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Wassermann

Definitions: Wassermann

Wassermann

Noun

1. German bacteriologist who developed a diagnostic test for syphilis (1866-1925).

2. A blood test to detect syphilis; a complement fixation test is used to detect antibodies to the syphilis organism treponema; a positive reaction indicates the presence of antibodies and therefore syphilis infection.

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


Synonyms: Wassermann

Synonyms: Agust von Wassermann (n), Wasserman reaction (n), Wassermann test (n). (additional references)
Synonyms by domain: cardiolipin Wassermann reaction (medicine), Cerebrospinal Fluid Wassermann Reaction, serum wassermann reaction.

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Crosswords: Wassermann

English words defined with "Wassermann": Agust von WassermannWassermann test. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Wassermann" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

German (aquarius, merman, water bearer, water-carrier, water-sprite).

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Modern Usage: Wassermann

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

War einst ein wilder Wassermann (2001)

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

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Name Usage Frequency: Wassermann

The following table summarizes the usage of "Wassermann" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
WassermannLast name10076,329
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Wassermann

Expressions using "Wassermann": Agust von Wassermann Wassermann test. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Wassermann

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

  wassermann

21

  juanita wassermann

10

  alfa wassermann

8

  pj wassermann

3

  test wassermann

3

  jakob wassermann

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Misspellings: Wassermann

Misspellings

"Wassermann" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Casselman, Kasterman, wasserman, Wassira. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Wassermann

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-e-m-n-n-r-s-s-w"

-2 letters: warmness.

-3 letters: amasser, answers, manners, newsman, rawness, seawans, wanness.

-4 letters: anears, answer, arenas, aswarm, mannas, manner, manses, marses, masers, mensas, messan, namers, ramens, remans, resawn, resaws, sansar, sarans, sarsen, sawers, seaman, seawan, sennas, sewans, sewars, smears, snares, swarms, swears, wanner, wrasse.

-5 letters: amass, amens, anear, annas, ansae, areas, arena, arses, aware, earns, maars, manas.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Wassermann


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

57 61 73 73 65 72 6D 61 6E 6E

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)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010111 01100001 01110011 01110011 01100101 01110010 01101101 01100001 01101110 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#87 &#97 &#115 &#115 &#101 &#114 &#109 &#97 &#110 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0057 0061 0073 0073 0065 0072 006D 0061 006E 006E

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

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

57678585718479678080

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Names: Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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