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Definition: Heatstroke |
HeatstrokeNoun1. Collapse caused by exposure to excessive heat. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: HeatstrokeSynonym: heat hyperpyrexia (n). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Heatstroke (1982) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| "Heatstroke" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "Heatstroke" 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 80% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 20% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5 | 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 |
heatstroke | 79 |
dog heatstroke | 17 |
heatstroke symptom | 6 |
canine heatstroke | 2 |
heatstroke treatment | 2 |
heatstroke rabbit | 2 |
cat heatstroke | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "heatstroke"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | goditje nga nxehtësia. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | ضربة الحر, ضربة شمس (sunburn, sunstroke). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | топлинен удар (thermoplegia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | úpal (sunstroke, sun-stroke), úžeh (heat stroke, sunstroke, sun-stroke). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | گرماگرفتگی , غش دراثرگرما. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | coup de chaleur (heat stroke). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | hitzschlag (heat stroke), sonnenstich (heliosis, sunstroke), der Hitzschlag. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מכת חום. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | colpo di calore (heat stroke). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 霍乱 (sunstroke), 熱射病 , 日射病 (sunstroke). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ねっしゃびょう, にっしゃびょう (sunstroke), かくら" (disturbance, sunstroke). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | builley chiass. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eatstrokehay тепловой удар (heat prostration, heat-prostration, heat-stroke). (various references) toplotni udar (heat stroke). (various references) insolación (bark scorch, incident solar radiation, insolation, scorch, solar irradiation, solarisation, solarization, sunburn, sunscald, sunstroke, white spot). (various references) värmeslag. (various references) sıcak çarpması (heat prostration), güneş çarpması (heat prostration, insolation, sunstroke, touch of the sun). (various references) тепловий удар. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | adustione, adustionem. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "heatstroke": heatstrokes. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-h-k-o-r-s-t-t" | |
-2 letters: earthset, hektares, keratose, rheostat, theaters, theatres. | |
-3 letters: aethers, earshot, estreat, hatters, heaters, hektare, heteros, reheats, restate, restoke, retakes, retaste, roseate, rosette, rotates, shatter, tethers, theater, theatre, thereat, thereto, threats, throats, toaster. | |
-4 letters: aether, ahorse, aretes, arkose, ashore, earths, easter, eaters, estate, ethers, haeres, haters, hatter, hearse, hearts, heater, hereat, hereto, heroes, hetero, hoarse, horste, hotter, kasher, ketose, korats, kosher, oaters, orates, others, ottars, otters, rakees, reheat, reseat, reshoe, reshot, resoak, retake, retest, rotate, rottes, seater, setter, shaker, skater, soaker, stater, stator, stereo, stoker, strake, strath, streak, streek, street, stroke, takers, taroks, tarots, taster, taters, teaser, testae, tester, tether, tetras, theres, thetas, threat, threes, throat, throes, tokers, torahs, tortes, toters, tother, treats, troaks, trokes, troths. | |
-5 letters: akees, arete, arose, asker, aster, earth, eater, erase, erose, eskar, esker, ester, ether, ethos, haets, hakes, hares, harks, harts, haste, hater, hates, hears, heart, heats, heres, heros, hoars, hoers, hokes, horas, horse, horst, hosta, karst, karts, keets, khats, khets, korat, oater, oaths, okehs, okras, orate, other, ottar, otter, rakee, rakes, rates, rathe, ratos, reeks, reest, reset, rheas, roast, roset, rotas, rotes, rotte, saker, saree, setae, shake, shako, share, shark, shear, sheer, sheet, shoat, shoer, shore, short, shote, shott, skate, skeet, stake, stare, stark, start, state, steak, steek, steer, stere, stoae, stoat, stoke, store, stork, tahrs, taker, takes, tares, tarok, taros, tarot, tarts, taste, tater, tates, teaks, tears, tease, teats, teeth, terse, testa, teths, tetra, there, these, theta, those, three, throe, toast, toeas, toker, tokes, torah, toras, tores, torse, torsk, torte, torts, toter, totes, trash, treat, trees, treks, trets, troak, troke, troth, trots. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-h-k-o-r-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: heatstrokes. | |
| 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)48 65 61 74 73 74 72 6F 6B 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... . .- - ... - .-. --- -.- . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01100101 01100001 01110100 01110011 01110100 01110010 01101111 01101011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H e a t s t r o k e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0065 0061 0074 0073 0074 0072 006F 006B 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)42716786858684817771 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Translations: Ancient 8. Derivations | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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