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Definition: Bloat |
BloatNoun1. Swelling of the rumen or intestinal tract of domestic animals caused by excessive gas. Verb1. Become bloated or swollen or puff up; "The dead man's stomach was bloated". 2. Make bloated or swollen; "Hunger bloated the child's belly". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bloat" was first used: 13th century. (references) |
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Computing | Bloat software bloat. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Bloat, also known as torsion and gastric dilatation-volvulus (GDV) is a medical condition in which the stomach becomes overstretched by excessive gas content. It occurs most commonly in domesticated animals, especially dogs and cattle. The cause is either overfeeding or a digestive disorder.The condition exists in two varieties, depending on the direction of movement of the stomach. If the stomach twists around the axis of the digestive tract, the condition is known as torsion, and if the axis of movement is perpedicular to the digestive tract, the condition is known as volvulus. In either case, the oesophagus is closed off, thereby preventing the animal from relieving the condition by belching or vomiting. At the other end of the stomach, the spleen may be damaged if the twisting interrupts its blood supply. If not quickly treated, the condition can lead to blood poisoning, peritonitis and death by toxic shock.
The term is also used figuratively to describe the uncontrolled and damaging growth of a system (as in "software bloat").
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Bloat."
Crosswords: Bloat |
| English words defined with "bloat": Bloating, Blote. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "bloat": Altair 8800, Antifoaming Agents ♦ backward combatability, Berzerkeley, bloatware ♦ case and paste ♦ Missed'em-five ♦ Poloxalene ♦ software bloat ♦ Version 7. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "bloat": Bloater. (references) |
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| "Bloat" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Bloat" is used about 5 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% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "bloat": bloat herring ♦ bloat out ♦ bloat up ♦ software bloat. Additional references. | |
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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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
bloat | 60 |
bloat dog | 20 |
bloat dog in | 14 |
bloat canine | 13 |
bloat finding nemo | 12 |
stomach bloat | 9 |
bloat goat | 4 |
bloat fish | 4 |
bloat nemo | 3 |
bloat symptom | 3 |
bloat gas syndrome | 3 |
bloat malawi | 3 |
bloat dane great | 3 |
bloat gas | 2 |
bloat pms | 2 |
bloat dog in torsion | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "bloat"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | thaj me tym, kapardisem (bluster, flaunt, strut, swagger), fryhem (belly, boil up, distend, fill out, heave, pout, surge, swagger, swell). (various references) | |
Arabic | منتفخ (baggy, bloated, blown, bulging, bulgy, distended, full, inflated, overblown, puffed, puffy, swelling, swollen), ملأه الغرور, نفخ (balloon, be puffed up, belly out, blow up, distend, distension, fill out, inflate, inflation, insufflation, plump, pout, puff, pumping, sulk, swell out, windiness), سخام (colly, crock, grime, smut, soot), إنتفخ (bag, balloon, belly, billow, bulge, distend, fill, fluff, heave, inflate, puff, strut, swell). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | осолявам и опушвам, подувам се (puff up, swell, swell out, swell up, tumefy), подпухвам (puff up, swell). (various references) | |
Czech | udit (cure, smoke-dry), nafouknout (blow up). (various references) | |
Danish | trympanitis hos droevtyggere (bloat colic, hoven, tumpanites), trommesyge (bloat colic, hoven, tumpanites). (various references) | |
Dutch | windzucht (bloat colic, hoven, tumpanites), tympanie (bloat colic, hoven, tumpanites), trommelzucht (bloat colic, hoven, tumpanites), opgeblazenheid (bloat colic, hoven, tumpanites), meteorisme (meteorism). (various references) | |
Farsi | پف کرده (Bouffant), نفخ (Emphysema, Wind), بادکردن (Bag, Brag, Bulge, Distend, Heave, Inflate, Perk, Swell), باددار (Blowy, Puffy). (various references) | |
Finnish | tympania (bloat colic, hoven, tumpanites), puhallustauti (bloat colic, hoven, tumpanites), kaasuähky (bloat colic, hoven, tumpanites). (various references) | |
French | bouffer, tympanisme (bloat colic), se gonfler, météorisme (bloat colic), météorisation (bloat colic), gonfler (blow up). (various references) | |
German | Blähsucht (flatulency), Trommelsucht (bloat colic, hoven, tumpanites), Meteorismus (meteorism), auftreiben (become bloated, distend, find, get hold of, hunt up, make rise, raise, rake up, rise, scrape up, scratch together, scratch up, track down, whip up), aufblasen (inflate, blow up), Aufblähen (inflate), anschwellen (swell, bulge). (various references) | |
Greek | μετεωρισμός (bloat colic, hoven, meteorism, tumpanites, tympanism), πρήζω (swell), παστώνω (cure), φουσκώνω (inflate, swell), εξογκώνω (inflate, overdo, swell). (various references) | |
Hebrew | להתפיח. (various references) | |
Hungarian | duzzaszt (belly, swelled, swollen, to swell, to upset, upset), duzzad (drawn, drew, risen, rose, to draw, to rise). (various references) | |
Indonesian | bengkak (bubo, bulge, protuberant, swell, swollen, tumefaction, tumefy, tumescent, tumid, tumor), membengkakkan (bulge), membengkak (increase). (various references) | |
Italian | meteorismo (meteorism), gonfiarsi (bulge, gather, heave, inflate, swell), gonfiare (blow, blow up, exaggerate, inflate, pad, plump, puff out, puff up, pump up, swell). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oatblay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | bêbado (intoxicated), meteorismo (meteorism), inchar (swell), entumecer, defumar (fume, gammon, kipper, perfume, puff, smoke). (various references) | |
Romanian | umple cu aer (aerify, blow up the fire), afuma peşte. (various references) | |
Russian | утопленник, раздуваться, раздувать (overblow, pad), пьяница (bibber, dram-drinker, drunkard, malt-worm, tippler, toper). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | naduti (inflate, puff, swell). (various references) | |
Spanish | hinchar (swell). (various references) | |
Swedish | svälla (swell), röka sill. (various references) | |
Thai | พอง (blister). (various references) | |
Turkish | tütsülemek (cense, fume, fumigate, incense, kipper, smoke, stove), kabartmak (blister, bloat up, fluff, fluff out, fluff up, puff, puff up, raise, roughen, roughen up, ruffle, scribble, tease, vesicate), kabarmak (arch, blister, bloat out, heave, puff, rise, roughen, surge, swell, tumefy, upsurge, vesicate), şişmek (balloon, be puffed up, become tumid, belly, bloat out, bulge, bulk, distend, expand, fill, swell, swell out, swell up, tumefy), şişirmek (bag, balloon, bloat up, blow up, bulk, distend, embroider, exaggerate, expand, fill, heave, heighten, inflate, overcharge, pad, pad out, pile it on, puff, puff up, pump, pump up, put it on, put it on thick, run up, swell out, swell up, tumefy). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | роздуватися (balloon, blow out, bulge, distend, plump). (various references) | |
Welsh | chwyddo (increase, magnify, swell). (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | tympanitis. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bloat": bloated, bloater, bloaters, bloating, bloats. (additional references) | |
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"Bloat" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Balawat, balot, blaaa, blaat, blait, blato, blatt, bleaf, bleath, bliaut, bload, bloaf, bloak, bloam, bloar, bloaty, Bloet, bloooop, blooop, bloot, blort, Blote, blout, bluett, bluot, Bolab, Bolah, bolato, Boleat, Bolet, Bolyai, bulagat, Bulova, klooit, Ubolrat. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "bloat" (pronounced blō"t) |
| 3 | -l ō" t | afloat, float, gloat. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-l-o-t" | |
-1 letter: alto, blat, blot, boat, bola, bolt, bota, lota, tola. | |
-2 letters: abo, alb, alt, bal, bat, boa, bot, lab, lat, lob, lot, oat, tab, tao. | |
-3 letters: ab, al, at, ba, bo, la, lo, ta, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-l-o-t" | |
+1 letter: abvolt, ballot, bloats, boatel, cobalt, lobate, oblast, oblate, tombal. | |
+2 letters: abvolts, bailout, ballots, batfowl, bloated, bloater, boatels, boatful, bobtail, borstal, butanol, cobalts, flyboat, globate, lobated, notable, notably, oblasti, oblasts, oblates, orbital, outbawl, potable, saltbox, tabloid, tabouli, tallboy, teabowl, tollbar, tombola, totable, votable. | |
+3 letters: ablation, ablution, absolute, abutilon, atonable, bailouts, ballonet, balloted, balloter, barstool, batfowls, bestowal, biathlon, bilobate, biotical, blackout, blacktop, blastoff, blastoma, bloaters, bloating, bloviate, bluecoat, boastful, boatable, boatbill, boatfuls, boatlike, boatload, bobtails, bolthead, boltonia, bootable, bootlace, borstals, brocatel, butanols, cobaltic, deadbolt, faltboat, flatboat, flyboats, foldboat, football, globated, keelboat, laborite, layabout, libation, lifeboat, lobately, lobation, lobulate, longboat, mothball, myoblast, notables, oblately, oblation, oblatory, obligate, obligati, obligato, obstacle, orbitals, outbawls, outblaze, outbleat, outbrawl, outfable, portable, portably, potables, quotable, quotably, sailboat, slotback, softball, sortable, sortably, stonable, storable, stowable, strobila, subtotal, tabletop, tabloids, tabooley, taboulis, tailbone, tallboys, teabowls, tollbars, tombolas, trilobal, voteable. | |
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