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Secretor

Definition: Secretor

Secretor

Noun

1. Any of various organs that synthesize substances needed by the body and release it through ducts or directly into the bloodstream.

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

Synonyms: Secretor

Synonyms: gland (n), secreter (n), secretory organ (n). (additional references)
Synonyms by domain: germ carrier (medicine), germ secretor, system of secretors and nonsecretors.

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Crosswords: Secretor

Non-English Usage: "Secretor" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Portuguese (secretory), Romanian (secretive), Spanish (secretory).

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Expression: Secretor

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "secretor": non-secretor.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Secretor

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

  non secretor

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

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Modern Translations: Secretor

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

Greek 

  

κρύπτων, εκκρίνων. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ecretorsay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Secretor

Derivations

Words beginning with "secretor": secretors, secretory. (additional references)

Words ending with "secretor": nonsecretor. (additional references)

Words containing "secretor": neurosecretory, nonsecretories, nonsecretors, nonsecretory. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Secretor" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: decreto, decretorum, secretar, secreter, secreto, Secretorie, secretory, secuetor, Securitag, Segreto, serrator. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Secretor

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: erectors.

Words within the letters "c-e-e-o-r-r-s-t"

-1 letter: erector, rectors, rescore, restore.

-2 letters: certes, corers, corset, coster, crores, erects, escort, rector, rectos, rerose, resect, resort, rester, retore, retros, roster, scorer, scoter, secret, sector, sorter, stereo, terces, terser.

-3 letters: ceres, ceros, cetes, corer, cores, corse, coset, cotes, crest, crore, erect, erose, escot, ester, recto, reest, reset, retro, roset, rotes, score, scree, serer.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-e-o-r-r-s-t"
 

+1 letter: receptors, rectories, rejectors, rocketers, secretors, secretory, torcheres.

 

+2 letters: clerestory, converters, correctest, correlates, corsetiere, corsetries, covertures, crocheters, crosstrees, desecrator, escritoire, excerptors, execrators, forecaster, overreacts, persecutor, precentors, preceptors, procreates, reconverts, recounters, rectorates, reflectors, rencontres, retouchers, retrocedes, retrospect, rocketeers, rocketries, threescore.

 

+3 letters: arborescent, celebrators, centromeres, charioteers, cherrystone, cordierites, cornerstone, correctives, correctness, corsetieres, couturieres, crematories, desecrators, directories, escritoires, forecasters, intercessor, intercourse, micrometers, nonsecretor, orchestrate, overdirects, overstretch, persecutors, persecutory, preconcerts, protectress, recreations, redecorates, refectories, rencounters, retrospects, sclerometer, treacherous, watercourse.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Secretor


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

53 65 63 72 65 74 6F 72

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)

01010011 01100101 01100011 01110010 01100101 01110100 01101111 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#101 &#99 &#114 &#101 &#116 &#111 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0065 0063 0072 0065 0074 006F 0072

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

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

5371698471868184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Expressions
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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