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Resorcinol

Definition: Resorcinol

Resorcinol

Noun

1. A crystalline phenol obtained from various resins; used in ointments for acne and in dandruff shampoos.

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


Commercial Usage: Resorcinol

DomainTitle

Books

  • Resorcinol (1,3-Dihydroxybenzene) (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Usage Frequency: Resorcinol

"Resorcinol" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Resorcinol" 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%4175,879

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Resorcinol

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

  resorcinol

41

  glue resorcinol

4

  resorcinol and sulfur

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

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Modern Translations: Resorcinol

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

Chinese 

  

间苯二酚. (various references)

   

Danish

  

resorcinol, resorcin. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

resorcinol, resorcine. (various references)

   

French

  

resorcinol, resorcine. (various references)

   

German

  

Resorcin, 1,3-Dihydroxybenzol. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ρικορζίνη. (various references)

   

Italian

  

resorcinolo, resorcina. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

조르시놀. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

esorcinolray

   

Spanish

  

resorcina. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Resorcinol

Derivations

Words beginning with "resorcinol": resorcinols. (additional references)

Words ending with "resorcinol": hexylresorcinol. (additional references)

Words containing "resorcinol": hexylresorcinols. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Resorcinol

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-i-l-n-o-o-r-r-s"

-2 letters: colonies, colonise, colorers, consoler, coronels, coroners, crooners, eclosion, incloser, licensor, loriners, orcinols, recolors, resorcin.

-3 letters: cineols, cirrose, cloners, coilers, coiners, colones, colorer, console, coolers, coolies, cornels, corners, cornier, coronel, coroner, corries, creosol, cronies, crooner, crosier, erosion, inclose, ironers, loonier, loonies, loriner, lorries, nerolis, orceins, orcinol, orioles, orrices, recoils, recoins, recolor, rosinol, scorner.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-i-l-n-o-o-r-r-s"
 

+1 letter: resorcinols.

 

+2 letters: correlations, ferrosilicon, intercoolers.

 

+3 letters: controversial, ferrosilicons, interlocutors, scleroprotein.

 

+4 letters: conservatorial, controllership, miscorrelation, nonreciprocals, retroflections, scleroproteins.

 

+5 letters: antiforeclosure, chlorpromazines, controllerships, controversially, correspondingly, hexylresorcinol, miscorrelations, noncorrelations, orchestrational, organochlorines, uncontroversial.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Resorcinol


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

52 65 73 6F 72 63 69 6E 6F 6C

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)

.-.    .    ...    ---    .-.    -.-.    ..    -.    ---    .-..

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

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

01010010 01100101 01110011 01101111 01110010 01100011 01101001 01101110 01101111 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#101 &#115 &#111 &#114 &#99 &#105 &#110 &#111 &#108

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0065 0073 006F 0072 0063 0069 006E 006F 006C

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

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

52718581846975808178

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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