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Definition: Combustible |
CombustibleAdjective1. Capable of igniting and burning. 2. (of fuel) highly combustible; having a high proportion of fuel to air; "a rich gas mixture". Noun1. A substance that can be burned to provide heat or power; "more fuel is needed during the winter months"; "they developed alternative fuels for aircraft". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "combustible" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
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Mining | Capable of undergoing combustion or of burning. Used esp. for materials that catch fire and burn when subjected to fire. CF:flammable. (references) |
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Synonyms: CombustibleSynonyms: combustible material (n), fuel (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: noncombustible (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Calefaction | Inflammable, combustible; diathermal, diathermanous; burnt. Verb: volcanic, radioactive. |
Fuel | Noun: fuel, firing, combustible. |
Adjective: carbonaceous; combustible, inflammable; high octane, high specific impulse; heat of combustion,. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Economic History | Mozambique | Major imports--equipment and machinery, combustible fuels, vehicles, spare parts, cereal grains, and alumina. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | PATRIOTISM, n. Combustible rubbish read to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first. |
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| "Combustible" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 97.78% of the time. "Combustible" is used about 45 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 97.78% | 44 | 51,500 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.22% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 45 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "combustible": combustible gases ♦ combustible material ♦ noncombustible vs combustible incombustible. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "combustible": non-combustible. | |
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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 "combustible"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | që merr zjarr, i djegshëm (flammable, inflammable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | محروق (adust, spent), مادة قابلة للإحتراق, سريع الغضب (crusty, hasty, inflammable, irascible, irate, irritable, passionate, peppery, quick tempered, short tempered, tempestuous, testy, tetchy, ticklish, touchy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | сприхав (breezy, hasty, high-spirited, hoity toity, hot tempered, hotheaded, irascible, irritable, peppery, petulant, quick tempered, short tempered, snappish, snappy, spicy, testy, violent, waxy), запалителен (incendiary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 可燃烧 (Ablative). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zápalný (incendiary, inflammable), vznìtlivý (excitable, fiery, hot tempered, inflammable, nervy, quick tempered, stormy), hořlavý (flammable, inflammable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | brændbar (flammable, ignitable, inflammable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | brandbaar (flammable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | قابل تحریک وبرانگیختنی , سوزا, احتراق پذیر. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | palava (ardent, burning), palamiskykyinen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | combustible. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | brennbar (combustibly, flammable, inflammable), verbrennbar, feuergefährlich (flammable, inflammable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | καύσιμος. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מתלקח (fiery, flammable, inflammable), "ליק (flammable, inflammable), בעיר (beast, cattle, flammable, inflammable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | izgulékony (excitable, fluttery, jumpy, nervy), gyúlékony tüzelőanyag, gyúlékony (flammable, ignitable, incendiary, inflammable, tinder-like, tindery), éghető. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | mudah menyala. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | combustibile (fuel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 可燃物 (inflammability, inflammables). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | かね"ぶつ (inflammability, inflammables). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 가연성 (Combustibility, Flammability). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | yn-lostey, sthoo ynlostey, so-ghreesaghey (excitable, inflammable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | lett antennelig. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ombustiblecay combustível (burnable, firing, flammable, fuel), carburante (fuel), incentivo (encouragement, fillip, fuel, goad, incentive, incitement, persuasive, spur, stimulus), alimento (aliment, alimony, bread, diet, eating, feed, food, fuel, keeping, nosh, nourishment, nutriment, pabulum, peck, pension, provender, sustenance, victual). (various references) combustibil (firing, fuel), carburant (fuel, petrol), materie inflamabilã, iritabil (choleric, crabbed, crusty, excitable, fretful, gusty, inflammable, irascible, irritable, jumpy, petulaht, petulant, testy, tetchy, ticklish, waspy), inflamabil (fiery, inflammable, lightable). (various references) горючий (inflammable). (various references) zapaljiv (excitable, flammable, incendiary, inflammable). (various references) combustible (fuel, inflammable). (various references) brännbar (flammable, incendiary, risky, touchy). (various references) ที่ติ"ไฟไ"้ง่าย. (various references) yanıcı madde, yanıcı (fiery, flammable, inflammable), yakıt (fuel), tutuşucu. (various references) горючий (burning), легкозаймистий (inflammable), пальне (fuel). (various references) dễ cháy (fluent, ignitable, ignitible, tindery), dễ bắt lửa dễ khích động; b"ng bột. (various references) hylosg (inflammable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "combustible": combustibles. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "combustible": incombustible, noncombustible. (additional references) | |
Words containing "combustible": incombustibles, noncombustibles. (additional references) | |
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"Combustible" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: combustable. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-b-c-e-i-l-m-o-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: columbites. | |
-2 letters: clubbiest, columbite, outclimbs. | |
-3 letters: bibelots, botulism, ciboules, cobbiest, coliseum, outclimb, outsmile. | |
-4 letters: bibelot, bilboes, bimboes, boletus, boucles, bumbles, ciboule, citoles, cobbles, combust, costume, cubbies, cultism, embolic, embolus, lobbies, luetics, mobiles, motiles, obelism, oculist, outlies, scumble, stubble, stumble, subitem, sublime, subtile, telomic, timeous, tumbles. | |
-5 letters: bemist, besmut, bibles, bilbos, bimbos, biomes, bisect, blites, blouse. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-b-c-e-i-l-m-o-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: combustibles. | |
+2 letters: incombustible. | |
+3 letters: discombobulate, incombustibles, noncombustible. | |
+4 letters: discombobulated, discombobulates, noncombustibles. | |
+5 letters: combustibilities. | |
| 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. | |
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