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Amortize

Definition: Amortize

Amortize

Verb

1. Liquidate gradually.

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

Date "amortize" was first used: 14th century. (references)


Synonym: Amortize

Synonym: amortise (v). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Amortize

English words defined with "amortize": Amortisement. (references)
Specialty definitions using "amortize": balloon mortgagedebt service constantflexible payment mortgage. (references)
Etymologies containing "amortize": Amortization. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Amortize

SubjectTopicQuote

Trade

Costa Rica

The sum of the surcharge duties and other revenue generated by the extraordinary measures are to be used by the Central Bank to amortize the monetary stabilization account. (references)

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Amortize

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

  amortize

333

  amortize loan

86

  amortize bin cgi ray.met.fsu.edu

21

  amortize schedule

17

  mortgage amortize

15

  amortize calculator

14

  amortize table

12

  amortize calcualtor

8

  amortize.html bret ray.met.fsu.edu

6

  amortize chart

4

  amortize car loan

4

  amortize loan mortgage

3

  amortize loan calculator

3

  amortize program

2

  amortize loan payment

2

  amortize auto loan

2

  mortgage payment calculator amortize

2

  amortize payment

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

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Modern Translations: Amortize

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

Afrikaan

  

afskryf (deaden, write, write off), amortiseer (deaden). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

amortizoj (absorb, amortise, break, muffle), zbut (allay, amortise, appease, assuage, attenuate, break, calm, chasten, commute, daunt, disarm, ease, extenuate, malaxate, manage, melt, mince, mitigate, moderate, modify, mollify, palatalize, palliate, propitiate, qualify, reclaim, relax, relieve, smooth, soften, soothe, subdue, tame, temper, tenderize, tone down), zbus (allay, amortise, assuage, attenuate, break, calm, calm down, domesticate, ease, macerate, propitiate, relax, soften). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

амортизирам (amortise, sink), погасявам (amortise, clear off, extinguish, pay off, quit, redeem, sink). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

折旧 (Amortise). (various references)

   

Czech

  

amortizovat. (various references)

   

Danish

  

amortisere i løbet af restløbetid (to amortize over its residual life), værdier som kan afskrives (assets to amortise, assets to amortize, assets to write off, sinking securities). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

aflossen (deaden, pay off, redeem, take the place of), afbetalen (deaden, pay off, pay on account, to pay by instalments, to pay off). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

amortizi (deaden). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

مستهلک کردن (Depreciate), کشتن (Administer, Butcher, Dispatch, Doin, Extinguish, Mortify, Murder, Out, Rat, Smite), وقف کردن (Avow, Bequeath, Dedicate, Devote, Endow), خراب کردن (Botch, Corrupt, Demolish, Destroy, Deteriorate, Devastate, Dilapidate, Disfigure, Impair, Muck, Muddle, Ruin, Ruinate, Unbuild, Undo, Unmake, Vitiate, Wrack, Wreck), بیحس کردن (Paralyze), بدیگری واگذارکردن . (various references)

   

Finnish

  

puuduttaa (anesthetize, cancel, declare invalid, pay off). (various references)

   

French

  

amortir. (various references)

   

Frisian

  

ôfskriuwe (deaden, write off), ôflosse (deaden, pay off, redeem). (various references)

   

German

  

amortisieren (deaden, to amortize, to pay off). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ξεπληρώνω με δόσεισ, πληρώνω με χρεωλυσία. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

amortizál (amortise, sank, sunk, to sink), törleszt kölcsönt (amortise), leír (amortise, depict, describe, note down, portray, put down, to blazon, to delineate, to depict, to describe, to engross, to illustrate, to picture, to portray, to put down, to set down, to stick down, to transcribe, to write down, to write off, write down, write off). (various references)

   

Italian

  

ammortizzare (amortise, dampen, deaden, depreciate). (various references)

   

Manx

  

scryssey magh (abolishment, abolition, attrition, blot out, blur, blur as vision, delete, deletion, efface, erase, erasure, obliterate, obliteration, scratch out, scrub, shatter, strike off, wear off). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

amortizeay

   

Portuguese

  

amortizar (amortise, pay in instalments, pay off, redeem, refund). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

amortiza (absorb, break, cushion, damp, deaden, extinguish, liquidate, pay off, redeem), aliena (alienate). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

отчуждать недвижимость (amortise), погашать долг (amortise, extinguish, liquidate), погашать (amortise). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

amortizovati (amortise). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

amortizar (amortise, deaden, pay off, redeem). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

amortera (sink). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

amortize etmek, amortisman ayırmak, sönümlemek, itfa etmek. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

сплачувати в розстрочку, амортизувати. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Amortize

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

ad-. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Amortize

Derivations

Words beginning with "amortize": amortized, amortizes. (additional references)

Words containing "amortize": unamortized. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Amortize" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: almitrine, amertize, ammortise, amorite, amoritize. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Amortize"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "amortize" (pronounced a"mertī'z)
4-er t ī' zadvertise.
3-t ī' zalphabetize, democratize, deputize, desensitize, digitize, dramatize, hypnotize, neckties, prioritize, privatize, proselytize, sanitize, securitize, sensitize, stigmatize, traumatize.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Amortize

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: atomizer.

Words within the letters "a-e-i-m-o-r-t-z"

-1 letter: atomize.

-2 letters: imaret, mazier.

-3 letters: aimer, amort, armet, azote, irate, maize, mater, matzo, mazer, merit, metro, mirza, miter, mitre, moira, moire, morae, oater, orate, ramet, ramie, ratio, remit, retia, tamer, terai, timer, zaire, ziram.

-4 letters: aero, airt, amie, amir, atom, emir, emit, iota, item, izar, mair, mare, mart, mate, maze, meat, meta, mire, mite.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-i-m-o-r-t-z"
 

+1 letter: amortized, amortizes, aromatize, atomizers.

 

+2 letters: aromatized, aromatizes, dogmatizer.

 

+3 letters: achromatize, amortizable, democratize, dogmatizers, immortalize, romanticize, temporalize, tetrazolium, unamortized.

 

+4 letters: achromatized, achromatizes, democratized, democratizer, democratizes, dimerization, immortalized, immortalizer, immortalizes, memorization, racemization, romanticized, romanticizes, spermatozoid, temporalized, temporalizes, tetrazoliums.

 

+5 letters: democratizers, democratizing, dimerizations, germanization, immortalizers, isomerization, melodramatize, memorizations, mercerization, metronidazole, modernization, overdramatize, racemizations, spermatozoids, temporalizing, temporization.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Amortize


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

41 6D 6F 72 74 69 7A 65

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 01101101 01101111 01110010 01110100 01101001 01111010 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#109 &#111 &#114 &#116 &#105 &#122 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 006D 006F 0072 0074 0069 007A 0065

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

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

3579818486759271

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Translations: Ancient
8. Derivations
9. Rhymes
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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