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Definition: Fumed |
FumedAdjective1. (of wood) darkened or colored by exposure to ammonia fumes; "fumed oak". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "fumed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references) |
| "Fumed" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 95.18% of the time. "Fumed" is used about 83 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 (past tense) | 95.18% | 79 | 37,388 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 2.41% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 2.41% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 83 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "fumed": fumed oak ♦ fumed silica. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "fumed": paraffin-fumed. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
fumed silica | 15 |
fumed | 8 |
fumed oak | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "fumed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | pyrogen silica (fumed silica, pyrogene silica). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | pyrogeen kiezelzuur (fumed silica, pyrogene silica). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | pyrogeeninen piidioksidi (fumed silica, pyrogene silica). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | silice pyrogéné (fumed silica). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | rauchte (smoked, smokes), räucherte. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πυρογενής καολίνης (fumed silica, pyrogene silica). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | umedfay sílica coloidal pirogenada (fumed silica, pyrogene silica). (various references) sílice pirógena (fumed silica, pyrogene silica). (various references) rökt (smoked). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "fumed": perfumed. (additional references) | |
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"Fumed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fauned, Fiume, fome, fomet, fued, fuem, fuged, fuhe, fuje, fumar, Fumd, fumey, fumir, fumit, fumo, funed, funen, funrd, fured, futed, fuzed, Kumud, ufmd, Umeed, umid. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "fumed" (pronounced fyuw"md) |
| 5 | f y uw" m d | perfumed. |
| 4 | -y uw" m d | exhumed. |
| 3 | -uw" m d | assumed, bloomed, boomed, consumed, doomed, entombed, groomed, loomed, presumed, reassumed, resumed, zoomed. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-f-m-u" | |
-1 letter: feud, fume. | |
-2 letters: due, emf, emu, fed, fem, feu, fud, med, mud. | |
-3 letters: de, ed, ef, em, me, mu, um. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-f-m-u" | |
+1 letter: flumed, muffed. | |
+2 letters: flumped, fumbled, muffled. | |
+3 letters: dreamful, drumfire, fulmined, humified, perfumed, tumefied, unfilmed, unformed, unframed. | |
+4 letters: ausformed, drumfires, feudalism, flummoxed, fumigated, fundament, mudfishes, mufflered, mummified, remindful, semifluid, unfreedom, uniformed, unmuffled. | |
+5 letters: dehumidify, dreamfully, drumfishes, dumfounded, emulsified, feudalisms, formulated, formulized, fulminated, fundaments, furosemide, humidified, humidifier, humidifies, misfocused, outfumbled, referendum, semifeudal, semifluids, undeformed, unfoldment, unfreedoms, uninformed, unmodified, unreformed. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 75 6D 65 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. ..- -- . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01110101 01101101 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F u m e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0075 006D 0065 0064 |
| 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)4087797170 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage Frequency 3. Expressions 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Rhymes 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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