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Amputee

Definition: Amputee

Amputee

Noun

1. Someone who has had a limb removed by amputation.

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


Crosswords: Amputee

English words defined with "amputee": phantom limb pain. (references)

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Modern Usage: Amputee

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

The Amputee (1974)

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

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Commercial Usage: Amputee

DomainTitle

Books

  • Amputee Identity Disorder: Information, Questions, Answers, and Recommendations About Self-Demand Amputation (reference)

  • Comprehensive Management of the Upper-Limb Amputee (reference)

  • Life Planning for the Amputee (reference)

  • Prehension Assessment, Prosthetic Therapy for the Upper-Limb Child Amputee (reference)

  • Skin Problems of the Amputee (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

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

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Image Slideshow: Amputee

Illustrations:
Amputee

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Computer Images:
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Photo Album: Amputee

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U. S. Army Base Hospital Number 69, Savenay, France. : Reconstruction class, attaching iron frame to cast for peg leg for above knee amputee.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

U.S. Army, Bushnell General Hospital, Brigham City, UT. : Amputee learning to walk by observing himself in wall mirror.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

[Male amputee plague victim (three-quarter length portrait, facing front) on crutches, hands upraised, San Francisco, Calif.].Credit: National Library of Medicine.

[Artificial limbs] : [Hand amputee with prosthesis.].Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Artificial limbs : Amputee showing stump of left arm above elbow.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Gymnastics - Medical : Leg amputee exercising stump on weight pulley machine.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

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

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Usage Frequency: Amputee

"Amputee" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Amputee" is used about 16 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
Noun (singular)100%1687,710

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

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Expression: Amputee

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "amputee": total-amputee.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Amputee

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
  ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  amputee

1,272

  leg amputee

31

  amputee woman

309

  amputee devotee picture

30

  amputee devotee

296

  amputee gallery

29

  amputee picture

177

  devotee amputee links

29

  amputee sex

166

  amputee leg woman

28

  female amputee

141

  amputee d links

28

  amputee lady

124

  amputee model

27

  nude amputee

87

  double amputee

22

  amputee girl

74

  amputee arm

21

  amputee porn

56

  amputee fetish

21

  amputee world

54

  amputee photo woman

20

  amputee photo

53

  amputee child

20

  amputee pic

46

  sexy amputee

20

  male amputee

44

  amputee man

20

  amputee woman picture

42

  amputee quadruple

18

  amputee story

39

  amputee female leg

18

  naked amputee

39

  amputee video

17

  amputee devotee woman

37

  amputee lady photo

16

  amputee female photo

35

  america amputee coalition

16

  amputee female picture

33

  above amputee knee

16
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Amputee

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

Arabic 

  

‏مبتور اليد. (various references)

   

Danish

  

armløst individ (arm amputee, armless person), individ uden hænder (hand amputee, handless person). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

oesophagojejunogastrostomosis (arm amputee, armless person), oesophagojejunogastrostomie (arm amputee, armless person). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

ادمی عضوی ازبدنش قطع شده باشد. (various references)

   

French

  

amputé (amputated). (various references)

   

German

  

amputierte (amputated). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ανάπηροσ (cripple, disabled, infirm). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

קטוע י", קטוע ר'ל, קטע (cripple), '"ם (one handed, stub, stump, trunk). (various references)

   

Italian

  

amputato. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

切断患者 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

せつ "か"じゃ. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

amputeeay

   

Portuguese

  

amputado (amputated). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

человек с ампутированной ногой/рукой, пациент с ампутированной конечностью. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

amputado (amputated). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

organı alınmış kimse. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

людина без ноги. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Amputee

Derivations

Words beginning with "amputee": amputees. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Amputee" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ampato, amputare, ampute, Macpuke. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Amputee"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "amputee" (pronounced a'mpyutē")
3-u t ē"devotee.

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

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Anagrams: Amputee

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-m-p-t-u"

-1 letter: metepa.

-2 letters: etape, taupe.

-3 letters: emeu, mate, maut, meat, meet, meta, mete, mute, pate, peat, puma, tame, tamp, tape, team, teem, temp, tepa, tump.

-4 letters: amp, amu, ape, apt, ate, eat, eau, eme, emu, eta, mae, map, mat, met, mut, pam, pat, pea, pee, pet, put, tae, tam, tap, tau, tea, tee, tup, ump.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-e-m-p-t-u"
 

+1 letter: amputees.

 

+2 letters: premature.

 

+3 letters: permutable, prematures.

 

+4 letters: antependium, pentamerous, penultimate, perambulate, prematurely, supermarket, temperature.

 

+5 letters: antependiums, hypermutable, magnetopause, mousetrapped, outplacement, perambulated, perambulates, preformulate, premenstrual, somatopleure, subtemperate, supermarkets, supplemental, temperatures, underpayment.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Amputee


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

41 6D 70 75 74 65 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)

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

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

01000001 01101101 01110000 01110101 01110100 01100101 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#109 &#112 &#117 &#116 &#101 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 006D 0070 0075 0074 0065 0065

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

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

35798287867171

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Usage Frequency
8. Expressions
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Derivations
12. Rhymes
13. Anagrams
14. Orthography
15. Bibliography


  

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