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Definition: Bacilli |
BacilliNoun1. Aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium; often occurring in chainlike formations. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bacilli" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1913. (references) |
Synonym: BacilliSynonym: bacillus (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Bacilli |
| English words defined with "bacilli": bacillar, bacillary ♦ Mantoux test, miliary tuberculosis ♦ Spore formation, Streptothrix ♦ T.B., tine test, tuberculosis. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "bacilli": Bacterial Translocation ♦ Commonwealth ♦ Fournier Gangrene ♦ Mycobacteria, Atypical, Mycobacterium Infections, Atypical ♦ Pericarditis, Tuberculous, Phospholipase C ♦ Tuberculosis, Hepatic, Tuberculosis, Miliary. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "bacilli": Bacillus. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Bacilli" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Italian (bacilli). |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | [Microscopy: Sputum specimen, showing tubercle bacilli and red corpuscles].Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | This allows large numbers of bacilli to spread when patients cough. (references) | |
Enterobacteriaceae of the genus Salmonella, a gram-negative rod-shaped bacilli. (references) | ||
TB bacilli tend to form clumps, which makes working with them and counting them difficult. (references) | ||
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | COMMONWEALTH, n. An administrative entity operated by an incalculable multitude of political parasites, logically active but fortuitously efficient. This commonwealth's capitol's corridors view, So thronged with a hungry and indolent crew Of clerks, pages, porters and all attaches Whom rascals appoint and the populace pays That a cat cannot slip through the thicket of shins Nor hear its own shriek for the noise of their chins. On clerks and on pages, and porters, and all, Misfortune attend and disaster befall! May life be to them a succession of hurts; May fleas by the bushel inhabit their shirts; May aches and diseases encamp in their bones, Their lungs full of tubercles, bladders of stones; May microbes, bacilli, their tissues infest, And tapeworms securely their bowels digest; May corn-cobs be snared without hope in their hair, And frequent impalement their pleasure impair. Disturbed be their dreams by the awful discourse Of audible sofas sepulchrally hoarse, By chairs acrobatic and wavering floors -- The mattress that kicks and the pillow that snores! Sons of cupidity, cradled in sin! Your criminal ranks may the death angel thin, Avenging the friend whom I couldn't work in. K.Q. |
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| "Bacilli" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 67.31% of the time. "Bacilli" is used about 52 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) | 67.31% | 35 | 58,339 |
| Noun (plural) | 32.69% | 17 | 85,106 |
| Total | 100.00% | 52 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "bacilli": bacilli-carrier. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
bacilli | 14 |
bacilli gram negative | 7 |
bacilli tuberculosis | 3 |
bacilli gram positive | 3 |
bacilli tb | 2 |
bacilli tuberculosis wbc | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "bacilli"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 杆菌 (Bacillus). (various references) | |
Danish | baciller. (various references) | |
Dutch | bacilli. (various references) | |
French | bacilles. (various references) | |
German | Bazillen. (various references) | |
Greek | βάκιλλοι. (various references) | |
Hungarian | bacilusfészek (focus of bacilli), bacilus (bacillus, microbe, wog). (various references) | |
Indonesian | basil (bacillus). (various references) | |
Italian | bacilli. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 乳酸菌 (lactic-acid bacilli). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | にゅうさ"き" (lactic-acid bacilli). (various references) | |
Korean | 간 (Bacillus). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | acillibay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | bacilos. (various references) | |
Spanish | bacilos. (various references) | |
Thai | แบ็กทีเรียบาซิลลัส (คำพหูพจน์ของ bacillus). (various references) | |
Turkish | basiller. (various references) | |
Ukranian | бацили. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "bacilli": lactobacilli, streptobacilli. (additional references) | |
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"Bacilli" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bacale, baccala, Baccioli, bacilla, Bacille, bacillin, bacly, Badilla, Badiola, Bagillt, Baille, bailli, Baillio, baillis, Bakili, bakula, Barcella, basili, basilly, Bikila, Bucaille, Bucelli, Byculla, Pacioli. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-i-i-l-l" | |
-2 letters: alibi, biali, cilia, iliac, ilial, lilac. | |
-3 letters: bail, ball, bill, call, ilia, laic. | |
-4 letters: ail, alb, all, bal, cab, ill, lab, lac, lib. | |
-5 letters: ab, ai, al, ba, bi, la, li. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-i-i-l-l" | |
+1 letter: biblical. | |
+2 letters: ballistic, chilblain, umbilical. | |
+3 letters: ballistics, biblically, bifacially, bimetallic, biological, brilliance, brilliancy, chilblains, diabolical, disyllabic, inclinable, umbilicals, unbiblical. | |
+4 letters: abiological, abiotically, backfilling, bidialectal, bimetallics, biologicals, biosocially, brilliances, coilability, culpability, isallobaric, placability, prebiblical, subclinical, syllabicity, trisyllabic. | |
+5 letters: beatifically, beneficially, bibliothecal, biologically, blacklisting, blackmailing, brilliancies, classifiable, cleanability, diabolically, diploblastic, electability, herbicidally, inapplicable, inapplicably, indeclinable, inexplicable, inexplicably, lactobacilli, leachability, liberalistic, postbiblical, rabbinically, rockabillies, tribological. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 61 63 69 6C 6C 69 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .- -.-. .. .-.. .-.. .. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100001 01100011 01101001 01101100 01101100 01101001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B a c i l l i |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0061 0063 0069 006C 006C 0069 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)36676975787875 |
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