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Definitions: Igneous |
IgneousAdjective1. Produced under conditions involving intense heat; "igneous rock is rock formed by solidification from a molten state; especially from molten magma"; "igneous fusion is fusion by heat alone"; "pyrogenic strata". 2. Like or suggestive of fire; "the burning sand"; "a fiery desert wind"; "an igneous desert atmosphere". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "igneous" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references) |
Etymology: Igneous \Ig"ne*ous\, adjective. [Latin expression igneus, from ignis fire; allied to Sanskrit agni, Lith. ugnis, OSlav. ogne.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Geological | Solidified from a magma; also applied to processes related to the formation of igneous rocks. (references) |
Mining | Said of a rock or mineral that solidified from molten or partly molten material, i.e., from a magma; also, applied to processes leading to, related to, or resulting from the formation of such rocks. Igneous rocks constitute one of the three main classes into which rocks are divided, the others being metamorphic and sedimentary. Etymol: Latin ignis, fire. See also:magmatic; plutonic; pyrogenic; hypabyssal; extrusive. (references) |
Public Administration | Rock formed from the solidification of magma. Source: European Union. (references) |
Science | A type of rock that is formed by the cooling of melted rock material either within or on the surface of the Earth. (references) |
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Synonyms: IgneousSynonyms: fiery (adj), pyrogenic (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Heat | Volcanic, plutonic, igneous; isothermal, isothermic, isotheral. |
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Screenplays | That's what they call an igneous intrusion. (The Gay Divorcee; writing credit: J. Hartley Manners; Dwight Taylor) | |
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| "Igneous" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 96.12% of the time. "Igneous" is used about 129 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 96.12% | 124 | 28,785 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.88% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 129 | N/A |
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Expressions using "igneous": igneous rock ♦ igneous rocks. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "igneous": igneous-textured. | |
Ending with "igneous": acid-igneous, meta-igneous. | |
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| 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 |
igneous rock | 176 |
igneous | 34 |
igneous picture rock | 20 |
igneous metamorphic rock sedimentary | 10 |
igneous intrusion | 4 |
igneous metamorphic sedimentary | 4 |
igneous rock type | 3 |
igneous photo rock | 2 |
igneous metamorphic picture rock sedimentary | 2 |
igneous rock use | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "igneous"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i zjarrit, vullkanik (volcanic, vulcanic). (various references) | |
Arabic | ناري (fiery). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | вулканичен (effusive, eruptive, plutonian, plutonic, pyrogenous, volcanic, vulcanic), огнен (fiery, flamy, lurid, phlogistic, sultry), плутоничен (plutonic). (various references) | |
Chinese | 火 (FIRE). (various references) | |
Czech | ohnivý (fiery, inflammatory). (various references) | |
Danish | ildfødt, magmatisk. (various references) | |
Dutch | stollings(gesteente). (various references) | |
Farsi | محترقه , اتشین (Empyreal, Hot), اتش فشانی , اتش دار, اذرین . (various references) | |
Finnish | vulkaaninen, tuli-. (various references) | |
French | igné. (various references) | |
German | vulkanisch (volcanic), eruptiv-, durch feuer gebildet. (various references) | |
Greek | πύρινοσ (fiery, nuclear), πυριγενές, πυριγενήσ (coming from fire). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tüzes (ardent, fierce, fiery, heated, impetuous, mettled, mettlesome, temperament, to feel one's oats). (various references) | |
Italian | igneo. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 火成鉱床 (igneous deposit), 火成活動 (igneous activity), 火山岩 (igneous rock, lava, volcanic rock). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | かざ"が" (igneous rock, lava, volcanic rock), かせいかつどう (igneous activity), かせい"うしょう (igneous deposit). (various references) | |
Korean | "성 (Mars). (various references) | |
Manx | loshtee, chentagh (fulgid, lightninglike), aileagh (fiery, inflammable). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | igneousay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | cabana de esquimó, ígneo (fiery), ígnea. (various references) | |
Romanian | vulcanic (ardent, volcanic), de foc (fiery, lurid). (various references) | |
Russian | вулканический (volcanic), изверженный. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | vatren (ardent, burning, fiery, glowing, gushing, hot-blooded, peppery, perfervid, red-hot, spirited, spunky, torrid), ognjen (ardent, fiery), eruptivan (eruptive). (various references) | |
Spanish | ígneo. (various references) | |
Swedish | vulkanisk (volcanic), magmatisk, magma-, eld- (flamy). (various references) | |
Thai | ซึ่งเกิ"ขึ้น ายใต้ความร้อนจั". (various references) | |
Turkish | volkanik (pyrogenous, vesuvian, volcanic, vulcanic), ateşten, ateşe ait, ateş gibi (fiery, hardworking, very hot). (various references) | |
Ukranian | вулканічний (eruptive, volcanic, vulcanic), вогненний (fiery, lurid, vulcanic), полум'яний (empyreal, red-hot). (various references) | |
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Derivations | |
Words ending with "igneous": ligneous. (additional references) | |
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"Igneous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Agnaou, gineous, igenious, igneus, ignotum, ignus, ingenous, ingeous, Inhous, Vigneau. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "igneous" (pronounced i"gnēus) |
| 4 | -n ē u s | acrimonious, contemporaneous, erroneous, extraneous, felonious, harmonious, homogeneous, ignominious, instantaneous, miscellaneous, percutaneous, sanctimonious, simultaneous, spontaneous, unceremonious. |
| 3 | -ē u s | alias, amphibious, aqueous, bilious, coleus, commodious, copious, courteous, curious, deleterious, delirious, denarius, devious, dubious, envious, fastidious, furious, gaseous, glorious, gregarious, hideous, hilarious, illustrious, imperious, impervious, industrious, inglorious, injurious, insidious, invidious, laborious, lascivious, lugubrious, luxurious, melodious, meritorious, mysterious, nefarious, notorious, nucleus, oblivious, obsequious, obvious, odious, pancreas, penurious, precarious, previous, punctilious, radius, Sartorius, serious, spurious, studious, supercilious, tedious, various, vicarious, victorious, vitreous. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-i-n-o-s-u" | |
-1 letter: genius, soigne. | |
-2 letters: eosin, genus, guise, negus, noise, segni, segno, sengi, singe, suing, using. | |
-3 letters: egis, egos, engs, eons, gens, genu, gien, gies, gins, gnus, goes, gone, guns, ions, noes, nogs, nose, nous, ones, onus, sego, sign, sine, sing, snog, snug, sone, song, sung. | |
-4 letters: ego, eng, ens, eon, gen, gie, gin, gnu, gos, gun, ins, ion, nog, nos, nus, oes, one, ons, ose, seg, sei, sen, sin, son, sou, sue, sun, uns, use. | |
-5 letters: en, es, go, in, is, ne, no, nu, oe, on, os, si, so, un, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-i-n-o-s-u" | |
+1 letter: enginous, epigonus, ligneous. | |
+2 letters: biogenous, cousinage, delousing, ensouling, epigonous, epigynous, espousing, guanosine, gueridons, houseling, ingenious, ingenuous, outdesign, outseeing, overusing, rehousing, sinologue, subregion. | |
+3 letters: autogenies, autosexing, bescouring, beshouting, bespousing, configures, counseling, cousinages, defocusing, euglenoids, eulogising, gelatinous, gluttonies, gramineous, guanosines, gumshoeing, houselling, immunogens, indigenous, leguminous, longitudes, neighbours, neuroglias, oleaginous, outdesigns, outselling, outserving, perigynous, rearousing, refocusing, resounding, scroungier, sinologues, stoutening, subregions, suggestion, ungodliest. | |
+4 letters: beshrouding, chirurgeons, congruities, consanguine, counselings, counselling, countersign, courtesying, defocussing, degustation, doughtiness, enshrouding, equipoising, euglobulins, ferruginous, fluorescing, glauconites, glucokinase, glucosamine, gourmandise, grouchiness, guillotines, honeyguides, ignoramuses, ingeniously, ingenuously, langoustine, ligamentous, monseigneur, neurologies, neurologist, nitrogenous, outblessing, outdesigned, outdressing, outfeasting, outguessing, outpressing, outscheming, outsleeping, outspeaking, outspeeding, outspelling, outspending, outsteering, outswearing, overissuing, oversaucing, oversudsing, oversupping, poussetting, prefocusing, prosecuting, questioning, refocussing, regulations, resprouting, resummoning, roguishness, sanguineous, scouthering, scroungiest, serpiginous, shouldering, smouldering, springhouse, subpoenaing, subregional, suggestions, superposing, surgeonfish, terrigenous, undiagnosed, ungodliness, unloosening, unreasoning, unreligious, unrighteous, unsoldering, vertiginous, voguishness, warehousing. | |
+5 letters: bluestocking, cocounseling, concubinages, congruencies, contiguities, counsellings, countersigns, countersuing, croquignoles, deglutitions, degustations, disemboguing, disingenuous, droughtiness, exiguousness, expurgations, gallinaceous, gelatinously, ghoulishness, gloriousness, glucokinases, glucosamines, glucuronides, glutathiones, gourmandises, gourmandizes, graciousness, grievousness, griseofulvin, groundfishes, housekeeping, housesitting, housewarming, immunologies, impetiginous, indigenously, langoustines, meetinghouse, neurologists, nonreligious, numerologies, numerologist, oleaginously, outbreedings, outdesigning, outgoingness, outintrigues, outorganizes, outspreading, outwrestling, overfocusing, overhuntings, overindulges, overinsuring, oversanguine, overstuffing, packinghouse, pelargoniums, prefocussing, presupposing, reconfigures, resoundingly, rigorousness, silhouetting, spermagonium, springhouses, stonecutting, stringcourse, supercoiling, supercooling, superorganic, uncoalescing, underscoring, ungenerosity, unstoppering, upholstering, urbanologies, vigorousness, youngberries. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 67 6E 65 6F 75 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. --. -. . --- ..- ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01100111 01101110 01100101 01101111 01110101 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I g n e o u s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 0067 006E 0065 006F 0075 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)43738071818785 |
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