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Definitions: Naturalise |
NaturaliseVerb1. Adopt to another place; "The stories had become naturalized into an American setting". 2. Make more natural or lifelike. 3. Make into a citizen; "The French family was naturalized last year". 4. Adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment; "domesticate oats"; "tame the soil". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "naturalise" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1822. (references) |
Synonyms: NaturaliseSynonyms: cultivate (v), domesticate (v), naturalize (v), tame (v). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: naturalised citizen (law, politics & international affaires), naturalized citizen. |
| Antonym: denaturalize (v). (additional references) |
| "Naturalise" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "Naturalise" is used about 10 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 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 80% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 20% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 10 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "naturalise"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | å½'化 (naturalisation, naturalised, Naturalization, Naturalize, Naturalized, Naturalizing). (various references) | |
Italian | naturalizzare (become naturalized, naturalize), acclimatare (acclimate, acclimatise, acclimatize, become acclimatized, naturalize, season, to acclimate). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aturalisenay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "naturalise": naturalised, naturalises. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-i-l-n-r-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: estuarial, retinulas. | |
-2 letters: alunites, antisera, asternal, auntlier, entrails, insulate, insulter, latrines, naturals, neutrals, ratanies, ratlines, retinals, retinula, ruinates, seatrain, taurines, tenurial, trenails, uralites, uranites, urinates. | |
-3 letters: aerials, aliners, alunite, anestri, antiars, antlers, antsier, anurias, aristae, arsenal, artisan, asteria, atresia, aunties, austral, elastin, eluants, entails, entasia, estrual, insular, inulase, lariats, latrias, latrine, linters, luniest, lustier, luteins, nailers, nailset, nastier, natural, natures, neutral, nutrias, nutsier, ranulae, ranulas, ratines, ratline, ratlins, realist, reliant, renails, rentals, retails, retains, retinal, retinas, retsina, rituals, ruinate, ruliest, runlets, rutiles, salient, saltern, saltier, saltine, saltire, saluter, saunter, saurian, sealant, sinuate, slainte, slatier, stainer, stearin, sternal, sultana, taenias, tailers, taurine, tenails, trenail, triunes, tsarina, uniters, uralite, uranias, uranite, urinals, urinate, utensil. | |
-4 letters: aerial, airest, alants, alates, alerts, aliens, aliner, alines, altars, alters, anears, ansate, antiar, antler, antral, antres, anural, anuria, arenas, ariels, arisen, arista, arsine, artels, aslant, astern, astral, atrial, auntie, aurate, aurist, elains, elints, eluant, enlist, entail, estral, estrin, inerts, inlets, insert, instal, instar, insult, insure, inters, inures, lanais, lanate, lariat, larine, laster, latens, latria, lauans, laurae, lauras, learns, learnt, lianas, lianes, linear, liners, linter, listen, lister, liters, litres, lunars, lunate, lunets, lunier, lunies, luster, lustra, lustre, lutein, nailer, nairas, narial, nasial, nature, nausea, neural, niters, nitres, nutria, ranula, ratals, ratans, ratels, ratine, ratlin, realia, reatas, relist, renail, rental, resail, result, retail, retain, retial, retina, riatas, ritual, ruanas, runlet, rusine, rustle, rutile, rutins, sailer, salina, saline, salter, saltie, salute, santir, santur, satire, saurel, serail, serial, silane, silent, sinter, slater, staler, stelai, stelar, sterna, strain, striae, suiter, sultan, sunlit, sutler, taenia, tailer, talars, talers, tarnal, tarsal, tarsia, tenail, tenias, tenuis, terais, tiaras, tilers, tineal, tineas, tinsel, tisane, trails, trains, trials, triens, trinal, trines, triune, tuners, ulster, ultras, uniter, unites, unreal, unrest, unseal, unseat, unties, urania, urates, urials, urinal, urines, ursine. | |
-5 letters: airns, airts, aisle, alane, alans, alant, alate, alert, alias, alien, aline, alist, altar, alter, anear, anile, anils, anise, anlas, ansae, antae, antas, antes, antis, antra, antre, areal, areas, arena, arias, ariel, arils, arise, arles, artal, artel, aster, astir, atlas, atria, aunts, aurae, aural, auras, aurei, aures, auris, earls, earns, elain, elans, elint, entia, etnas, etuis, ileus, inert, inlet, inset, inter, inure, irate, islet, istle, laari, lairs, lanai, lanes, lares, laris, laser, laten, later, lauan, laura, leans, leant, learn, lears, least, lenis, liana, liane, liars, liens, liers, lieus, liner, lines, lints, liras, litas, liter, litre, lunar, lunas, lunes, lunet, lunts, lures, lutea, lutes, nails, naira, nares, naris, nasal, natal, nates, nears, neats, neist, nerts. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-i-l-n-r-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: laureations, naturalised, naturalises, naturalizes, seminatural. | |
+2 letters: angularities, antipleasure, planetariums, revaluations, salutariness, triangulates, ultramarines. | |
+3 letters: adulterations, antipleasures, denaturalizes, equalitarians, granularities, inarticulates, quadrivalents, quarterfinals, reevaluations, supernational, turbellarians, ultradistance. | |
+4 letters: antiguerrillas, articulateness, avuncularities, constabularies, degranulations, inarticulacies, overvaluations, perambulations, recalculations, salutarinesses, secularization, transsexualism, transsexuality, ultradistances, ultramasculine, valetudinaries. | |
+5 letters: atrabiliousness, connaturalities, deuteranomalies, equalitarianism, neutralizations, overevaluations, predevaluations, quarterfinalist, recapitulations, regularizations, revisualization, secularizations, supernaturalism, supernaturalist, transilluminate, transsexualisms, triangularities, unanswerability, undervaluations, unfamiliarities, unrealistically, valetudinarians. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 61 74 75 72 61 6C 69 73 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-. .- - ..- .-. .- .-.. .. ... . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01100001 01110100 01110101 01110010 01100001 01101100 01101001 01110011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N a t u r a l i s e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0061 0074 0075 0072 0061 006C 0069 0073 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)48678687846778758571 |
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