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Definitions: Administer |
AdministerVerb1. Work in an administrative capacity; supervise; "administer a program". 2. Administer ritually; of church sacraments. 3. Administer or bestow, as in small portions; "administer critical remarks to everyone present"; "dole out some money"; "shell out pocket money for the children"; "deal a blow to someone". 4. Give or apply, as of medications. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "administer" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Synonyms: AdministerSynonyms: administrate (v), allot (v), deal (v), deal out (v), dish out (v), dispense (v), distribute (v), dole out (v), lot (v), mete out (v), parcel out (v), shell out (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Aid | Serve; do service to, tender to, pander to; administer to, subminister to, minister to; tend, attend, wait on; take care of; entertain; smooth the bed of death. |
Apportionment | Verb: apportion, divide; distribute, administer, dispense; billet, allot, detail, cast, share, mete; portion out, parcel out, dole out; deal, carve. |
Direction | Superintend, supervise; overlook, control, keep in order, look after, see to, legislate for; administer, ministrate; matronize; have the care of, have the charge of; be in charge of, have charge of, take the direction; boss, boss one around; pull the strings, pull the wires; rule; (command); have the direction, hold office, hold the portfolio; preside, preside at the board; take the chair, occupy the chair, be in the chair; pull the stroke oar. |
Giving | Furnish, supply, help; administer to; afford, spare; accommodate with, indulge with, favor with; shower down upon; lavish, pour on, thrust upon. |
Government | Rule, sway, command, control, administer; govern; (direct); lead, preside over, reign, possess the throne, be seated on the throne, occupy the throne; sway the scepter, wield the scepter; wear the crown. |
Promise | Adjure, administer an oath, put to one's oath, swear a witness. |
Punishment | Verb: punish; chastise, chasten; castigate, correct, inflict punishment, administer correction, deal retributive justice; cowhide, lambaste. |
Strike; deal a blow to, administer the lash, smite; slap, slap the face; smack, cuff, box the ears, spank, thwack, thump, beat, lay on, swinge, buffet; thresh, thrash, pummel, drub, leather, trounce, sandbag, baste, belabor; lace, lace one's jacket; dress, dress down, give a dressing, trim, warm, wipe, tund, cob, bang, strap, comb, lash, lick, larrup, wallop, whop, flog, scourge, whip, birch, cane, give the stick, switch, flagellate, horsewhip, bastinado, towel, rub down with an oaken towel, rib roast, dust one's jacket, fustigate, pitch into, lay about one, beat black and blue; beat to a mummy, beat to a jelly; give a black eye. | |
Rite | Verb: perform service, do duty, minister, officiate, baptize, dip, sprinkle; anoint, confirm, lay hands on; give the sacrament, administer the sacrament; administer extreme unction; hear confession, administer holy penance, shrive; excommunicate, ban with bell book and candle. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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The nurse is instructing a black woman, a colon cancer patient and her husband on how to administer a subcutaneous injection of colony stimulating factor (CSF). CSF is used after chemotherapy to stimulate bone marrow production of white blood cells in order to prevent infection.Credit: Bill Branson (photographer). | ![]() | A slide describing the Trustees that oversee the restoration and administer funds to initiate and complete restoration.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. | |
![]() | [Preparing to administer a clyster] / Leon: Schenk Exc: Amst:.Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ||
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| Author | Quotation |
Andrew Carnegie | Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community. |
Comte De Mirabeau | To administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That is the essence of the problem. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | But when the actual force is over, the state of war ceases between those that are in society, and are equally on both sides subjected to the fair determination of the law; because then there lies open the remedy of appeal for the past injury, and to prevent future harm: but where no such appeal is, as in the state of nature, for want of positive laws, and judges with authority to appeal to, the state of war once begun, continues, with a right to the innocent party to destroy the other whenever he can, until the aggressor offers peace, and desires reconciliation on such terms as may repair any wrongs he has already done, and secure the innocent for the future; nay, where an appeal to the law, and constituted judges, lies open, but the remedy is denied by a manifest perverting of justice, and a barefaced wresting of the laws to protect or indemnify the violence or injuries of some men, or party of men, there it is hard to imagine any thing but a state of war: for wherever violence is used, and injury done, though by hands appointed to administer justice, it is still violence and injury, however coloured with the name, pretences, or forms of law, the end whereof being to protect and redress the innocent, by an unbiassed application of it, to all who are under it; wherever that is not bona fide done, war is made upon the sufferers, who having no appeal on earth to right them, they are left to the only remedy in such cases, an appeal to heaven. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Marbury v. Madison | 1803 | It is in these words: "I do solemnly swear that I will administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich; and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge all the duties incumbent on me as _____, according to the best of my abilities and understanding, agreeably to the constitution, and laws of the United States." (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | It shall have full powers to administer and operate the railways, canals, and the different public services. (reference) |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | All this means that the people of any country have the right, and should have the power by constitutional action, by free unfettered elections, with secret ballot, to choose or change the character or form of government under which they dwell; that freedom of speech and thought should reign; that courts of justice, independent of the executive, unbiased by any party, should administer laws which have received the broad assent of large majorities or are consecrated by time and custom. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The patch is another way to administer postmenopausal hormones. (references) | |
In the future, it may be possible to administer insulin through inhalers, a pill, or a patch. (references) | ||
Tobramycin by aerosol form is easier and less expensive to administer than by intravenous injection. (references) | ||
Business | The code also provides for FASA to administer the code on behalf of the Consumer Affairs Committee. (references) | |
It specifies the role of state administrators in these activities, including the right to administer real estate designated for construction purposes. (references) | ||
In support hereof, the Swedish Regional Airport Association has tasked the company AerotechTelub to administer procurements for the municipal airports. (references) | ||
Children | Gabon | Although international donors worked to improve the situation, the Government allocated few resources for vaccines and the logistical support necessary to administer them. (references) |
Civil Liberties | China | Official religious organizations administer local religious schools, seminaries, and institutes to train imams, Islamic scholars, and Buddhist monks. (references) |
Panama | A special executive branch authority has discretionary powers to administer the libel laws, which provided for fines and imprisonment for up to 2 years. (references) | |
Economic History | Nigeria | Few reputable banks administer these government-funded mortgage loans. (references) |
Vanuatu | In 1906, however, France and the United Kingdom agreed to administer the islands jointly. (references) | |
Namibia | South Africa continued to administer Namibia through its installed multiracial coalitions. (references) | |
Human Rights | Turkey | State-employed doctors administer all medical exams for detainees. (references) |
Ukraine | Another foreign forensics team also asked to administer tests on the body, later confirmed this judgement. (references) | |
Sierra Leone | Local courts administer traditional law with lay judges; appeals from these lower courts move to the superior courts. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Colombia | These boards administer their territories as municipal entities, with officials elected or otherwise chosen according to tradition. (references) |
Political Economy | Mexico | Corresponding bodies administer state-level elections, and the judiciary is empowered to protect civil rights in voting matters. (references) |
Political Rights | Guinea | The President continued to hold the power to appoint the governors, prefects, and their deputies to administer regions and subregions respectively. (references) |
Trade | Japan | The Customs and Tariff Bureau of Japan's Ministry of Finance administer tariffs. (references) |
Saudi Arabia | On behalf of SASO, the Intertek Testing Services administer the ICCP on a global basis. (references) | |
Bolivia | Overseas agencies are under contract to the Bolivian Government to administer the program. (references) | |
Women | Indonesia | The Government provided technical support, but not funding, to establish and administer a women's crisis center in a leading public hospital in Jakarta. (references) |
Worker Rights | Benin | The Labor Code generally allows workers the freedom to organize and administer their own unions. (references) |
Central African Republic | The Code does not provide specifically that unions may bargain collectively; however, the law protects workers from employer interference in their right to organize and administer their unions. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | The accomplishment of this work, if practicable, will reflect undecaying luster on our national character and administer the most grateful consolations that virtuous minds can know. |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | On taking this station on a former occasion I declared the principles on which I believed it my duty to administer Commonwealth. |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | By a judicious regulation of our trade with them we supply their wants, administer to their comforts, and gradually, as the game retires, draw them to us. |
Abraham Lincoln | 1861-1865 | His duty is to administer the present Government as it came to his hands and to transmit it unimpaired by him to his successor. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Administer" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 79.19% of the time. "Administer" is used about 542 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 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 79.19% | 430 | 13,340 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 20.81% | 113 | 30,464 |
| Total | 100.00% | 542 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "administer": administer a medicine ♦ administer a punishment ♦ administer a shock ♦ administer an oath ♦ administer an oath to ♦ administer an oath to smb. ♦ administer justice ♦ administer medicine to smb. ♦ administer punishment ♦ administer the law ♦ administer to ♦ administer to oath to smb.. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "administer": easy-to-administer, simple-to-administer. | |
| 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 |
administer | 47 |
administer enema | 5 |
administer remote | 2 |
administer injection | 2 |
administer punishment who woman | 2 |
administer bsbhr401a human resource system | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "administer"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaan | administreer (manage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | administroj (administrate, husband, manage, order, rule, superintend). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | منح الأسرار, حكم (administration, arbiter, arbitration, ascendancy, authority, award, control, decide, decision, deliverance, determination, dispensation, doom, fasten, fastening, find, finding, govern, hand down, judge, judgement, judgment, opinion, reckon, referee, regimen, rule, ruling, run, sway, umpire, verdict), حلف (alliance, axis, confederacy, confederate, entente, oath, swear, take an oath), عاقب (blister, castigate, chasten, chastise, correct, discipline, mete, paddle, penalize, punish, rap, recompense, strafe, suffer, trounce), صفى أملاك متوفي, أقام العدل, أعطى دواء (treat), أدار أملاك قاصر, أدار (boss, carry on, cast, direct, dispense, govern, manage, mobilize, operate, order, preside, procure, rotate, run, slew, slue, spin, spun, steward, superintend, tumble, twiddle, twirl, wind, work), دبر (brew, cogitate, concoct, conduct, contrive, devise, engineer, lay, prepare, set, spare). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | управлявам (administrate, con, direct, fly, govern, guide, handle, helm, keel, manage, navigate, operate, rule, run, superintend, take), ръководя (administrate, be in charge of, boss, carry on, conduct, control, direct, guide, keep, lead, manage, mastermind, moderate, oversee, pioneer, rule, run, supervise, tutor, work), разпореждам се с (push about, push around), раздавам (administrate, allot, apportion, deal out, dispense, distribute, give away, give out, hand about, hand out, measure, mete out, parcel out, pass out), оказвам помощ (help), оказвам (administrate, do, give, lend, put up, render, show), предписвам (administrate, order, prescribe), прилагам (adjoin, apply, attach, bestow, carry out, enclose, enforce, execute, join, practice, practise, pursue, put through, subjoin), давам (accommodate, accord, adduce, afford, allow, award, bring forth, commit, confer, delegate, dig up, endow, gave, give, give in, given, grant, hand out, hold, hold out, kick in, pass, pay, present, produce, put up, render, send, set, show). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 管轄 (have jurisdiction), 措 (arrange, execute, put in order, take action on), 治理 (control, govern), 执行 (Administered, Administering, Enforcement, execute, Executed, Executing, PERFORM, Performed, Performing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vykonávat (dispense, exercise, exert, follow, go about, practise), vést (captain, carry on, channel, conduce, conduct, convey, direct, give, go, head, keep, lead, look, run, Shepherd, spearhead, steer, stock, supervise, throw, wage, walk, wheel), spravovat (darn, govern, manage, order, superintend), rozdávat (give out, hand out), poskytnout (afford, extend, furnish, give, grant, house, provide, render, supply, tender, volunteer), podávat (feed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | at administrere individuelle og kollektive forsikringsaftaler (to administer individual or group contracts), styre en comune (to administer a municipality), gradvis at forenkle procedurerne i forbindelse med ud-og indrejse og administrere disse paa en smidig maade (gradually to simplify and to administer flexibly the procedures for exit and entry), de offentlige institutioner,som administrerer og finansierer en gruppe af aktiviteter,hovedsagelig af ikke-markedsmæssig karakter,der udføres til gavn for almenvellet (general government agencies which administer and finance a group of activities, intended for the benefit of the community, principally of a non-market nature). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | besturen (conduct, control, direct, govern, governing bodies, guide, head up, keep house, lead, manage, pilot, restrain, rule, steer, to pilot), beheren (keep house, manage), administreren (manage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | administri (manage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مدیرتصفیه , نظارت کردن (Address, Control, Proctor, Supervise), کشتن (Amortize, Butcher, Dispatch, Doin, Extinguish, Mortify, Murder, Out, Rat, Smite), وصی (Executor), وصایت کردن , تهیه کردن (Afford, Cater, Furnish, Get, Process, Purvey, Supply), تقسیم کردن (Apportion, Compartment, Distribute, Divide, Impute, Intersect, Sector), توزیع کردن (Deal, Dispense, Parcel), تصفیه کردن (Accommodate, Accord, Establish, Purify, Rarefy, Refine, Smelt, Urbanize), انجام دادن (Accomplish, Achieve, Complete, Consummate, Do, Implement, Pay, Perform), اعدام کردن (Execute), اجراکردن (Apply, Effect, Enforce, Execute, Exert, Perform), اداره کردن (Address, Chairman, Conduct, Direct, Engineer, Execute, Keep, Man, Manage, Manipulate, Moderate, Officiate, Operate, Rule, Run, Wield), رءیس (Arch, Chairman, Chief, Dean, Director, Head, Header, Headman, Headmaster, Master, Premier(Re), President, Principal, Provost, Regent, Ruler, Sheikh, Warden). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | sanella vala (administer an oath), jakaa ehtoollista (administer Communion), hoitaa omaisuutta (to administer estates), hoitaa holhousta (to administer the estate of a ward), hallita kuntaa (to administer a municipality). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | administrer. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frisian | administrearje (manage), de administraasje dwaan (manage), bestjoere (manage), beheare (manage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | verwalten (conduct, govern, hold, hold in trust, maintain, manage, run), administrieren (manage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | παρέχω (accord, afford, bestow, confer, grant, issue to, provide, provide with, quarter, supply), διαχειρίζομαι (husband, maladminister, manage), δίδω (lend). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hawaiian | administroj (manage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לשמש אפוטרופוס, ל "ל (boss, conduct, direct, keep, lead, manage, master, run). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | intéz (arrange, manage, to administer, to manage), adminisztrál (manage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | mengurus (enclose), mengawasi (control, oversee, supervise), mengadministrasikan, memangku (assume, manage, run). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | amministrare (direct, dispense, keep, manage, run), dirigere (aim, boss, conduct, control, direct, edit, govern, guide, head, head for, lead, make for, manage, overrule, pilot, play, route, run, steer, supervise, turn). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 斡 (go around, rule). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | あつ (go around, rule). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 관리하십시". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | shirveish er (pander, tend), reirey (administration, casting, dictation, extend, manage, management, order, procuration, reach, serve). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | styre (control, direct, govern, restrain, rule), forvalte. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Papiamen | atministrá (manage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | administeray gerir (administrate, direct, guide, manage, steer), administrar (administrate, boss, conduct, detur, direct, dispense from, give, govern, husband, infuse, manage, officer in charge, police, restrain, rule). (various references) aplica (adhibit, affix, append, apply, enforce, give, implement, imprint, inflict, practice, seal), administra (adhibit, administrate, apply, deal, give, govern, husband, manage, operate, run, work), prescrie (dispense, enjoin, order, prescribe, provide), oblãdui (defend, govern, reign, rule), gospodãri (husband), economisi (economize, put in the box, save, scrape, supervise), depune (bring, consign, deposit, dethrone, hand in, lay down, leave, Lodge, place, put, put down, swear, throw down), da (accord, afford, avail, beat, bestow, bind, deal, deliver, deliver up, extend, fetch, find, gift, give, give away, grant, hallo, hand, inflict, launch, lend, offer, pass, pay, push, reach, render, restore, return, sell, send, set, sound, sprout, yea, yes, yield), conduce (accompany, be in command, boss, boss the show, captain, carry on, charge, command, conduct, control, convey, direct, drive, escort, govern, guide, handle, head, husband, lead, lead the way, manage, master, operate, order, overrule, pilot, preside, restrain, rule, run, sail, see, see off, show, show up, steer, superintend, supervise, take, wield), chivernisi (earn, enrich, save, settle), îndeplini funcţia de administr., ţinea (arrest, happen, resist, retain). (various references) управлять (administrate, be in control, be in control of, boss, command, conduct, control, govern, have control over, helm, husband, manage, managed, managing, master, mastermind, move, navigate, navigating, operate, rein, run, run the show, sail, steer, superintend, take control of). (various references) vršiti (do, exert, perform, practice, practise, pursue), upravljati (administrate, construe, direct, govern, head, manage, maneuver, manoeuvre, mastermind, navigate, rule, steer), obavljati (carry on, practice), dati lek. (various references) administrar (administrate, dispense, live up, manage, operate). (various references) förvalta (discharge, disscharge, manage). (various references) yönetmek (administrate, boss, captain, celebrate, chair, command, conduct, direct, edit, govern, head, lead, oversee, police, preside, produce, rule, run, run the show, steer, supervise), vermek (accord, adduce, adjudge, allow, assign, award, bear, bestow, bring, bring in, cede, charter, come across with, confer, contribute, dedicate, deliver, deliver up, dispose of, distribute, donate, endow, extend, furnish, give, give away, give in, grant, hand, hand in, hand out, hand over, impart, inflict, inoculate, insert, instate, lend, let, let out, offer, pass, pass in, place, present, produce, put up, reach, render, serve, tender, throw, yield), verdirmek, uygulamak (apply, carry out, complete, deploy, dispense, enforce, exercise, exert, fulfil, fulfill, impart, implement, perform, practise, put into practice, realize), idare etmek (administrate, bestride, boss, conduct, content oneself, control, direct, govern, guide, handle, husband, look after, make both ends meet, make do, make it do, make out, make shift, manage, manipulate, mastermind, officer, quarterback, rein in, rub, rub along, rule, scrape along, spin out, steer, supervise), hizmet etmek (attend, render service to, serve, subserve, tend, wait on, wait upon), ettirmek (get, get smth. done, have smth. done). (various references) управляти (administrate, be in control, husband, mastermind, operate, superintend), керувати (administrate, boss, captain, conduct, control, direct, govern, guide, helm, lead, manage, prevent, quarterback, rule, run, run the show, steer, tutor), виконувати (administrate, answer, carry out, comply, dispense, do, effect, effectuate, execute, fulfil, full, implement, obey, perform, play, put into effect, render, solve, tender), застосовувати (administrate, apply, employ), призначати (administrate, affect, allocate, allot, appoint, appropriate, assign, attach, consign, constitute, design, direct, fix, intend, make, mark out, mean, name, number, order, put, tell off), постачати (accommodate, administrate, assort, feed, fit up, fix out, furnish, nourish, provide, set up, stock, store, supply), подавати допомогу (administrate, aid, relieve, render service, succor, succour). (various references) gweinyddu (officiate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | administrabuntur, administrantem, administrantes, administrare, administraretur, administrasset, administrat, data, dataque, dato, dator, dispensare, exerce, exerceant, exercebant, exercebantur, exercebatur, exercebor, exercebuntur, exercens, exercent, exercentes, exercentibus, exercere, exercerent, exercete, exercetis, exercitu, exercitum, exercitus, exercuerant, exercuerat, exercuere, exercuerunt, exercuit, fungor, procurator, semidatarum. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "administer": administered, administering, administers. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "administer": maladminister. (additional references) | |
Words containing "administer": maladministered, maladministering, maladministers. (additional references) | |
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"Administer" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: adminis, administor, administr, administred, administrer, administrix, Adminius, adminster, admisister, admnister. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "administer" (pronounced udmi"nuster) |
| 7 | -m i" n u s t er | minister. |
| 6 | -i" n u s t er | sinister. |
| 5 | -n u s t er | banister, bannister, canister, cannister. |
| 4 | -u s t er | barrister, Forester, harvester, keister, kiester, register. |
| 3 | -s t er | adjuster, alabaster, ancestor, aster, blaster, blister, blockbuster, bluster, bolster, booster, broadcaster, burgomaster, Buster, caster, Castor, cloister, cluster, coaster, concertmaster, coster, Dempster, Dexter, digester, disaster, dumpster, duster, Easter, ester, faster, Feaster, fester, filibuster, fluster, forecaster, Foster, gangbuster, gangster, Gaster, grandmaster, hamster, headmaster, heister, holster, huckster, imposter, impostor, investor, jester, juster, lackluster, laster, Leister, Lister, lobster, Luster, lustre, master, Minster, Mister, mobster, molester, monster, muenster, Munster, muster, nester, Nestor, newscaster, oldster, oleaster, ouster, oyster, paster, pastor, pester, pilaster, plaster, pollster, polyester, poster, postmaster, prankster, protester, quartermaster, raster, requester, rester, ringmaster, roadster, roaster, roister, rooster, roster, royster, schoolmaster, scoutmaster, seamster, semester, sequester, shyster, sister, spinster, sportscaster, stepsister, taskmaster, taster, teamster, tester, thruster, tipster, toaster, toastmaster, transistor, trickster, trimester, twister, Ulster, upholster, waster, Webster, Wester, youngster, zoster. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: mistrained. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-i-m-n-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: meridians. | |
-2 letters: adenitis, airtimes, amidines, daintier, dainties, detrains, diamines, diriment, disinter, distrain, inditers, inertias, interims, martinis, mediants, meridian, minarets, minister, misinter, misrated, mistrain, nitrides, raiments, rainiest, randiest, readmits, semiarid, seriatim, strained, triadism. | |
-3 letters: admires, airiest, airtime, amidine, amidins, amities, anestri, animist, antired, antsier, aridest, astride, dairies, damners, denarii, destain, detains, detrain, diamine, diamins, diaries, diarist, diastem, diaster, dirties, disrate, distain, ditsier, etamins, imarets, inarmed, inditer, indites, inedita, inertia, inmates, insider, instead, interim, intimae, intimas, isatine, maestri, maidens, mantids, marines, martens, martini, martins, medians, mediant, medinas, midairs, minaret, minders, mindset, minster, minters, mintier, miriest, misdate, misedit, misrate, misread, mistend, mistier, nastier, nitride, nitrids, raiment, randies, ratines, readmit, remains, remands, reminds, remints, retains, retinas, retsina, rimiest, sainted, sandier, santimi, sardine, sarment, sedarim, seminar, senarii, sidearm, sideman, simitar, smarted, smarten, smartie, staider, stained, stainer, stander, stearin, stimied, tameins, tandems, tardies, termini, tidiers, timider, tinders, tineids, tirades, trained. | |
-4 letters: admire, admits, aiders, aidmen, aimers, airest, airmen, airted, amends, aments, amides, amidin, amidst, amines, animes, animis, antres, ardent, arisen, armets, armies, arsine, astern, daimen, damner, daters, deairs, demast, demits, denari, denars, denims, derats, dermas, dermis, desman, detain, diamin, dimers, dinars, diners, direst, disarm, drains, dreams, dreamt, driest, estrin, etamin, imaret, imides, imines, inarms, indies, indite, indris, inerts, inmate, inseam, insert, inside, instar, inters, intima, intime, irades, irides, irised, isatin, madres, maiden, mantes, mantid, mantis, marine, marted, marten, martin, masted, master, maters, matins, matres, median, medias, medina, menads, merits, mesian, midair, minder, miners, minted, minter, misate, miseat, misted, mister, miters, mitier, mitred, mitres, nadirs, namers, niters, nitres, nitrid, rained, raised, raisin, ramens, ramets, ramies, ranids, ranted, ratine, redans, redias, remain, remand, remans, remind, remint, remits, resaid, retain, retina, rident, rinsed, saimin, sained, samite, sander, santir, satire, semina, seniti, simian, sinter, smiter, snared, snider, stamen, staned, stared, sterna, strain, strand, stream, striae, stride, tamein, tamers, tandem, teiids, teinds, tenias, terais, tidier, tidies, timers, tinder, tineas, tineid, tinier, tirade, tisane, trades, trains, treads, trends, triads, triens, trined, trines. | |
-5 letters: adits, admen, admit, aider, aides, aimed, aimer, aired, airns, airts, amend, amens, ament, amide, amids, amies, amine, amins, amirs, anime, animi, anise, anted, antes, antis, antre, arise, armed, armet, aside, aster, astir, dames, damns, dares, darns, darts, dater, dates, deair, deans, dears, deism, deist, demit, denar, denim, dents, derat, derma, derms, diets, dimer, dimes, dinar, diner, dines, dints, dirts, disme, ditas, dites, drain, drams, drats, dream, drest, dries, earns, edits, emirs, emits, entia, etnas, ideas, imide, imids, imine, inarm, indie, indri, inert, inset, inter. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-i-m-n-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: administers. | |
+2 letters: administered, administrate, discriminate, disseminator, dominatrices, dominatrixes, meanspirited, remediations, romanticised. | |
+3 letters: administering, administrable, administrated, administrates, antimodernist, credentialism, determinacies, dimerizations, discriminated, discriminates, disseminators, immoderations, intermediates, maladminister, masterminding, modernisation, pedestrianism. | |
+4 letters: administrative, aerodynamicist, antimodernists, archimandrites, credentialisms, determinations, determinatives, discriminative, disembarkation, endoparasitism, indiscriminate, intermediacies, intermediaries, maladministers, mistranscribed, modernisations, modernizations, pedestrianisms, predominations, premeditations, transmogrified, tridimensional. | |
+5 letters: aerodynamicists, bioremediations, demonstrability, demoralizations, dimenhydrinates, disembarkations, endoparasitisms, indeterminacies, intermediations, maladministered, melodramatising, overmedications, rudimentariness, trichomonacides, underestimating, underestimation. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 64 6D 69 6E 69 73 74 65 72 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -.. -- .. -. .. ... - . .-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100100 01101101 01101001 01101110 01101001 01110011 01110100 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A d m i n i s t e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0064 006D 0069 006E 0069 0073 0074 0065 0072 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)35707975807585867184 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Quotations: Familiar 8. Quotations: Historic | 9. Quotations: Non-fiction 10. Quotations: Speeches 11. Usage Frequency 12. Expressions | 13. Expressions: Internet 14. Translations: Modern 15. Translations: Ancient 16. Derivations | 17. Rhymes 18. Anagrams 19. Orthography 20. Bibliography |
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