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Engram

Definition: Engram

Engram

Noun

1. A postulated biochemical change (presumably in neural tissue) that represents a memory.

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



Specialty Definitions: Engram

DomainDefinitions

Health

In neurobiological usage, the material substratum of a content of memory. (references)

Medicine

In neurobiological usage the material substratum of a content of memory. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Synonym: Engram

Synonym: memory trace (n). (additional references)

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Usage Frequency: Engram

"Engram" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Engram" is used about 13 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
Noun (singular)100%1397,576

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

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Name Usage Frequency: Engram

The following table summarizes the usage of "engram" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
EngramLast name1,0009,578
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Engram

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

engram laura

7

engram

5

alex engram

2

bobby engram

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

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Modern Translations: Engram

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

Dutch

  

geheugenspoor (memory trace). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

muistijälki (memory trace). (various references)

   

French

  

engramme, trace de mémoire. (various references)

   

German

  

Erinnerungsspur (memory trace), Engramm (memory trace), mnemische Spur (memory trace), Gedächtnisspur (memory trace). (various references)

   

Italian

  

engramma (memory trace), traccia mnemonica (memory trace). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

engramay

   

Swedish

  

engram (memory trace). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

uyarıların beyinde bıraktığı iz, hücre metabolizmasında sürekli değişme, bellek (core memory, memory, mind, recollection, retention, store). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Engram

Derivations

Words beginning with "engram": engramme, engrammes, engrams. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Engram"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "engram" (pronounced e"ngra'm)
4-g r a' managram, cablegram, Centigram, diagram, electrocardiogram, epigram, histogram, hologram, kilogram, logogram, mammogram, microgram, milligram, monogram, program, programme, reprogram, sonogram, telegram.
3-r a' mdiaphragm, Wolfram.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Engram

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: german, manger, ragmen.

Words within the letters "a-e-g-m-n-r"

-1 letter: anger, gamer, mange, marge, namer, ramen, range, regma, regna, reman.

-2 letters: ager, amen, earn, gaen, game, gane, gear, germ, gnar, gram, gran, mage, mane, mare, mean, name, near, nema, rage, rang, ream.

-3 letters: age, ane, are, arm, ear, eng, era, erg, ern, gae, gam, gan, gar, gem, gen, mae, mag, man, mar, meg, men, nae, nag, nam, rag, ram, ran, reg, rem.

-4 letters: ae, ag, am, an, ar, em, en, er, ma, me, na, ne, re.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-g-m-n-r"
 

+1 letter: engrams, garment, germane, germans, germina, manager, mangers, mangier, mangler, marengo, margent, reaming.

 

+2 letters: amercing, argentum, argument, bargeman, bargemen, breaming, cragsmen, creaming, dragomen, dreaming, emigrant, engramme, fragment, gammoner, garments, gendarme, geranium, germanic, germinal, grandame, gravamen, imaginer, maligner, malinger, managers, manglers, mangrove, margents, margined, midrange, migraine, rearming, remaking, remating, renaming, renogram, smearing, venogram.

 

+3 letters: agreement, angleworm, argentums, argumenta, arguments, augmenter, augmentor, boogerman, boomerang, cambering, centigram, clergyman, comanager, cremating, demarking, embarking, embarring, embracing, embrangle, emigrants, enamoring, enframing, engrammes, fragments, gammoners, garageman, garagemen, garmented, gendarmes, geomancer, geraniums, germander, germanely, germanium, germanize, germinate, grandames, grantsmen, gravamens, greenmail, guardsmen, hammering, hampering, imaginers, kingmaker, magnetron, magnifier, maligners, malingers, mammering, mangroves, margarine, margented, marginate, marketing, marveling, mastering, mattering, measuring, menagerie, merganser, midranges, migraines, morganite, nightmare, omnirange, pampering, pentagram, prearming, reframing, reimagine, reimaging, remailing, remaining, remanding, remanning, remapping, remarking, renograms, reteaming, revamping, rewarming, screaming, streaming, tampering, termagant, trameling, venograms, warmonger, yammering.

 

+4 letters: abridgment, agreements, agrimonies, agronomies, anagrammed, anemograph, angiosperm, angleworms, antimerger, argumentum, augmenters, augmentors, becharming, besmearing, beswarming, boomerangs, camerlengo, campaigner, carmagnole, centigrams, chambering, chamfering, charminger, cinemagoer, clambering, comanagers, dendrogram, dermatogen, earmarking, emarginate, embargoing, embrangled, embrangles, emigrating, emigration, enamouring, ergotamine, forearming, fragmental, fragmented, garbageman, garbagemen, garmenting, gastronome, gendarmery, geomancers, germanders, germaniums, germanized, germanizes, germinally, germinated, germinates, gormandise, gormandize, gramineous, gramophone, grangerism, greenmails, hatemonger, impearling, impregnant, impregnate, kingmakers, lemongrass, macerating, magnetizer, magnetrons, magnifiers, malingered, malingerer, manageress, managerial, marcelling, margarines, margenting, marginated, marginates, margravine, marketings, martingale, marvelling, maundering, meagerness, meandering, menageries, mergansers, mineralogy, mishearing, misreading, moderating, monogramed, morganites, multirange, nightmares, numerating, omniranges, overmanage, paramagnet, pentagrams, permeating, phanerogam, pigmentary, prewarming, racemizing, ravagement, reargument, reassuming, reclaiming, redamaging, redreaming, regimental, reimagined, reimagines, remarrying, rematching, resampling, restamping, ringmaster, rosemaling, scampering, segmentary, smaragdine, smartening, smattering, stammering, steamering, streamings, submanager, termagants, tramelling, trammeling, trigeminal, triggerman, warmongers.

 

+5 letters: abridgement, abridgments, admeasuring, anemographs, angiosperms, archegonium, argumentive, arraignment, arrangement, attempering, beclamoring, beglamoring, boomeranged, camerlengos, campaigners, carmagnoles, centimorgan, charmingest, cinemagoers, clergywoman, coenamoring, congressman, daydreaming, demarcating, dendrograms, derangement, dermatogens, draughtsmen, dressmaking, drumbeating, earthmoving, embracingly, embrangling, emigrations, engraftment, enlargement, enumerating, ergotamines, ferrimagnet, ferromagnet, fragmentary, fragmentate, fragmenting, fragmentize, gangsterdom, gangsterism, garnishment, gastronomes, gendarmerie, germanizing, germinating, germination, germinative, gerrymander, gormandised, gormandises, gormandized, gormandizer, gormandizes, gourmandise, gourmandize, gramophones, grandmaster, grandmother, grangerisms, greenmailed, greenmailer, hatemongers, ignoramuses, imaginaries, impetrating, imprecating, impregnable, impregnably, impregnants, impregnated, impregnates, impregnator, legerdemain, magnetizers, malingerers, malingering, maltreating, managership, maneuvering, manoeuvring, marbleising, marbleizing, marginalize, margravines, martingales, meliorating, menorrhagia, merchanting, mercurating, merrymaking, micromanage, mineralogic, misaltering, misaverring, miscreating, mislearning, misrelating, mistreating, monogrammed, monogrammer, monographed, nonargument, ornamenting, outdreaming, overgarment, overmanaged, overmanages, overmanning, overwarming, papermaking, paramagnets, pelargonium, phanerogams, pneumograph, pomegranate, prestamping, prolegomena, promenading, ravagements, readmitting, reaffirming, realignment, reanimating, rearguments, redemanding, reembarking, reexamining, regimentals, regionalism, rehammering, reimagining, remarketing, remastering, remeasuring, remediating, remigration, ringmasters, rosemalings, scaremonger, screamingly, semaphoring, smatterings, spermagonia, submanagers, terminating, trammelling, trigeminals, umbrellaing.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Engram


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

45 6E 67 72 61 6D

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)

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

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

01000101 01101110 01100111 01110010 01100001 01101101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#110 &#103 &#114 &#97 &#109

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 006E 0067 0072 0061 006D

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

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

398073846779

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INDEX

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


  

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