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Definitions: Sensitise |
SensitiseVerb1. Cause to sense; make sensitive; "She sensitized me with respect to gender differences in this traditional male-dominated society"; "My tongue became sensitized to good wine". 2. Make sensitive or aware; "He was not sensitized to her emotional needs". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: SensitiseSynonyms: sensibilise (v), sensibilize (v), sensify (v), sensitize (v). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: heliographic paper (fine arts, european union), horizontal whirler (european union, publishing & graphic arts), machine for sensitising offset zinc plates, optical sensitiser (fine arts), optical sensitising agent, sensitised cloth (fine arts, european union), sensitised emulsion (european union), sensitised film (fine arts, european union), sensitised film of celluloid, sensitised paper, sensitised paper sunshine recorder (european union, geography), sensitised paperboard (fine arts, european union), sensitised sheet, sensitising agent (european union, chemistry), specially sensitised paper (fine arts, european union). |
| Antonym: desensitize (v). (additional references) |
| "Sensitise" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 87.50% of the time. "Sensitise" is used about 8 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 (infinitive) | 87.5% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (singular) | 12.5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 8 | N/A |
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 |
sensitise tissue | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "sensitise"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 使敏感 (sensitised, sensitising, sensitize, sensitized, sensitizing). (various references) | ||||
Italian | sensibilizzare (sensitize). (various references) | ||||
Korean | 민감하게하십시" (sensitize). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ensitisesay | ||||
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Words beginning with "sensitise": sensitised, sensitises. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-i-i-n-s-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: sestines, sienites. | |
-2 letters: insists, seisins, sestine, sienite. | |
-3 letters: insets, insist, isseis, nesses, niseis, seines, seises, seisin, seniti, senses, steins, tenses. | |
-4 letters: esses, inset, intis, issei, neist, nests, nisei, nites, seine, seise, sense, sente, senti, sines, sises, sites, snits, stein, sties, teens, tense, tines. | |
-5 letters: eses, inti, ness, nest, nets, nisi, nite, nits, seen, sees, seis. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-i-i-n-s-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: feistiness, sensitised, sensitises, sensitives, sensitizes, tidinesses, tininesses. | |
+2 letters: dirtinesses, insistences, itchinesses, kinesthesis, mistinesses, necessities, pithinesses, ritzinesses, sensitizers, timidnesses, tinninesses, tipsinesses, wittinesses. | |
+3 letters: bitchinesses, citizenesses, daintinesses, desensitizes, dishonesties, disinterests, disseminates, dissentients, dissepiments, essentialism, essentialist, feistinesses, filthinesses, finitenesses, flintinesses, fruitinesses, grittinesses, guiltinesses, histogenesis, inessentials, insistencies, intersession, kinesthesias, mightinesses, minstrelsies, pitilessness, positiveness, priestliness, resensitizes, secessionist, sensualities, sensuosities, shiftinesses, sinisterness, spiritedness, stickinesses, stinginesses, thievishness, tigerishness, timelinesses, trickinesses, untidinesses, uppitinesses, wintrinesses. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 65 6E 73 69 74 69 73 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... . -. ... .. - .. ... . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100101 01101110 01110011 01101001 01110100 01101001 01110011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S e n s i t i s e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0065 006E 0073 0069 0074 0069 0073 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)537180857586758571 |
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