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Definitions: Exfoliate |
ExfoliateVerb1. Spread by opening the leaves of. 2. Cast off in scales, laminae, or splinters. 3. Remove the surface, in scales or laminae. 4. Come off in a very thin piece. 5. Grow by producing or unfolding leaves; of plants. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "exfoliate" was first used: 1612. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Mining | To peel off in concentric layers, as some rocks weather. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Divestment | Verb: divest; uncover; (cover; ); denude, bare, strip; disfurnish; undress, disrobe; (dress, enrobe; ); uncoif; dismantle; put off, take off, cast off; doff; peel, pare, decorticate, excoriate, skin, scalp, flay; expose, lay open; exfoliate, molt, mew; cast the skin. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Exfoliate |
| English words defined with "exfoliate": Exfoliated, Exfoliating. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "exfoliate": Neoplasm Circulating Cells. (references) |
| "Exfoliate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "Exfoliate" is used about 5 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 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 80% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 20% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5 | N/A |
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 |
exfoliate | 54 |
exfoliate skin | 19 |
exfoliate face | 12 |
exfoliate facial | 8 |
brush exfoliate rotating | 7 |
exfoliate homemade | 3 |
arms exfoliate leg | 2 |
cloth exfoliate | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "exfoliate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | shtresohem. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | قشر (bark, hull, husk, pare, peel, rind, scale, scrape, shave, shell, shuck, skin, strip). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | разлиствам се (expand, leave), лющя (decorticate, desquamate, husk, peel, shell), беля (decorticate, mischief, nuisance, packet, pare, peel, pill, rind, shell, shuck, skin, trouble), падам на слоеве, падам на люспи. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | oloupat (decorticate, pare, Peel, rind, skin, strip). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | lereped (to exfoliate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sfogliarsi, sfogliare (browse, defoliate, leaf, leaf through, scroll, skim, thumb), sfaldarsi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | exfoliateay esfoliar (scale off), despesas (charges, expenditure, expenses, outgoing, outgoings, outlay, taxed costs, tuition). (various references) descuama (desquamate), coji (bark, disbark, excoriate, husk, parings, pill, rind, skin, strip). (various references) лупиться (desquamate, flake off). (various references) skinuti lišće, ljuštiti se (flake). (various references) exfoliar. (various references) ลอกออก. (various references) pul pul dökmek, pul pul dökülmek (come off in scales). (various references) розшаровуватися (flake off), лупитися (flake). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Late Latin | 300-700 | exfoliare. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "exfoliate": exfoliated, exfoliates. (additional references) | |
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"Exfoliate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: exfoliant, exfoliants, extoliate, reaffiliate. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "exfoliate" (pronounced eksfō"lēāt) |
| 3 | -ē ā t | disassociate, dissociate. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-f-i-l-o-t-x" | |
-2 letters: foliate, foxtail. | |
-3 letters: etoile, fetial, fixate, foetal, folate, oleate, oxtail. | |
-4 letters: aloft, axile, axite, elate, elite, exalt, exile, extol, fetal, filet, fleet, flite, float, flota, folia, ixtle, latex, telae, telex, telia, teloi, toile. | |
-5 letters: alee, alef, alif, alit, aloe, alto, axel, axil, axle, exit, fail, falx, fate, feal, feat, feel, feet, felt, feta, fete. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-f-i-l-o-t-x" | |
+1 letter: exfoliated, exfoliates. | |
+2 letters: exfoliative. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 78 66 6F 6C 69 61 74 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). -..- ..-. --- .-.. .. .- - . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01111000 01100110 01101111 01101100 01101001 01100001 01110100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E x f o l i a t e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0078 0066 006F 006C 0069 0061 0074 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)399072817875678671 |
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