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Definition: Cauterise |
CauteriseVerb1. Burn or sear (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent; "The surgeon cauterized the wart". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Cauterise" is a common misspelling or typo for: cauterize, cauterized. |
Synonyms: CauteriseSynonyms: burn (v), cauterize (v). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: cauterising antiseptic (european union, chemical industry). |
| "Cauterise" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 83.33% of the time. "Cauterise" is used about 6 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) | 83.33% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 16.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "cauterise"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Italian | cauterizzare (cauterize). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | auterisecay ทำให้แผลไหม้"้วยความร้อนหรือสารเคมีเพื่อให้เลือ"หยุ"ไหลหรือป้องกันการติ"เชื้อ (cauterize). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: cauteries. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-i-r-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: causerie, cerusite, cutesier, eucrites, secateur, suricate. | |
-2 letters: aeriest, austere, cerates, cerites, cesurae, creates, cristae, curates, curites, cutesie, ecartes, eucrite, icterus, raciest, recites, saucier, seriate, stearic, tierces. | |
-3 letters: acuter, acutes, aeries, airest, aretes, aurist, carets, caries, cartes, caster, caters, causer, cerate, cereus, cerias, cerise, cerite, certes, ceruse, cesura, citers, citrus, crates, crease, create, crista. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-i-r-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: cauterizes, centauries, requiescat. | |
+2 letters: auctioneers, electuaries, excruciates, renunciates, requiescats, resuscitate, reticulates. | |
+3 letters: acquirements, charcuteries, neurasthenic, recirculates, recultivates, reduplicates, reeducations, reinoculates, relubricates, reluctancies, resuscitated, resuscitates, rubefacients, secularities, supercabinet, therapeutics, ultraprecise. | |
+4 letters: architectures, bureaucratise, cellularities, counterimages, documentaries, hyperacuities, inoperculates, lucrativeness, neurasthenics, peculiarities, propaedeutics, proteinaceous, rearticulates, recapitulates, recuperations, resuscitative, specularities, subcategories, subcategorize, subliteracies, supercabinets, uncertainness, uncertainties. | |
+5 letters: articulateness, bureaucratised, bureaucratises, bureaucratizes, cauliflowerets, counterrallies, counterstained, creatureliness, discouragement, incommensurate, interfaculties, overeducations, oxidoreductase, rediscountable, resurrectional, subcategorized, subcategorizes, submetacentric, subsecretaries, subtherapeutic, translucencies, ultraexclusive, ultraviolences, unpredictables, vesicularities. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 61 75 74 65 72 69 73 65 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- ..- - . .-. .. ... . |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01110101 01110100 01100101 01110010 01101001 01110011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a u t e r i s e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 0075 0074 0065 0072 0069 0073 0065 |
| 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)376787867184758571 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage Frequency 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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