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Definition: Novocaine |
NovocaineNoun1. Procaine administered as a hydrochloride (trade name Novocain). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "novocaine" was first used: 1905. (references) |
Synonym: NovocaineSynonym: procaine hydrochloride (n). (additional references) |
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Screenplays | No novocaine. It dulls the senses! (The Little Shop of Horrors; writing credit: Charles B. Griffith) | |
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 | Drill; teeth; tooth; dentist; novocaine; cavity; root canal; plaque; bacteria. |
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| "Novocaine" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Novocaine" is used about 4 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% | 4 | 175,879 |
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 |
novocaine | 66 |
effects novocaine side | 4 |
novocaine reaction | 4 |
novocaine soul | 2 |
drug novocaine | 2 |
novocaine movie | 2 |
holy novocaine roller | 2 |
dental novocaine | 2 |
dentist novocaine | 2 |
novocaine pregnancy | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "novocaine"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | νοβοκαΰνη (procaine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | novokain (procaine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | novocaina (novocain). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ovocainenay новокаин новокаиновый. (various references) novokain. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | novus. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "novocaine": novocaines. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-n-n-o-o-v" | |
-2 letters: connive. | |
-3 letters: aeonic, ancone, canine, cannie, conine, encina, eonian, ionone, novena, novice, ovonic. | |
-4 letters: ancon, anion, avion, canoe, canon, cavie, conin, coven, covin, envoi, inane, naevi, naive, nance, nonce, novae, ocean, onion, ovine, venin, vinca, voice. | |
-5 letters: acne, aeon, anon, cain, cane, cave, ciao, cine, cion, coin, cone, coni, conn, coon, cove, icon, naoi. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-n-n-o-o-v" | |
+1 letter: novocaines. | |
+2 letters: connotative. | |
+3 letters: conservation, convectional, conventional, conversation, conversional, noncombative. | |
+4 letters: connotatively, conservations, contravention, conversations, conversazione, conversazioni, overdominance. | |
+5 letters: conservational, contraventions, conventionally, conversational, conversaziones, noncommutative, noncooperative, nonradioactive, nonretroactive, oncornaviruses, overcautioning, overdominances, unconventional. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 6F 76 6F 63 61 69 6E 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-. --- ...- --- -.-. .- .. -. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01101111 01110110 01101111 01100011 01100001 01101001 01101110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N o v o c a i n e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 006F 0076 006F 0063 0061 0069 006E 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)488188816967758071 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Sounds 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Translations: Ancient 10. Derivations 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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