters, wariest, warmest, warmths, warpath, warrant, warstle, warthog, wartier, wartime, wasters, wastery, wastrel, wastrie, watcher, watered, waterer, weather, wetware, whereat, wiretap, wraiths, wrastle, wrathed, wreathe, wreaths, wreathy. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)57 61 72 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .- .-. - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010111 01100001 01110010 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)W a r t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0057 0061 0072 0074 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)57678486 |
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