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Definition: Neutered |
NeuteredAdjective1. Having testicles or ovaries removed. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: NeuteredSynonym: altered (adj). (additional references) |
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Screenplays | Let me tell you something Al, you ever have boys, do them a favor and get them neutered straight away. (St. Elmo's Fire; writing credit: Joel Schumacher; Carl Kurlander) | |
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Health | Get your pets spayed or neutered. (references) | |
Be a responsible pet owner by keeping vaccinations current for all dogs, cats, and ferrets, keeping your cats and ferrets inside and your dogs under direct supervision, calling animal control to remove stray animals from your neighborhood, and consider having your pets spayed or neutered. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Bob Barker | Bob Barker reminding you to help control the pet population. Have your pet spayed or neutered. Good bye, everybody. |
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| "Neutered" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 59.46% of the time. "Neutered" is used about 37 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 (past participle) | 59.46% | 22 | 74,468 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 24.32% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 16.22% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 37 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "neutered": have it neutered. Additional references. | |
| 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 |
neutered | 19 |
dog neutered | 14 |
cat neutered | 8 |
neutered spayed | 3 |
human neutered | 2 |
neutered spade | 2 |
cattle male neutered | 2 |
man neutered | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "neutered"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 阉割 (neutering). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | kastrierte (castrated, gelded). (various references) | ||||||||||
Indonesian | kebiri (castrated, emasculated). (various references) | ||||||||||
Manx | rangan-chayt (gibcat, neutered tomcat), kayt spoiyt (gibcat, neutered tomcat). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | euterednay kısırlaştırmak (alter, caponize, castrate, have it neutered, have it spayed, neuter, spay, sterilize, unman). (various references) | ||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | neutrum. (various references) |
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Misspellings | |
"Neutered" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: nectared, Netherud, neurere, neutere, neuthere, Nugteren, nutered, Peuterey, remustered. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "neutered" (pronounced nuw"terd) |
| 4 | -uw" t er d | tutored. |
| 3 | -t er d | administered, altered, bantered, bartered, bastard, battered, bettered, blistered, bolstered, bustard, buttered, catered, centered, chartered, cloistered, clustered, cluttered, countered, cratered, custard, doctored, embittered, encountered, entered, factored, faltered, festered, fettered, filibustered, filtered, flattered, flustered, fluttered, fostered, frittered, glittered, guttered, headquartered, lettered, littered, martyred, mastered, mattered, mentored, metered, monitored, mustard, mustered, muttered, pattered, pestered, petard, petered, plastered, reentered, registered, scattered, sequestered, shattered, sheltered, shuttered, slaughtered, spattered, splattered, splintered, sputtered, tattered, teetered, unaltered, unchartered, uncluttered, unfettered, unfiltered, unregistered, upholstered, uttered, watered, wintered. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-e-n-r-t-u" | |
-1 letter: denture, entered, retuned, tenured. | |
-2 letters: endure, entree, enured, eterne, needer, neuter, rented, retene, retune, teener, tender, tenure, tureen, turned. | |
-3 letters: deter, ender, endue, enter, enure, etude, nuder, rente, terne, treed, treen, trend, trued, tuned, tuner, undee, under. | |
-4 letters: deer, deet, dene, dent, dere, dree, duet, dune, dunt, dure, durn, erne, need, nerd, nude, nurd, rede, reed, rend, rent, rete, rude, rued, rune, runt, teed, teen, tend, tern, tree, true, tune, turd, turn, unde. | |
-5 letters: dee, den, due, dun, end, ere, ern, nee, net, nut, red, ree, ret, rue, run, rut, ted, tee, ten, tun, urd, urn. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-e-n-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: debenture. | |
+2 letters: debentures, enumerated, frequented, mutineered, outpreened, thereunder, undereaten, understeer, undeterred, unfettered, unlettered, untempered, untethered. | |
+3 letters: deuteranope, encountered, expenditure, launderette, rejuvenated, remunerated, understeers, unfermented, unweathered, volunteered. | |
+4 letters: deuteranopes, expenditures, launderettes, neuropeptide, outgeneraled, peradventure, recrudescent, rencountered, turtlenecked, uncelebrated, underreacted, understeered, undetermined, unembittered, unfrequented, uninterested, unregistered, unsegregated. | |
+5 letters: admeasurement, adventuresome, adventuresses, counterfeited, dexterousness, neuropeptides, outmaneuvered, peradventures, recentrifuged, reductiveness, reencountered, superinfected, superintended, underbudgeted, undereducated, underestimate, underreported, understeering, unelectrified, unprecedented, unrepresented. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 65 75 74 65 72 65 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-. . ..- - . .-. . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01100101 01110101 01110100 01100101 01110010 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N e u t e r e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0065 0075 0074 0065 0072 0065 0064 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4871878671847170 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Quotations: Spoken 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Translations: Ancient 12. Derivations | 13. Rhymes 14. Anagrams 15. Orthography 16. Bibliography |
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