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Definition: Seasick |
SeasickAdjective1. Experiencing motion sickness. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "seasick" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1595. (references) |
Synonyms: SeasickSynonyms: airsick (adj), carsick (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Seasick |
| Specialty definitions using "seasick": BLERIOT ♦ EARTH ♦ NEPTUNE. (references) |
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Screenplays | Woof gets seasick easy. (Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker; writing credit: Bob Kane; Paul Dini) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Seasick Sailors (1951) | |
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 | Vomit; regurgitate; regurgitating; barf; be seasick; be sick; belch; bring up; disgorge; dry heave; emit; expel; gag; heave; hurl; keck; lose it; puke; regurgitate; retch; ruminate; spew; spit up; throw up; upchuck. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Seasick" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 97.62% of the time. "Seasick" is used about 42 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 97.62% | 41 | 53,521 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.38% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 42 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "seasick": be seasick ♦ feel seasick ♦ get seasick. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "seasick": anti-seasick, sail-it-on-its-ear-and-hard-luck-if-you're-seasick. | |
| 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 |
seasick | 73 |
seasick remedy | 4 |
giraffe seasick | 3 |
record seasick | 3 |
medicine seasick | 2 |
cecil sea seasick serpent | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "seasick"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مصاب بدوار البحر. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | страдам от морска болест (be seasick), повръща ми се (feel queer, feel seasick, heave, nauseate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 暈船 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | trpící mořskou nemocí (sea-sick). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | تهوع وبهم خوردگی حال درسفردریا, دریازدگی . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | merisairas, merikipeä. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | avoir le mal de mer (be seasick). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | seekrank (sea sick, seasickly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ναυτιών (qualmish, queasy, sickish), αναγουλιάζων, αυτόσ που παθαίνει ναυτία. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | חול" ים. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tengeri beteg (sea-sick). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | chi ha mal di mare. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | easicksay mareado, enjoado (airsick, bleak, dismal, dreary, ghastly, grisly, horrible, nasty, nauseated, qualmish, queasy, squeamish). (various references) care suferã de rãu de mare. (various references) страдающий морской болезнью, укачивать. (various references) od morske bolesti. (various references) mareado (airsick, dizzy, giddy, groggy, light-headed, queasy). (various references) sjösjuk. (various references) deniz tutmuş. (various references) який стражда" морською хворобою. (various references) say sóng. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "seasick": seasickness, seasicknesses. (additional references) | |
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"Seasick" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cuisick, Eastick, Edawick, neesick, Sawicki, Sesok, Shafick, Skalicky, Stasiak, twisick. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "seasick" (pronounced sē"si'k) |
| 3 | -s i' k | homesick. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-k-s-s" | |
-1 letter: saices. | |
-2 letters: cakes, cases, casks, sacks, saice, sakes, sakis, sices, sicks, sikes, skies. | |
-3 letters: aces, asci, asks, cake, case, cask, cess, ices, kaes, keas, kiss, sack, sacs, sake, saki, seas, secs, seis, sice, sick, sics, sike, skas, skis. | |
-4 letters: ace, ais, ask, ass, cis, ess, ice, ick, kae, kas, kea, sac, sae, sea, sec. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-k-s-s" | |
+2 letters: backsides, capeskins, tackiness, wackiness. | |
+3 letters: backslides, crankiness, creakiness, jackfishes, sicklemias, sidetracks, tracksides, wisecracks. | |
+4 letters: airsickness, backsliders, blackfishes, breadsticks, carsickness, kiloparsecs, mispackages, reichsmarks, rickettsias, seasickness, shankpieces, silverbacks, tackinesses, tapersticks, wackinesses. | |
+5 letters: backstitches, blacklisters, brackishness, candlesticks, crankinesses, creakinesses, glucokinases, jackasseries, mackintoshes, shellackings, stickhandles, sticklebacks, wisecrackers. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 65 61 73 69 63 6B |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... . .- ... .. -.-. -.- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100101 01100001 01110011 01101001 01100011 01101011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S e a s i c k |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0065 0061 0073 0069 0063 006B |
| 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)53716785756977 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Sounds 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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