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Giantism

Definitions: Giantism

Giantism

Noun

1. Excessive size; usually caused by excessive secretion of growth hormone from the pituitary gland.

2. Excessive largeness of stature.

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


Synonyms: Giantism

Synonyms: gigantism (n), overgrowth (n). (additional references)

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Usage Frequency: Giantism

"Giantism" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Giantism" is used about 5 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
Noun (singular)100%5157,705

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Giantism

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

  giantism

37
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Giantism

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

Albanian

  

gjigantizëm. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

гигантизъм. (various references)

   

Czech

  

giantismus. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

gigantizmus (gigantism). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

iantismgay

   

Portuguese

  

gigante (giant, King-Size). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

гигантизм (crockitude, crockness). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

gigantizam. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

gigantismo (excessive tallness, gigantism). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

гігантизм. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Giantism

Derivations

Words beginning with "giantism": giantisms. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Giantism

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-g-i-i-m-n-s-t"

-1 letter: animist, imagist, intimas, masting, matings, misting, santimi, smiting, timings.

-2 letters: aiming, animis, gainst, gamins, giants, intima, isatin, mantis, mating, matins, saimin, sating, simian, siting, stigma, taming, timing.

-3 letters: agism, agist, amins, angst, animi, antis, gains, gaits, gamin, giant, gnats, intis, mains, maist, matin, minas, minis, mints, mitis, saint, satin, sigma, staig, stain, stang.

 Words containing the letters "a-g-i-i-m-n-s-t"
 

+1 letter: atomising, giantisms, gigantism, impasting, misacting, misdating, miseating, mismating, misrating, mistaking.

 

+2 letters: amortising, dismasting, estimating, gigantisms, immigrants, magazinist, metalising, migrations, misatoning, miscasting, misparting, misseating, misstating, mistracing, negativism, simulating, timesaving.

 

+3 letters: agnosticism, anatomising, antismoking, dismantling, dramatising, emigrations, empathising, fumigations, geminations, gentamicins, magazinists, magnetising, magnificats, malignities, manifesting, masticating, misadapting, misaltering, miscreating, misgrafting, mislocating, mismatching, mispainting, mispatching, misplanting, misrelating, misstarting, misteaching, mistraining, mistreating, mitigations, multigrains, negativisms, nightmarish, stimulating, sublimating, trigeminals, vigilantism.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Giantism


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

47 69 61 6E 74 69 73 6D

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

--.    ..    .-    -.    -    ..    ...    --

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01000111 01101001 01100001 01101110 01110100 01101001 01110011 01101101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#105 &#97 &#110 &#116 &#105 &#115 &#109

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0069 0061 006E 0074 0069 0073 006D

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

4175678086758579

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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