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Definition: Balsamic |
BalsamicAdjective1. Of or relating to or containing balsam; "a balsamic fragrance". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "balsamic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1813. (references) |
Synonym: BalsamicSynonym: balsamy (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Relief | Adjective: relieving; Verb: consolatory, soothing; assuaging, assuasive; balmy, balsamic; lenitive, palliative; anodyne; (remedial); curative. |
Remedy | Adjective: remedial; restorative; corrective, palliative, healing; sanatory, sanative; prophylactic, preventative, immunizing; salutiferous; (salutary); medical, medicinal; therapeutic, chirurgical, epulotic, paregoric, tonic, corroborant, analeptic, balsamic, anodyne, hypnotic, neurotic, narcotic, sedative, lenitive, demulcent, emollient; depuratory; detersive, detergent; abstersive, disinfectant, febrifugal, alterative; traumatic, vulnerary. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Balsamic |
| English words defined with "balsamic": Balsamation, balsamy ♦ Commiphora ♦ genus Commiphora ♦ incense tree ♦ Tacamahaca, Thyine wood. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Balsamic" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Romanian (balmy, balsamic). |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Balsamic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Balsamic" is used about 10 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) | 100% | 10 | 111,207 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
balsamic vinegar | 187 |
balsamic vinaigrette | 28 |
balsamic | 24 |
balsamic vinegar recipe | 21 |
balsamic chicken | 19 |
balsamic recipe vinaigrette | 17 |
balsamic vinegar dressing | 16 |
balsamic dressing | 12 |
balsamic vinegar salad dressing | 9 |
balsamic vinegarette | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "balsamic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | بلسمي (balmy). (various references) | |
Chinese | 芳香抚人. (various references) | |
French | balsamique (balmy). (various references) | |
Greek | βαλσαμικόσ. (various references) | |
Italian | balsamico (balmy). (various references) | |
Manx | balsymagh (balmy). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | alsamicbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | balsâmico (balm, balmy, balsam), aliviador. (various references) | |
Romanian | balsamic (balmy). (various references) | |
Spanish | balsámico (balmy), balsa/mico. (various references) | |
Swedish | balsamisk. (various references) | |
Turkish | belesan yağı içeren, yumuşatıcı (laxative, plasticizer, relaxing), kokulu (aromatic, fragrant, nosey, nosy, odoriferous, odorous, perfumed, redolent, Savory, savoury, scented, spiced, spicy), huzur veren (balmy, calming, piping, quiet, relaxing, restful, smooth, soothing), dinlendirici (balmy, calming, quiet, recreative, relaxing, reposeful, restful, soothing). (various references) | |
Ukranian | заспокійливий (assuasive, calmative, comfortable, composing, conciliative, conciliatory, demulcent, easeful, lenitive, nepenthean, obtundent, pacificatory, placatory, propitiatory, reposeful, restful, sedative), ароматний (balmy, flavored, flavoured, fragrant, luscious, nosey, odorant, odorous, perfumed, redolent, scented), бальзамічний (balmy). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thơm ngát an ủi l m dịu, có chất nhựa thơm thơm. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Balsamic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Abesamis, Balasoiu, balastic, Balsai, balsamea, balsamib, balsamico, balsamy, Balsemao, Balzamo, balzanii, besagic, Bislama. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: cabalism. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-i-l-m-s" | |
-1 letter: baalism, camails, cambial. | |
-2 letters: baalim, balsam, cabals, calami, camail, cambia, camisa, claims, climbs, lamias, limbas, salami. | |
-3 letters: abaci, albas, alias, almas, amias, baals, bails, balas, balms, balsa, basal, basic, basil, bimas, blams, cabal, calms, camas, claim, clams, climb, iambs, labia, laics, lamas, lambs, lamia, limas, limba, limbs, mails, malic, micas, salic, salmi, samba. | |
-4 letters: aals, abas, ails, aims, alas, alba, albs, alma, alms, amas, amia, amis, asci, baal, baas, bail, balm, bals, bams, bias, bima, blam, cabs, calm, cams, casa, clam, iamb, isba, labs, lacs, laic, lama, lamb, lams, libs, lima, limb, macs, mail, mibs, mica, mils, sail, scab, scam, sial, sima, slab, slam, slim. | |
-5 letters: aal, aas, aba, abs, ail, aim, ais, ala, alb, als, ama, ami, baa, bal, bam, bas, bis, cab, cam, cis, ism, lab, lac, lam, las, lib, lis, mac, mas, mib, mil, mis, sab, sac, sal, sib, sic, sim. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-c-i-l-m-s" | |
+1 letter: cabalisms. | |
+2 letters: blackmails, catabolism, cobalamins, imbalances, misbalance. | |
+3 letters: biracialism, blastematic, cannibalism, catabolisms, misbalanced, misbalances, saltimbocca. | |
+4 letters: ambivalences, amicableness, antiblackism, bicameralism, biracialisms, blackmailers, cannibalisms, chamberlains, lactalbumins, misbalancing, saltimboccas. | |
+5 letters: amicabilities, antiblackisms, bibliomaniacs, bicameralisms, blackguardism, bombastically, flamboyancies, megaloblastic, microbalances. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 61 6C 73 61 6D 69 63 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .- .-.. ... .- -- .. -.-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100001 01101100 01110011 01100001 01101101 01101001 01100011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B a l s a m i c |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0061 006C 0073 0061 006D 0069 0063 |
| 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)3667788567797569 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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