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Definition: Frostbite |
FrostbiteNoun1. Destruction of tissue by freezing and characterized by tingling, blistering and possibly gangrene. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Health | Damage to tissues as the result of low environmental temperatures. (references) |
Medicine | An abnormal condition of the cutaneous tissues caused by a fall in temperature leading to interruption of normal peripheral blood circulation, generally resulting from exposure of a part of the body to subfreezing temperatures(1). Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonym: FrostbiteSynonym: cryopathy (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Cold | Chilliness. Adjective: chill; shivering. Verb: goose skin, horripilation; rigor; chattering of teeth; numbness, frostbite. |
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Crosswords: Frostbite |
| English words defined with "frostbite": immersion foot ♦ trenchfoot. (references) |
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Screenplays | Let's see if your frostbite is as bad as your bark. (Shadow Raiders; writing credit: Christy Marx; Katherine Lawrence) Sorry guys, got a little frostbite. (Ice Age; writing credit: Michael Berg) | |
Clever | It is important to stay cool, but be sure to not get frostbite. (references; author: unknown) What do you get when you cross a snowman with a vampire? Frostbite. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Frostbite (1983) | |
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Health | They can result from frostbite, surgery, or other causes. (references) | |
Human Rights | Japan | There have been cases of frostbite among the prison population in recent years. (references) |
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| "Frostbite" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 89.74% of the time. "Frostbite" is used about 39 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) | 89.74% | 35 | 58,339 |
| Noun (proper) | 10.26% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 39 | 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
frostbite | 111 | 1.1 frostbite ghost recon | 3 |
frostbite ghost recon | 28 | 1.1 frostbite patch | 3 |
frostbite picture | 19 | aid first frostbite | 2 |
frostbite mod | 12 | frostbite patch | 2 |
frostbite ghost mod recon | 11 | 1.1 frostbite mod | 2 |
1.1 frostbite | 6 | download frostbite | 2 |
can die from frostbite | 6 | frostbite gr | 2 |
frostbite treatment | 5 | fly frostbite material synthetic tying | 2 |
frostbite photo | 5 | frostbite treating | 2 |
frostbite symptom | 4 | frostbite v1.1 | 2 |
falls frostbite | 3 | frostbite ghost mods recon | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "frostbite"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | morth. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | قضمة الصقيع, سفح الجليد, أثر الصقيع. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | измръзнало място. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 冻伤. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | omrzlina (chilblain). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | forfrysning (frost bite), congelatio (frost bite). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | door bevriezing veroorzaakte wond, congelatio (frost bite), congelatie (frost bite), bevriezing (freeze, freezing, frost bite, frost injury, solidification). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | frostvundo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | paleltuma. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | gelure (frost bite, frost injury). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | erfrierung (frost bite). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κρυοπάγημα (frost bite). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | כוית קור. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | fagyás (chilblain). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | congelamento (congealment, congelation, freezing), assideramento. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 霜焼け (chilblains), 凍傷 (chilblains). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しもやけ (chilblains), とうそう (chilblains, conflict, desertion, escape, faction, flight, smallpox, strife, variola), とうしょう (brave leader, chilblains, sword cut, swordsmith). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 동상 (statue). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | greim rioee. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ostbitefray congelação (congelation, freezing), cobrir bolos com açúcar. (various references) отмороженное место (frost-bite). (various references) promrzlina (chilblain). (various references) congelación (congealment, congelation, freeze, freezing). (various references) frostskada (frost, frost injury, nip), förfrysning, kylskada. (various references) เนื้อเยื่อถูกทำลายเพราะความเย็นจั". (various references) soğuk acıtması, donma (congealment, congelation, freeze, freezing, hardening). (various references) відморожувати, відморожене місце. (various references) ewinrhew. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "frostbite": frostbites. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "frostbite" (pronounced frô"stbī't) |
| 3 | -b ī' t | backbite, gigabyte, kilobyte, megabyte, snakebite. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-f-i-o-r-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: frostbit. | |
-2 letters: bettors, bistort, bitters, fitters, forties, orbiest, titfers. | |
-3 letters: befits, bestir, bettor, bister, bistre, bistro, biters, bitter, boites, briefs, britts, fetors, fibers, fibres, fitter, forest, fortes, fortis, foster, fritts, obtest, oftest, orbits, otters, refits, resift, ribose, rifest, rottes, sifter, sitter, sobeit, softer, softie, sorbet, sortie, strife, strobe, titers, titfer, titres, tobies, tories. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-f-i-o-r-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: frostbites. | |
+2 letters: frostbitten. | |
+5 letters: abortifacients. | |
| 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 72 6F 73 74 62 69 74 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. .-. --- ... - -... .. - . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01110010 01101111 01110011 01110100 01100010 01101001 01110100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F r o s t b i t e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0072 006F 0073 0074 0062 0069 0074 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)408481858668758671 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Quotations: Non-fiction 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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