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Definition: Scours |
ScoursNoun1. Diarrhea in livestock. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "scours" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Crosswords: Scours |
| Specialty definitions using "scours": bakeshop cleaner, BEAM-DYER OPERATOR, BIN CLEANER, BLEACH-RANGE OPERATOR, bloody scours, BUFFER, INFLATED-PAD ♦ calf scours, Camilla, COOK HELPER, PASTRY, cylinder dyer ♦ pastry helper, peat scours, piglet scours ♦ Run Amuck ♦ teart scours ♦ unstable channel ♦ white scours, winter scours. (references) |
| "Scours" is generally used as a lexical verb (-s form) -- approximately 93.75% of the time. "Scours" is used about 16 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 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 93.75% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Noun (plural) | 6.25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 16 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "scours": bloody scours ♦ calf scours ♦ peat scours ♦ piglet scours ♦ teart scours ♦ white scours ♦ winter scours. 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 |
calf scours | 15 |
scours | 13 |
goat scours | 3 |
calf in scours | 3 |
foal scours | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "scours"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | вид диария. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | " (scour, Sponged, Sponging). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | kalvediarré (calf scours, white scours). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | witte diarree (calf scours, white scours), kalverdiarree (calf scours, white scours). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | vasikoiden enterotoksinen kolibasilloosi (calf scours, white scours). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | teart des ruminants (teart scours), entérite d'hiver des bovins (winter scours), entérite Treponema hyodysenteriae (bloody scours), diarrhée des tourbières (peat scours), diarrhée blanche des veaux (calf scours, white scours). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | streift umher (rambles, straggles), reinigt (cleans, defecates, purifies, scavenges). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | λευκή διάρροια των μόσχων (calf scours, white scours). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | dissenteria suina (bloody scours, swine dysentery, Treponema hyodysenteriae infection), dissenteria invernale dei bovini (winter dysentery, winter scours), dissenteria invernale (winter dysentery, winter scours), diarrea picea (peat scours), diarrea emorragica (bloody scours, swine dysentery, Treponema hyodysenteriae infection), diarrea dei suinetti (enteric colibacillosis of piglets, piglet diarrhoea, piglet dysentery, piglet scour, piglet scours), diarrea catramosa (teart, teart scours), diarrea bianca dei vitelli (calf scours, white scours), colibacillosi enterica del suinetto (enteric colibacillosis of piglets, piglet diarrhoea, piglet scours), colibacillosi enterica dei vitelli (enteric colibacillosis of calves, white scours). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 일소 (scour). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oursscay paratifose (calf scours, white scours), diarreia dos recém-nascidos (calf scours, white scours), diarreia branca dos vitelos (calf scours, white scours), colibacilose (calf scours, colibacillosis, colibacteriosis, Escherichia coli infection, white scours). (various references) очищать (brighten, chasten, clarify, clean, clean out, cleanse, clear, decontaminate, defecate, depurate, deterge, distil, edulcorate, evacuate, mop up, purge, purify, rarefy, rectify, refine, scoured, scouring). (various references) diarrea (diarrhea, diarrhoea, looseness). (various references) kalvdiarré (calf scours, white scours). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | colibacillosis, nosogenum:Escherichia coli. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "scours": bescours. (additional references) | |
Words containing "scours": discourse, discoursed, discourser, discoursers, discourses, discoursing. (additional references) | |
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"Scours" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cours, Scaur, scaurs, Schuur, Sciurus, scors, scoure, scourl, scourn, Scourst, scourts, scouse, scuer, scurs, scurz, Secours, skour, sous, spours, stours, sucour. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "scours" (pronounced skou"erz) |
| 3 | -ou" er z | Bowers, devours, empowers, flours, flowers, hours, ours, powers, showers, sours, superpowers, towers. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-o-r-s-s-u" | |
-1 letter: cross, cusso, scour, sorus, sours. | |
-2 letters: cors, coss, crus, curs, cuss, orcs, ours, rocs, sour, sous. | |
-3 letters: cor, cos, cur, orc, ors, our, roc, sos, sou. | |
-4 letters: or, os, so, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-o-r-s-s-u" | |
+1 letter: courses, cursors, sarcous, soucars, sources, succors, sucrose, uncross. | |
+2 letters: bescours, carouses, choruses, chousers, closures, cornuses, corpuses, coursers, crocuses, crosscut, crusados, crustose, curassow, cussword, focusers, obscures, outcross, scabrous, scarious, sclerous, scourers, scourges, scouters, scrotums, scrouges, succours, sucroses, surcoats. | |
+3 letters: aurochses, autocross, caroluses, carousals, carousels, carousers, chorussed, chorusses, cockspurs, coinsures, construes, consumers, cornhusks, costumers, coursings, crosscuts, crossruff, crusadoes, curassows, cuspidors, cusswords, customers, cynosures, discourse, fructoses, obscurest, obstructs, ossicular, outcurses, outscores, outscorns, recourses, refocuses, resources, rosaceous, scirrhous, scourgers, scourings, scouthers, scrofulas, scrounges, sculptors, sericeous, shortcuts, slouchers, sorcerous, stuccoers, subsector, successor, succorers, succories, supercops, uncrossed, uncrosses. | |
+4 letters: anasarcous, archosaurs, carrousels, castoreums, censorious, choraguses, choreguses, chorussing, coinsurers, colostrums, combustors, commissure, composures, concourses, constructs, consulters, consultors, corpuscles, coruscates, costumiers, cotrustees, counselors, courtesans, courtesies, courtships, courtsides, cousinries, crosscourt, crossruffs, croustades, curbstones, curiousest, disclosure, discoursed, discourser, discourses, dustcovers, enclosures, excursions, fluoresces, housecarls, inclosures, incursions, microbuses, obscurants, ocularists, outcrossed, outcrosses, oversauces, percussion, preciouses, precursors, prefocuses, proconsuls, prosecutes, prospectus, reclusions, recursions, refocussed, refocusses, roughcasts, scabrously, scoundrels, scrofulous, scroungers, scrupulous, scurrilous, sourceless, subprocess, subsectors, subtropics, successors, suctorians, sudorifics, sugarcoats, sunporches, supercoils, supercools, superjocks, superscout, supersonic, superstock, syncarpous, uncrossing, uroscopies. | |
+5 letters: acquisitors, autocrosses, brucelloses, brucellosis, cloudbursts, coastguards, cocksuckers, commissural, commissures, conductress, connoisseur, consortiums, consumerism, consumerist, cornhuskers, corruptness, costumeries, cotylosaurs, counsellors, countersues, coursewares, courthouses, courtliness, crossruffed, crustaceous, curiosities, curiousness, cursoriness, customizers, disclosures, discounters, discourages, discoursers, discoursing, discourtesy, echoviruses, ecotourisms, ecotourists, fluorescers, glycosurias, goatsuckers, grouchiness, instructors, isochronous, knockwursts, microbursts, microbusses, minicourses, misconstrue, obscureness, obscurities, obstructors, outcrossing, overfocuses, pelycosaurs, percussions, persecutors, perspicuous, piscivorous, preclusions, prefocussed, prefocusses, promiscuous, prosceniums, prosciuttos, prosecutors, racecourses, raucousness, reconquests, rediscounts, refocussing, rusticators, sarcomatous, sarcophagus, scoriaceous, scoutcrafts, scoutmaster, scroungiest, scrumptious, soundtracks, sourcebooks, speculators, stuccoworks, subproducts, subprojects, superblocks, supercargos, supermachos, supermicros, superschool, superscouts, supersonics, superstocks, supertonics, surjections, surrogacies, synchronous, telecourses, ultrasonics, uncrossable, underscores, unprocessed. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 63 6F 75 72 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... -.-. --- ..- .-. ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100011 01101111 01110101 01110010 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S c o u r s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0063 006F 0075 0072 0073 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)536981878485 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage Frequency 4. Expressions | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Translations: Ancient 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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