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Acidulated

Definition: Acidulated

Acidulated

Adjective

1. Made slightly acid.

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

 

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Crosswords: Acidulated

English words defined with "acidulated": BozaFlax cottonSuperacidulated. (references)
Specialty definitions using "acidulated": Acidulated Phosphate FluorideMoebius process. (references)
Etymologies containing "acidulated": Acidulate. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Acidulated

DomainTitle

Books

  • Agronomic Evaluation of Partially Acidulated Phosphate Rocks in the Tropics: Ifdc's Experience (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: Acidulated

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Almost all of the relevant studies involved populations of children between 6 and 15 years of age. The interventions included application of acidulated phosphate fluoride gel (APF), fluoride varnish, chlorhexidine gels, pit and fissure sealants, and the use of dentrifices and other products containing noncariogenic sweeteners. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Acidulated

"Acidulated" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Acidulated" is used about 3 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)66.67%2245,945
Lexical Verb (past tense)33.33%1339,140
                    Total100.00%3N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Acidulated

Expressions using "acidulated": acidulated drops Acidulated Phosphate Fluoride. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Acidulated

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

acidulated water

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

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Modern Translations: Acidulated

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

Albanian

  

me acid, i hidhur (acid, acrid, acrimonious, bitter, distressing, salt, sardonic). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏حمض (acidify, sour). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

язвителен (acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, adust, biting, cutting, incisive, mordant, poignant, pungent, sardonic, splenetic, stinging, trenchant, vinegary, vitriolic, waspish), кисел (acetous, acid, acidulous, crabbed, crabby, disgruntled, grouchy, grumpy, humpy, ill-humored, ill-humoured, liverish, livery, peeved, pettish, petulant, querulous, sour, tart, vinegar, vinegary), подкиселен. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

酸化 (Acidification, Acidified, Acidify, Acidifying). (various references)

   

Czech

  

zatrpklý (acrimonious, bitter, embittered, jaundiced, resentful, sardonic, sour), nakyslý (sour). (various references)

   

Danish

  

syrligt bolsje (acid bonbon, acid drops, acidulated sweet, sour candy, sweet). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

zuurtje (acid bonbon, acid drop, acid drops, acidulated sweet, bonbon, candy, lozenge, refresher acid flavoured boiled sweet, refreshing sweet, sour candy, sweet). (various references)

   

French

  

acidulé (acidulous). (various references)

   

German

  

saures Bonbon (acid bonbon, acid drops, acidulated sweet, sour candy). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

οξυνόσ. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

savanykás (austere, foxy). (various references)

   

Italian

  

caramella acida (acid bonbon, acid drops, acidulated sweet, sour candy). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

acidulateday

   

Portuguese

  

acidulado (acidulous), acídulo, descontente (disaffected, discontent, discontented, disgruntled be, dissatisfactory, impatient, malcontent, snuffy, sorehead, unsatisfied), desafeto (disaffected, disaffection, disinclination, sorehead). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

acrit (crabbed, damaged, grumpy, soured), acidulat (sour, tart). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

недовольный (crabbed, discontent, discontented, disgruntled, displeased, malcontent, non-content, pouter, querulous, sorehead, uncontented, unpleased). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

kiseo (acetate, acetous, acid, sour, tart). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

acidulado. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

syrlig (acid, acidulous, sourish, subacid, tart). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

mayhoş (acidulous, sour, sourish, subacid, tart, tartish), ekşice (acidulous, sourish, subacid). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

кислуватий (acidulous, sourish), невдоволений (acidulous, annoyed, discontented, disgruntled, malcontent, non-content, sorehead), буркотливий (acidulous, capernoited, crabbed, criss cross, cross-grained, currish, fumbling, grouchy, nagging, sourish, testy), підкислений (acidified, acidulous). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

hơi chua có pha axit. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Acidulated

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-d-e-i-l-t-u"

-1 letter: acidulate.

-2 letters: adulated, caudated, decidual.

-3 letters: adulate, alcaide, alidade, audited, caudate, citadel, decadal, decidua, deltaic, dialect, dilated, diluted, ductile, edictal.

-4 letters: acedia, acetal, actual, acuate, aculei, addict, adduce, adduct, aecial, alated, alcade, alidad, atelic, audial, audile, caddie, caudad, caudal, caudle, cedula, cuddie, cuddle, daedal, dauted, dautie, deduct, delict, deltic, detail, dialed, didact, dilate, dilute, ductal, ducted, dulcet, laddie, lauded, luetic, tailed, talced, tuladi.

-5 letters: aceta, acted, acute, addle, adieu, adult, aecia, aided, ailed, alate, alcid, audad, audit, aulic, cadet, cauld, cited, clade, cleat, clued, culet, culti, cutie, dated, dealt, decal, dedal, delta, diced, dicta, ducal, ducat, dulia, eclat, edict, educt, ideal, idled, ileac, laced, laded, lated, lucid, ludic, lutea, luted, telia, telic, tical, tidal, tided, tilde, tiled, utile.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-d-d-e-i-l-t-u"
 

+4 letters: disarticulated, quadruplicated.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Acidulated


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

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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)

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HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0063 0069 0064 0075 006C 0061 0074 0065 0064

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

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

35697570877867867170

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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