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Incise

Definition: Incise

Incise

Verb

1. Make an incision into by carving or cutting.

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

Note: Incise \In*cise"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Incised; present participle verb or noun Incising.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms within Context: Incise

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

Disjunction

Sunder, divide, subdivide, sever, dissever, abscind; circumcise; cut; incide, incise; saw, snip, nib, nip, cleave, rive, rend, slit, split, splinter, chip, crack, snap, break, tear, burst; rend; rend asunder, rend in twain; wrench, rupture, shatter, shiver, cranch, crunch, craunch, chop; cut up, rip up; hack, hew, slash; whittle; haggle, hackle, discind, lacerate, scamble, mangle, gash, hash, slice.

Furrow

Verb: furrow; Noun: flute, plow; incise, engrave, etch, bite in.

Remedy

Operate, excise, cut out; incise.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Incise

English words defined with "incise": Incising. (references)
Specialty definitions using "incise": ADZING-AND-BORING-MACHINE OPERATORPIPE-AND-TANK FABRICATORtie-mill operator. (references)
Etymologies containing "incise": Incide, incision. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Incise

DomainTitle

Books

  • Vetri, cammei e pietre incise (reference)

  • Le gemme incise di età romana dei Civici musei di Udine (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Usage Frequency: Incise

"Incise" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Incise" is used about 2 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
Lexical Verb (infinitive)100%2245,945

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

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Modern Translations: Incise

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

Albanian

  

skalit (carve, chase, engrave, inscribe, sculp, sculpt, sculpture), skalis (carve, chase, engrave, inscribe, sculp, sculpt, sculpture), gdhend (adz, adze, carve, chase, chisel, die, enchase, engrave, gouge, inscribe, intaglio, Nick, polish, rasp, refine, sculp, sculpt, sculpture, shape, shave). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

â€Ù†Ù‚Ø´ (carve, carving, chasing, chisel, chiselling, engrave, engraving, headpiece, incision, inscribe, inscription, lettering, picture), â€Ù†Ø­Øª (boast, carving, chisel, erode, gouge, pattern, scratch, sculpt, sculpture), â€Ø´Ù‚ (chap, check, chink, cleavage, cleave, cleft, crack, cranny, crash, crevasse, crevice, cut, excavate, fissure, flaw, fracture, hew, hole, incision, jag, loophole, lump, nick, open, overture, part, rift, rip, rive, slash, slit, slot, snag, snip, spiracle, splinter, split, spring, tear, twist). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

гравирам (chase, cut, enchase, engrave, etch, rout out, sink), врÑзвам (inlay, inscribe, intaglio, notch), изрÑзвам (cut out, excise, nip off, scissor, sink), издълбавам (bore, chase, engrave, gouge, hollow out, notch, quarry, scoop out, scrape, scrape out). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

切 (incised, Incising, sliced, slicing). (various references)

   

Czech

  

vrýt (lapidate), vřezat. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

viiltää (cut, slash, slit). (various references)

   

French

  

inciser (make an incision), graver (inscribe), faire une incision dans. (various references)

   

German

  

einschneiden (carve, cut in, cut into, gash, incising, incision, intersection, lancing, nick, notch). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

χαÏάσσω (carve, cut, grave, inscribe, notch, score, scrive), εγχαÏάσσω, εντέμνω. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

לחתוך (cut, gash, intersect, jag, scotch, sever, slash), לחרות (carve, chase, chisel, engrave, imprint, inscribe, print). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

bevés (engrain, engrave, etch, ingrain, inscribe, to engrain, to engrave, to etch, to grave, to incise, to ingrain), bevág (cut in, gash, Nick, notch, paste in, scotch, slam, to bang, to cut in, to excise, to gash, to hack, to incise, to indent, to let in, to re-enter, to tuck sg away), bemetsz (Nick, pinpoint, score, snick, to engrave, to excise, to incise, to nick, to notch, to scarify, to slit, to tap). (various references)

   

Italian

  

intagliare (carve, crave, engrave, indent, Nick, notch, whittle), incidere (box, carve, cur away, engrave, gravedigger, impress, influence, inscribe, lance, record, score, tap, to ball). (various references)

   

Manx

  

grainnaghey (carve, carving, chase, engrave, grave, graving, inlay, inscribe, sculpture, tool), giarrey (abbreviate, abridge, abridging, axe, beat out, bob the tail; severance, bob; severance, carve, castrate, cleave, clip, clip as words; slicing, clip; slicing, condensation, condense, condensing, crop, crop as tail, curtail, curtailment, cut, cut away, cut back, cut short, cut up, disconnect, disconnection, dissect, erupt, eruption, flux, gash, hack, hew, incision, infliction, intersect, intersection, lance, levy, lop, mark out, nicking, prune, pruning, puncture, reaping, scission, section, sever, shear, sink, slash, slit, snip, truncate), cur giarrey ayn. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

inciseay

   

Portuguese

  

incisar, que começa (opening), fazer uma incisão em, entalhar (carve, chisel, Dent, furrow, groove, hack, indent, jag, mortice, mortise, nickel, notch, rabbet), cortar (bite, chaff, chip, chop, clip, crop, cross out, curtail, cut, cut chiplessly, cut down, cut off, cut without stock removal, delete, detruncate, fell, gash, gouge, hack, hackle, hand back, hew, hew down, indent, interrupt, intersect, let by, log, lope, lumber, mow, pollack, pollen, sever, shave, shear, shut off, slice, slicing, slit, strike off, strike out, to "blue pencil", to arrest, to cut, to hit, use the blue pencil, Whittle). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

tãia (amputate, ax, axe, butcher, cancel, carve, carve out, castrate, chop, clap, cleave, clip, crop, cross, Curdle, cut, cut on the bias, Dent, dissect, engrave, excise, exscind, fell, flench, foul, grave, hew, intercept, kill, measure off, notch, notch off, pare, plough, prune, quarter, resect, rip, Rive, separate, sever, shear, shorten, shut the works down, slaughter, slay, slice, snick, split, Square, stop, strike out, switch off), grava (carve, chase, cut, emboss, engrave, etch, grave, inscribe), face o incizie în. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

вырезать (carve, chip out, cut out, exscind, intaglio), надрезать (scotch, snick). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

zaseći (cut, indent, notch, scarify, score, scotch, snick). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

inciso (cut, design, gash, section, slash, sliced, style), incidir (fall on, fall upon, influence), tallar (carve, crave, cut, measure, shape, whittle, work), hacer corto (clip), grabar (cut, encumber, engrave, engraving, impress, imprint, print, record, tape), cortar (ax, axe, bar, behead, block off, Bob, break, break in, chop, clip, comminute, crop, cut, cut across, cut away, cut down, cut in, cut off, cut out, cut up, decapitate, detruncate, disbranch, excise, exscind, fell, hack, intersect, joint, lop, lop away, lop off, lumber, mow, Nick, nip, open, pare, pick, pluck, prune, sever, shear, shear off, shear through, shut off, slice, slit, snick, strike off, tear off, to cut, to hit, trim away, trim off, turn off, turn out, Whittle). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

skära in (cut in, cut into), rista in (engrave, scratch), gravera in (engrave). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yarmak (breach, chop, cleave, Crimp, disrupt, flaw, hew, maul, plough, plow, rend, rift, rip, sever, slash, slit, splinter, split, tear, wedge off), oymak (bore, boy-scout troop, carve, cave, cave in, chase, chisel, clan, cut, engrave, etch, excavate, gouge, gouge out, grave, hollow, hollow out, recess, scoop out, sculp, sculpt, sculpture, trace over, tribe), kazımak (delete, erase, grave, inscribe, rub, rub out, scrape, scratch, scratch along, scratch out, stamp, strip), hakketmek (carve, chase, engrave, etch, trace over), deşmek (dig, dig out, dig up, dredge up, exhume, open up, probe, root). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

вирізувати (carve, chisel, cut, cut out, excise), надрізати (scotch). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Incise

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Sumerian3100 BCE-2500 BCE

guruš. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Incise

Derivations

Words beginning with "incise": incised, incises. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Incise" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Enciso, Incafe, inceste, Inci, incire, incis, incisel, inciser, incisl, incisve, incus, indis, inkies, inlies, insise, insize, Ncsi, nicish, nicoise, Nikica. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Incise"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "incise" (pronounced i'nsī"z)
3-s ī" zoversize, sighs, size.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Incise

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-i-i-n-s"

-1 letter: cines, nisei, since.

-2 letters: cine, ices, nice, nisi, sice, sine.

-3 letters: cis, ens, ice, ins, sec, sei, sen, sic, sin.

-4 letters: en, es, in, is, ne, si.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-i-i-n-s"
 

+1 letter: cuisine, eosinic, iciness, incised, incises, incites, indices, irenics, kinesic, menisci, piscine, sericin.

 

+2 letters: canities, ceilings, cinerins, citizens, citrines, coniines, crinites, cuisines, cutinise, decision, excising, excision, gneissic, ichnites, ickiness, incisive, incisure, inciters, inclines, inscribe, invoices, isocline, isogenic, kinesics, kinetics, lemnisci, minciest, niceties, nitchies, oscinine, penicils, piecings, piscinae, recision, salicine, sciaenid, sciurine, sericins, silicone, sinicize, soricine, syenitic, zincites.

 

+3 letters: acridines, actinides, andesitic, anglicise, bisecting, bisection, carnifies, centesimi, chinkiest, chiseling, ciphonies, cisalpine, clingiest, coincides, colicines, cretinism, culicines, cutinised, cutinises, cutinizes, cytidines, decisions, dehiscing, diclinies, disinfect, echinoids, eclipsing, enclitics, epicenism, epsilonic, ethicians, evictions, excisions, extrinsic, fancifies, hygienics, iceblinks, icinesses, incensing, incidents, incisures, incliners, inclusive, indicates, indictees, indicters, inelastic, infancies, injustice, inscribed, inscriber, inscribes, insectile, insincere, isoclines, isogeneic, itchiness, juiciness, lecithins, licensing, lichenins, medicines, messianic, miniscule, miscoined, neuritics, nicotines, picolines, piercings, pliancies, precisian, precising, precision, recisions, reincites, reindicts, reminisce, ricinuses, salicines, sciaenids, sciential, scientism, scientist, scientize, sciurines, scrieving, semitonic, servicing, sibilance, sickening, silencing, silicones, sincerity, sinicized, sinicizes, spiciness, vicinages, zincifies.

 

+4 letters: acrimonies, anglicised, anglicises, anglicizes, anticaries, anticlines, antiseptic, austenitic, bijections, biocenosis, bioscience, bisections, bitchiness, caecilians, calcimines, caninities, carnitines, cashiering, celloidins, cherishing, chieftains, chilliness, chinchiest, chintziest, chiselling, cinerarias, citizeness, clonidines, cocainizes, coexisting, conicities, cousinries, creolising, cretinisms, criminates, crinkliest, crinolines, crispening, crispiness, criterions, decillions, decisional, decisioned, deficients, depictions, describing, deviancies, dicentrics, dieticians, diligences, directions, discepting, discerning, discipline, discretion, disincline, disinfects, disjecting, dissecting, dissection, dissidence, distincter, dyskinetic, eicosanoid, eminencies, ensigncies, epicenisms, eugenicist, excipients, excisional, exercising, exigencies, exorcising, exscinding, feminacies, feministic, financiers, finickiest, fungicides, geneticist, hedonistic, hematinics, ickinesses, imminences, incentives, inceptions, inceptives, incidences, incisively, increasing, indecision, indecisive, indexicals, indigences, indiscreet, infections, infectious, inflicters, injections, injustices, inscribers, insecurity, insistence, insistency, insociable, inspecting, inspection, inspective, instancies, interdicts, interstice, intimacies, invectives, ionicities, iridescent, isentropic, isoenzymic, isoleucine, kinematics, kineticist, leniencies, licentious, lidocaines, luciferins, meclizines, medicinals, melanistic, micronizes, midsection, militances, minacities, minicourse, miniscules, nepotistic, niccolites, nictitates, nitpickers, novelistic, omniscient, panickiest, pencilings, pernicious, picnickers, piquancies, plasticine, pontifices, precisians, precisions, preslicing, princeship, principles, psittacine, radiancies, recipients, rejoicings, relictions, reminisced, reminiscer, reminisces, rescinding, rescission, resilience, resiliency, resplicing, saliencies, sanctified, sanctifier, sanctifies, sanctities, sapiencies, scientific, scientisms, scientists, scientized, scientizes, scrutinies, scrutinise, scrutinize, sectioning, sibilances, sickliness, snickering, solecising, solecizing, speciating, speciation, specifying, stenciling, stickiness, subceiling, subindices, sufficient, tenacities, tonicities, trickiness, tricotines, trisecting, trisection, unspecific, valiancies, vesicating, vibrancies, vicereines, vicinities, vigilances, vindicates.

 

+5 letters: acetanilids, acquiescing, actinolites, airsickness, ancientries, ancillaries, aniseikonic, anticipates, antiemetics, antiscience, antiseptics, antisuicide, beauticians, besmirching, biocoenosis, biosciences, bisectional, brilliances, cabinetries, calisthenic, candidacies, candidiases, cannibalise, captaincies, carabiniers, caregivings, carnalities, cartelising, centiliters, centillions, certainties, chicaneries, chickenshit, chiffoniers, chinoiserie, christening, cimetidines, cinchonines, cinematizes, cinquefoils, citizenries, citizenship, citrullines, clarinetist, cloistering, clonicities, codesigning, colchicines, communities, concavities, conciliates, congruities, considering, consigliere, consiglieri, conspecific, convexities, cosmetician, creatinines, creationism, creationist, cytokinesis, decimations, decisioning, dedications, dentifrices, description, desiccating, desiccation, diachronies, diffidences, dilatancies, discernible, discernibly, disciplined, discipliner, disciplines, discontinue, discovering, discretions, disinclined, disinclines, disinfected, disjunctive, dissections, dissidences, distinctest, distinctive, dominickers, economising, ecumenicism, ecumenicist, eicosanoids, emaciations, encomiastic, esthetician, ethnicities, eugenicists, excitations, exsiccating, exsiccation, extinctions, fanaticizes, fecundities, fictioneers, fictionizes, fictiveness, fingerpicks, finicalness, finickiness, finnickiest, flippancies, frenchifies, freneticism, geneticists, gentamicins, grecianizes, hesitancies, iceboatings, iconicities, iconologies, illicitness, immanencies, imminencies, immittances, impatiences, impecunious, impotencies, imprecision, impuissance, inactivates, inchoatives, incidentals, incinerates, incipiences, incitements, inclusively, inconscient, indecencies, indecisions, indehiscent, indicatives, indictments, inerrancies, inexistence, inflections, innocencies, inscriptive, insectaries, insecticide, insectivore, insentience, insincerely, insincerity, insistences, insouciance, inspections, instinctive, instructive, interchains, interstices, intestacies, intoxicates, intricacies, invariances, inviolacies, ionospheric, iridescence, irradiances, isoleucines, itchinesses, ivermectins, jocundities, juicinesses, kinescoping, kinesthetic, kineticists, lecithinase, leucocidins, licentiates, linecasting, luminescing, machineries, magnificoes, manneristic, martensitic, masculinise, masculinize, mechanistic, medications, mendacities, mendicities, mentalistic, mercerising, microclines, microinches, midsections, militancies, millisecond, minicourses, misalliance, misbecoming, misconceive, miscreating, miscreation, misguidance, misstricken, misteaching, modernistic, necessities, nematicides, neologistic, neophiliacs, neuroticism, nitpickiest, noncitizens, nondecision, nonspecific, nontheistic, obscenities, obstinacies, omniscience, pantheistic, pencillings, penicillins, percipients, pheneticist, phonemicist, picaninnies, plasticines, poignancies, precipitins, predictions, prescinding, prescribing, prickliness, princeliest, princelings, princeships, proficients, pruriencies, psittacines, pugnacities, quinacrines, rancidities, recitations, recognising, relicensing, reminiscent, reminiscers, reminiscing, renitencies, rescissions, reservicing, residencies, resiliences, restitching, restricting, restriction, reticencies, reviviscent, romanticise, sanctifiers, scientizing, scintillate, scrutinised, scrutinises, scrutinized, scrutinizer, scrutinizes, semanticist, seminomadic, semiotician, sickeningly, sickishness, siliconized, sincerities, singlestick, slickenside, speciations, sphincteric, spicinesses, spinachlike, stencilling, stridencies, stringpiece, subceilings, subdecision, sufficiency, suspicioned, synergistic, technicians, thermionics, thickenings, trichinizes, trichinoses, tricksiness, trisections, tyrocidines, unclarities, unrealistic, unsolicited, unspecified, vaticinates, vicariances, viciousness, vincristine, viridescent, virulencies, viscounties, vivisecting, vivisection, voiceprints, xenobiotics.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Incise


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

49 6E 63 69 73 65

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)

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

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

01001001 01101110 01100011 01101001 01110011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#73 &#110 &#99 &#105 &#115 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 006E 0063 0069 0073 0065

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

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

438069758571

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Translations: Modern
6. Translations: Ancient
7. Derivations
8. Rhymes
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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