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Definition: Puree |
PureeNoun1. Food prepared by cooking and straining or processed in a blender. Verb1. 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: PureeSynonym: strain (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: Puree |
| English words defined with "puree": apple butter, apple sauce, applesauce ♦ hunter's sauce ♦ pea soup, prune cake, prune whip ♦ sauce chausseur ♦ tapenade, tomato paste, tomato sauce. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "puree": BAKER, PIZZA ♦ FREEZER OPERATOR ♦ ice-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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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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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. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 36 | 57,479 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "puree": apple puree ♦ make puree. 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 | Expression | Frequency 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. | |||
| 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 purê (gruel, mess, mush), preparar um purê. (various references) pireu. (various references) пюре (mash, squash). (various references) pire. (various references) puré (soup). (various references) pure. (various references) น้ำแกงข้น. (various references) püre (mash, mashed potatoes), ezme (crush, crushing, grinding, mash, mashing, paste, pate, pomace, pulverization, scrunch, spoon meat). (various references) pяure (r). (various references) пюре (mash). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | purare. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "puree": pureed, pureeing, purees. (additional references) | |
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"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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "puree" (pronounced pyuhrā") |
| 3 | -uh r ā" | hooray. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
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. | |
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| 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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