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Definition: Sebum |
SebumNoun1. The oily secretion of the sebaceous glands; with perspiration it moistens and protects the skin. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | The oily substance secreted by sebaceous glands. It is composed of keratin, fat, and cellular debris. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Sebum |
| English words defined with "sebum": glandulae sebaceae ♦ pilar cyst ♦ sebaceous cyst, sebaceous follicle, sebaceous gland, steatocystoma ♦ wen. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "sebum": glandula orbitaria. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "sebum": sebaceous, Sebiferous, Sebiparous, seborrhea, suet. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Sebum" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Latin (grease, sebaceous, suet, tallow). |
| "Sebum" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sebum" is used about 10 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) | 100% | 10 | 111,207 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
sebum | 46 |
hair sebum | 5 |
sebum control | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "sebum"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 皮脂. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | talg (beef tallow, sebaceous, suet, tallow). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sebo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 皮脂 (sebaceous matter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ひし (hidden or secret history, sebaceous matter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ebumsay кожное сало. (various references) sebo (arming, suet, tallow). (various references) шкіряне сало. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "sebum": sebums. (additional references) | |
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"Sebum" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cibum, Debrum, ebom, Esbo, membrum, sabon, Sabu, sbem, sbm, seabum, seba, Sebbon, sebeb, seben, Sebi, Sebon, sebums, secum, segum, Segun, Seium, selum, sepum, seum, sexbox, seyum, Sibun, Siebu, sonum, speum, zebun. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-m-s-u" | |
-1 letter: bums, emus, muse. | |
-2 letters: bum, bus, ems, emu, mus, sub, sue, sum, use. | |
-3 letters: be, em, es, me, mu, um, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-m-s-u" | |
+1 letter: begums, bemuse, besmut, blumes, brumes, busmen, imbues, sebums, umbels, umbers, umbles. | |
+2 letters: bedumbs, bemused, bemuses, benumbs, besmuts, bumbles, bummers, bummest, bumpers, bushmen, cumbers, dumbest, embolus, embrues, erbiums, fumbles, humbles, imbrues, jumbles, lumbers, mumbles, numbers, numbest, numbles, rumbles, sambuke, scumble, slumber, stewbum, stumble, subitem, sublime, submenu, subsume, sunbeam, tumbles, umbones. | |
+3 letters: albumens, albumose, ambushed, ambusher, ambushes, amusable, bemusing, bermudas, besmudge, bethumps, bitumens, blellums, bluegums, bluesman, bluesmen, bluestem, brumbies, bumblers, bumpiest, buxomest, clumbers, crumbers, crumbles, drumbles, dumbness, embrutes, fumblers, gemsbuck, grumbles, humblers, humblest, iambuses, imbrutes, jumblers, limbuses, misbegun, mumblers, nelumbos, nimbused, nimbuses, numbness, outbeams, plumbers, replumbs, resubmit, rumblers, sambukes, scumbled, scumbles, slumbers, slumbery, stewbums, stumbled, stumbler, stumbles, subframe, subitems, sublimed, sublimer, sublimes, submenus, submerge, submerse, subsumed, subsumes, subtheme, summable, sunbeams, sunbeamy, terbiums, tumblers, tumbrels, umbrages. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 65 62 75 6D |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... . -... ..- -- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100101 01100010 01110101 01101101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S e b u m |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0065 0062 0075 006D |
| 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)5371688779 |
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