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Definitions: Anorexic |
AnorexicAdjective1. Suffering from anorexia nervosa; pathologically thin. Noun1. A person suffering from anorexia nervosa. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: AnorexicSynonym: anorectic (n). (additional references) |
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Screenplays | One anorexic little looney in a loin cloth and we lost an entire subcontinent. (Water; writing credit: Dick Clement; Ian La Frenais) Oh, forgive me for not being one of those anorexic babies from the diaper commercials. (Family Guy; writing credit: Dolores Payás) I suppose the life of an anorexic duck doesn't amount to much in the broad scheme of things. (Babe; writing credit: George Miller) It's anorexic. (Phoenix Nights; writing credit: Neil Fitzmaurice; Peter Kay) Some anorexic teenager? (The First Wives Club; writing credit: Robert Harling) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | [Recovered anorexic patient]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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| "Anorexic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 94.50% of the time. "Anorexic" is used about 109 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 94.5% | 103 | 32,137 |
| Noun (singular) | 4.59% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.92% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 109 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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Ending with "anorexic": post-anorexic, pre-anorexic. | |
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| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "anorexic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Spanish | anoréxico. (various references) | |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "anorexic": anorexics. (additional references) | |
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"Anorexic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: anarexic, anerexic, anorexiz, anoxeric, aporetic, Noribic, Nuraxi. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "anorexic" (pronounced a'nere"ksik) |
| 5 | -e" k s i k | dyslexic. |
| 4 | -k s i k | nontoxic, toxic. |
| 3 | -s i k | analgesic, basic, carsick, classic, diabasic, extrinsic, forensic, geodesic, intrinsic, neoclassic, thoracic. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-n-o-r-x" | |
-2 letters: aeonic, anoxic, axenic, axonic, carnie, coaxer, coiner, cornea, exonic, orcein, recoin. | |
-3 letters: acorn, areic, axion, axone, cairn, caner, canoe, carex, ceria, coria, coxae, crane, crone, erica, irone, ixora, nacre, narco, naric, nicer, noria, ocean, ocrea, orcin, racon, rance, recon, xenia, xenic, xeric. | |
-4 letters: acne, acre, aeon, aero, airn, arco, axon, cain, cane, care. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-n-o-r-x" | |
+1 letter: anorexics, chronaxie. | |
+2 letters: chronaxies, execration, extraction. | |
+3 letters: axonometric, excoriating, excoriation, execrations, exorbitance, extractions, extrication. | |
+4 letters: anorexigenic, exacerbation, exclusionary, excoriations, excruciation, exercitation, exorbitances, extrications. | |
+5 letters: exacerbations, excruciations, exercitations, expectorating, expectoration. | |
| 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 6E 6F 72 65 78 69 63 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -. --- .-. . -..- .. -.-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01101110 01101111 01110010 01100101 01111000 01101001 01100011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A n o r e x i c |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 006E 006F 0072 0065 0078 0069 0063 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3580818471907569 |
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