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Cuprous

Definition: Cuprous

Cuprous

Adjective

1. Of or containing divalent copper.

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


Synonym: Cuprous

Synonym: cupric (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Cuprous

English words defined with "cuprous": cupriteFehling's solution. (references)
Specialty definitions using "cuprous": catalyst-manufacturing operator, CUPROUS-CHLORIDE HELPER, CUPROUS-CHLORIDE OPERATORdeoxidized copperHunt and Douglas processRussell processset copperunderpoled copper. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Cuprous

"Cuprous" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Cuprous" is used about 2 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Cuprous

Expression using "cuprous": cuprous chloride. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Cuprous

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

cuprous oxide

5

cuprous chloride

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Cuprous

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

Arabic 

  

‏نحاسي (brazen, copper, coppery). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

меден хлорид (cuprous chloride). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

亚". (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

مسی . (various references)

   

Greek 

  

μονατομικώσ χαλκικόσ. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

rézklorid (cuprous chloride). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

銅アンモニア法 (cuprous ammoniacal process). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

どうアンモニアほう (cuprous ammoniacal process). (various references)

   

Manx

  

cobbyroil (cupreous). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

uprouscay

   

Russian 

  

хлористая медь (cuprous chloride). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

kuprit (cuprite, cuprous chloride). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

koppar klorid (cuprous chloride). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

bakırlı (coppery, cupreous, cupric), bakır (copper, cupric). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Cuprous

Misspellings

"Cuprous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Caporoso, cipro, copous, Coprinus, cupious, curous. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Cuprous

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-o-p-r-s-u-u"

-1 letter: corpus, croups.

-2 letters: corps, coups, crops, croup, pours, roups, scour, usurp.

-3 letters: cops, cors, coup, crop, crus, cups, curs, cusp, opus, orcs, ours, pour, pros, purs, rocs, roup, scop, scup, soup, sour, spur, urus.

-4 letters: cop, cor, cos, cup, cur, ops, orc, ors, our, pro, pur, pus, roc, sop, sou, sup, upo, ups.

-5 letters: op.

 Words containing the letters "c-o-p-r-s-u-u"
 

+1 letter: croupous, cupreous.

 

+2 letters: crapulous.

 

+3 letters: drupaceous, operculums, pronucleus, scrupulous, subproduct, superscout, uncouplers.

 

+4 letters: corpuscular, cupriferous, groupuscule, outproduces, perspicuous, promiscuous, punctuators, scrumptious, subproducts, superscouts.

 

+5 letters: countercoups, groupuscules, percutaneous, pronucleuses, scrupulosity, scrupulously, supercilious, superconduct, transpicuous, unscrupulous.

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

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INDEX

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


  

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