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Definition: Milt |
MiltNoun1. Fish sperm or sperm-filled reproductive gland; having a creamy texture. 2. Seminal fluid produced by male fish. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
Milt | English | Milton | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: MiltSynonym: soft roe (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Milt |
| Specialty definitions using "milt": FISH FARMER, fish hatchery assistant, fish hatchery attendant, FISH HATCHERY WORKER, FISH ROE PROCESSOR ♦ specified offals ban. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "milt": Miltwaste. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Milt" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Swedish (mildly), Turkmen (dare). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Faith can move mountains, Milt. But it can't beat a faster draw (El Dorado; writing credit: Felix Adler; Jack Jevne) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Milt Britton and Band (1945) Music & Photography of Milt Hinton Keeping Time: The Life (2003) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Gus Grissom & Milt Thompson With Paresev. Credit: NASA. |  | Pilot Milt Thompson and the M2-F2 Lifting Body. Credit: NASA. |
 | Ties up at the Charleston Naval Base, South Carolina, as she returns from maneuvers in the Mediterranean Sea with other ships of Destroyer Squadron Four, 5 December 1974. Photographed by PH1 Milt Putnam. Credit: NAVY. |  | Tied up alongside a seawall at the Charleston Naval Base, South Carolina, following her return from maneuvers in the Mediterranean Sea, 5 December 1974. She was a unit of Destroyer Squadron Four. Photographed by PH1 Milt Putnam. Credit: NAVY. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Milt" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "Milt" is used about 8 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 (proper) | 50% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (singular) | 50% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 8 | 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 |
milt spark | 48 |
holsters milt spark | 24 |
milt jackson | 17 |
milt | 16 |
milt pappa | 6 |
milt buckner | 5 |
milt wilcox | 5 |
milt bearden | 5 |
kobayashi milt | 4 |
milt schmidt | 4 |
milt hinton | 3 |
grant milt show | 3 |
leather milt spark | 3 |
edies milt | 3 |
bert gabler kaempfert milt | 3 |
holster milt spark | 3 |
dna integral milt salmon | 3 |
grant milt | 3 |
milt pupique | 3 |
milt thompson | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "milt"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | Spermë E Peshqve. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | Оплождам Хайвер, Мляко, "алак. (various references) | |
Chinese | 脾脏 (spleen, splenic). (various references) | |
Czech | Mlíèí, Slezina (spleen). (various references) | |
Danish | (fiske)maelke (soft roe). (various references) | |
Dutch | hom (roe). (various references) | |
Finnish | maiti (soft roe), perna (spleen), kalanmaiti (soft roe). (various references) | |
French | Laite, laitance de poisson, Laitance (milky substance). (various references) | |
German | Fischmilch (soft roe), Milz (spleen, splenic). (various references) | |
Greek | σπέρμα ψαριών (soft roe). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ַלב ִ"', ֱלוטי ֶרע ל ֶכר ִ"', ָחול. (various references) | |
Hungarian | Lép Testrész, Halikra (berry, hard roe, roe, spawn), Halat Megtermékenyít. (various references) | |
Italian | Milza (spleen), lattime di pesce (soft roe). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 魚精 (fish semen), 白子 (albino, fish semen, melanin-deficient organism, soft roe, young of sardines). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ぎょせい (fish semen, poem or song written by the emperor), しら" (fish semen, soft roe). (various references) | |
Korean | 곤이. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | iltmay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | sémen de peixe (soft roe), láctea. (various references) | |
Romanian | Splinã (spleen). (various references) | |
Russian | молока, Семенники, Селезенка. (various references) | |
Scottish | sealg (a hunt, hunting, the chase). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | mleč (beebread), slezina (spleen). (various references) | |
Spanish | lecha de pescado (soft roe), Lecha (soft roe). (various references) | |
Swedish | mjölke (rosebay willowherb). (various references) | |
Turkish | Balık Spermi, Balık Menisi (Roe, soft roe). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | Молочко (Roe), Запліднювати ікру. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | ninda. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "milt": milted, milter, milters, miltier, miltiest, milting, milts, milty. (additional references) | |
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"Milt" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ilt, Imgt, iml, Imt, malat, malg, malot, malto, mault, Mcit, melf, melg, melit, melot, melta, melty, metl, mhil, mielt, miet, mift, miht, Milc, milct, milet, milf, milkt, Miln, milo, Milp, milq, milti, milz, miot, mirt, mitle, miut, mixt, mixta, Mlib, mlit, Mlita, mlt, molut, muilt, mulot, mult, multa, myl, Myln, mytl, nalt. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "milt" (pronounced mi"lt) |
| 3 | -i" l t | built, gilt, guilt, hilt, jilt, kilt, lilt, overbuilt, quilt, rebuilt, silt, spilt, stilt, tilt, unbuilt, wilt. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-l-m-t" | |
-1 letter: lit, mil, til. | |
-2 letters: it, li, mi, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-l-m-t" | |
+1 letter: limit, milts, milty. | |
+2 letters: gimlet, limits, limpet, litmus, maloti, millet, milted, milter, mislit, mitral, motile, ramtil, smalti, telium, timbal, timely, trimly, tumuli, ultima, ultimo. | |
+3 letters: ailment, aliment, bimetal, climate, cultism, delimit, elitism, elmiest, emptily, filemot, filmset, gimlets, implant, intimal, leftism, liftman, liftmen, limbate, limiest, limited, limiter, limites, limpest, limpets, lithium, maillot, maltier, malting, marital, marlite, martial, matilda, matinal, meatily, melilot, melting, metical, midcult, mildest, militia, millets, milters, miltier, milting, mistily, mistral, moistly, molting, moonlit, motiles, motlier, mullite, mustily, optimal, palmist, ramtils, somital, stigmal, stimuli, telomic, thalami, thimble, thulium, timbale, timbals, timbral, timbrel, timidly, timolol, tumbril, tumidly, turmoil, ultimas. | |
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