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Definitions: Cannibalise |
CannibaliseVerb1. Eat human flesh. 2. Use parts of something to repair something else. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Transportation | To remove serviceable parts from one aircraft or item of equipment in order to install them on another aircraft or item of equipment. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: CannibaliseSynonym: cannibalize (v). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: cannibalize (transportation). |
| "Cannibalise" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Cannibalise" is used about 4 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 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "cannibalise"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 拆取部件 (cannibalize). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | kannibalisere (cannibalize). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | kannibaliseren (cannibalize). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | riistää (cannibalize, deprive bereave, dispossess, exploit, rob, take, tear, wrench). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | cannibaliser (cannibalize). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | ausschlachten (cannibalize, dress, get everything out of, gut, to cannibalize). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | κανιβαλίζω (cannibalize). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | cannibalizzare (cannibalize). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Korean | 공식하십시" (cannibalize). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | annibalisecay canibalizar (cannibalize). (various references) canibalizar (cannibalize). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "cannibalise": cannibalised, cannibalises. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-e-i-i-l-n-n-s" | |
-2 letters: basilicae, basilican, biennials, binnacles, cannibals, scannable, sibilance. | |
-3 letters: alanines, anilines, balances, basilica, biennial, binnacle, canalise, cannabis, cannibal, inclines, salicine. | |
-4 letters: abelian, abelias, aiblins, alanine, alanins, albinic, alibies, aniline, anilins, anlaces, anneals, asinine, bailies, balance, banians, basilic, basinal, bialies, biennia, canines, cannels, encinal, encinas, incisal, incline, inlaces, laicise, lesbian, nancies, niacins, salicin, sanicle, scaleni. | |
-5 letters: aaliis, abelia, ablins, abseil, aecial, alanin, alibis, aliens, alines, anilin, anisic, anlace, annals, anneal, bailie, banian, bennis, bialis, blains, blinis, cabals, cabins, cables, calesa, canals, canine, cannas, cannel, cannie, casein, casini, ceibas, cleans, clines, elains, encina, ibices, inanes, incase, incise, inlace, insane, lanais, lances, liaise, lianas, lianes, linacs, linens, linins, nances, nasial, niacin, sabine, salina, saline, sialic, sienna, silane, sileni, silica. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-c-e-i-i-l-n-n-s" | |
+1 letter: cannibalised, cannibalises, cannibalizes. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 61 6E 6E 69 62 61 6C 69 73 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- -. -. .. -... .- .-.. .. ... . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01101110 01101110 01101001 01100010 01100001 01101100 01101001 01110011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a n n i b a l i s e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 006E 006E 0069 0062 0061 006C 0069 0073 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3767808075686778758571 |
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