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Definitions: Erosive |
ErosiveAdjective1. Wearing away by friction; "the erosive effects of waves on the shoreline". 2. Of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Geography | Tending to cause erosion; the term applies to the eroding agent, such as water, wind. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: ErosiveSynonyms: caustic (adj), corrosive (adj), vitriolic (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Erosive |
| English words defined with "erosive": ablation. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "erosive": baselevel plain, beheaded stream, blue tongue, bluetongue, blue-tongue, buraco para inspecção ♦ core wash ♦ fluid wash ♦ glacial erosion ♦ hydraulic miner ♦ orifício de observação, ovine catarrhal fever, ovine orbivirus infection ♦ scour hole, Soil Erodibility ♦ undercutting, Upstream Slope ♦ wall cavitation, washery pump, water-jet drilling. (references) |
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 | Grind; erosive; polish; rough; scratch; scuff; sharpen; smooth; wear; churn. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Other causes of UGI bleeding, including gastric and esophageal varices, diffuse erosive gastritis, and Mallory-Weiss tears were necessarily excluded from consideration. (references) | |
Economic History | Maldives | Mining of sand and coral have removed the natural coral reef that protected several important islands, making them highly susceptible to the erosive effects of the sea. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Erosive" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Erosive" is used about 36 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 36 | 57,479 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
erosive esophagitis | 43 |
erosive gastritis | 16 |
erosive lichen planus | 8 |
erosive gerd | 5 |
erosive esophagus | 4 |
erosive gastropathy | 3 |
arthritis erosive | 2 |
erosion erosive wear | 2 |
erosion erosive rate wear | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "erosive"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | gërryes (abradant, abrasive, caustic, corrodent, corroding, corrosive, wasting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | أكال. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | ерозивен. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | erozivní. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | erosiv (erodent), eroderende (erodent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | erosief (erodent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | eroosiota aiheuttava, kuluttava (exhausting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | érosif (erodent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | erosivus, erodierend, abtragend (removing), ätzend (acid, acrid, acridly, caustic, cauterizing, choking, corrosive, lousy, mordacious, mordant, pungent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | διαβρωτικόσ (cankerous, corrosive, pervasive), διαβρωτικός (corrosive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kimaródást okozó, eróziót okozó. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | mengikis (scrape). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | erosivo (acrid, acridly, caustic, cauterizing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | crimmagh, ceauagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | erosiveay erosivo (erodent, erotic), erosão (abrasion, denudation, erosion, scour, undercut). (various references) erosiv, care roade. (various references) эрозийный. (various references) erozivan. (various references) erosivo. (various references) eroderande. (various references) aşındırıcı (abrasive, corrodent, corrosive). (various references) руйнівний (abolitionary, caustic, consumptive, destructive, deteriorative, exterminatory, holocaustal, holocaustic, ruinous, shattering, subversive, wrecking), ерозійний. (various references) xói mòn (erodent), ăn mòn (erodent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "erosive": erosiveness, erosivenesses. (additional references) | |
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"Erosive" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Arrospide, Erdsiek, Euroserv, ferrozine, Gronivoe, Orotava, Rizivi, rosove. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "erosive" (pronounced irō"siv) |
| 4 | -ō" s i v | corrosive, explosive. |
| 3 | -s i v | abrasive, abusive, adhesive, aggressive, allusive, apprehensive, aversive, coercive, cohesive, collusive, comprehensive, compulsive, conclusive, conducive, convulsive, counteroffensive, decisive, defensive, depressive, derisive, discursive, dismissive, dispersive, divisive, effusive, elusive, evasive, excessive, exclusive, expansive, expensive, expressive, extensive, hypertensive, illusive, impassive, impressive, impulsive, incisive, inclusive, inconclusive, indecisive, inexpensive, inoffensive, intrusive, invasive, massive, missive, nonexclusive, nonresponsive, obsessive, obtrusive, offensive, oppressive, passive, pensive, permissive, persuasive, pervasive, possessive, progressive, recessive, reclusive, reflexive, regressive, repressive, repulsive, responsive, submissive, subversive, successive, unimpressive, unobtrusive, unresponsive. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-i-o-r-s-v" | |
-1 letter: reives, revise, soever, soiree, vireos. | |
-2 letters: erose, osier, overs, reive, rives, roves, serve, servo, sever, sieve, siree, siver, veers, verse, verso, viers, vireo, vires, visor. | |
-3 letters: eros, ever, eves, ires, ores, over, rees, reis, revs, rise, rive, roes, rose, rove, seer, sere, sire, sore, sori, veer, vees, vier, vies, vise, voes. | |
-4 letters: ere, ers. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-i-o-r-s-v" | |
+1 letter: eversion, overlies, overside, oversize, overwise, relievos, revoices, voleries. | |
+2 letters: coderives, divorcees, eversions, evildoers, overbites, overdries, overedits, overflies, overissue, overlives, overmines, overmixes, overplies, overrides, oversides, oversized, oversizes, overtimes, overtires, overviews, poverties, reinvokes, reservoir, reversion, sovereign, vertigoes. | |
+3 letters: conceivers, discovered, discoverer, evaporites, herbivores, moviegoers, nonviewers, operatives, oppressive, overdesign, overdrives, overfished, overfishes, overinsure, overissued, overissues, overpraise, overprices, overprizes, overseeing, oversewing, oversimple, overstride, overstrike, overweighs, overwrites, perovskite, perversion, protensive, recoveries, rediscover, redissolve, reoviruses, reservoirs, resorptive, responsive, reversions, slovenlier, sovereigns, strikeover, ventricose, viscometer, vitreouses, voiceovers, wolverines. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 72 6F 73 69 76 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). .-. --- ... .. ...- . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01110010 01101111 01110011 01101001 01110110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E r o s i v e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0072 006F 0073 0069 0076 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)39848185758871 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Sounds 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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