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Definition: Feminisation |
FeminisationNoun1. The process of becoming feminized; the development of female characteristics (loss of facial hair or breast enlargement) in a male because of hormonal disorders or castration. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: FeminisationSynonym: feminization (n). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: adrenal feminisation (medicine), feminisation of poverty (social sciences), testicular feminisation (medicine). |
Crosswords: Feminisation |
| Specialty definitions using "feminisation": feminisation of poverty. (references) |
| "Feminisation" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Feminisation" is used about 4 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "feminisation": feminisation of poverty. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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. |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-f-i-i-i-m-n-n-o-s-t" | |
-2 letters: antimonies, antinomies. | |
-3 letters: aminities, antinoise, inanities, infinites, manifesto, nominates. | |
-4 letters: amniotes, enations, feminist, finniest, foamiest, fontinas, infamies, infantes, infinite, insomnia, manifest, mannites, mentions, minifies, misatone, montanes, nominate, notifies, sainfoin, sinfonia, sinfonie, sonatine. | |
-5 letters: amities, amnions, amniote, amosite, animist, anoints, anomies, asinine, atomies, atomise, atonies, enation, etamins, fainest, famines, fanions, fannies, fantoms, finites, foments, fomites. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-f-i-i-i-m-n-n-o-s-t" | |
+1 letter: feminizations. | |
+3 letters: defeminizations. | |
+4 letters: indemnifications. | |
+5 letters: misidentification, nonflammabilities. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 65 6D 69 6E 69 73 61 74 69 6F 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. . -- .. -. .. ... .- - .. --- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01100101 01101101 01101001 01101110 01101001 01110011 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F e m i n i s a t i o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0065 006D 0069 006E 0069 0073 0061 0074 0069 006F 006E |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)407179758075856786758180 |
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