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Morphia

Definition: Morphia

Morphia

Noun

1. An alkaloid narcotic drug extracted from opium; a powerful, habit-forming narcotic used to relieve pain.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "morphia" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1856. (references)


Synonym: Morphia

Synonym: morphine (n). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Morphia

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Morphia the Death Drug (1914)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Morphia

"Morphia" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 89.47% of the time. "Morphia" is used about 19 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)89.47%1785,106
Noun (proper)10.53%2245,945
                    Total100.00%19N/A

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

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Expression: Morphia

Expressions using "morphia": morphia addict morphia fiend. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "morphia": post-morphia.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Morphia

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

morphia

34

morphia music

2

disorder morphia skin

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Morphia

Language Translations for "morphia"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

morfinë (morphine). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏المورفين مادة مخدرة. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

морфий. (various references)

   

Danish

  

morfin (morphine). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

morfine (morphine). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

morfino (morphine). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

morfiini (morphine). (various references)

   

French

  

morphine (morphine). (various references)

   

German

  

Morphium (morphine). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

μορφίνη (morphine). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

morfin (morphine), morfium (morphine). (various references)

   

Italian

  

morfina (morphine). (various references)

   

Manx

  

morfeen. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

orphiamay

   

Portuguese

  

morfina (morphine). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

morfinã (dope, morphine). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

морфий (morphine). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

morfijum. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

morfina (morphine). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

morfin (morphine). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

morfin (morphine). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

морфій (morphine). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Morphia

Derivations

Words beginning with "morphia": morphias. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Morphia

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-h-i-m-o-p-r"

-1 letter: mohair.

-2 letters: ihram, moira, morph, prima, primo.

-3 letters: amir, hair, harm, harp, hoar, hora, mair, mora, ohia, opah, pair, pima, pram, prao, prim, proa, prom, rami, ramp, roam, romp.

-4 letters: aim, air, ami, amp, arm, ham, hao, hap, him, hip, hop, imp, map, mar, mho, mir, moa, mop, mor, oar, ohm, ora, pah, pam.

 Words containing the letters "a-h-i-m-o-p-r"
 

+1 letter: aphorism, morphias.

 

+2 letters: aphorisms, zigamorph.

 

+3 letters: amphoteric, anamorphic, metaphoric, micrograph, microphage, mimeograph, morphactin, zigamorphs.

 

+4 letters: allomorphic, apomorphine, atmospheric, comradeship, demographic, filmography, foremanship, halomorphic, homographic, hypothermia, kymographic, macrophagic, macrophytic, metamorphic, metanephroi, micrographs, microphages, mimeographs, misanthrope, misanthropy, monographic, morphactins, nomographic, oarsmanship, phonogramic, prognathism, prothalamia, prothallium, seismograph, semaphoring, symposiarch, tomographic, workmanship.

 

+5 letters: accomplisher, actinomorphy, allomorphism, apochromatic, apomorphines, archesporium, atmospherics, automorphism, camphorating, comradeships, cosmographic, demographics, demographies, diastrophism, enantiomorph, foremanships, horsemanship, hypothermias, kymographies, mammographic, metamorphism, metaphorical, microcephaly, micrographed, micrographic, mimeographed, misanthropes, misanthropic, monographing, morphallaxis, nomographies, oarsmanships, overemphasis, overemphatic, paedomorphic, panchromatic, parochialism, pharmacopeia, philharmonic, phonogrammic, prognathisms, prothalamion, prothalamium, seismographs, seismography, symposiarchs, tomographies, workmanships.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Morphia


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 6F 72 70 68 69 61

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

--    ---    .-.    .--.    ....    ..    .-

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01101111 01110010 01110000 01101000 01101001 01100001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#111 &#114 &#112 &#104 &#105 &#97

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 006F 0072 0070 0068 0069 0061

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

47818482747567

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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