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Puree

Definition: Puree

Puree

Noun

1. Food prepared by cooking and straining or processed in a blender.

Verb

1. Rub through a strainer or process in an electric blender; "puree the vegetables for the baby".

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

Date "puree" was first used: 1707. (references)


Synonym: Puree

Synonym: strain (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Puree

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Food

Beef, bisquit, bun; cornstarch; cookie, cooky; cracker, doughnut; fatling; hardtack, hoecake, hominy; mutton, pilot bread; pork; roti, rusk, ship biscuit; veal; joint, piece de resistance, roast and boiled; remove, entremet; releve, hash, rechauffe, stew, ragout, fricassee, mince; pottage, potage, broth, soup, consomme, puree, spoonmeat; pie, pasty, volauvent; pudding, omelet; pastry; sweets; kickshaws; condiment.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Puree

English words defined with "puree": apple butter, apple sauce, applesaucehunter's saucepea soup, prune cake, prune whipsauce chausseurtapenade, tomato paste, tomato sauce. (references)
Specialty definitions using "puree": BAKER, PIZZAFREEZER OPERATORice-cream freezer. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Puree" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Dutch (mashed potatoes).

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Commercial Usage: Puree

DomainTitle

References

  • The 2000 Import and Export Market for Cooked Jams, Fruit Jellies, Marmalades, and Fruit Puree in Venezuela (reference)

  • The 2002 World Forecasts of Cooked Jams, Fruit Jellies, Marmalades, and Fruit Puree Export Supplies (reference)

  • The 2003 World Forecasts of Cooked Jams, Fruit Jellies, Marmalades, and Fruit Puree Export Supplies (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • The 2000 Import and Export Market for Cooked Jams, Fruit Jellies, Marmalades, and Fruit Puree in Africa [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference)

  • The Easy Harvest Sauce and Puree Cookbook (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: Puree

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Guyana

Local products such as jams, jellies, sauces, processed spices, and fruit puree blends show much potential for increased production and export. (references)

Guyana

Products such as jams, jellies, sauces, processed spices, and fruit puree blends show great potential for increased production and export. (references)

Guyana

However, excellent investment opportunities exist for the export of Guyana's fresh fruits, vegetables and processed foods such as jams, jellies, fruit puree blends, processed spices and sauces. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Puree

"Puree" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Puree" is used about 36 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%3657,479

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

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Expressions: Puree

Expressions using "puree": apple puree make puree. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Puree

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

puree

17

apricot puree

3

tomato puree

11

peach puree

3

puree bear

10

diet puree

3

fruit puree

9

banana puree

3

mango puree

8

mango puree recipe

3

puree strawberry

7

puree recipe

2

food puree

6

guava puree

2

puree raspberry

6

puree recipe strawberry

2

perfect puree

5

concentrate puree

2

chestnut puree

5

california peach puree white

2

fruit passion puree

5

diet puree recipe

2

prune puree

5

gay puree

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Puree

Language Translations for "puree"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

pure (mash). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏هريس, ‏حساء مركز, ‏عصيدة (gruel, mash, mush, porridge, samp). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

крем-супа (bisk), пюре (fool, mash), правя на пюре, пасирана супа, пасирам (strain). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

纯汁"汤. (various references)

   

Czech

  

pyré, protlak. (various references)

   

Danish

  

purépresser (potato masher, puree-presser, vegetable masher), kastanjepuré (chestnut puree), jordbærpulp (strawberry puree), hindbærpulp (raspberry puree). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

pureepers (potato masher, puree-presser, vegetable masher), kastanjepuree (chestnut puree), frambozenpuree (raspberry puree), aardbeienpuree (strawberry puree). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

پوره(مثل پوره سیب زمینی وغیره), پوره کردن . (various references)

   

French

  

purée. (various references)

   

German

  

Püree (mash, mashed potatoes), Mus (gruel, jam, mess, mush). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

πουρέσ (mashed potatoes), πολτόσ (mash, pulp, squash), χυλόσ (chyle, gruel, mush, pap, porridge). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מחית (mash, sauce), רסק (mash, sauce). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

püré (purée). (various references)

   

Italian

  

puré (mash). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

"ストン輸送 (ice axe, period, periodic, PHS portable phone, piccolo, pick, picking, pickoff play, pickup service, pilaf, pile, Pilgrim Fathers, pill, pilling, pipette, piranha, pit, pit stop, pitch, pitcher, pitcher's mound, pitching, pitching machine, pitchout, Pithecanthropus erectus, pivot, pizza, pizzicato, Pulitzer, pure, pure malt, purist, Puritan, pyramid, pyramid selling, pyrine, shuttle, splashing sound, stilt). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

"ューレ . (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ureepay

   

Portuguese

  

purê (gruel, mess, mush), preparar um purê. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

pireu. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

пюре (mash, squash). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

pire. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

puré (soup). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

pure. (various references)

   

Thai

  

น้ำแกงข้น. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

püre (mash, mashed potatoes), ezme (crush, crushing, grinding, mash, mashing, paste, pate, pomace, pulverization, scrunch, spoon meat). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

pяure (r). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

пюре (mash). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Puree

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

purare. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Puree

Derivations

Words beginning with "puree": pureed, pureeing, purees. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Puree" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: apure, duree, euere, guree, Hurree, parece, pareo, Parere, pareu, parue, peere, Penrewen, Perea, perree, petree, phry, pluere, plure, plury, pnre, poireau, poreen, poury, Powrie, pree, preeo, puede, Puer, Puerte, pugree, pugry, Pukraj, puqe, purce, purea, pureer, purel, Puren, puret, purete, purew, Purex, purey, purie, purile, purite, purle, purme, pursee, purte, pury, Puryear, puye, pyrea, pyrene, Pyry, quree, ruree. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Puree"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "puree" (pronounced pyuhrā")
3-uh r ā"hooray.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Puree

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: rupee.

Words within the letters "e-e-p-r-u"

-1 letter: peer, pree, pure.

-2 letters: ere, pee, per, pur, ree, rep, rue.

-3 letters: er, pe, re, up.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-p-r-u"
 

+1 letter: perdue, peruke, peruse, prevue, pugree, pureed, purees, repute, rupees.

 

+2 letters: cupeler, epicure, erupted, euphroe, perdues, perdure, perfume, perfuse, perique, perjure, permute, peruked, perukes, perused, peruser, peruses, pleurae, precure, prelude, premune, prepuce, prequel, presume, prevued, prevues, puerile, pugaree, puggree, pugrees, recoupe, reequip, repulse, reputed, reputes, supered, supreme.

 

+3 letters: aperture, bumpered, cupelers, cupeller, depurate, douzeper, drupelet, duperies, duplexer, empurple, epicures, equipper, erumpent, eruptive, espouser, euphroes, exposure, expunger, hereupon, opercule, outpreen, parvenue, paupered, pedicure, penuries, perdured, perdures, perfumed, perfumer, perfumes, perfused, perfuses, perilune, perineum, periques, perjured, perjurer, perjures, permuted, permutes, persuade, perusers, pleasure, precieux, preclude, precured, precures, prejudge, preluded, preluder, preludes, prepuces, prequels, pressure, presumed, presumer, presumes, preunite, priedieu, prudence, prunelle, puckered, puckerer, pugarees, puggaree, puggrees, purebred, pureeing, pureness, purveyed, puttered, putterer, recouped, recouple, reequips, replunge, repoured, repousse, repugned, repulsed, repulser, repulses, repumped, repursue, resupine, spherule, superber, superego, superjet, superlie, supermen, superset, supersex, supremer, unexpert, unsphere, upbearer, upheaver, upreared, upsetter.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Translations: Ancient
11. Derivations
12. Rhymes
13. Anagrams
14. Bibliography


  

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