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Full-term

Definition: Full-term

Full-term

Adjective

1. Gestated for the entire duration of normal pregnancy; "a healthy full-term baby".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Full-term

Synonym by domain: carry for full term (medicine).
Antonym: premature (adj). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Full-term

DomainTitle

Books

  • The Neurological Assessment of the Preterm & Full-Term Newborn Infant (reference)

  • Manual of Methods of Recording and Analyzing Sleep-Wakefulness States in Preterm and Full-Term Infants (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Full-term

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

The lungs of most full-term infants are soft and pliable. (references)

RDS may also occur in full-term babies born to diabetic mothers. (references)

However, it is not clear that data from such animal models can be generalized to full-term normal human infants. (references)

Economic History

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan must take several more steps to fulfill its IPR commitments under its bilateral trade agreement with the U.S. including providing full-term retroactive protection for U.S. copyrights. (references)

Haiti

Notwithstanding the previous year's electoral controversy, the inauguration marked the first time in the country's history that a full-term president peacefully transferred power to an incoming president. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Full-term

"Full-term" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Full-term" is used about 8 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%8124,375

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Full-term

Language Translations for "full-term"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Finnish

  

täysiaikainen (mature). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ull-termfay

   

Portuguese

  

mandato completo. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Full-term

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-f-l-l-m-r-t-u"

-2 letters: fluter, fuller, muller, mullet.

-3 letters: femur, flume, flute, fumer, fumet, lemur, muter, trull, tulle.

-4 letters: fell, felt, flue, fret, fuel, full, fume, furl, left, lure, lute, mell, melt, merl, mule, mull, mure, mute, reft, rule, tell, term, tref, true, tule, turf.

-5 letters: eft, elf, ell, elm, emf, emu, fem, fer, fet, feu, flu, fur.

 Words containing the letters "e-f-l-l-m-r-t-u"
 

+2 letters: tumblerful.

 

+3 letters: masterfully, tumblerfuls.

 

+4 letters: mournfullest, ultraleftism.

 

+5 letters: metalliferous, ultraleftisms.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Full-term


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 75 6C 6C 2D 74 65 72 6D

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01110101 01101100 01101100 00101101 01110100 01100101 01110010 01101101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#117 &#108 &#108 &#45 &#116 &#101 &#114 &#109

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0075 006C 006C 002D 0074 0065 0072 006D

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

408778781586718479

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Usage Frequency
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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