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Carsick

Definition: Carsick

Carsick

Adjective

1. Experiencing motion sickness.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Carsick

Synonyms: airsick (adj), seasick (adj). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Carsick

DomainUsage

Screenplays

I only get carsick on boats. (Midnight Cowboy; writing credit: Waldo Salt)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Carsick

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  carsick

10
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Carsick

Language Translations for "carsick"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

që i ka zënë makina. (various references)

   

German

  

autokrank. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

車に"って戻す (to get carsick and throw up). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

arsickcay

   

Romanian

  

care suferã de rãu de automobil sau tren. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

не переносящий езды в автотранспорте. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

åksjuk. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

araba tutmuş. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Carsick

Derivations

Words beginning with "carsick": carsickness, carsicknesses. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Carsick" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: carico, carnic, Carnick, Carricke, Carsch, Caslick, Corsock, Cuisick, Kersik, kirrick, Shardick. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Carsick"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "carsick" (pronounced kÄ"rsik)
3-s i kanalgesic, anorexic, basic, classic, diabasic, dyslexic, extrinsic, forensic, geodesic, intrinsic, neoclassic, nontoxic, thoracic, toxic.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Carsick

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-c-i-k-r-s"

-1 letter: cracks, cricks.

-2 letters: carks, circa, crack, crick, racks, rakis, ricks.

-3 letters: airs, arcs, arks, asci, cark, cars, cask, cris, irks, kirs, kris, rack, raki, rias, rick, risk, sack, saki, sari, sark, scar, sick.

-4 letters: air, ais, arc, ark, ars, ask, car, cis, ick, irk, kas, kir, ras, ria, sac, sic, sir, ska, ski, sri.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-c-i-k-r-s"
 

+2 letters: airchecks, crabstick, crackings, gimcracks, rickracks, wisecrack.

 

+3 letters: chickarees, crabsticks, crackliest, cracklings, rainchecks, wisecracks.

 

+4 letters: carjackings, carsickness, cockatrices, crackbrains, wisecracked, wisecracker.

 

+5 letters: backcrossing, firecrackers, placekickers, safecracking, wisecrackers, wisecracking.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Carsick


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 61 72 73 69 63 6B

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.-.    .-    .-.    ...    ..    -.-.    -.-

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01100001 01110010 01110011 01101001 01100011 01101011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#97 &#114 &#115 &#105 &#99 &#107

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0061 0072 0073 0069 0063 006B

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

37678485756977

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Rhymes
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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