Lanolin

Definitions: Lanolin

Lanolin

Noun

1. A yellow viscous animal oil extracted from wool; a mixture of fatty acids and esters; used in some ointments and cosmetics.

2. An emollient containing wool fat (a fatty substance obtained from the wool of sheep).

Date "lanolin" was first used: 1882. (references)

Etymology: Lanolin \Lan"o*lin\, noun. [Latin expression lana wool oleum oil.]. (Websters 1913)

Specialty Definitions: Lanolin

Domain	Definitions
European Union	Obtained by purifying wool grease. Source: European Union. (references)
Health	A yellow fat obtained from sheep's wool. It is used as an emollient, cosmetic, and pharmaceutic aid. (references)
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Specialty Definition: Lanolin

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Lanolin is "wool fat" or grease, chemically akin to wax, it is produced by wool-bearing animals such as sheep. It helps them to shed water from their coats. Certain breeds of sheep produce large amounts of lanolin and the extraction can be performed by squeezing the wool between rollers.Lanolin is used commercially in a great many products ranging from rust preventitive coatings to cosmetics. Most or all the lanolin is removed from wool when it is processed into textiles e.g. yarn or felt.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Lanolin."

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Synonyms: Lanolin

Synonyms: wool fat (n), wool grease (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Lanolin

Specialty definitions using "lanolin": HAT-FINISHING-MATERIALS PREPARER. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Lanolin" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Czech (lanolin), German (lanolin), Hungarian (lanolin, lanoline), Serbo-Croatian (lanolin), Swedish (lanolin, lanoline), Turkish (lanolin, suint).

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Commercial Usage: Lanolin

Domain	Title
References	The World Market for Wool Grease, Fatty Substances Derived from Wool Grease, and Lanolin Excluding Crude Wool Grease: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference) (more reference examples)
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Non-Fiction Usage: Lanolin

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Cover your feet (except for the skin between the toes) with petroleum jelly, a lotion containing lanolin, or cold cream before putting on shoes and socks. (references)
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Usage Frequency: Lanolin

"Lanolin" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Lanolin" is used about 16 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)	100%	16	87,710

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

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Expression: Lanolin

Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "lanolin": lanolin-free.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Lanolin

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
lanolin	283
lanolin anhydrous	9
lanolin cream	6
lanolin oil	5
pure lanolin	4
triple lanolin	4
allergy lanolin	3
lanolin product	3
liquid lanolin	2
lanolin soap	2
breast feeding lanolin	2
lanolin hydrous	2
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Modern Translations: Lanolin

Language		Translations for "lanolin"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		lanolinë. (various references)

Arabic		‏اللانولين دهن الصوف. (various references)

Bulgarian		ланолин (wool fat). (various references)

Chinese		羊毛脂. (various references)

Czech		lanolin. (various references)

Danish		lanolin. (various references)

Dutch		lanoline. (various references)

French		lanoline. (various references)

German		lanolin. (various references)

Greek		λανολίνη (lanoline). (various references)

Hebrew		שומן צמר. (various references)

Hungarian		lanolin (lanoline). (various references)

Italian		lanolina. (various references)

Manx		ooill olley. (various references)

Pig Latin		anolinlay

Portuguese		lanolina (lansquenet), frouxo (bleak, flaccid, floppy, free for all, incompact, languid, lax, loose, sloppy link). (various references)

Romanian		lanolinã (lanoline). (various references)

Russian		ланолин. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		lanolin. (various references)

Spanish		lanolina. (various references)

Swedish		lanolin (lanoline). (various references)

Turkish		lanolin (suint). (various references)

Ukranian		ланолін (lanoline). (various references)

Vietnamese		lanolin mỡ lông cừu. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Lanolin

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	lana. (various references)
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Derivations & Misspellings: Lanolin

Derivations
	Words beginning with "lanolin": lanoline, lanolines, lanolins. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Lanolin" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Danoli, Janoli, lanoxin, Leolin, lianoid, lincolnian, linolin, Llanelian, Llanonig, oleanolic. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Lanolin"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "lanolin" (pronounced la"nulun)
5	-n u l u n	adrenaline.
4	-u l u n	globulin, insulin, javelin, Magdalen, masculine, porcelain, Zeppelin.
3	-l u n	Alan, Ballon, befallen, Billon, bouillon, Callan, Chamberlain, chaplain, colon, crestfallen, discipline, elan, fallen, felon, gallon, gremlin, kaolin, Kremlin, Marlin, melon, Mullen, muskmelon, muslin, pelon, penicillin, pentathlon, phenolphthalein, pollen, solan, Solon, stolen, stollen, sullen, swollen, talon, Tolan, triathlon, vanillin, villain, watermelon, woolen, woollen.
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Anagrams: Lanolin

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-i-l-l-n-n-o"
	-2 letters: aloin, anion, llano.
	-3 letters: anil, anon, lain, linn, lino, lion, loan, loin, nail, naoi, nill, noil, nona, olla.
	-4 letters: ail, ain, all, ani, ill, inn, ion, lin, nan, nil, oil.
	-5 letters: ai, al, an, in, la, li, lo, na, no, on.
	Words containing the letters "a-i-l-l-n-n-o"
	+1 letter: lanoline, lanolins.
	+2 letters: allantoin, lanolines, nominally, nonlineal.
	+3 letters: allantoins, ballooning, cannelloni, nationally, nonallelic, nonlexical, nonliteral, nonlogical, notionally, volplaning.
	+4 letters: alloantigen, allowancing, balloonings, bankrolling, canonically, carillonned, congenially, connubially, continually, landholding, monolingual, neocolonial, nonallergic, nonclerical, nonclinical, noncyclical, nonfamilial, nonmetallic, nonracially, nonsyllabic, nonvolatile, pollinating, pollination, snowballing, unhallowing.
	+5 letters: alloantigens, anticolonial, antiglobulin, antiphonally, cancellation, cantillation, carillonneur, carillonning, colonialness, concealingly, congenitally, crenellation, declensional, functionally, geosynclinal, hallucinogen, illumination, inconsolable, inconsolably, inflectional, inhalational, installation, instillation, intolerantly, involutional, landholdings, longitudinal, mnemonically, monolinguals, nonalcoholic, nonclassical, nonclericals, noncollinear, nonpolitical, pollinations, pronominally, stonewalling, unironically.
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