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Fusel Oil

Definition: Fusel Oil

Fusel Oil

Noun

1. A mixture of amyl alcohols and propanol and butanol formed from distillation of fermented liquors.

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


Specialty Definition: Fusel Oil

DomainDefinition

Food & Agriculture

A collective term for the higher alcohols occurring in wines and spirits. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Synonyms within Context: Fusel Oil

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Oil

Noun: oil, fat, butter, cream, grease, tallow, suet, lard, dripping exunge, blubber; glycerin, stearin, elaine, oleagine; soap; soft soap, wax, cerement; paraffin, spermaceti, adipocere; petroleum, mineral, mineral rock, mineral crystal, mineral oil; vegetable oil, colza oil, olive oil, salad oil, linseed oil, cottonseed oil, soybean oil, nut oil; animal oil, neat's foot oil, train oil; ointment, unguent, liniment; aceite, amole, Barbados tar; fusel oil, grain oil, rape oil, seneca oil; hydrate

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Fusel Oil

English words defined with "fusel oil": AmylFaints, Foreshot, Fusel. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Fusel Oil

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

fusel oil

10
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Modern Translation: Fusel Oil

Language Translations for "fusel oil"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

фузелово масло. (various references)

   

Danish

  

fuselolie, fusel. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

foezeolie, foezelolie. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

sikunaöljy. (various references)

   

French

  

fusel, huile de fusel. (various references)

   

German

  

Fuseloel, Fuseöl. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ζυμέλαιο, ανώτερες αλκοόλες του οίνου. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kozmaolaj. (various references)

   

Italian

  

fuselolio, fusel, olio di flemma. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

フーゼル油 (far, Far East, farce, farm, farm stay, fast, fast back, fast break, fast food, fiber, fiberboard, fiberglass, fiberscope, fibre, fight, fight money, fighter, fighting spirit, file, filename, filesystem, filing system, final, final set, finance, fire, fire alarm, fire insurance, fire storm, fireman, fireproof, firewall, firm, firm banking, firmware, first, first impression, first lady, first run, first-class, first-name, five-star, food, food processor, Fourier, fur, fur coat, furniture, hood, hoop, pharmacy, purse, whodunit). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

フーゼルゆ. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

uselfay oilay

   

Portuguese

  

fuselol, fusel, óleo de fusel, álcool amílico (amyl alcohol, isoamyl alcohol(CH3.(CH2)3.CH2OH)). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

сивушное масло. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

mikstura dobijena alkoholnim vrenjem žitarica. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

fusel, petróleo (crude oil, oil, paraffin, petroleum), aceite de fusel. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

finkelolja, finkel (rotgut). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

zehirli alkol karışımı (fusel). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Fusel Oil

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-f-i-l-l-o-s-u"

-1 letter: follies.

-2 letters: filles, fillos, filose, folles, follis, fusile, louies.

-3 letters: fells, files, fille, fillo, fills, filos, flies, floes, flues, foils, fouls, fuels, fulls, fusel, fusil, ileus, lieus, lisle, losel, louie, louis, louse, ousel, solei, sulfo.

-4 letters: ells, fell, feus, file, fill, filo, fils, floe, flue, flus, foes, foil, foul, fuel, full, fuse, ills, isle.

 Words containing the letters "e-f-i-l-l-o-s-u"
 

+3 letters: feloniously, feuilletons, mellifluous, polysulfide.

 

+4 letters: cauliflowers, felicitously, overfulfills, polysulfides.

 

+5 letters: feuilletonism, feuilletonist, floricultures, flugelhornist, mellifluously, metalliferous, umbelliferous.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Fusel Oil


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

46 75 73 65 6C      4F 69 6C

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

    

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

01000110 01110101 01110011 01100101 01101100 00100000 01001111 01101001 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#117 &#115 &#101 &#108 &#32 &#79 &#105 &#108

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0075 0073 0065 006C      004F 0069 006C

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

40878571782497578

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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