Carbide

Definition: Carbide

Carbide

Noun

1. A binary compound of carbon with a more electropositive element.

Note: Carbide \Car"bide\, noun. [Carbon -ide.]. (Websters 1913)

Specialty Definitions: Carbide

Domain	Definitions
Chemistry	A compound of carbon with one or more metallic elements. Source: European Union. (references)
Metallurgy	A cutting metal resulting from various mixtures of tungsten carbide and titanium carbide, either cemented or form-cast. Source: European Union. (references)
Mining	A. A commercial term for calcium carbide formerly used in miner's lamps b. The carbide compound of tungsten c. The bit-crown matrices and shaped pieces formed by the pressure molding and sintering of a mixture of powdered tungsten carbide and other binder metals, such as cobalt, copper, iron, and nickel. See also:cemented carbide; sintered carbide. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Carbide

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
CARSON	English	Mixed carbide fuel irradiation experiment with central fuel temperature measurement by ultrasonic thermometry(HFR)	N/A
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Crosswords: Carbide

English words defined with "carbide": austenite ♦ calcium carbide, Carbonide, carborundum, Carbureted, Cast iron, cementite ♦ iron carbide ♦ silicon carbide. (references)

Specialty definitions using "carbide": Brinell hardness test ♦ carbide grinder, carbide insert, carbide lamp, carbide miner, CARBIDE OPERATOR, carbide slug, carbide tool, CARBIDE-POWDER PROCESSOR, cemented carbide tool, ceramic cutting tool, ceramic grindstone, cermet, clustered carbide, cobalt-bonded, concave bit, cutter-head sharpener ♦ diamond-pyramid hardness test, divorced cementite ♦ ferro-chromium, ferro-manganese, fire sand, free cementite ♦ globular cementite ♦ hard metal ♦ indexable tip ♦ kappa carbide, KNIFE GRINDER ♦ long-hole blasting ♦ MIXER, DIAMOND POWDER ♦ PALLET RECTIFIER, powder metal, PROFILE-GRINDER TECHNICIAN ♦ recrystallized silicon carbide ♦ SAW-EDGE FUSER, CIRCULAR, Shore hardness test, sintered carbide, speedy moisture tester, spheroidized cementite, STONE-DRILLER HELPER ♦ tetraboron carbide, throwaway tip, titanium carbide, tool carbide, tool grinder, tungsten alloy, tungsten carbide, tungsten carbide insert ♦ vitrified bond grindstone ♦ Wooddell scale. (references)

Etymologies containing "carbide": Percarbide. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Carbide

Domain	Title
References	Union Carbide Corporation: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) Cemented Carbide Tools in Japan: A Strategic Entry Report, 1996 (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Carbide Insert Market for 2003 [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference) NIPPON CARBIDE INDUSTRIES CO., INC.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference) Solid Carbide Cutter Market for 2002 [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference) Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry, Vol. A 23, Refractory Ceramics to Silicon Carbide (reference) (more book examples)

Consumer Goods	Hitachi C8FB2 8-1/2" Sliding Compound Miter Saw includes 24-Tooth Carbide Blade (reference) (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Carbide

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Lunch hour, part of Carbon Carbide Company (West Vaco). South Charleston, West Virginia.Credit: Library of Congress.		Lunch hour, part of Carbon Carbide Company (Westvaco). South Charleston, West Virginia.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Negroes speed war work for Tennessee Valley Authority. Alonzo Bankston is a furnace operator in the TVA plant producing carbide for use of plants manufacturing synthetic rubber.Credit: Library of Congress.		Charleston, West Virginia. A bridge with the Union Carbide building in the background.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Carbide

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		However, through continuous investment in R&D and enhanced product quality, Korea managed to improve its export position by 1999, showing a 10.1% increase in exports over the previous year. High speed & carbide tools account for 41.3% of its total exports, followed by diamond tools, which represent 35.7% of the total. (references)
Economic History	Indonesia	International companies such as Dow Chemicals, Union Carbide, BASF, DuPont, LG, Hoechst, and Ciba Chemicals are among the significant industrial chemical players with manufacturing operations in Indonesia. (references)
	Malaysia	U.S. firms with significant investment in Malaysia include: Exxon/Mobil which participates in upstream and downstream activities, Caltex, Conoco, Union Carbide, and Eastman Chemicals in downstream activities, all major semiconductor manufacturers (e.g., Motorola, Texas Instruments, Intel, National Semiconductor, Intersil), a number of computer component makers (e.g. Komag) and medical products manufacturer Baxter International. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Carbide

"Carbide" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 91.30% of the time. "Carbide" is used about 23 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)	91.3%	21	76,261
Lexical Verb (base form)	4.35%	1	339,140
Noun (proper)	4.35%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	23	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Carbide

Country	Name	Country	Name
Japan	Nippon Carbide Industries Co., Inc.	USA	Union Carbide Corporation
	(more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expressions: Carbide

Expressions using "carbide": calcium carbide ♦ carbide lamp ♦ iron carbide ♦ silicon carbide ♦ tool carbide ♦ tungsten carbide. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "carbide": carbide-tipped.
	Ending with "carbide": silicon-carbide, tungsten-carbide.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Carbide

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	Expression	Frequency per Day
calcium carbide	392	carbide end mill	16
union carbide	173	carbide grinding	16
carbide	145	carbide manufacturing	15
silicon carbide	113	carbide insert manufacturer	14
tungsten carbide	60	carbide taps	14
carbide insert	57	union carbide corp	12
carbide product	56	carbide cutter	11
carbide cannon	51	carbide mill	11
carbide bushings	44	bushings carbide fixed renewable slip	11
carbide cutting tool	39	carbide die	11
carbide lamp	32	carbide insert manufacturing	11
carbide drill bit	24	carbide burr	10
carbide tool	22	mitsubishi carbide	10
union carbide corporation	20	boron carbide	10
alloy carbide steel	18	carbide nozzle	10
bhopal union carbide	17	carbide burs	9
bearing carbide	17	carbide saw	9
carbide gundrill insert	16	carbide ball	9
carbide blade	16	carbide tooling	9
carbide drill	16	carbide coating	9
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Carbide

Language		Translations for "carbide"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		karabit. (various references)

Arabic		‏كربيد الكالسيوم, ‏الكربيد مركب كربوني. (various references)

Bulgarian		карбидов, карбид. (various references)

Chinese		碳化物. (various references)

Czech		karbid. (various references)

Danish		carbid, karbid, hårdmetal (hard metal, tool carbide, tungsten carbide). (various references)

Dutch		carbide, hardmetaal (hard metal, tool carbide, tungsten carbide). (various references)

Finnish		kovametalli (hard metal, tool carbide, tungsten carbide). (various references)

French		carbure (tool carbide, tungsten carbide). (various references)

German		karbid. (various references)

Greek		καρβίδιο. (various references)

Hungarian		karbid. (various references)

Indonesian		karbit. (various references)

Italian		carburo (hard metal, tool carbide, tungsten carbide). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		炭化物 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		た�"かぶつ. (various references)

Korean		탄�"물. (various references)

Manx		gunn markee, carbeen. (various references)

Pig Latin		arbidecay

Portuguese		carboneto, metais duros (hard metal, tool carbide, tungsten carbide), aço rápido (hard metal, tool carbide, tungsten carbide), aço ao carbono (hard metal, tool carbide, tungsten carbide). (various references)

Romanian		carbid. (various references)

Russian		карбид. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		karbidan, karbid. (various references)

Spanish		carburo. (various references)

Swedish		karbid, hårdmetall (hard metal, tool carbide, tungsten carbide). (various references)

Thai		สารประกอบของธาตุคาร์บอน. (various references)

Turkish		karbit. (various references)

Ukranian		карбід. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Carbide

Derivations
	Words beginning with "carbide": carbides. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Carbide" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cabbied, Cabrita, cabside, Caerbwdy, carabid, carabidae, carabids, caraid, carbatec, Carbi, carbidge, caribaea, carida, Caridad, Caridi, carlite, Ceridwen, Corvidae, Cranidge, kabaddi, Karbide. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Carbide"

Words rhyming with "carbide" (pronounced 'Car"bide'): Percarbide. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Carbide

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-c-d-e-i-r"
	-1 letter: abider, bardic, braced, caribe, caried.
	-2 letters: abide, acerb, acred, acrid, aider, aired, arced, ardeb, areic, barde, bared, baric, beard, bider, brace, braid, bread, bride, caber, cadre, caird, cared, cebid, cedar, ceiba, ceria, cider, cried, daric, deair, debar, dicer, erica, irade, rabic, rabid, raced, rebid, redia, riced.
	-3 letters: abed, abri, aced, acid, acre, aide.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-c-d-e-i-r"
	+1 letter: ascribed, bedchair, birdcage, calibred, carbides.
	+2 letters: backfired, bacteroid, barricade, bedchairs, birdcages, bratticed, cabdriver, carbamide, cedarbird, rudbeckia.
	+3 letters: abstricted, arabicized, backslider, bacterized, bacteroids, barricaded, barricades, bifurcated, brachiated, breadstick, brecciated, cabdrivers, calibrated, carbamides, carbonized, carburised, carburized, cedarbirds, creditable, creditably, crispbread, eradicable, fabricated, herbicidal, imbricated, lubricated, obduracies, predicable, rubricated, rudbeckias.
	+4 letters: abecedarian, aerobicized, backsliders, bactericide, barricadoed, barricadoes, becowarding, bichromated, birdwatcher, blackbirded, blackbirder, breadsticks, chambermaid, charbroiled, crispbreads, decarbonize, decarburize, depreciable, describable, discardable, discernable, disturbance, forbiddance, irradicable, prediabetic, predicables, predictable, predictably, transcribed.
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