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Definition: Incise |
InciseVerb1. 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) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: Incise |
| English words defined with "incise": Incising. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "incise": ADZING-AND-BORING-MACHINE OPERATOR ♦ PIPE-AND-TANK FABRICATOR ♦ tie-mill operator. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "incise": Incide, incision. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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, εντÎμνω. (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 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) 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) вырезать (carve, chip out, cut out, exscind, intaglio), надрезать (scotch, snick). (various references) zaseći (cut, indent, notch, scarify, score, scotch, snick). (various references) 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) skära in (cut in, cut into), rista in (engrave, scratch), gravera in (engrave). (various references) 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) вирізувати (carve, chisel, cut, cut out, excise), надрізати (scotch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | guruš. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "incise": incised, incises. (additional references) | |
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"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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "incise" (pronounced i'nsī"z) |
| 3 | -s ī" z | oversize, sighs, size. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
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. | |
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