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Definitions: Aperient |
AperientAdjective1. Mildly laxative. Noun1. A purging medicine; stimulates evacuation of the bowels. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Aperient \A*pe"ri*ent\, adjective. [Latin expression aperiens, present participle of aperire to uncover, open; ab parire, parere, to bring forth, produce. Compare to Cover, Overt.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Botanical | A mild laxative. Argemone, Clitoria, Hibiscus, Sesamum, Sesbania, Tamarindus. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: AperientSynonyms: cathartic (n), physic (n), purgative (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Cleanness | Wash, lotion, detergent, cathartic, purgative; purifier; Verb: disinfectant; aperient; benzene, benzine benzol, benolin; bleaching powder, chloride of lime, dentifrice, deobstruent, laxative. |
Opening | Opening; Verb: aperient. |
Remedy | Allopathic, heteropathic, homeopathic, hydropathic; anthelmintic; antifebrile, antiluetic; aperient, chalybeate, deobstruent, depurative, laxative, roborant. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Aperient |
| English words defined with "aperient": Aperitive ♦ Blue pill ♦ Deobstruent, Deoppilative ♦ Scammoniate, Seidlitz water. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "aperient": Ajonjoli ♦ CLITORIA TERNATEA ♦ Gallito. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "aperient": Aperture ♦ Deoppilative ♦ malapert. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | Tarrant's Seltzer Aperient / Wemple & Company New York. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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| "Aperient" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Aperient" 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "aperient": take an aperient. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "aperient"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | purgativ (cathartic, depletive, depletory, purgative, purge, saline). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مسهل (laxative, purgative, purge), تسهيل (facility, making easy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | разслабително средство (laxative), разслабителен (laxative, opening, purgative). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | projímavý (laxative, purgative). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | laxatif. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | abführmittel (cathartic, laxative, physic, purgative, purge), abführend (cathartic, evacuative, laxativ, laxative, laxatively, purgative). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | καθαρτικόσ (cathartical, laxative, purgative), καθαρτικό (cathartic, purgative, purge). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | hashajtó (aloes, aperitif, black draught, cathartic, laxative, physic, purgative, purgative medicine, purge). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | aperiente (aperitive), purgante (evacuant, laxative, purgative, purge), lassativo (laxative). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 峻下剤 (drastic aperient). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しゅ"'ざい (drastic aperient). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | stoo feayslee (laxative), scooiragh (purgative, purging), scooirag, purgeid, purgaidagh (cathartic, laxative, purgative), feayshlee, feashlagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | aperientay purgante (abstergent, depletive, purgative, purge, scourer), laxativo (bottle opener, deobstruent, depletive, laxative, laxity, loose, looseness, purgative, relaxing), laxante (deobstruent, laxative, loose, opener, purgative, relaxing). (various references) laxativ (laxative, relaxing). (various references) слабительный (depletive, depletory, laxative, purgative). (various references) lako sredstvo za čišćenje. (various references) laxante (aperitive, depletive, laxative). (various references) avföringsmedel (depletive, evacuant, laxative). (various references) ที่ถ่ายเป็นอุจจาระ, ยาระบายหรืออาหารที่เป็นยาระบาย. (various references) müshil (evacuant, laxative, purgative). (various references) проносне (cathartic, depletive, evacuant, laxative, physic, purgative, purge), проносний (cathartic, depletive, depletory, evacuant, laxative, purgative). (various references) nhuận tr ng (aperitive, laxative). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "aperient": aperients. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "aperient" (pronounced 'A*pe"ri*ent'): Abandonment, Abasement, Abashment, Abatement, Abetment, Abhorrent, Abiliment, Abjurement, Abluent, Abodement, Abolishment, Aborsement, Abortifacient, Abortment, Abridgment, Absentment, Abutment, Acaulescent, Accident, Accipient, Acclimatement, Accompaniment, Accomplishment, Accordment, Accouchement, Accouplement, Accrescent, Accroachment, Accrument, Accusement, Acharnement, Acidulent, Acknowledgment, Acquiescent, Acquirement, Acquitment, Additament, Adducent, Adipescent, Adjournment, Adjudgment, Adjument, Adjustment, Admonishment, Adnascent, Adorement, Adornment, Adstringent, Advancement, Advenient. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-i-n-p-r-t" | |
-1 letter: arenite, painter, peatier, perinea, pertain, repaint, retinae, trainee. | |
-2 letters: arpent, enrapt, entera, entire, entrap, neater, panier, pantie, parent, patine, pereia, pineta, pirate, pterin, rapine, ratine, repeat, repent, repine, retain, retape, retina, retine, teniae, trepan, triene. | |
-3 letters: aerie, antre, apter, arete, arpen, atrip, eaten, eater, enate, enter, entia, etape, inapt, inept, inert, inter, irate. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-i-n-p-r-t" | |
+1 letter: aperients, patienter, peritonea, pertained, pistareen, repainted, repeating, sparteine. | |
+2 letters: antiherpes, apprentice, epicentral, hemipteran, impregnate, interphase, interplead, interspace, pedantries, pedestrian, penetralia, peritoneal, permeating, permeation, pinfeather, pistareens, planimeter, pregenital, preheating, pretrained, proteinase, resupinate, septenarii, sparteines. | |
+3 letters: antipyreses, appertained, apprenticed, apprentices, attempering, becarpeting, carpentries, centripetal, deprecating, deprecation, depredating, depredation, desperation, greasepaint, hemipterans, impermanent, impersonate, impregnated, impregnates, inoperative, intemperate, interlapped, interphases, interplayed, interpleads, interpolate, interspaced, interspaces, metanephric, metanephroi, pageantries, paragenetic, parenthesis, parenthetic, paternities, peasantries, pedestrians, penetrating, penetration, penetrative, pentarchies, peregrinate, perennating, perennation, permeations, personative, pinfeathers, planimeters, praelecting, predicament, predominate, preenacting, prenominate, preterminal, pretreating, privateness, proteinases, reaccepting, reappointed, recarpeting, reimplanted, reoperating, reoperation, rerepeating, sempiternal, septenarius, spessartine, traineeship, transpierce. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 70 65 72 69 65 6E 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- .--. . .-. .. . -. - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01110000 01100101 01110010 01101001 01100101 01101110 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A p e r i e n t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0070 0065 0072 0069 0065 006E 0074 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3582718475718086 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Albanian | fjalor, qartësi, përcaktim, saktësi, transmetim, transferim | shqip, الألبانية, الألباني, албанец, албански език, албански, albánský, Albanais, albaner, αλβανικόσ, Αλβανός, αλβανόσ, albán, albanese, Albaneagh, albanês, arnãut, albanez, arnãuţesc, албанский, albanski, albanac, albanés, alban, Arnavut, албанський, албанка, албанець |
Arabic | معجم, قاموس, الوضوحية في الشيء, حد, تحديد, تعريف, التحديد, الإيضاحية, ترجمة من لغة أجنبية للغة الأم, ترجمة, إفتتان | arabishte, العربية, عربي, اللغة العربية, арабски език, арабски, arabský, arabština, arabe, arabisch, αραβικόσ, arab, arabo, Arabish, arabic, арабский, arapski, árabe, arabisk, าษาหรืออักขระอาหรับ, เกี่ยวกับอาระเบีย, arapça, arap, araplara özgü, арабська мова, арабський, tiếng A-rập, thuộc A-rập |
Bulgarian | речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, превод | bulgr, البلغارية, بلغاري, български, български език, българин, bulharský, bulgare, 'ούλγαρος, bolgár, bulgaro, Bulgeyragh, Bulgeyrish, болгарский, болгарин, bugarski jezik, bugarski, bugarka, bugarin, búlgaro, bulgar, bulgaristan ile ilgili, болгарський, người Bun-ga-ri tiếng Bun-ga-ri |
Czech | slovník, definice, překlad | çek, تشيكي, اللغة التشيكوسلوفاكية, التشيكي أحد أبناء تشيكوسلوفاكيا, чешки, èesky, èeské, èech, èeština, èeský, èeška, tchèque, Tscheche, tschechisch, Tschechin, Τσέχος, cseh, ceco, Sheckagh, Sheckish, ceh, чешский, češki jezik, čeh, češki, checo, tjeck, Çek, çekoslovakyalı kimse, çekoslovakyalı, çek dili, чех, чеська мова, чеський, чешка, người Séc tiếng Séc |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | frëngjishte, frëng, franceze, اللغة الفرنسية, فرنسي, الشعب الفرنسي, френски език, френски, francouzský, francouzština, français, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, francia, francese, フレコン化 , 仏文 , フランス" , 仏 , ふつぶ", ふつ, フレンチ , フランセ , Ny Frangee, Mooinjey ny Frank, francês, francezii, franţuzesc, francezã, francez, franţuzeşte, французский, francuski jezik, francuski, francuzi, francés, fransk, franska, fransızca, fransız, Fransiz, fransızca ile ilgili, fransa ile ilgili, французька мова, французький |
German | wörterbuch, Übersetzung | gjerman, ضرب من الرقص, جرماني, الماني, اللغة الألمانية, المانية, германски, немски език, немски, немец, роден, готически, германец, nìmec, nìmecký, allemand, deutsch, Deutsche, "ερμανός, német, tedesco, ジプシー音楽 , ジャーマン , Germaanish, Germaanagh, Garmane, Carmane, alemão, neamţ, немецкий, germanski, alemán, tysk, าษาเยอรมัน, เยอรมัน, alman, німкеня, німецький, німець, $sisters german$ chị em ruột, $cousin german$ anh chị em con chú bác ruột, sister |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | يوناني, اللغة اليونانية, الإغريقي, гръцки език, гръцки, грък, řek, řecký, řeètina, grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, görög, greco, ギリシア語 , ギリシア", Greagish, Greagagh, grego, greacã, греческий, грек, grčki, grk, grčki jezik, griego, grek, yunanistan'a ait, yunanca, yunan, Yunanli, yunanlı, Rumca, rum, грецький, гречанка, грецька мова, quân bạc bịp tôi không thể hiểu được điều đó thật l kỳ phùng địch thủ, kẻ lừa đảo, kẻ cắp b gi gặp nhau, người Hy-lạp tiếng Hy-lạp kẻ bịp bợm |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | مجري, المجري, الهنغاري, هنغاري, اللغة الهنغارية, унгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, maïarský, maïarština, maïar, hongrois, Ungar, Ούγγρος, magyar, ungherese, Ungaarish, Ungaaragh, unguresc, limba ungarã, limba maghiarã, ungureşte, ungur, maghiar, венгр, венгерский, mađarski jezik, mađarski, mađar, húngaro, ungrare, ชาวฮังการี, macarca, macar, угорська мова, угорський, угорка, угорець, người Hung-ga-ri tiếng Hung-ga-ri |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | الإيطالي, اللغة الإيطالية, إيطالي, شخص إيطالي, италиански език, италиански, италианец, italský, italština, ital, italien, italienisch, Ιταλός, olasz, italiano, Iddaalish, italienesc, italieneşte, italian, italianã, итальянский язык, итальянец, итальянский, italijan, italijanski jezik, italijanski, italiensk, italienska, italienare, ชาวอิตาลี, เกี่ยวกับอิตาลี, าษาอิตาลี, italyanca, italyan, італі"ць, італійська мова, італійський, італійка |
Japanese Kanji | 辭典 , 辞典 , 字引 , 辞林 , 字書 , ディーゼル電気車 , 言海 , 辞彙 , 辞書 , 確定 , ディーゼル電気車 , デ'ドロ酢酸 , 翻訳 | japonez, يابانية, ياباني, اليابانية, اللغة اليابانية, японски език, японци, японски, japonský, Japonais, japaner, japanisch, ιαπωνικόσ, Ιάπωνας· "ιαπωνέζος, ιάπωνεσ, ιάπων, ιαπωνικά, japán, giapponese, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", Shapaanagh, Shapaanish, japonês, japonezã, японский, японец, japanski, japanski jezik, japanac, japonés, japansk, คนญี่ปุ่น, าษาญี่ปุ่น, เกี่ยวกับญี่ปุ่น, Japonca, японська мова, японський, японка, японець, người Nhật bản tiếng Nhật bản |
Japanese Katakana | じい, じびき, じて", ディクショナリー , じり", じしょ, '"かい, ディクショナリ , デフィニション , ディフィニション , ていぎ, かくてい, へい"ういどう, やくじゅつ, トランスレーション , やくしょ, やくしゅつ, "うどく, ほ"やく, ほ"やくしょ | japonez, يابانية, ياباني, اليابانية, اللغة اليابانية, японски език, японци, японски, japonský, Japonais, japaner, japanisch, ιαπωνικόσ, Ιάπωνας· "ιαπωνέζος, ιάπωνεσ, ιάπων, ιαπωνικά, japán, giapponese, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", Shapaanagh, Shapaanish, japonês, japonezã, японский, японец, japanski, japanski jezik, japanac, japonés, japansk, คนญี่ปุ่น, าษาญี่ปุ่น, เกี่ยวกับญี่ปุ่น, Japonca, японська мова, японський, японка, японець, người Nhật bản tiếng Nhật bản |
Manx | fockleyr, geyrid, meenaghey, keeayllaght, baght | gjuha e popullsisë së ishullit men, manština, manský, manx, mann-szigeti nyelv, Manninish, Manninagh, Gaelgagh, Yn Ghaelg, язык жителей о-ва мэн, с о-ва мэн, s ostrva mana, los habitantes de la isla de man, lengua de la isla de man, de la isla de man, från ön man, man adası, man dili, менський, менський діалект |
Portuguese | dicionário, definição, tradução | portugez, portugalisht, اللغة البرتغالية, البرتغالية, البرتغالي, португалски, португалски език, португалец, portugalský, portugais, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portugál, portoghese, ポルトガル語 , ポルトガル", Portiugish, Portiugagh, português, portughez, португальский, portugalski jezik, portugalac, portugalski, portugués, portugis, portekizce, portekiz, Portekízlí, portekizli, португальський, португальська мова, португалець, người B"-đ o-nha tiếng B"-đ o-nha |
Romanian | dicţionar, definiţie, determinare, definire, translaţie, traducere, tãlmãcire | rumun, румънски език, румънски, румънец, rumunský, rumunština, Roumain, rumäne, ρουμανόσ, Ρουμάνος, román, rumeno, Roomainagh, romeno, român, румынский, румын, rumunski jezik, rumunski, rumano, rumänsk, румунський, румунка, румунська мова, румун |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | روسي, اللغة الروسية, الروسية, руски език, руски, руснак, ruština, ruský, Russe, russisch, Ρώσος, orosz, russo, ロシア語 , ロシア", Rooshish, Rooshagh, русский, ruski jezik, ruski, ruso, ryss, ชาวรัสเซีย, Rusça, росіянка, росіянин, російська мова, російський, người Nga tiếng Nga |
Serbo-Croatian | leksikon, rečnik, definicija, tumačenje | serbokroatisch, servo-croata, sârbo-croat, srpsko-hrvatski jezik, srpsko-hrvatski, serbokroatiska, serbokroatisk, เกี่ยวกับ าษาเซอร์เบียและโครเอเชีย, าษาหลักของชาวเซอร์เบียและโครเอเชีย |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | spanjoll, اللغة الأسبانية, الأسبانية, أسباني, испански език, испански, španìlský, španìlština, espagnol, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, spanyol, spagnolo, スペイン語 , スパイ罪 , スペイン", スパニッシュ , Spaainish, Spaainagh, espanhol, spaniol, spaniolesc, spanioleşte, испанский, španski, španski jezik, español, spanska språk, spansk, ispanyollar, ispanyol, ispanyolca, іспанський, іспанська мова |
Swedish | ordbok, lexikon, definition, översättning | suedez, اللغة السويدية, шведски, шведски език, швед, švédský, švédština, suédois, schwedisch, σουηδικόσ, σουηδικά, svéd, svedese, スウェーデン語 , スウェーデン", Soolynish, Soolynagh, шведский, švedski jezik, švedski, sueco, svensk, เกี่ยวกับคน าษาและวั'นธรรมของประเทศสวีเ"น, isveççe, isveç dili, isveç, Ísveçlí, шведська мова, шведський, người Thuỵ điển tiếng Thuỵ điển |
Thai | พจนานุกรม | Thaïlandais, thailändisch, Thailänder, Ταϊλανδός· Ταϊλανδέζος, tailandese, たい", tailandês, tailandés, thailändare, าษาไทย, เกี่ยวกับคนไทย, ที่เกี่ยวกับประเทศไทย, คนไทย, Tayland, Taylandlı, Tayland Dili, Tai Dili, Та"ць, Тайська Мова, Тайський |
Turkish | sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercüme | turk, تركي أحد أبناء تركيا, اللغة التركية, турски език, турски, turecký, tureètina, turque, türkisch, τούρκικοσ, török, Yn Turkish, Turkagh, turcesc, turc, турецкий, turski jezik, turski, turco, turkisk, türkçe, türk, турецький, турецька мова, tiếng Thổ nhĩ kỳ |
Ukranian | словник, довідник, чіткість, тлумачення, виразність, визначення, дефініція, ясність, чітка чутність, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщення | |
Vietnamese | có tính chất sách vở, sự định rõ, sự định nghĩa, lời định nghĩa sự định, sự dịch, sự biến th nh sự giải thích | vietnamisht, vietnamez, виетнамски език, виетнамски, vietnamec, vietnamský, vietnamka, vietnamština, vietnamien, vietnamesin, vietnamesisch, vietnamese, 'ιετναμέζος, vietnami, vietnámi, ベトナ 人 , ベトナ じ", vietnamita, вьетнамский, vijetnamski jezik, vijetnamski, vijetnamac, vietnames, vietnamlı, vietnam dili, vietnam, в'"тнамець, в'"тнамський, người Việt nam tiếng Việt |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | anglezët, anglez, gjuhë zngleze, anglishte, anglisht, الإنجليزية, الأنكليزي, إنكليزي, ترجمة إنكليزية, اللغة الإنكليزية, английски език, английски, англичаните, anglicky, anglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, angol, inglese, Sostynagh, Sostnagh, Baarlagh, inglês, englezesc, английский, engleski, englez, engleski jezik, inglés, engelsk, เกี่ยวกับประเทศอังกฤษ, ชาวอังกฤษ, าษาอังกฤษ, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce, англійський, англійці, англійська мова |
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