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Definitions: Mastoid |
MastoidAdjective1. Relating to or resembling a nipple. Noun1. Process of the temporal bone behind the ear at the base of the skull. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "mastoid" was first used: 1732. (references) |
Synonyms: MastoidSynonyms: mastoid process (n), mastoidal (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Mastoid |
| English words defined with "mastoid": mastoid process, mastoidal, mastoidale, mastoidectomy, mastoiditis, musculus sternocleidomastoideus ♦ Paramastoid, Petromastoid ♦ sternocleido mastoideus, sternocleidomastoid, sternocleidomastoid muscle, Sternomastoid, Stylomastoid ♦ temporal bone. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "mastoid": Cholesteatoma, Cranial Fossa, Posterior ♦ Endolymphatic Shunt ♦ Geniculate Ganglion. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "mastoid": mastoiditis ♦ Paramastoid, Petromastoid. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Mastoid" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (mastoid), Manx (mastodon), Romanian (mastoid). |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Mastoid" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Mastoid" 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "mastoid": mastoid process. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "mastoid": sterno-cleido-mastoid, sternocleido-mastoid. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
mastoid | 61 |
bone mastoid | 10 |
infection mastoid | 10 |
mastoid process | 7 |
air cell mastoid | 7 |
mastoid surgery | 6 |
mastoid ray x | 6 |
gland mastoid | 5 |
disease mastoid | 4 |
ear mastoid | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "mastoid"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | mastoid, brystvorteformet. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | mastoid, tepelvormig. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | پستانی , پستان مانند, حلمی . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | mastoide, mastoïde. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | mastoid. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μαστοειδήσ (mammiform). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | פטמתי (mamillary, papillary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | mastoideo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 乳様突起 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | にゅうようとっき. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | astoidmay mastodonte. (various references) mastoid. (various references) mastoides. (various references) mastoid çıkıntısı (mastoid process). (various references) giống vú, có hình vú. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | mastoeides. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "mastoid": mastoidectomies, mastoidectomy, mastoiditides, mastoiditis, mastoids. (additional references) | |
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"Mastoid" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: maestios, Maestlin, Maqsood, maskoid, mastiod, masto, Mastrovin, Matadi, matoid, Matsumi, Matsuyo, Mazboudi, Mazoud, Mazowia, meatoid, Mepstead, mesotidal, Messaoud, mestrovic, mistold, moschoi, mutoid. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "mastoid" (pronounced 'Mas"toid'): Blastoid, Cestoid, Cottoid, Cytoid, Dartoid, Deltoid, Demantoid, Dentoid, Dermestoid, Epileptoid, Histoid, Lentoid, Mattoid, Odontoid, Paramastoid, Petromastoid, Phytoid, Pleuronectoid, Sternomastoid, Stylomastoid. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: diatoms. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-i-m-o-s-t" | |
-1 letter: admits, amidst, diatom. | |
-2 letters: adios, adits, admit, amido, amids, atoms, datos, ditas, doats, doits, iotas, maids, maist, midst, misdo, moats, moist, odist, omits, ostia, staid, stoai, stoma, tamis, toads, tsadi. | |
-3 letters: adit, ados, aids, aims, aits, amid, amis, atom, dais, dams, dato, dims, dita, dits, doat, doit, doms, dost, dots, iota, mads, maid. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-i-m-o-s-t" | |
+1 letter: atomised, coadmits, mastoids, mattoids, saintdom, toadyism. | |
+2 letters: amortised, diplomats, dogmatics, dogmatism, dogmatist, dominants, dominates, impastoed, mediators, midrashot, misatoned, saintdoms, toadyisms. | |
+3 letters: anatomised, badmintons, chromatids, damnations, demantoids, dermatosis, diatomites, dichromats, diplomates, dogmatisms, dogmatists, dogmatizes, dominators, mastodonic, mediations, meditators, metalloids, midrashoth, mislocated, modalities, prismatoid, staminodia, sudatorium. | |
+4 letters: admirations, admonitions, adoptianism, adoptionism, antimoderns, antimonides, audiometers, auditoriums, coatimundis, codominants, decimations, defamations, denominates, dichromates, dimethoates, diplomatist, disaccustom, dogmatizers, domesticate, dominations, emendations, eudaemonist, mandatories, mandolinist, manifestoed, mastoiditis, medications, meditations, moderations, modulations, mustachioed, myocarditis, nematocides, ordainments, prismatoids, radiometers, sodomitical, somatomedin, staminodium, subdominant, sudatoriums. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 61 73 74 6F 69 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- .- ... - --- .. -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01100001 01110011 01110100 01101111 01101001 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M a s t o i d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0061 0073 0074 006F 0069 0064 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)47678586817570 |
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