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Airsick

Definition: Airsick

Airsick

Adjective

1. Experiencing motion sickness.

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

 

Synonyms: Airsick

Synonyms: carsick (adj), seasick (adj). (additional references)

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Usage Frequency: Airsick

"Airsick" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Airsick" is used about 2 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)100%2245,945

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Airsick

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

airsick

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

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Modern Translations: Airsick

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

Czech

  

nevolností v letadle. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

luchtziek. (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

aermalsana. (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

مبتلابکسالت دراثرپرواز. (various references)

   

French

  

ayant le mal de l'air. (various references)

   

German

  

luftkrank. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

rosszul van (have airsickness, to be airsick, to feel crummy, to feel faint). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

mabuk udara. (various references)

   

Italian

  

che soffre di mal d'aria. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

エール大学 (acquired immune deficiency syndrome, aerobic dancing, aerobicise, aerobics, aerodynamics, aerogram, aerosol, aid, AIDS, AIDS virus, air, air bag, air brake, air breathing engine, air cargo, air check, air circulating system, air cleaner, air compressor, air conditioner, air conditioning, air curtain, air cushion, air dome, air door, air force, air girl, air gun, air hostess, air mail, air mattress, air pad, air pageant, air people, air pocket, air pot, air pump, air rifle, air right, air service, air shoot, air shuttle, air sick, air suspension, air terminal, air towel, airborne, airbrush, Airbus, airline, airport, airport tax, airsick bag, airsickness, airway, alias, alien, Edam cheese, eight, eight beat, exercising with aerobics, hit point, home page, HP, on-air monitor, stewardess, Yale University). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

エアシックバッグ (airsick bag). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

airsickay

   

Portuguese

  

enjoado (bleak, dismal, dreary, ghastly, grisly, horrible, nasty, nauseated, qualmish, queasy, seasick, squeamish), com náuseas. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

страдающий воздушной болезнью. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

vazdušna bolest (airsickness). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

mareado en avión. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

flygsjuk (air-sick). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

що хворобливо почува" себе в повітрі. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Airsick

Derivations

Words beginning with "airsick": airsickness, airsicknesses. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Airsick" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ardsike, Arlick, Disick, kirrick. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Airsick

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-i-i-k-r-s"

-2 letters: carks, racks, rakis, ricks.

-3 letters: airs, arcs, arks, asci, cark, cars, cask, cris, iris, irks, kirs, kris, rack, raki, rias, rick, risk, sack, saki, sari, sark, scar, sick.

-4 letters: air, ais, arc, ark, ars, ask, car, cis, ick, irk, kas, kir, ras, ria, sac, sic, sir, ska, ski, sri.

-5 letters: ai, ar, as, is.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-i-i-k-r-s"
 

+2 letters: brainsick.

 

+3 letters: jinricksha, rickettsia, tackifiers.

 

+4 letters: airsickness, brainsickly, jinrickshas, rickettsiae, rickettsial, rickettsias.

 

+5 letters: bricklayings, kickstarting, kilocalories, rockabillies, sidetracking, wisecracking.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Airsick


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

41 69 72 73 69 63 6B

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)

01000001 01101001 01110010 01110011 01101001 01100011 01101011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#105 &#114 &#115 &#105 &#99 &#107

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0069 0072 0073 0069 0063 006B

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

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

35758485756977

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Images: Slideshow
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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