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Ciliate

Definitions: Ciliate

Ciliate

Adjective

1. Of or relating to cilia projecting from the surface of a cell.

2. Or or relating to the human eyelash.

3. Having a margin or fringe of hairlike projections.

Noun

1. A protozoan with a microscopic appendage extending from the surface of the cell.

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


Specialty Definitions: Ciliate

DomainDefinitions

Food & Agriculture

Term applied to an organ whose margin is covered with short, erect hairs. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Synonyms: Ciliate

Synonyms: cilial (adj), ciliary (adj), ciliated (adj), ciliated protozoan (n), ciliophoran (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Ciliate

English words defined with "ciliate": Dentate-ciliategenus ParameciumSaxifraga aizoides, summer cypressyellow mountain saxifrage. (references)
Specialty definitions using "ciliate": EuplotesHymenostomatida, HypotrichidaKinetofragminophoreaOligohymenophorea, OxytrichaParamecium tetraurelia, PolymenophoreaSporadotrichinaTetrahymena pyriformis, Tetrahymena thermophila, Tetrahymenina, Trichostomatida, Trichostomatina. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Ciliate

DomainTitle

Books

  • British Freshwater Ciliate Protozoa (reference)

  • Laboratory Manual for Classification and Morphology of Rumen Ciliate Protozoa (reference)

  • Pattern Formation: Ciliate Studies and Models (reference)

  • The African heterotrich ciliate, Stentor andreseni sp.nov., and S. amethystinus Leidy : a comparative ultrastructural study (reference)

  • The Cytoskeleton of Flagellate and Ciliate Protists (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Expressions: Ciliate

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "ciliate": Dentate-ciliate, Serrate-ciliate.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Ciliate

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

ciliate

3
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Modern Translations: Ciliate

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

Danish

  

trævlet. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

met randharen. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

sukaskarvainen. (various references)

   

French

  

ciliaire (pertaining to the eyelashes resp.the ciliary body), cilié. (various references)

   

German

  

fransig (frayed, fringed, straggly). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

βλεφαριδωτός. (various references)

   

Italian

  

cigliato. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

繊毛虫 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

せ"もうちゅう. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

iliatecay

   

Portuguese

  

celheado. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

ciliar. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

hårbräddad. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Ciliate

Derivations

Words beginning with "ciliate": ciliated, ciliates. (additional references)

Words ending with "ciliate": conciliate, domiciliate. (additional references)

Words containing "ciliate": conciliated, conciliates, domiciliated, domiciliates, unciliated. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Ciliate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Caleacte, Calixte, Callixte, celate, celivate, cilfit, ciliote, cilite, Ciriato, Civitate, Cliath, Colaiuta, culate. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Ciliate

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-i-l-t"

-1 letter: atelic, elicit, italic.

-2 letters: cilia, cleat, eclat, ileac, iliac, licit, litai, telia, telic, tical.

-3 letters: alec, alit, cate, ceil, celt, cite, clit, etic, ilea, ilia, lace, laic, late, lati, lice, lite, tace, tael, tail, talc, tale, tali, teal, tela, tile.

-4 letters: ace, act, ail, ait, ale, alt, ate, cat, cel, eat, eta, ice, lac.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-i-l-t"
 

+1 letter: ciliated, ciliates, silicate.

 

+2 letters: anticline, clarities, deistical, dialectic, eristical, genitalic, identical, implicate, inelastic, italicise, italicize, laciniate, lateritic, laticifer, leviratic, melanitic, militance, pearlitic, realistic, sciential, silicates, socialite, tailpiece, triticale.

 

+3 letters: acetanilid, actinolite, afflictive, alacrities, anticlines, antipolice, bimetallic, bioethical, calamities, capitalise, capitalize, clavierist, conciliate, dialectics, dilemmatic, egoistical, elasticity, elliptical, epiblastic, epitomical, eremitical, ethicality, facilitate, facilities, felicitate, idealistic, idiolectal, illiteracy, implicated, implicates, inactively, incidental, indelicate, indictable, italicised, italicises, italicized, italicizes, jesuitical, laticifers, legalistic, legitimacy, lexicality, licentiate, literacies, localities, megalithic, melanistic, melismatic, militances, participle, philatelic, plasticine, plasticize, recitalist, salacities, septicidal, socialites, specialist, speciality, tailpieces, theistical, triplicate, triticales, ultimacies, umbilicate, unciliated, vocalities.

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Alternative Orthography: Ciliate


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

43 69 6C 69 61 74 65

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 01101001 01101100 01101001 01100001 01110100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#105 &#108 &#105 &#97 &#116 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0069 006C 0069 0061 0074 0065

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

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

37757875678671

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Non-English Dictionaries with "Ciliate"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Danish

ordbog, deskriptordefinition, oversættelsetanskalainen, danois, dänisch, δανικόσ, δανόσ, danese, dinamarquês, danés, dansk

Dutch

woordenboek, definitie, translatiehollandsk, hollantilainen, néerlandais, holländisch, ολλανδικόσ, ολλανδόσ, olandese, holandês, holandés, holländsk

Finnish

määritelmä, translaatio, taajuusmuutossuomi, suomalainen, finnois, Finlandaise, finlandais, finnisch, φινλανδικόσ, finlandese, finlandês, finês, finlandés, finés, finsk

French

dictionnaire, définition, traductionranskalainen, français, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, francese, フレコン化 , 仏文 , フランス" , 仏 , ふつぶ", ふつ, フレンチ , フランセ , francês, francés, fransk, franska

German

wörterbuch, Übersetzungtysker, Duitse, saksalainen, allemand, deutsch, Deutsche, "ερμανός, tedesco, ジプシー音楽 , ジャーマン , alemão, alemán, tysk

Greek

λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφρασηgræker, kreikkalainen, grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, greco, ギリシア語 , ギリシア", grego, griego, grek

Italian

dizionario, definizione, traduzioneitaliener, italialainen, italien, italienisch, Ιταλός, italiano, italiensk, italienska, italienare

Japanese Kanji

辭典 , 辞典 , 字引 , 辞林 , 字書 , ディーゼル電気車 , 言海 , 辞彙 , 辞書 , 確定 , ディーゼル電気車 , デ'ドロ酢酸 , 翻訳 japanilainen, Japonais, japaner, japanisch, ιαπωνικόσ, Ιάπωνας· "ιαπωνέζος, ιάπωνεσ, ιάπων, ιαπωνικά, giapponese, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", japonês, japonés, japansk

Japanese Katakana

じい, じびき, じて", ディクショナリー , じり", じしょ, '"かい, ディクショナリ , デフィニション , ディフィニション , ていぎ, かくてい, へい"ういどう, やくじゅつ, トランスレーション , やくしょ, やくしゅつ, "うどく, ほ"やく, ほ"やくしょjapanilainen, Japonais, japaner, japanisch, ιαπωνικόσ, Ιάπωνας· "ιαπωνέζος, ιάπωνεσ, ιάπων, ιαπωνικά, giapponese, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", japonês, japonés, japansk

Portuguese

dicionário, definição, traduçãoportugiser, portugalilainen, portugais, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portoghese, ポルトガル語 , ポルトガル", português, portugués, portugis

Spanish

diccionario, definición, traducciónSpaans, espanjalainen, espagnol, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, spagnolo, スペイン語 , スパイ罪 , スペイン", スパニッシュ , espanhol, español, spanska språk, spansk

Swedish

ordbok, lexikon, definition, översättningZweeds, ruotsalainen, suédois, schwedisch, σουηδικόσ, σουηδικά, svedese, スウェーデン語 , スウェーデン", sueco, svensk

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationenglantia, englantilainen, anglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, inglese, inglês, inglés, engelsk
 


INDEX

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


  

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