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Definitions: Fertilise |
FertiliseVerb1. Make fertile or productive; "The course fertilized her imagination". 2. Provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to; in agriculture and gardening; "We should fertilize soil if we want to grow healthy plants". 3. Introduce semen into (a female). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "fertilise" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references) |
Synonyms: FertiliseSynonyms: feed (v), fertilize (v), inseminate (v). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: to fertilise the ocean with iron compounds (environment). |
Crosswords: Fertilise |
| Non-English Usage: "Fertilise" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (fertilizes). |
| "Fertilise" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Fertilise" is used about 20 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) | 75% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 25% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 20 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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Ending with "fertilise": cross-fertilise, over-fertilise. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "fertilise"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 施肥 (fertilised, fertilize, fertilized, Fertilizing). (various references) | ||||
Dutch | de oceaan bemesten met ijzerverbindingen (to fertilise the ocean with iron compounds). (various references) | ||||
French | fertiliser l'océan avec des composés de fer (to fertilise the ocean with iron compounds). (various references) | ||||
Greek | γονιμοποιώ (fertilize, fructify, impregnate, inseminate, to pollinate), λιπαίνω (fertilize, lubricate, manure, to lubricate). (various references) | ||||
Indonesian | menggemukkan (fatten up, fattening). (various references) | ||||
Italian | fertilizzare (fertilize). (various references) | ||||
Korean | 기름지게 하ì‹ì‹œìš" (fertilize). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ertilisefay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-f-i-i-l-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: feistier, ferities, fieriest, filister. | |
-2 letters: felsite, ferlies, fertile, filters, firelit, lefties, leister, liefest, lifters, refiles, reflets, reflies, reifies, reliefs, retiles, siltier, sterile, stifler, telfers, trifles. | |
-3 letters: elites, feirie, ferlie, fester, filers, filets, filter, fleers, fleets, fliers, fliest, flirts, flites, freest, frisee, itself, lefter, liefer, lifers, lifter, listee, lister, liters, litres, refels, refelt, refile. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-f-i-i-l-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: fertilizes, interfiles. | |
+2 letters: electrifies, fertilities, fertilizers, friendliest. | |
+3 letters: filibustered, filibusterer. | |
+4 letters: defibrillates, differentials, fieldstripped, filibusterers, fluorimetries, infertilities, reflexivities, superfluities, unfriendliest, weightlifters. | |
+5 letters: antifederalist, electrofishing, foreseeability, forgeabilities, interfaculties, overfertilizes, reflectivities. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 65 72 74 69 6C 69 73 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. . .-. - .. .-.. .. ... . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01100101 01110010 01110100 01101001 01101100 01101001 01110011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F e r t i l i s e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0065 0072 0074 0069 006C 0069 0073 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)407184867578758571 |
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