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Definition: Destruct |
DestructVerb1. Destroy (one's own missile or rocket); "The engineers had to destruct the rocket for safety reasons". 2. Do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of; "The fire destroyed the house". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Destruct \De*struct"\, transitive verb. [Latin expression destructus, past participle of destruere. See Destroy.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Aerospace | The deliberate action of destroying a rocket vehicle after it has been launched, but before it has completed its course.Destructs are executed when the rocket gets off its plotted course or functions in a way so as to become a hazard. (references) |
Military & Defense | Intentional destruction of a missile or similar vehicle for safety or other reasons. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonym: DestructSynonym: destroy (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Destruct |
| Specialty definitions using "destruct": destruct line ♦ egads, egads button ♦ impact line. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | This message will self destruct. Don't worry, Chief, Inspector Gadget is always on duty (Inspector Gadget; writing credit: Nezihe Araz) | |
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| "Destruct" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Destruct" is used about 4 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) | 75% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "destruct": command destruct signal ♦ missile destruct ♦ missile destruct system. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "destruct": self-destruct. | |
| 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 |
self destruct | 16 |
destruct match o | 13 |
destruct | 11 |
auto destruct | 6 |
buro destruct | 5 |
cd destruct self timed | 3 |
destruct ozone unit | 3 |
destruct punk self | 3 |
destruct lyrics self | 2 |
destruct dvd self | 2 |
anal destruct | 2 |
destruct mr self | 2 |
destruct sequence | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "destruct"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | selvdestruktion. (various references) | |
French | destruction (destruction). (various references) | |
German | zerstöre, sich selbst zerstören. (various references) | |
Hungarian | távirányítású megsemmisítõ jelzés (command destruct signal), rakétamegsemmisítõ rendszer (missile destruct system), rakétamegsemmisítés (missile destruct). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | estructday.(various references) | |
Swedish | destruera, avsiktligt förstöra. (various references) | |
Turkish | kendi kendini imha etmek, imha edilmek, hedefe ulaşmadan imha etmek. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "destruct": destructed, destructibilities, destructibility, destructible, destructing, destruction, destructionist, destructionists, destructions, destructive, destructively, destructiveness, destructivenesses, destructivities, destructivity, destructs. (additional references) | |
Words containing "destruct": indestructibilities, indestructibility, indestructible, indestructibleness, indestructiblenesses, indestructibly, nondestructive, nondestructively, nondestructiveness, nondestructivenesses. (additional references) | |
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"Destruct" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Decrucq, destract. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "destruct" (pronounced dustru"kt) |
| 6 | -s t r u" k t | construct, deconstruct, instruct, obstruct, reconstruct. |
| 5 | -t r u" k t | trucked. |
| 3 | -u" k t | abduct, bucked, chucked, conduct, deduct, ducked, duct, induct, plucked, shucked, sucked, tucked. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-r-s-t-t-u" | |
-1 letter: crudest, crusted, curtest, cutters, scutter, trusted. | |
-2 letters: crudes, cruets, cruset, curets, cursed, cutest, cutter, duster, educts, eructs, rectus, recuts, rudest, rusted, rutted, truced, truces, truest, utters. | |
-3 letters: crest, crude, cruds, cruet, cruse, crust, curds, cured, cures, curet, curse, curst, cuter, cutes, drest, druse, duces, ducts, duets, dures, durst, ecrus, educt, eruct, recut, scute. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-r-s-t-t-u" | |
+1 letter: destructs, scuttered. | |
+2 letters: certitudes, destructed, instructed, obstructed, rectitudes, reductants, rusticated, structured, subtracted. | |
+3 letters: constructed, deconstruct, destructing, destruction, destructive, uncastrated, woodcutters. | |
+4 letters: deconstructs, destructible, destructions, incertitudes, outstretched, reductionist, restructured, resuscitated, traducements, undistracted, uninstructed, unobstructed, unrestricted, unstructured. | |
+5 letters: adventuristic, correctitudes, counterstated, countertrades, countertrends, deconstructed, deconstructor, destructively, destructivity, disarticulate, documentarist, fluidextracts, nonstructured, prestructured, reconstituted, reconstructed, rectitudinous, reductionists, subcontracted, subdistricted, thunderstruck, ultradistance, unconstricted, unconstructed. | |
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