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Protistan

Definition: Protistan

Protistan

Noun

1. Free-living or colonial organisms with diverse nutritional and reproductive modes.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Protistan

Synonym: protist (n). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Protistan

DomainTitle

Books

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Protistan

"Protistan" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Protistan" is used about 3 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%3202,518

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derivations: Protistan

Derivations

Words beginning with "protistan": protistans. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Protistan

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-i-n-o-p-r-s-t-t"

-1 letter: atropins, patriots, strontia.

-2 letters: airpost, antipot, aroints, atropin, attorns, intorts, partons, patriot, patrons, protist, rations, rattons, soprani, spirant, station, tarpons, transit, tritons, tropins.

-3 letters: aorist, aprons, aristo, aroint, arsino, artist, attorn, instar, intort, intros, nitros, norias, orpins, ottars, paints, pantos, parson, parton, pastor, patins, patios, patois, patron, pianos, pinots, pintas, pintos, piston, pitons.

 Words containing the letters "a-i-n-o-p-r-s-t-t"
 

+1 letter: partitions, protistans.

 

+2 letters: antiprotons, antistrophe, prostrating, prostration, protagonist, reputations.

 

+3 letters: anticipators, antistrophes, antistrophic, attorneyship, bipartitions, contraptions, crepitations, deportations, exportations, extirpations, impartations, impetrations, importations, inspectorate, interpolates, operationist, partitioners, partitionist, parturitions, penetrations, permutations, postabortion, postromantic, potentiators, presentation, prostrations, protagonists, protestation, protonations, protractions, repartitions, somatotropin, strophanthin, superstation, trampolinist, transpontine, transporting, trapshooting, trepanations, trepidations.

 

+4 letters: antipredators, attorneyships, bootstrapping, contrapuntist, enteropathies, expatriations, inspectorates, interpolators, metropolitans, naturopathies, operationists, pantisocratic, partitionists, perpetrations, perpetuations, perturbations, petrifactions, pontificators, practitioners, predestinator, presentations, privatdocents, privatdozents, procrastinate, prognosticate, propitiations, protactiniums, protestations, protonotaries, putrefactions, repatriations, replantations, retinopathies, separationist, septentrional, somatotrophin, somatotropins, sportscasting, streptokinase, strophanthins, superfetation, superstations, trampolinists, transcription, transpiration, transposition, trapshootings, trephinations, trichopterans, triplications, vituperations.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Protistan


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 72 6F 74 69 73 74 61 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01110010 01101111 01110100 01101001 01110011 01110100 01100001 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#114 &#111 &#116 &#105 &#115 &#116 &#97 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0072 006F 0074 0069 0073 0074 0061 006E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

508481867585866780

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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