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Disintegrative

Definition: Disintegrative

Disintegrative

Adjective

1. Tending to cause breakup into constituent elements or parts.

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


Synonym: Disintegrative

Synonym by domain: childhood disintegrative disorder (medicine).
Antonym: integrative (adj). (additional references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Disintegrative

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Symptoms that cannot be described as Rett syndrome or Childhood Disintegrative Disorder. (references)

Autism (a developmental brain disorder characterized by impaired social interaction and communication skills, and limited range of activities and interests) is the most characteristic and best studied PDD. Other types of PDD include Asperger's syndrome, childhood disintegrative disorder, Rett's syndrome, and PDD not otherwise specified. (references)

Children who appear normal in their first several years, then lose skills and begin showing autistic behavior, may be diagnosed with childhood disintegrative disorder (CDD). Girls with Rett syndrome, a sex-linked genetic disorder characterized by inadequate brain growth, seizures, and other neurological problems, also may show autistic behavior. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Disintegrative

"Disintegrative" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Disintegrative" 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%6143,867

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

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Expression: Disintegrative

Expression using "disintegrative": integrative vs disintegrative. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Disintegrative

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

childhood disintegrative disorder

29
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Disintegrative

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

Danish

  

tidligt debuterende gennemgribende udviklingsforstyrrelse (childhood disintegrative disorder). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

in kindertijd ontstane globale ontwikkelingsstoornis (childhood disintegrative disorder). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

lapsuudessa alkava laaja-alainen kehityshäiriö (childhood disintegrative disorder). (various references)

   

French

  

trouble global du développement débutant dans l'enfance (childhood disintegrative disorder). (various references)

   

German

  

massive Entwicklungsstörung in der Kindheit beginnend (childhood disintegrative disorder). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

καθολική διαταραχή της ανάπτυξης αρχόμενη στην παιδική ηλικία (childhood disintegrative disorder). (various references)

   

Italian

  

disturbo generalizzato dello sviluppo che esordisce nell'infanzia (childhood disintegrative disorder). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

isintegrativeday

   

Spanish

  

trastorno generalizado del desarrollo de la infancia (childhood disintegrative disorder). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Disintegrative

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-g-i-i-i-n-r-s-t-t-v"

-2 letters: disintegrate, ditransitive, investigated, negativities, vinaigrettes.

-3 letters: advertising, denigrative, designative, dignitaries, gravidities, instigative, integrative, integrities, investigate, reinitiated, reinitiates, retinitides, vaginitides, vinaigrette.

-4 letters: argentites, denigrates, dietitians, estivating, estreating, identities, instigated, integrated, integrates, interstage, inverities, itinerated, itinerates, nativities, negativist, reinitiate, reinstated, revisiting, straitened, transitive, travestied, vertigines, vignetters.

-5 letters: advertent, adverting, advertise, agentives, agentries, aigrettes, anteverts, argentite, aridities.

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Alternative Orthography: Disintegrative


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 69 73 69 6E 74 65 67 72 61 74 69 76 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-..    ..    ...    ..    -.    -    .    --.    .-.    .-    -    ..    ...-    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01101001 01110011 01101001 01101110 01110100 01100101 01100111 01110010 01100001 01110100 01101001 01110110 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#105 &#115 &#105 &#110 &#116 &#101 &#103 &#114 &#97 &#116 &#105 &#118 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0069 0073 0069 006E 0074 0065 0067 0072 0061 0074 0069 0076 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3875857580867173846786758871

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Non-English Dictionaries with "Disintegrative"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Danish

ordbog, deskriptordefinition, oversættelsetanskalainen, danois, dänisch, δανικόσ, δανόσ, danese, danés

Dutch

woordenboek, definitie, translatiehollandsk, hollantilainen, néerlandais, holländisch, ολλανδικόσ, ολλανδόσ, olandese, holandés

Finnish

määritelmä, translaatio, taajuusmuutossuomi, suomalainen, finnois, Finlandaise, finlandais, finnisch, φινλανδικόσ, finlandese, finlandés, finés

French

dictionnaire, définition, traductionranskalainen, français, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, francese, francés

German

Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definitiontysker, Duitse, saksalainen, allemand, "ερμανός, tedesco, alemán

Greek

λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφρασηgræker, kreikkalainen, grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, greco, griego

Italian

dizionario, definizione, traduzioneitaliener, italialainen, italien, italienisch, Ιταλός, italiano

Spanish

diccionario, definición, traducciónSpaans, espanjalainen, espagnol, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, spagnolo, español

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationenglantia, englantilainen, anglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, inglese, inglés
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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