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Definition: Clot |
ClotNoun1. A lump of material formed from the content of a liquid. Verb1. Change from a liquid to a thickened or solid state; "coagulated blood". 2. Turn into curds,as of dairy products; "curdled milk". 3. Coalesce or unite in a mass; "Blood clots". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "clot" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Metallurgy | The rough shape of a product ready for final shaping, or of a raw material prior to calcination. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A group of ferromagnesian minerals in igneous rock, from a few inches to a foot or more in size, commonly drawn out longitudinally, that may be asegregation or an altered xenolith. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Blood clot, thrombosis
The willingness of blood to clot is affected by many inputs. One is the number of platelets or thrombocytes. There are other factors in the blood that make clotting more or less likely. The fifth one is called factor five Leiden. Three to five percent of the population at large have a defect in this gene, and that makes their blood less likely to clot (all other factors being equal). These people are at risk of bleeding to death when undergoing major surgery, or when giving birth, etc.
Blood clotting influences:
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Clot."
Synonyms: ClotSynonyms: coagulum (n), clabber (v), clog (v), coagulate (v), curdle (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: homogenize (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Density | Verb: be dense. Adjective: become solid, render solid. Adjective: solidify, solidate; concrete, set, take a set, consolidate, congeal, coagulate; curd, curdle; lopper; fix, clot, cake, candy, precipitate, deposit, cohere, crystallize; petrify. (harden). |
Solid body, mass, block, knot, lump; concretion, concrete, conglomerate; cake, clot, stone, curd, coagulum; bone, gristle, cartilage; casein, crassamentum; legumin. | |
Land | Soil, glebe, clay, loam, marl, cledge, chalk, gravel, mold, subsoil, clod, clot; rock, crag. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | I will kill you clot! (The Harder They Come; writing credit: Perry Henzell; Trevor D. Rhone) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | This image shows a large ruptured, fusiform aneurysm involving the ascending portion of the aorta, and there is a laminated clot between the tunicae media and adventitia. Note the pearly white wrinkled tunica intima in areas distal to the aneurysm. Credit: CDC. | |
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Health | After clot removal, the endoscopist must be prepared to apply therapy. (references) | |
This free-roaming clot is called an embolus and often forms in the heart. (references) | ||
The inflammation can cause infection, a blood clot, or rupture of the appendix. (references) | ||
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Angela Ricci | Well, they had a blood clot in the cerebellum and it put a tremendous amount of pressure on the brain stem. |
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| "Clot" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 77.78% of the time. "Clot" is used about 81 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) | 77.78% | 63 | 42,364 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 22.22% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Total | 100.00% | 81 | N/A |
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Expressions using "clot": blood clot ♦ clot buster ♦ clot of blood ♦ Clot Retraction ♦ clumsy clot. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "clot": clot-associated, clot-bey, clot-busting. | |
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| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "clot"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | trombozë (thrombosis), njeri i trashë (dunce), mpiksje (coagulation, jellification), mpiks (cake, coagulate, congeal, stiffen), lëmsh (ball, clew, jam, jumbal, jumble, mass, mix, mix up, pell mell, pellet, puff, ruck, tangle, welter, winding), dromcë (rag), droçkë. (various references) | |
Arabic | كتلة (agglomerate, agglomeration, bloc, block, body, bulk, chunk, cluster, conglomeration, hunch, knob, lump, mass), متلبد (matted, tufty), تكتل (agglomerate, agglomeration, coalesce, conglomerate, lump, mass), تخثر (cake, coagulate, congealment, curd, curdle, freeze, gel, thickening, thrombocyte, thrombosis), تجلط (coagulate), خثر (coagulate, congeal), جلطة دموية. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | съсирек (clump, gout), съсирена кръв (grume), тромб (thrombus), глупак (bird brained, blinker, boeotian, bonehead, boob, booby, calf, chuckle-head, clod, coot, dodo, dotterel, driveler, dummy, fathead, flat, fool, gaby, gawk, goof, goon, gowk, greenhorn, gull, hammerhead, jackass, jobbernowl, lack-brain, lame brain, leather-head, lunkhead, muggins, mutt, mutton head, ninny, nitwit, noddy, noodle, numskull, nutter, oaf, pudding-head, pumpkin-head, sap, sap-head, schmo, schnook, sheep's head, silly, simp, simple, simpleton, spoon, stupe, stupid, thickhead, tomfool, twit, witling, wittol, zany, zombie), бучка (gout, knob, nub, nubble). (various references) | |
Chinese | 凝块. (various references) | |
Czech | chuchvalec (lump, wad), srazit se (clabber, collide, congeal, crash, Curdle, go off, shrink, solidify). (various references) | |
Danish | sårskorpe (coagulation, crust, scab), koagel (coagulum), blodskorpe (coagulation, crust, scab). (various references) | |
Dutch | crusta phlogistica (coagulation, crust, scab), ruwe staaf (blank, muck bar). (various references) | |
Farsi | لخته خون , توده (Aggregate, Barrow, Bloc, Block, Bulk, Cob, Congeries, Gross, Heap, Hill, Lump, Mass, Midden, Oodles, Pile, Pyre, Rick, Riffraff, Shock, Stack, Volume, Wad), دلمه شدن (Clabber, Curd, Curdle, Jell, Quail). (various references) | |
Finnish | maksoittua (coagulate), hyytyä (coagulate, congeal, set). (various references) | |
French | caillot (blood clot). (various references) | |
German | klumpen (agglutination, chunk, chunkily, clod, clots, clump, clumps, cob, dollop, go lumpy, gob, gobs, lump, nugget), pfropf (blockage, bung, Cork, plug, stopper, thrombus, wad), Klümpchen (clots, glob, nodule, nub). (various references) | |
Greek | πήζω (coagulate, congeal, curd, curdle, gel, jell, thicken). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ל"קרש (be frozen, freeze), קריש "ם. (various references) | |
Hungarian | rög (button, clod, lump, nugget, sod), vércsomó, alvadék (clump, congealment). (various references) | |
Indonesian | membeku (become immobile, congeal, congealed, dry, freeze, inflexible, over, rigid, unbending), gumpalan (agglomeration, clod, clump), gumpal (ball, chock, chunk, clod, clump, gob, wad), bekuan. (various references) | |
Italian | coagulo (coagulum). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 血餅 , 凝固まり (coagulation, enthusiast, fanatic), 凝塊 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ぎょうかい (business, industry), "りかたまり (coagulation, enthusiast, fanatic), けっぺい. (various references) | |
Korean | 혈괴. (various references) | |
Manx | glubbey (coagulate, congeal, congealment), glub, chiuid (grossness, intenseness, stoutness, turbidness), chiughey (become heavy, concentrate, congeal, thicken), chaghtane, brat (apron, cloak, coat, coating, cover, covering, curtain, film, layer, overgrowth, pall, pinafore, sheet, standing crop, wrap), binjaghey (curdle). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | otclay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | coágulo (coagulant, curd). (various references) | |
Romanian | cocoloş (ball, clod, growth, grume, Pat, pellet), cheag (funds, grume, rennet, savings), se face cocoloaşe, se coagula (congeal, Curdle, set), se închega (congeal, fix), prinde (acquire, apprehend, attach, bind, book, captivate, capture, catch, catch hold of, clasp, comprehend, cop, Curdle, engage, ferret, find out, fish, fix, get hold of, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, grow, hang, have, hit, hitch, intercept, nail, nip, overhear, pin down, reach, recruit, regain, round up, seize, set, shut, stitch, strike, succeed, tack, take, tie, work), bulgãre (ball, chump, clod, cob, lump). (various references) | |
Russian | сгусток крови (clod, grume), сгусток (coagulate, gout), сгущаться сгусток, сверток (package, parcel, roll), тромб (thrombi, thrombus, trombus), комок (nub, nugget, wad), идиот (driveller, idiot, jerk, mooncalf, moron, pillock, plonker, prat, wanker). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zgrušati (coagulate, curdle), usiriti (curdle), ugrušak. (various references) | |
Spanish | grumo (grume, lump), coágulo (blood clot). (various references) | |
Swedish | klimp (dumpling, lump). (various references) | |
Turkish | pıhtılaşmak (clog, coagulate, congeal, Curdle, set), pıhtı (blood clot, coagulum, gob, grume), kesilmek (be cut, be interrupted, become, cease, close down, Curdle, die away, die down, drop, dry up, go down, go off, go sour, intermit, let up, set, shear, sour, stop, surcease, turn sour), avanak (cluck, fool, gullible, nincompoop, ninny, rube, sap, simpleton), ahmak (addled, ass, blockhead, boob, bumpkin, cabbagehead, chucklehead, chumpish, country bumpkin, crass, cretin, deadly dull, dimwitted, dolt, doltish, dreary, dullish, dumb bell, dunderhead, dunderheaded, fathead, fool, foolish, gander, gawk, gawky, goat, goof, goose, greenhorn, Gubbins, half wit, half-witted, hayseed, idiot, jackass, jerk, josser, kookaburra, light in the head, loon, lummox, lump, muggins, mutt, mutton head, noddy, numskull, prune, pudding-head, sap, saphead, sappy, schlepper, simp, soft, stupid, twerp), üzerinde toplanmak. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | скипатися (clod, curd, earn, yearn), розпушувати (pick up, prong), тупиця (boeotian, dodo, duffer, dullard, dunce, goon, jerk, lob, thick-head, wampus), тромб, грудка (clod, clump, gob, lump, nugget), йолоп (banana-head, blunderbuss, boob, calf, caravan, chuckle-head, clod, dimwit, fathead, gawk, loggerhead, mutt, nincompoop, nitwit, noodle, numskull, poop, saphead, zany), зсідатися (coagulate, congeal, curd, earn), згусток (clod), запікатися (clod, coagulate), дурень (ass, blunderhead, bone head, booby, bullhead, changeling, chump, clod, dimwit, dolt, donkey, fool, fop, gander, imbecile, jackass, moke, mutton head, ninny, nitwit, noddy, noodle, numskull, omadhaun, owl, pinhead, pudding-head, softy, stupe, stupid, tomfool, you imbecile). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | cục (clod, department, junk, knob, lump, piece, service), khối (block, mass). (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | conglobati. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "clot": cloth, clothbound, clothe, clothed, clothes, clotheshorse, clotheshorses, clothesline, clotheslined, clotheslines, clotheslining, clothespin, clothespins, clothespress, clothespresses, clothier, clothiers, clothing, clothings, cloths, clots, clotted, clotting, clotty, cloture, clotured, clotures, cloturing. (additional references) | |
Words containing "clot": anticlotting, backcloth, backcloths, beclothe, beclothed, beclothes, beclothing, bedclothes, breechcloth, breechcloths, broadcloth, broadcloths, cerecloth, cerecloths, cheesecloth, cheesecloths, cyclothymia, cyclothymias, cyclothymic, cyclotomic, cyclotron, cyclotrons, dishcloth, dishcloths, dropcloth, dropcloths, facecloth, facecloths, floorcloth, floorcloths, footcloth, footcloths, haircloth, haircloths, loincloth, loincloths, nightclothes, oilcloth, oilcloths, plainclothes, plainclothesman, plainclothesmen, reclothe, reclothed, reclothes, reclothing, sackcloth, sackcloths, saddlecloth, saddlecloths, sailcloth. (additional references) | |
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"Clot" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Calcot, calcott, Callot, Calot, chlot, chot, Chott, clact, clat, clatt, clect, clet, clete, Clett, clist, clo, cloat, clob, Cloch, cloft, cloi, cloit, clon, Clont, cloo, clor, cloty, clou, clox, clu, cluj, Clunt, clut, clutz, Cmot, Colta, coltd, Colte, colty, crot, Ctlo, ctp, culot, glott, hlot, Kclo, klo, koldt, kolt, lcat, lct, Nclo, ocolt, sclot, tlot. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "clot" (pronounced klÄ"t) |
| 3 | -l Ä" t | allot, blot, lat, lot, Lotte, plot, slot. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: colt. | |
| Words within the letters "c-l-o-t" | |
-1 letter: col, cot, lot. | |
-2 letters: lo, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-l-o-t" | |
+1 letter: cloot, cloth, clots, clout, colts, lotic, octal, octyl. | |
+2 letters: blotch, catalo, chalot, citola, citole, cloots, closet, clothe, cloths, clotty, clouts, cobalt, coital, collet, colter, coolth, coplot, costal, costly, lector, lictor, locate, locket, locust, occult, ocelot, octyls, toluic. | |
+3 letters: acolyte, aloetic, blotchy, calotte, caltrop, capitol, catalog, catalos, cattalo, challot, chaloth, cholate, cholent, chortle, citolas, citoles, closest, closets, clothed, clothes, clotted, cloture, clouted, clouter, coalpit, coastal, cobalts, coldest, colitic, colitis, collate, collect, collets, colters, coltish, complot, consult, control, coolant, coolest, coolths, copilot, coplots, corslet, costrel, cotidal, couldst, coulter, couplet, courtly, culotte, cytosol, dicotyl, elector, electro, fetlock, glottic, lactone, lactose, lection, lectors, lictors, linocut, litotic, located, locater, locates, locator, lockets, locknut, lockout, locusta, locusts, noctule, occults, ocelots, octanol, octaval, octuple, octuply, oculist, oolitic, optical, otalgic, polecat, politic, polycot, potlach, potluck, scrotal, solicit, splotch, stoical, talcose, talcous, telomic, thiolic, topical, toxical, trochal, trochil, voltaic, zlotych. | |
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