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Definition: Nitrous |
NitrousAdjective1. Of or containing nitrogen; "nitric acid". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "nitrous" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1663. (references) |
Etymology: Nitrous \Ni"trous\, adjective. [Latin expression nitrosus full of natron: compare to the French expression nitreux. See Niter.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: NitrousSynonyms: azotic (adj), nitric (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Physical Insensibility | Anaesthetic agent, opium, ether, chloroform, chloral; nitrous oxide, laughing gas; exhilarating gas, protoxide of nitrogen; refrigeration. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Nitrous |
| English words defined with "nitrous": Azotite, Azotous ♦ Elaidic acid ♦ Gay Lussac's tower, Glover's tower ♦ Hyponitrous ♦ -ite ♦ Nitranilic, nitrify, nitrite, Nitrose, Nitrous acid, nitrous bacteria, nitrous bacterium, Nitrous oxide, Nitry ♦ -ous ♦ Ricinelaidin ♦ Spirit of nitrous ether, Sweet spirits of niter. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "nitrous": COLOR MAKER ♦ enhanced greenhouse effect ♦ Gay-Lussac's tower, greenhouse gas, GREENHOUSE GASES ♦ phenol-disulfonic acid colorimetric procedure ♦ radiatively active gases ♦ silo filler's disease, silo filler's lung, silo worker's asthma, silo-filler's disease, silo-fillers'disease ♦ TRACE GAS, tracer-gas technique ♦ water-ampul stemming. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "nitrous": Hyponitrous. (references) |
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Economic History | Bahrain | For the phase II upgrade, Germany's Fichtner won the USD 1.3 million consultancy contract in January 2001. The contract involves the provision of consultancy services for rehab of the ABB-manufactured turbines, a reduction in nitrous oxide emissions and an upgrade of control systems. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Nitrous" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 98.57% of the time. "Nitrous" is used about 70 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 98.57% | 69 | 40,280 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.43% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 70 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "nitrous": nitrous acid ♦ nitrous bacteria ♦ nitrous bacterium ♦ nitrous oxide ♦ spirit of nitrous ether. 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 |
nitrous oxide | 844 |
nitrous oxide system | 433 |
nitrous | 382 |
nitrous express | 278 |
nitrous system | 73 |
zex nitrous | 62 |
venom nitrous | 55 |
nitrous kit | 54 |
nos nitrous | 54 |
nitrous works | 50 |
nitrous oxide kit | 47 |
nx nitrous | 35 |
motorcycle nitrous | 30 |
go ped nitrous | 23 |
nitrous oxcide | 20 |
nitrous oxide for car | 19 |
car nitrous | 18 |
tnt nitrous | 18 |
nitrous bottle | 16 |
mustang nitrous | 14 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "nitrous"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i azotuar. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | محتو على نتروجين, نتروجيني (nitrogenous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | азотист. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 亚硝酸. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | ledkový (nitric), dusiènanový. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | nitrogensyrekoncentration om vinteren (winter concentration of nitrous acid), nitroes gas (nitrous fume), nitrøse gasser (nitrous fume), N2O (dinitrogen monoxide, dinitrogen oxide, laughing gas, nitrous oxide), salpetersyrling (nitrous acid), lattergas (dinitrogen monoxide, dinitrogen oxide, laughing gas, nitric oxide, nitrous oxide), kvaelstofforilte (nitric oxide, nitrous oxide), kvælstofforilte (dinitrogen monoxide, dinitrogen oxide, laughing gas, nitrous oxide), katodisk reduktion af salpetersyre til salpetersyrling (cathodic reduction of nitric to nitrous acid), E942 (dinitrogen monoxide, dinitrogen oxide, laughing gas, nitrous oxide), dinitrogenoxid (dinitrogen monoxide, dinitrogen oxide, laughing gas, nitric oxide, nitrous oxide), dinitrogenmonoxid (dinitrogen monoxide, dinitrogen oxide, laughing gas, nitrous oxide), dampe,der indeholder kvaelstofilter,reagerer langsamt med malmen i sidevaeggen,i taget,eller med stoev (nitrous vapours combine slowly with the ore of the walls, roof or the dust), acetylen-lattergas flamme (nitrous oxide acetylene flame), acetylen-dinitrogenoxid flamme (nitrous oxide acetylene flame). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | nitreuze damp (nitrous fume), N2O (dinitrogen monoxide, dinitrogen oxide, laughing gas, nitrous oxide), winterconcentratie van salpeterigzuur (winter concentration of nitrous acid), stikstofoxyduul (dinitrogen monoxide, dinitrogen oxide, laughing gas, nitrous oxide), stikstofoxydule (dinitrogen monoxide, dinitrogen oxide, laughing gas, nitrous oxide), salpeterigzuur (nitrous acid), lachgas-acetyleenvlam (nitrous oxide acetylene flame), lachgas (dinitrogen monoxide, dinitrogen oxide, laughing gas, nitric oxide, nitrous oxide), kathodische reductie van salpeterzuur tot salpeterigzuur (cathodic reduction of nitric to nitrous acid), E942 (dinitrogen monoxide, dinitrogen oxide, laughing gas, nitrous oxide), distikstofoxyde (dinitrogen monoxide, dinitrogen oxide, laughing gas, nitrous oxide), distikstofoxidn (dinitrogen monoxide, dinitrogen oxide, laughing gas, nitrous oxide), de nitreuze schietgassen verbinden zich langzaam met het mineraal van wanden een dak of met het stof (nitrous vapours combine slowly with the ore of the walls, roof or the dust). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | ilokaasu (dinitrogen monoxide, dinitrogen oxide, E942, laughing gas, N2O, nitrous oxide, nitrous oxides). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | nitreux, azoteux. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | salpetrig. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | νιτρώδησ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ח קתי. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | salétromos (nitric). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | nitroso. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 笑気 (laughing gas, nitrous oxide), 亜酸化' (N2O, nitrogen dioxide, nitrous oxide), 亜硝酸 (nitrous acid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しょうき (affectation, business opportunity, consciousness, desire to be impressive, god to ward off illness and misfortune, laughing gas, marsh gas, methane, minute description, nitrous oxide, person of small capacities, sanity, small container, soberness, true character, true heart, true spirit), あしょうさ" (nitrous acid), あさ"かちっそ (N2O, nitrous oxide). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | neetroil. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | itrousnay nitroso, nitroglicerina (glycerol trinitrate, nitroglycerin, nitroglycerine, nitroglycerol), salitroso. (various references) nitros, azotos. (various references) азотистый (nitrogenous). (various references) azotast. (various references) nitroso. (various references) salpeterhaltig. (various references) แก๊ซไนตรัสออกไซ"์ที่ใช้ป้องกันการเจ็บปว"เมื่อทำฟัน (nitrous oxide), กร"ไนตรัส เป็นกร""ินประสิว (nitrous acid). (various references) güherçileli, azotlu (nitrogenized, nitrogenous), azot gibi. (various references) азотистий (azotic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Nitrous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Itroun, natious, nerous, nitricum, nitrosyl, nitrus, nutrous. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "nitrous" (pronounced ni"trus) |
| 5 | -i" t r u s | citrus. |
| 4 | -t r u s | actress, ambidextrous, buttress, dextrous, disastrous, estrous, estrus, fortress, headmistress, huntress, idolatrous, lustrous, mattress, mistress, monstrous, seamstress, temptress, waitress. |
| 3 | -r u s | ambassadress, arris, Brontosaurus, chorus, Cirrus, congress, Cypress, Cyprus, cytomegalovirus, desirous, embarrass, ferrous, fibrous, hantavirus, heiress, hubris, hydrous, Iris, ludicrous, Madras, maquiladoras, Morris, nonferrous, ogress, polyandrous, porous, puris, retrovirus, sorus, stegosaurus, terrace, thesaurus, Tyrannosaurus, virus, walrus, wondrous. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-n-o-r-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: intros, nitros, outsin, rutins, suitor. | |
-2 letters: intro, irons, nitro, noirs, noris, ornis, riots, rosin, rotis, roust, routs, ruins, runts, rutin, snort, snout, stour, suint, tiros, tonus, torsi, torus, tours, trios, trois, turns, units. | |
-3 letters: inro, into, ions, iron, nits, noir, nori, nous, nuts, onus, orts, ours, oust, outs, rins, riot, roti, rots, rout, ruin, runs, runt, rust, ruts, snit, snot, sori, sorn, sort, sour, stir, stun, suit, tins, tiro, tons, tori, torn, tors, tour, trio, tuis, tuns, turn, unit, unto, urns. | |
-4 letters: ins, ion, its, nit, nor, nos, not, nus, nut, ons, ors, ort, our, out, rin, rot, run, rut, sin, sir, sit, son, sot, sou, sri, sun, tin, tis, ton, tor, tui, tun, uns, urn, uts. | |
-5 letters: in, is, it, no, nu, on, or, os, si, so, ti, to, un, us, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-n-o-r-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: outgrins, outrings, rainouts, rousting, routines, ructions, snoutier, tourings. | |
+2 letters: countries, cretinous, durations, eruptions, extrusion, fruitions, inductors, insulator, intrusion, jointures, neurotics, neutrinos, notorious, obtrusion, outdrinks, outliners, outsprint, posturing, printouts, rainspout, sprouting, strontium, strouding, suctorian, supinator, tonsuring, trunnions. | |
+3 letters: abruptions, centurions, confitures, consortium, construing, continuers, countryish, discounter, disruption, eruditions, extrusions, furcations, housetrain, importunes, incubators, inquisitor, insinuator, institutor, instructor, insulators, introduces, intrusions, inundators, irruptions, journalist, juniorates, keratinous, lustration, misfortune, misrouting, nutritions, nutritious, obtrusions, outcursing, outraising, outrushing, outscoring, outserving, outsnoring, outsoaring, outsprints, outstaring, posturings, pourpoints, protrusion, purgations, questioner, rainspouts, rediscount, reductions, resolution, resumption, reunionist, routinizes, ruinations, ruminators, sanatorium, sanitorium, saturation, serotinous, sinistrous, stramonium, strontiums, stroudings, subreption, subroutine, suctorians, supertonic, supinators, supporting, surjection, tendrilous, tenebrious, trichinous, ultrasonic, unactorish, uniformest, unworthies, urinations, usurpation. | |
+4 letters: abjurations, adjurations, aeronautics, astronautic, auctioneers, authorising, buccinators, congruities, consortiums, consumerist, contrarious, contributes, corruptions, coruscating, coruscation, coterminous, counterbids, counterions, countersign, countersink, countersuit, countryside, courtesying, courtliness, destruction, discounters, disruptions, enterovirus, enunciators, eructations, euphoriants, figurations, fluorinates, frustration, graduations, groupthinks, housetrains, importuners, inculcators, incuriosity, indurations, industrious, inoculators, inquisitors, insinuators, institutors, instruction, instructors, insufflator, intercourse, interfusion, interunions, intravenous, introducers, journalists, laureations, lustrations, maturations, mensuration, misconstrue, misfortunes, mistutoring, morulations, natatoriums, neurologist, neuroticism, neurotoxins, neutrophils, nitrofurans, nitrogenous, nonindustry, nonroutines, notoriously, nourishment, numerations, obscurantic, obscuration, obstructing, obstruction, obturations, opportunism, opportunist, ostensorium, outbargains, outcrossing, outdressing, outgrossing, outpourings, outpressing, outsavoring, outscorning, outsmarting, outsourcing, outsprinted, outstarting, outsteering, outstridden, outstriding, outswearing, peritoneums, persecution, positronium, precautions, presumption, pretentious, productions, prosecuting, prosecution, protrusions, quaternions, quercitrons, questionary, questioners, rediscounts, refutations, regulations, reputations, requisition, resolutions, resprouting, restitution, resumptions, reunionists, revolutions, riotousness, rotundities, ruminations, rustication, sanatoriums, sanitoriums, saturations, scouthering, scroungiest, sporulating, sporulation, stramoniums, strenuosity, strikebound, subordinate, subornation, subrational, subreptions, subrogating, subrogation, subroutines, subtraction, supernation, supertonics, suppuration, surjections, surmounting, surrogating, suspiration, susurration, tambourines, terrigenous, tourbillons, tourmalines, tourniquets, transfusion, truncations, ulcerations, ultrasonics, undistorted, unobtrusive, unrighteous, unworthiest, urinometers, urtications, usurpations, vertiginous, voluntaries, voluntarism, voluntarist. | |
+5 letters: adumbrations, amentiferous, annunciators, anticonsumer, antineutrons, astronautics, attributions, bifurcations, boutonnieres, calumniators, carburetions, circulations, computerniks, conjurations, conquistador, constructing, construction, constructive, consumerists, conterminous, continuators, contributors, conurbations, corrugations, coruscations, countercries, counterfeits, counterfires, counterfoils, countermines, counterpoise, counterraids, countersigns, countersinks, counterspies, counterstain, countersuing, countersuits, countervails, counterviews, countrysides, crenulations, crosscutting, destructions, deuterations, distribution, droughtiness, elutriations, encrustation, enumerations, euchromatins, excursionist, executioners, expurgations, formulations, frustrations, fulgurations, gastrulation, granulations, gratulations, heteroauxins, holothurians, housepainter, housetrained, illuminators, illustration, inaugurators, incrustation, incurvations, infuriations, instauration, instructions, insufflators, insurrection, intercourses, interfusions, interneurons, internuncios, interruptors, irresolution, journalistic, jurisconsult, jurisdiction, leukotrienes, lubrications, lucubrations, luteotropins, manipulators, masturbation, menstruation, mensurations, mercurations, micturitions, misconstrued, misconstrues, moisturising, moisturizing, mountaineers, mucoproteins, multisensory, neurochemist, neuroleptics, neurologists, neuropathies, neuroticisms, neurulations, neutrinoless, nimbostratus, noncountries, nonintrusive, nonruminants, nourishments, numerologist, nutritionist, nutritiously, objurgations, obscurantism, obscurantist, obscurations, obstructions, opportunisms, opportunists, orotundities, outbreedings, outcroppings, outintrigues, outorganizes, outpromising, outsiderness, outsourcings, outsparkling, outspreading, outsprinting, outstripping, outthrusting, outwrestling, overcautions, overdiscount, overhuntings, overstuffing, parturitions, perfusionist, permutations, persecutions, pertinacious, polyneuritis, positroniums, premunitions, presumptions, procurations, profundities, prosecutions, prostituting, prostitution, proteinurias, rambunctious, reassumption, reconstitute, rediscounted, reductionism, reductionist, reeducations, reinoculates, reintroduces, reluctations, repudiations, requisitions, restitutions, resurrection, retributions, reunionistic, revaluations, roughcasting, rubrications, rustications, rustproofing, salutatorian, shortcutting, sporulations, sternutation, stridulation, stringcourse, suberization, subnormality, subordinated, subordinates, subordinator, subornations, subrogations, subscription, subtractions, sugarcoating, supernations, superstation, superstition, supervention, suppurations, suspirations, susurrations, thoroughpins, timorousness, titaniferous, tourbillions, transduction, transfusions, transpicuous, transudation, tribulations, triturations, unconstraint, understories, ungenerosity, unhistorical, uniformities, unmoralities, unpropitious, unstoppering, unworthiness, upholstering, urbanisation, urbanologist, virtuousness, voluntarisms, voluntarists, voluntaryism, voluntaryist, volunteerism. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 69 74 72 6F 75 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-. .. - .-. --- ..- ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01101001 01110100 01110010 01101111 01110101 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N i t r o u s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0069 0074 0072 006F 0075 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)48758684818785 |
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