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Definition: Litmus |
LitmusNoun1. A coloring material (obtained from lichens) that turns red in acid solutions and blue in alkaline solutions; used as a very rough acid-base indicator. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Litmus \Lit"mus\, noun. [from Dutch expression lakmoes; lak lacker moes thick preparation of fruit, pap, probably akin to English meat: compare to German lackmus. See Lac resinous substance.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | Any of several plants whose flowers and stems are supposed to turn with the sun. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A blue dyestuff that turns red when treated by an acid and remains bluewhen treated by an alkali. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Litmus is a water-soluble dye extracted from certain lichens. It turns red under acid conditions and blue under alkaline conditions, the colour change occurring over the pH range 4.5-8.3 (at 25°C). Absorbed on to filter paper to make litmus papers it is one of the oldest pH indicators.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Litmus."
Synonym: LitmusSynonym: litmus test (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Experiment | Verification, probation, experimentum crucis, proof, (demonstration); criterion, diagnostic, test, probe, crucial test, acid test, litmus test. |
Crucible, reagent, check, touchstone, pix; assay, ordeal; ring; litmus paper, curcuma paper, turmeric paper; test tube; analytical instruments. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Litmus |
| English words defined with "litmus": acid, alkali, Amphichroic ♦ base ♦ Erythrolein ♦ genus Pertusaria ♦ Lacmus, litmus paper, litmus test ♦ Orcein ♦ Parelle, Pertusaria ♦ roccella, Roccella tinctoria ♦ test paper, Turnsole. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "litmus": ACETYLENE-PLANT OPERATOR ♦ COLOR MAKER ♦ DE-IONIZER OPERATOR ♦ electroplater, automatic ♦ GAS-LEAK TESTER ♦ LEAD-NITRATE PROCESSOR, lead-shop operator ♦ mercerizer, mercerizer-machine operator ♦ NITROGLYCERIN DISTRIBUTOR, NITROGLYCERIN NEUTRALIZER ♦ plater production, PLATING EQUIPMENT TENDER ♦ skein-mercerizing-machine operator ♦ YARN-MERCERIZER OPERATOR I. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "litmus": Erythrolitmin. (references) |
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| "Litmus" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 54.17% of the time. "Litmus" is used about 48 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) | 54.17% | 26 | 68,323 |
| Noun (proper) | 45.83% | 22 | 74,468 |
| Total | 100.00% | 48 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "litmus": litmus paper ♦ litmus test. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "litmus": litmus-paper, litmus-test. | |
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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 |
litmus paper | 69 |
litmus | 35 |
litmus test | 21 |
back door litmus | 14 |
litmus virus | 12 |
back door litmus virus | 5 |
litmus mary sue test | 4 |
litmus green | 4 |
blue litmus paper | 3 |
litmus strip | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "litmus"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | lakmus. (various references) | |
Arabic | صبغة عباد الشمس. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | лакмус (cudbear). (various references) | |
Chinese | 石蕊. (various references) | |
Czech | lakmus. (various references) | |
Danish | lakmusplante (turnsole). (various references) | |
Dutch | tournesol (turnsole). (various references) | |
Farsi | تورنسل . (various references) | |
Finnish | lakmuspaperi (litmus paper), kallioruostenyppyjäkälä (cockur, crotal, crottle, litmus lichen), kalliokermajäkälä (cockur, crotal, crottle, litmus lichen). (various references) | |
French | tournesol des teinturiers, tournesol, maurelle. (various references) | |
German | lackmus (lacmus). (various references) | |
Greek | βάμμα ηλιοτροπίου (lacmus), χρωματοφόρος η βαφική (turnsole), ηλιοτρόπιο (heliotrope, sunflower), ερυθροκυανόσ βαφή. (various references) | |
Hungarian | lakmusz. (various references) | |
Italian | tornasole, moro dei tintori (turnsole), fustik (turnsole). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | リチウ 爆弾 (car with 1000cc engine, lip, lip cream, lip service, lipreading, lipstick, literacy, literal, literary, literature, lithium bomb, lithograph, Lithuania, litre, redisplay, reduce, rich, ridge, ripple, rocking motion, small-scale finance). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | リトマス . (various references) | |
Korean | 리트머스. (various references) | |
Manx | litmys. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | itmuslay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | tornassol, girassol (sunflower, turnsole). (various references) | |
Romanian | turnesol. (various references) | |
Russian | лакмус (turnsole). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | lakmus (orchil). (various references) | |
Spanish | tornasol (sunflower). (various references) | |
Swedish | lackmusväxt (turnsole), lackmus. (various references) | |
Turkish | turnusol. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | лакмус (cudbear). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Chrozophora tinctoria, Croton tinctoria. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "litmus": litmuses. (additional references) | |
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"Litmus" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Blysmus, limus, litnus, litu, litum, ultimus. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "litmus" (pronounced li"tmus) |
| 3 | -m u s | animus, anonymous, autonomous, blasphemous, dermis, enormous, epidermis, famous, grimace, hippopotamus, humus, ignoramus, infamous, isthmus, magnanimous, mandamus, monogamous, polygamous, posthumous, premise, primus, promise, pumice, ramus, Shamas, shamus, synonymous, thalamus, thermos, unanimous, venomous. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-l-m-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: milts. | |
-2 letters: list, lits, litu, lums, lust, mils, milt, mist, must, muts, silt, slim, slit, slum, smit, smut, stum, suit, tils, tuis. | |
-3 letters: ism, its, lis, lit, lum, mil, mis, mus, mut, sim, sit, sum, til, tis, tui, uts. | |
-4 letters: is, it, li, mi, mu, si, ti, um, us, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-l-m-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: cultism, mustily, stimuli, ultimas. | |
+2 letters: altruism, botulism, cultisms, lithiums, litmuses, luminist, lumpiest, midcults, misbuilt, moistful, mullites, multiuse, muralist, outsmile, plumiest, simulant, simulate, smuttily, solatium, stimulus, summital, thuliums, tumbrils, turmoils, ultraism. | |
+3 letters: altruisms, botulisms, clumpiest, clumsiest, columnist, drumliest, glumpiest, gumbotils, haulmiest, luminists, luteciums, lutetiums, malemiuts, maulstick, miquelets, mouldiest, multipeds, multiples, multisite, multisize, multistep, multitask, multiuser, muralists, mutilates, mutualism, mutualist, occultism, outclimbs, outsmiled, outsmiles, platinums, plummiest, qualmiest, ritualism, rumpliest, simulants, simulated, simulates, simulator, simulcast, slummiest, stimulant, stimulate, stumbling, sublimate, sublimest, sublimity, submittal, talmudism, thalliums, timeously, trilliums, tumblings, tumplines, ultimates, ultraisms. | |
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