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Effloresce

Definitions: Effloresce

Effloresce

Verb

1. Burst forth into or as if into flower; "These manifestations effloresced in the past".

2. Assume crystalline form; become crystallized.

3. Become encrusted with crystals due to evaporation.

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

Date "effloresce" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references)

Note: Effloresce \Ef`flo*resce"\, intransitive verb. [imperative past participle Effloresced; present participle verb or noun Efflorescing.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Effloresce

Synonyms: burst forth (v), crystalise (v), crystalize (v), crystallize (v). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Effloresce

English words defined with "effloresce": Effloresced, Efflorescing. (references)
Etymologies containing "effloresce": EfflorescentFlower. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Effloresce

DomainTitle

Music

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Effloresce

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

effloresce

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Effloresce

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

Albanian

  

lulëzoj (bloom, blossom, blow, boom, flourish, flower, prosper, thrive). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏زهر (bloom, blossom, flower). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

цъфтя (bloom, blossom, blow, flower), покривам се със солни частици. (various references)

   

Czech

  

rozkvést. (various references)

   

French

  

effleurer. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

καλύπτομαι με λευκή σκόνη, εξανθώ. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kivirágzik (break out into blossom, flower, to burst into flower). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

bertunas, berkembang (burgean, develop, efflorescent). (various references)

   

Italian

  

fiorire (bloom, blossom, flourish, flower, to bloom, to blossom, to flower). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

effloresceay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

efígie (portrait). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

deveni eflorescent, înflori (bloom, blossom, blow, boom, break into blossom, flourish, flower, thrive). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

цвести (bloom, blossom, flower). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

procvetati (blossom, boom). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

florecer (bloom, blossom, bud, come out, flourish, flower, thrive, to bloom, to blossom, to flower, vegetate). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

slå ut i blom (blow). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

tozlaşmak (pollinate), serpilmek (be sprinkled, bloom, blossom out, disperse, flower, grow apace, open out, thrive), gelişip olgunlaşmak, çiçek açmak (bloom, blossom, blow, come into flower, flower). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

квітнути (flower), вицвітати (dilute), зацвітати. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Effloresce

Derivations

Words beginning with "effloresce": effloresced, efflorescence, efflorescences, efflorescent, effloresces. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Effloresce

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-e-e-f-f-l-o-r-s"

-1 letter: forefeels.

-2 letters: fleecers, forefeel.

-3 letters: coffees, coffers, coffles, creoles, feelers, fleecer, fleeces, foresee, refeels, scoffer.

-4 letters: ceorls, closer, coffee, coffer, coffle, creels, creese, creole, cresol, feeler, fleece, fleers, forces, fresco, offers, refeel, refels, resole.

-5 letters: ceorl, ceres, ceros, clefs, close, coffs, coles, cores, corse, creel, erose, feces, feels, feres, fleer, flees, flocs, floes, force, fores, frees, froes, leers, lores, loser, offer, orles, reefs, reels, refel, resee, roles, rolfs, scoff, score, scree, socle, sorel.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-e-e-f-f-l-o-r-s"
 

+1 letter: effloresced, effloresces.

 

+2 letters: efflorescent.

 

+3 letters: efflorescence.

 

+4 letters: efflorescences, forcefulnesses.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Effloresce


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

45 66 66 6C 6F 72 65 73 63 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)

01000101 01100110 01100110 01101100 01101111 01110010 01100101 01110011 01100011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#102 &#102 &#108 &#111 &#114 &#101 &#115 &#99 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0066 0066 006C 006F 0072 0065 0073 0063 0065

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

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

39727278818471856971

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INDEX

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


  

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