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Definition: Raisin |
RaisinNoun1. Dried grape. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "raisin" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Etymology: Raisin \Rai"sin\, noun. [French expression raisin grape, raisin, from Latin expression racemus cluster of grapes or berries; compare to Greek expression berry, grape. Compare to Raceme.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Food & Agriculture | Dried grapes used for dessert or culinary purposes. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A Raisin is a sun-dried or artificially dried grape, used in cooking and baking. Raisins are extremely sweet due to their high sugar content, and if they are stored for a long period the sugar crystallises inside the fruit. This makes the fruit gritty, but does not affect the usability. To decrystalise raisins, they can be soaked in liquid (alcohol, fruit juice or boiling water) for a short period, dissolving the sugar.
In the USA, the term 'raisin' refers to any form of dried grape, but some varieties are known by other names such as zante currant, or golden raisin. In Australia and other countries specific varieties are given separate names - see sultana, currant.
Raisin is also a dark purple color (the color of a raisin)
Raisin was also the musical version (music by Judd Woldin; lyrics by Robert Brittan; book by Charlotte Zaltzberg and Robert Nemiroff) of the play A Raisin in the Sun, written by Lorraine Hansberry.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Raisin."
Crosswords: Raisin |
| English words defined with "raisin": currant ♦ Indian plum ♦ raisin bran, raisin bread, raisin cookie, raisin moth, Raisin tree ♦ seeded raisin, seedless raisin ♦ Zante currant. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "raisin": 93652 ♦ golden bleached raisins ♦ raki. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "raisin": Raceme. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Raisin" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (grape, grapes, raisin, tokay), Manx (raisin). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I can't say I'm a big supporter of the Raisin Council. (Benny and Joon ; writing credit: Barry Berman) Rum raisin. (City Slickers; writing credit: Lowell Ganz; Babaloo Mandel) For Christmas my mom makes gingerbread men with little raisin nipples. (Caroline in the City; writing credit: Angela Carneiro) | |
Lyrics | Label owners hate me I'm raisin the status quo up ("Izzo (H.O.V.A.)"; performing artist: Jay-Z) | |
Movie/TV Titles | A Raisin in the Sun (1961) The Fable of a Raisin and a Cake (1923) Le Raisin d'or (1995) A Raisin in the Sun (1989) Black Theatre Movement: From A Raisin in the Sun to the Present (1978) | |
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Economic History | Israel | However Israel's domestic raisin production is of low quality. (references) |
Israel | Domestic raisin production grows with the expansion of grape production for fresh exports. (references) | |
Israel | Israel's annual raisin and prune imports are governed by tariff rate quotas of 550 and 750 metric tons respectively. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Raisin" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "Raisin" is used about 25 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) | 80% | 20 | 78,262 |
| Noun (proper) | 20% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 25 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "raisin" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Raisin | Last name | 100 | 79,403 |
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1. Raisin, CA |
Expressions using "raisin": black raisin ♦ raisin bran ♦ raisin bread ♦ raisin cookie ♦ raisin moth ♦ raisin tree ♦ seeded raisin ♦ seedless raisin ♦ sultana raisin ♦ white raisin. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "raisin": raisin-filled, raisin-nut cookie. | |
| 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 |
raisin | 102 |
raisin bran | 28 |
french raisin | 26 |
raisin swim wear | 25 |
raisin pie | 24 |
raisin bran muffin | 23 |
raisin seedless | 20 |
rack raisin | 13 |
raisin california | 12 |
agriculture raisin | 12 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "raisin"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | rrush i thatë, stafidhe (currant). (various references) | |
Arabic | زبيب (currant). (various references) | |
Asturian | uva pasa. (various references) | |
Blackfoot | i'náksiin. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | стафида (currant, plum). (various references) | |
Cebuano | pasas. (various references) | |
Chamorro | pasas. (various references) | |
Chinese | 葡萄干 (Raisins), 葡萄乾' . (various references) | |
Cornish | fygesen an howl. (various references) | |
Czech | hrozinka (currant, plum). (various references) | |
Danish | rosiner (grape destined to be dried), rosin. (various references) | |
Dutch | rozijnen, rozijn. (various references) | |
Faeroese | rosina (grape). (various references) | |
Farsi | کشمش , رنگ کشمشی , رنگ قرمزمایل به ابی (Pansy). (various references) | |
Finnish | rusina. (various references) | |
French | raisin sec, raisin. (various references) | |
Frisian | rezyn. (various references) | |
German | Rosine (raisins). (various references) | |
Greek | σταφίδα (currant, grape destined to be dried, sultana). (various references) | |
Hebrew | צמוק (currant, dry, shrivelled, shrivelling, wrinkled, wrinkling). (various references) | |
Hungarian | mazsola (cherry, dried currant, plum). (various references) | |
Indonesian | kismis (currant). (various references) | |
Inuktitut | paungait. (various references) | |
Italian | uva passa. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 干葡萄 , 干し葡萄 , 乾葡萄 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ほしぶどう. (various references) | |
Korean | 건포도 (Raisins). (various references) | |
Macedonian | suvo grozje. (various references) | |
Manx | raisin. (various references) | |
Papago | uhdwis-gakithag. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aisinray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | uva seca, uva passa. (various references) | |
Provencal | pansa. (various references) | |
Romanian | stafidã (currant, plum, sultana). (various references) | |
Russian | изюм (raisins). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | suvo grožđe. (various references) | |
Sicilian | passula. (various references) | |
Spanish | pasa (come in, Food Security Assistance Scheme, FSAS, is happening, pass), uva pasa (currant). (various references) | |
Swedish | russin (plum). (various references) | |
Turkish | kuru üzüm. (various references) | |
Ukranian | ізюм (plum), родзинка. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | nho khô m u nho khô. (various references) | |
Welsh | rhesin. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "raisin": raising, raisings, raisins, raisiny. (additional references) | |
Words containing "raisin": appraising, appraisingly, braising, dispraising, dispraisingly, fundraising, fundraisings, misraising, outraising, overpraising, praising, reappraising, reraising, upraising. (additional references) | |
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"Raisin" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aisian, Arifin, aristion, faisant, krajisnik, Krasin, Rabson, raein, rahsaan, raidion, rainin, raisanen, raisen, Raisi, raisian, raisig, Raisina, raisiny, raisn, Raissa, Rajski, rasim, Rasimi, rasin, rasion, Ravissant, ravissent, Rawsen, Rayosan, raysen, Raysun, Razin, reisen, Reisin, resilin, Rhiain, rhigian, Riazan, risin, Roizen, Ruilin, Ruiminn, Ruisi, trahison. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "raisin" (pronounced rā"zi'n) |
| 3 | -z i' n | resin. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-i-n-r-s" | |
-1 letter: airns, naris, rains, ranis, sarin. | |
-2 letters: ains, airn, airs, anis, inia, iris, nisi, rain, rani, rias, rins, sain, sari. | |
-3 letters: ain, air, ais, ani, ars, ins, ran, ras, ria, rin, sin, sir, sri. | |
-4 letters: ai, an, ar, as, in, is, na, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-i-n-r-s" | |
+1 letter: airings, arising, aspirin, raising, raisins, raisiny, rapinis, senarii. | |
+2 letters: airiness, airlines, aspiring, aspirins, bairnish, binaries, brainish, braising, brasilin, distrain, fairings, hairpins, inertias, ingrains, intarsia, kaiserin, martinis, minibars, minicars, mistrain, narcissi, pairings, praising, railings, rainiest, raisings, rappinis, sirenian, triazins, vitrains. | |
+3 letters: acridines, airliners, alizarins, antiarins, antivirus, apiarians, apprising, arginines, ascribing, braidings, brainiacs, brainiest, brainsick, brasilins, brazilins, carnifies, criminals, dairyings, disarming, disrating, distrains, distraint, grainiest, hairiness, hairlines, historian, imaginers, insnaring, intarsias, irritants, kaiserins, laniaries, larrikins, linearise, meridians, midbrains, migraines, miniparks, misrating, mistrains, originals, precisian, prosimian, quinaries, rabbinism, rainbirds, ravishing, realising, reraising, resailing, rifampins, rigatonis, ringtails, safariing, saintlier, sanitaria, sanitoria, saturniid, seriating, sharifian, signorina, sinistral, sirenians, spiraling, spraining, straining, striating, striation, trainings, traipsing, triazines, trichinas, upraising, urinaries, urinemias, viniferas, virginals, viridians, visionary, zirconias. | |
+4 letters: aborigines, acrimonies, administer, agrimonies, airinesses, airmanship, amortising, animaliers, anticaries, antirabies, antiracism, antiracist, antistrike, aphorising, appraising, archaising, ascription, aspirating, aspiration, astricting, astringing, attritions, bairnliest, banditries, bipartisan, birdbrains, braininess, brilliants, carcinoids, carnitines, cashiering, cinerarias, cnidarians, criminates, cuirassing, cystinuria, despairing, disbarring, discarding, disgracing, disparting, distrained, distrainer, distrainor, distraints, drainpipes, faradising, financiers, garnishing, graininess, grimalkins, gyniatries, hairspring, hindbrains, historians, immigrants, inartistic, increasing, indicators, industrial, inebriants, inebriates, infantries, infrasonic, infuriates, infusorian, inhabiters, initiators, insanitary, insinuator, inspirator, instarring, instigator, insularism, insularity, interbasin, intimaters, intrigants, invariants, irridentas, iterations, itinerants, itinerates, janisaries, janizaries, jinricksha, jinrikisha, laminarias, laminarins, laryngitis, librarians, librations, linearised, linearises, linearizes, luminaires, luminarias, luminaries, magnifiers, mainspring, manicurist, migrainous, migrations, mineralise, miniatures, ministrant, misandries, misdrawing, misframing, misgrading, mishearing, mismarking, misparsing, misparting, misraising, misreading, missionary, mistracing, mistrained, moralising, morticians, muscarinic, narcissism, narcissist, nitrations, nonaspirin, ordinaries, organicism, organicist, organising, organismic, originates, outraising, partitions, patricians, polarising, practising, precisians, principals, privations, prosimians, puritanism, rabbinisms, radiancies, radiations, reimagines, reinhabits, reinvasion, reptilians, resinating, retailings, ribavirins, romanising, ruffianism, ruinations, ruralising, sanctifier, sanitarian, sanitaries, sanitarily, sanitarium, sanitorium, saponifier, sapphirine, satirising, satirizing, saturniids, scarifying, scraiching, scraighing, seignorial, seminarian, seminaries, seminarist, septenarii, shikarring, signorinas, sinoatrial, solarising, solarizing, spiralling, springtail, striations, tailorings, tanistries, tarnishing, titrations, traditions, transiting, transition, transitive, triennials, trinomials, tristearin, unartistic, unitarians, uraninites, urbanising, urbanistic, urbanities, urinalysis, urinations, valorising, vanitories, vaporising, variations, varnishing, vibrancies, vibrations, vicariants, vinegarish, viraginous, zamindaris. | |
+5 letters: aboriginals, abortionist, abstricting, acrimonious, administers, admirations, advertising, agrarianism, airbrushing, airmanships, airsickness, ambiversion, anagnorisis, anarchistic, ancientries, ancillaries, anisotropic, antiphrasis, antipyresis, antipyrines, antiquaries, antiracisms, antiracists, antirealism, antirealist, antiseizure, antistories, antitarnish, apparitions, arabinoside, artisanship, ascriptions, aspirations, asterisking, authorising, bacitracins, bradykinins, brainsickly, brandishing, brigandines, brigantines, brilliances, broadsiding, brutalising, cabinetries, carabiniers, carburising, caregivings, carnalities, carotinoids, cartelising, certainties, chicaneries, chrismation, christiania, clarinetist, crawfishing, creatinines, creationism, creationist, culinarians, cystinurias, derivations, desipramine, diachronies, dicoumarins, dignitaries, dinosaurian, disagreeing, disarmingly, disarraying, discharging, disfavoring, disorganize, disparaging, dispraising, dispreading, disrelation, distracting, distraction, distrainers, distraining, distrainors, dramatising, drivetrains, eliminators, emigrations, enravishing, espaliering, expirations, figurations, filtrations, fingernails, flirtations, floriations, formalising, franchising, frangipanis, fruitarians, fundraising, garnierites, garrisoning, glamorising, grainfields, gramicidins, grandiosity, grecianizes, hairinesses, hairsprings, hairstyling, harmonicist, harmonising, herniations, illusionary, imaginaries, imipramines, impairments, incinerates, indurations, industrials, inerrancies, infarctions, infiltrates, infirmaries, informatics, infractions, infusorians, ingratiates, inharmonies, insalubrity, insectaries, inseminator, insertional, insinuators, inspiration, inspirators, inspiratory, inspissator, instigators, insularisms, interchains, interisland, internalise, interparish, interstrain, intricacies, intriguants, intrinsical, invariables, invariances, invigorates, iproniazids, irradiances, irrationals, irrigations, irritations, isografting, itineraries, janissaries, jardinieres, jargonistic, jinrickshas, jinrikishas, jubilarians, kallikreins, keratinizes, laminarians, legionaries, liberations, linearising, linearities, lipreadings, literations, machineries, maidenhairs, mainsprings, maintainers, mandarinism, manicurists, manneristic, manorialism, marbleising, marinations, marlinspike, martensitic, maternities, matrimonies, meridionals, millenaries, minaudieres, mineralised, mineralises, mineralizes, miniaturist, ministerial, ministrants, misaltering, misaverring, misawarding, misbranding, miscarrying, mischarging, miscreating, miscreation, misgrafting, mislaboring, mislearning, misphrasing, misrelating, misstarting, mistraining, mistreating, multigrains, narcissisms, narcissists, natriuresis, nightmarish, nimbostrati, nitrosamine, nonartistic, nonaspirins, normalising, normalities, omnifarious, ordinariest, ordinations, organicisms, organicists, orientalism, orientalist, originators, ostracising, ostracizing, painkillers, parasailing, parishioner, parsimonies, paternities, patrimonies, patronising, pharyngitis, piperazines, plaistering, planarities, pleinairism, pleinairist, preinvasion, previsional, privatising, profanities, provincials, provisional, provitamins, prussianise, prussianize, puritanisms, quantifiers, quinacrines, rainmakings, rainwashing, rancidities, rationalise, rationalism, rationalist, ravishingly, readmission, reassailing, reassigning, recitations, regionalism, regionalist, reinitiates, reinstating, reinvasions, residential, resignation, respiration, restraining, revisionary, riboflavins, rifampicins, romanticise, romanticism, romanticist, ruffianisms, ruminations, rusticating, rustication, sacrificing, sanctifiers, sanguinaria, sanitarians, sanitariums, sanitoriums, sansevieria, saponifiers, sardonicism, saurischian, scrimmaging, seigneurial, seigniorage, semidiurnal, seminarians, seminarists, serialising, serializing, shivareeing, signatories, singularity, singularize, springtails, stipendiary, straighting, straitening, stratifying, stravaiging, submarining, summarising, summarizing, suspiration, thorianites, trailerings, traineeship, transfinite, transfixing, transfixion, transitions, transpiring, trigeminals, tristearins, tyrannising, unchristian, unclarities, unrealistic, unrealities, unspiritual, urtications, vainglories, vicariances, vindicators, vineyardist, virginalist, visionaries, vivandieres, vulgarising, wainwrights, waitressing, waterskiing, xiphisterna, zemindaries. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 61 69 73 69 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. .- .. ... .. -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100001 01101001 01110011 01101001 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R a i s i n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0061 0069 0073 0069 006E |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)526775857580 |
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