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Definitions: Depressor |
DepressorNoun1. Any skeletal muscle that draws a part down. 2. Any nerve whose activity tends to reduce the activity or tone of the body part it serves. 3. A device used by physician to press a part down or aside. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Chemistry | One that slows down the reaction rate. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | Board designed to counteract the ascent of the net. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A substance (usually inorganic) that inhibits flotation of the mineral.CF:activator. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: DepressorSynonyms: depressor muscle (n), depressor nerve (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Depressor |
| English words defined with "depressor": depressor muscle, Depressor nerve ♦ tongue depressor. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Depressor" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Portuguese (depressor). |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | A depressor amine derived by enzymatic decarboxylation of histidine. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Depressor" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Depressor" 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 6 | 143,867 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "depressor": depressor alae nasi ♦ depressor muscle ♦ Depressor nerve ♦ tongue depressor. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
tongue depressor | 10 |
depressor | 5 |
depressor tongue wooden | 2 |
depressor supercilii | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "depressor"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | المنحية العضلة الخافضة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | отпускащ мускул, депресор. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 压器. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | depressor (diving board), inhibitor (anticatalyst, anti-promoting agent, inhibitor, negative catalyst), Cyon's nerve (Cyon nerve, depressor nerve), baroreceptor (Cyon nerve, depressor nerve). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | duikplaat (diving board), depressor cordis (Cyon nerve, depressor nerve), nervus van Cyon (Cyon nerve, depressor nerve), negatieve katalysator (anticatalyst, negative catalyst), bloeddrukverlager (Cyon nerve, depressor nerve), bloeddrukverlagend agens (Cyon nerve, depressor nerve). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | vastakatalyytti (anticatalyst, negative catalyst), syvääjä (diving board), negatiivinen katalyytti (anticatalyst, negative catalyst), inhibiitti (anticatalyst, inhibitor, negative catalyst). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | zones barosensibles (depressor nerve), volet plongeur, nerf dépresseur de Cyon (depressor nerve), catalyseur négatif. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Depressor (Cyon nerve, depressor nerve), Tauchbrett (diving board), reaktionsarmer Katalysator (anticatalyst, negative catalyst), negativer Katalysator (anticatalyst, negative catalyst). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | καθελκτήρ μυς (Cyon nerve, depressor nerve), σανίδα κατάδυσης (diving board), υποτιμητήσ (belittler), αρνητικός καταλύτης (anticatalyst, negative catalyst), ταπεινών. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | lehúzó izom. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | depressore (Cyon nerve, depressor nerve, diving board). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | epressorday depressor (Cyon nerve, depressor nerve). (various references) депрессор. (various references) depresor. (various references) depresor (diving board). (various references) skärplan (diving board, kite), paravan (diving board, kite, paravane), negativ katalysator (anticatalyst, negative catalyst), inhibitor (anticatalyst, inhibitor, negative catalyst). (various references) опускник м'яз, депресор. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "depressor": depressors. (additional references) | |
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"Depressor" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: depressa, depresser, dereso. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "depressor" (pronounced 'De*press"or'): Acceptor, Assertor, Assessor, Assistor, Assizor, Attractor, Chantor, Circumventor, Co-assessor, Collector, Compressor, Conductor, Confessor, Conjector, Connector, Consignor, Constrictor, constructor, Contractor, Contradictor, Conveyor, Corrector, Countor, Cruor, Debtor, Decolor, Deflector, Deforceor, Demeanor, Detracor, Devisor, Digestor, Dilator, Director, Discolor, Disenamor, Disinfector, Dispossessor, Dissector, Distrainor, Duressor, Effector, Egressor, Embraceor, Enactor, Enamor, Encolor, Envigor, Ephor, Escheator. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-o-p-r-r-s-s" | |
-1 letter: deposers, reposers. | |
-2 letters: deposer, deposes, depress, dorpers, dorsers, dresser, pressed, presser, pressor, prosers, redress, reposed, reposer, reposes, repress, reredos, speedos. | |
-3 letters: depose, dopers, dorper, dorser, dosers, dosser, epodes, eposes, erodes, eroses, orders, pedros, perses, posers, prosed, proser, proses, redoes, repose, repros, rerose, resods, ropers, seders, speedo, speeds, speers, spodes, spored, spores, sprees. | |
-4 letters: deeps. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-o-p-r-r-s-s" | |
+1 letter: depressors, progressed, responders. | |
+2 letters: overspreads, predecessor, reprocessed, superorders, uredospores. | |
+3 letters: derepression, geopressured, hydrospheres, overresponds, overspenders, predecessors, preprocessed, urediospores. | |
+4 letters: derepressions, eavesdroppers, hyperhidroses, nonresponders, overimpressed, overpersuades, overprocessed, pteridosperms. | |
+5 letters: correspondents, groundskeepers, overcompressed, predestinators, prediscoveries, redescriptions, supercolliders, underexposures, urediniospores. | |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. . .--. .-. . ... ... --- .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01100101 01110000 01110010 01100101 01110011 01110011 01101111 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D e p r e s s o r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0065 0070 0072 0065 0073 0073 006F 0072 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)387182847185858184 |
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