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Definition: Laetrile |
LaetrileNoun1. A substance derived from amygdalin; publicized as an antineoplastic drug although there is no supporting evidence. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: LaetrileSynonyms: Amygdalin, Vitamin B-17. (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Preservation | Snake oil, spider webs, cure-all; laetrile; charm. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Laetrile Warning.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Some approaches, such as laetrile, have been studied and found ineffective or potentially harmful. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Laetrile" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 83.33% of the time. "Laetrile" is used about 6 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) | 83.33% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 16.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6 | 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 |
laetrile | 116 |
b17 laetrile | 6 |
laetrile therapy | 5 |
cancer cure laetrile | 3 |
laetrile and cancer | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "laetrile"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Pig Latin | aetrilelay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "laetrile": laetriles. (additional references) | |
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"Laetrile" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: lactrile, laetrine, laterlie, Latirel. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-i-l-l-r-t" | |
-1 letter: atelier, literal, tallier. | |
-2 letters: elater, relate, retail, retell, retial, retile, rillet, tailer, taille, taller, telial, teller, tiller. | |
-3 letters: aerie, alert, allee, alter, arete, ariel, artel, eater, elate, elite, ileal, iller, irate, laree, later, liter, litre, ratel, relet, relit, retia, retie, rille, taler, telae, telia, terai, tiler, trail, trial, trill. | |
-4 letters: airt, alee, alit, aril, earl, ilea, lair, lari, late, lati, leal, lear, leer, leet, liar, lier, lilt, lira, lire, lite, rail, rale, rate, real, reel, rete, rial, riel, rile, rill, rite, tael, tail, tale, tali, tall, tare, teal, tear, teel, tela, tele, tell, tier, tile, till, tire, tirl, tree. | |
-5 letters: ail, air, ait, ale, all, alt, are, art, ate, ear, eat, eel, ell, era, ere, eta, ill, ire, lar, lat, lea, lee, lei, let, lie, lit, rat, ree, rei, ret, ria, tae, tar, tea, tee, tel, tie, til. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-i-l-l-r-t" | |
+1 letter: laetriles, treillage. | |
+2 letters: alliterate, electrical, filterable, galleryite, illiterate, lateralize, literalize, literately, palletizer, relatively, treillages. | |
+3 letters: alkalimeter, alliterated, alliterates, allometries, allosteries, artilleries, boilerplate, equilateral, galleryites, heretically, illiterates, inalterable, interallied, intervalley, intolerable, lateralized, lateralizes, leatherlike, legislature, literalized, literalizes, literalness, overliteral, palletizers, reinstalled, trailerable, versatilely, vorticellae. | |
+4 letters: alkalimeters, alliterative, artillerymen, boilerplates, crenellation, defibrillate, deliberately, electrically, elementarily, esoterically, exoterically, fertilizable, frenetically, heliolatries, hellgrammite, hermetically, illiteracies, illiterately, interallelic, interpellate, interstellar, intertillage, intervalleys, intervillage, irrelatively, irrelevantly, legislatures, liberalities, literalities, metallurgies, meteorically, multilayered, peritoneally, reflectional, reticulately, revictualled, thermolabile, verticillate. | |
+5 letters: alkalimetries, allergenicity, alternatively, bioelectrical, braillewriter, candlelighter, caulifloweret, cellularities, centripetally, collateralize, correlatively, credentialled, crenellations, declaratively, deferentially, defibrillated, defibrillates, detrimentally, disenthralled, eccentrically, energetically, everlastingly, exploratively, geometrically, hellgrammites, heterothallic, incrementally, inferentially, intercellular, interdentally, interlinearly, intermetallic, interpellated, interpellates, interpellator, intersexually, intertillages, kapellmeister, literalnesses, metalliferous, metamerically, multibarreled, myoelectrical, nonelectrical, nonfilterable, precollegiate, recrystallize, rectilinearly, referentially, reliabilities, residentially, reverentially, sempiternally, stereological, superlatively, terrestrially, theoretically, ultrareliable, ultraviolence. | |
| 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)4C 61 65 74 72 69 6C 65 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-.. .- . - .-. .. .-.. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01100001 01100101 01110100 01110010 01101001 01101100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L a e t r i l e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0061 0065 0074 0072 0069 006C 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4667718684757871 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Photo Album | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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