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Definition: Macule |
MaculeNoun1. A patch of skin that is discolored but not usually elevated; caused by various diseases. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: MaculeSynonym: macula (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Macule |
| Etymologies containing "macule": macula. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Macule" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (macula, spoil, waste). |
| 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 |
macule | 19 |
macule melanotic | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "macule"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | macula (macula). (various references) | |
Dutch | macula (macula). (various references) | |
Finnish | makula (macula), tahra (blemish, blot, daub, flaw, macula, smear, spot, stain, taint), täplä (fleck, macula, speck, spot). (various references) | |
French | macule (f), macule (macula). (various references) | |
German | Makula. (various references) | |
Greek | κηλίδα (blemish, blot, blur, bruise, bruising, macula, moil, mottle, patch, slick, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, smut, speck, speckle, splotch, spot, stain, taint). (various references) | |
Italian | macula (macula). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aculemay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | mácula. (various references) | |
Spanish | mancha (black spot, blemish, blob, blot, blotch, blur, daub, fleck, macula, Mark, patch, shading, slick, smear, smudge, speckle, splash, splodge, splotch, spot, stain, staining, taint), mácula (blemish, macula, taint). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | macula. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "macule": maculed, macules. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: almuce. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-l-m-u" | |
-1 letter: camel, macle, ulema. | |
-2 letters: acme, alec, alme, alum, calm, came, caul, clam, clue, culm, lace, lame, luce, mace, male, maul, meal, mule. | |
-3 letters: ace, ale, amu, cam, cel, cue, cum, eau, ecu, elm, emu, lac, lam, lea, leu, lum, mac, mae, mel. | |
-4 letters: ae, al, am, el, em, la, ma, me, mu, um. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-l-m-u" | |
+1 letter: almuces, calumet, leucoma, maculae, maculed, macules. | |
+2 letters: calumets, cumulate, leucemia, leucomas, maculate, mucilage, muscadel, muscatel, musicale. | |
+3 letters: ambulance, calcaneum, calumnies, clamoured, columella, comatulae, culminate, cumulated, cumulates, guacamole, leucemias, luminance, lunchmeat, maculated, maculates, majuscule, masculine, mercurial, molecular, mucilages, muscadels, muscatels, musicales, numerical, simulacre, tenaculum, tularemic, unclaimed, unclamped. | |
+4 letters: accumulate, acetabulum, ambulances, animalcule, calumniate, camouflage, columellae, columellar, commutable, computable, consumable, culminated, culminates, cumulative, documental, duodecimal, ecumenical, emasculate, guacamoles, immaculate, lawrencium, lumberjack, luminances, lunchmeats, majuscules, masculines, mercurials, musicalise, musicalize, secularism, simulacres, tenaculums, ultimacies, umbilicate, unicameral, unscramble, vermicular. | |
+5 letters: accumulated, accumulates, acetabulums, animalcules, bimolecular, calumniated, calumniates, camouflaged, camouflages, campanulate, candelabrum, communalize, consumables, curtailment, demiurgical, duodecimals, emasculated, emasculates, emasculator, glucosamine, homonuclear, illuminance, lawrenciums, lumberjacks, macronuclei, mariculture, masculinely, masculinise, masculinize, matriculate, mercurially, molecularly, mononuclear, multiagency, multicoated, musculature, musicalised, musicalises, musicalized, musicalizes, nucleoplasm, nucleosomal, numerically, oecumenical, quitclaimed, retinaculum, secularisms, simulcasted, subclimaxes, umbilicated, unclimbable, unempirical, unmasculine, unmatchable, unreclaimed, unscrambled, unscrambler, unscrambles, vermiculate. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 61 63 75 6C 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- .- -.-. ..- .-.. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01100001 01100011 01110101 01101100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M a c u l e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0061 0063 0075 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)476769877871 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Translations: Ancient 7. Derivations 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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