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Definitions: Nitroglycerine |
NitroglycerineNoun1. A heavy yellow poisonous oily explosive liquid obtained by nitrating glycerol; used in making explosives and medically as a vasodilator (trade names Nitrospan and Nitrostat). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "nitroglycerine" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1907. (references) |
Synonyms: NitroglycerineSynonyms: glyceryl trinitrate (n), nitroglycerin (n), trinitroglycerin (n). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: nitro-glycerine (chemistrychemistry, chemical industry). |
Crosswords: Nitroglycerine |
| Specialty definitions using "nitroglycerine": DUMPER-BAILER OPERATOR ♦ Monday headache. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The symptoms of angina can generally be controlled by "beta-blocker" drugs that decrease the workload on the heart, by nitroglycerine and other "nitrates" and by "calcium-channel blockers" that relax the arteries, and by other classes of drugs. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Nitroglycerine" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Nitroglycerine" is used about 14 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 (singular) | 100% | 14 | 93,893 |
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 |
nitroglycerine | 67 |
nitroglycerine safety | 3 |
make nitroglycerine | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "nitroglycerine"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | nitroglicërinë. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | النتروغلسرين زيت عديم اللون. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 爆发油 (nitro-glycerine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | nitroglycerin (explosive oil, nitroglycerin, trinitrate glycerol, trinitrin), glycerinnitrat. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | nitroglycerine (glycerol trinitrate, nitroglycerin, nitroglycerol), glyceroltrinitraat (glycerol trinitrate, nitroglycerin, nitroglycerol). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | nitroglycerine, nitroglycérine (nitroglycerin, nitroglycerin(e), nitroglycerol). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Nitroglyzerin (nitroglycerin), Ngl., NG (Federal Republic of Nigeria, Nigeria). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | νιτρογλυκερίνη (explosive oil, glycerol trinitrate, nitroglycerin, nitroglycerol, trinitrate glycerol, trinitrin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | nitroglicerin (blasting oil, nitroglycerin, nitro-glycerine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | nitroglicerina (explosive oil, glycerol trinitrate, nitroglycerin, nitroglycerol, trinitrate glycerol, trinitrin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 니트로글리세린 (nitro-glycerine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | itroglycerinenay nitroglicerina (glycerol trinitrate, nitroglycerin, nitroglycerol, nitrous), azotado. (various references) nitroglicerinã. (various references) нитроглицерин (nitroglycerin). (various references) nitoglicerin. (various references) nitroglicerina (explosive oil, glycerol trinitrate, nitroglycerin, nitroglycerol, trinitrate glycerol, trinitrin). (various references) nitroglycerin (soup). (various references) สารเหลวไนโตรกลีเซอรีนใช้ในการทำระเบิ". (various references) nitrogliserin (nitroglycerin, soup). (various references) нітрогліцерін. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "nitroglycerine": nitroglycerines. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "nitroglycerine" (pronounced nī'trōgli"serun, nī'trugli"serun , or nī'khrugli"serun) |
| 12 | n ī' t r ō g l i" s er u n | nitroglycerin. |
| 3 | -er u n | cephalosporin, intrauterine, mandarin, margarine, saccharin, tamarin, uterine, veteran. |
| 7 | -g l i" s er u n | nitroglycerin. |
| 3 | -er u n | cephalosporin, intrauterine, mandarin, margarine, saccharin, tamarin, uterine, veteran. |
| 7 | -g l i" s er u n | nitroglycerin. |
| 3 | -er u n | cephalosporin, intrauterine, mandarin, margarine, saccharin, tamarin, uterine, veteran. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-g-i-i-l-n-n-o-r-r-t-y" | |
-1 letter: nitroglycerin. | |
-3 letters: cointerring, reorienting. | |
-4 letters: electroing, enticingly, interiorly, interliner, retiringly. | |
-5 letters: centering, centriole, cornering, creneling, crinoline, criterion, entoiling, glycerine, interline, interring, loitering, orienting, reclining, recoiling, recoining, relenting, reliction, rencontre, renitency. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-g-i-i-l-n-n-o-r-r-t-y" | |
+1 letter: nitroglycerines. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 69 74 72 6F 67 6C 79 63 65 72 69 6E 65 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01101001 01110100 01110010 01101111 01100111 01101100 01111001 01100011 01100101 01110010 01101001 01101110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N i t r o g l y c e r i n e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0069 0074 0072 006F 0067 006C 0079 0063 0065 0072 0069 006E 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4875868481737891697184758071 |
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