Rubbing Alcohol

  

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Rubbing Alcohol

Definition: Rubbing Alcohol

Rubbing Alcohol

Noun

1. Lotion consisting of a poisonous solution of isopropyl alcohol or denatured ethanol alcohol for external use.

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


Crosswords: Rubbing Alcohol

Specialty definitions using "rubbing alcohol": bath attendant, bath-house attendantMASSEUR/MASSEUSE. (references)

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Specialty Definition: Rubbing alcohol

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Rubbing alcohol is a lotion that is made of a poisonous solution for external use.

The content of rubbing alcohol varies depending on origin, but usually it is a short chain alcohol, methanol, ethanol or isopropyl alcohol.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Rubbing alcohol."

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Modern Usage: Rubbing Alcohol

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Martha? Rubbing alcohol for you? (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; writing credit: Edward Albee; Ernest Lehman)

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

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Image Slideshow: Rubbing Alcohol

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Non-Fiction Usage: Rubbing Alcohol

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Soak combs and brushes for 1 hour in rubbing alcohol, Lysol*, or wash with soap and hot (130o F) water. (references)

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Rubbing Alcohol

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

rubbing alcohol

68

isopropyl rubbing alcohol

4
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Modern Translations: Rubbing Alcohol

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

German

  

Reibungalkohol. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ubbingray alcoholay

   

Turkmen 

  

spirit. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Rubbing Alcohol

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-b-c-g-h-i-l-l-n-o-o-r-u"

-4 letters: urological.

-5 letters: billabong, binocular, broaching, bronchial, carolling, collaring, colouring, hallooing, hobgoblin, holloaing, hulloaing, labouring.

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Alternative Orthography: Rubbing Alcohol


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

52 75 62 62 69 6E 67      41 6C 63 6F 68 6F 6C

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

    

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

01010010 01110101 01100010 01100010 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01000001 01101100 01100011 01101111 01101000 01101111 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#117 &#98 &#98 &#105 &#110 &#103 &#32 &#65 &#108 &#99 &#111 &#104 &#111 &#108

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0075 0062 0062 0069 006E 0067      0041 006C 0063 006F 0068 006F 006C

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

52876868758073235786981748178

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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