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Definitions: Sensitize |
SensitizeVerb1. Make sensitive or aware; "He was not sensitized to her emotional needs". 2. 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". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: SensitizeSynonyms: sensibilise (v), sensibilize (v), sensify (v), sensitise (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: desensitize (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Sensitize |
| Specialty definitions using "sensitize": SUPERVISOR, COATING. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Poland | The UNHCR and the Helsinki Foundation have been working with government officials, police, and hospital personnel to sensitize them to the plight of refugees and train them in better ways of handling refugees. (references) |
South Africa | The campaign has produced publications, organized several public relations events, and has instituted a Police Training Initiative in cooperation with the SAPS to sensitize police officers on the need to protect refugees and in dealing with foreign nationals. (references) | |
South Africa | The SAHRC report concluded that: "To the extent that expressions in the media reflect a persistent pattern of racist expressions and content of writing that could have been avoided, the media can be characterized as racist institutions." The report recommended workshops and conferences to sensitize journalists to the risk of racial prejudice in their reporting. (references) | |
Economic History | Cote D'ivoire | The new office will prepare Cote d'Ivoire for the entry into force of TRIPS, serve as a liaison with OAPI and work to sensitize public opinion to intellectual property issues. (references) |
Human Rights | Sierra Leone | The U.N. and numerous NGO's, both domestic and international, initiated programs to educate and sensitize the population about the TRC and the Special Court; the Government supported these efforts. (references) |
Minorities | Austria | In July the Anti-Defamation League and the Diplomatic Academy announced that the Government was working to incorporate a training program into the education system, designed to combat racism and educate participants in cultural sensitivity; the program was used successfully to sensitize members of the police. (references) |
Women | Peru | PROMUDEH continued its public education campaign to sensitize government employees and the public to domestic violence. (references) |
Guyana | Despite efforts by NGO's and the DPP to sensitize police officers to domestic violence, the police often are hesitant to interfere in cases of domestic disputes. (references) | |
Guyana | Help and Shelter (H&S), the first local NGO dedicated to fighting domestic violence, focuses on societal reeducation in order to sensitize the public to domestic violence. (references) | |
Worker Rights | India | The seminars have helped sensitize police to the fact that many of the sex workers are the victims of organized traffickers. (references) |
India | Some Mumbai NGO's have worked aggressively to sensitize, train, and create awareness of trafficking among local authorities. (references) | |
Namibia | The Labor Advisory Council, a tripartite board which includes government, union, and private sector representatives, sponsored a series of workshops during the year to sensitize and inform employers about child labor regulations. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Sensitize" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 69.23% of the time. "Sensitize" is used about 13 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) | 69.23% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 15.38% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (proper) | 15.38% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 13 | 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 |
penis sensitize | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "sensitize"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | rrit ndjeshmëri, bëj i ndjeshëm. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | جعله ذا حساسية. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | правя светлочувствителен, правя чувствителен. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 使敏感 (sensitise, sensitised, sensitising, sensitized, sensitizing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | حساس کردن (Tenderize), حساس شدن . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | herkistää. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | sensibiliser (sensitive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | sensibilisieren (sensitizing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κάνω κατάλληλον προσ φωτογραφικήν εμφάνιση, καθιστώ ευπαθή, καθιστώ ευαίσθητο. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לעשות לר'יש, לר'ש (excite, rage, stir, storm). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | érzékennyé tesz (to sensitize). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sensibilizzare (sensitise). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 민감하게하십시" (sensitise). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | mioyraghey, jannoo greimmagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ensitizesay sensibilizar (move, stir), tornar sensível. (various references) sensibiliza (excite). (various references) делать чувствительным. (various references) učiniti osetljivim. (various references) sensibilizar. (various references) sensibilisera, varna (admonish, alert, caution, warn), göra medveten, göra känslig, bli känslig. (various references) hassaslaştırmak, duyarlaştırmak, duyarlılaştırmak, duyarlı hale getirmek. (various references) сенсибілізувати, робити чутливим. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "sensitize": sensitized, sensitizer, sensitizers, sensitizes. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "sensitize": desensitize, hypersensitize, hyposensitize, photosensitize, resensitize. (additional references) | |
Words containing "sensitize": desensitized, desensitizer, desensitizers, desensitizes, hypersensitized, hypersensitizes, hyposensitized, hyposensitizes, photosensitized, photosensitizer, photosensitizers, photosensitizes, resensitized, resensitizes, unsensitized. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "sensitize" (pronounced se"nsutī'z) |
| 8 | s e" n s u t ī' z | desensitize. |
| 4 | -u t ī' z | alphabetize, democratize, deputize, digitize, dramatize, hypnotize, prioritize, privatize, proselytize, sanitize, securitize, stigmatize, traumatize. |
| 3 | -t ī' z | advertise, amortize, neckties. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-i-i-n-s-s-t-z" | |
-1 letter: sienites. | |
-2 letters: seizins, sestine, sienite, siziest. | |
-3 letters: insets, insist, niseis, seines, seisin, seizes, seizin, seniti, steins, tenses. | |
-4 letters: inset, intis, issei, neist, nests, nisei, nites, seine, seise, seize, sense, sente, senti, sines, sites, sizes, snits, stein, sties, teens, tense, tines, zeins, zests, zitis. | |
-5 letters: eses, inti, ness, nest, nets, nisi, nite, nits, seen, sees, seis. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-i-i-n-s-s-t-z" | |
+1 letter: citizeness, scientizes, sensitized, sensitizer, sensitizes. | |
+2 letters: desensitize, resensitize, ritzinesses, sensitizers. | |
+3 letters: citizenesses, desensitized, desensitizer, desensitizes, essentialize, resensitized, resensitizes, suzerainties, unsensitized. | |
+4 letters: desensitizers, desensitizing, essentialized, essentializes, hyposensitize, resensitizing, sectarianizes. | |
+5 letters: dieselizations, essentializing, hypersensitize, hyposensitized, hyposensitizes, photosensitize, resynthesizing, sensationalize. | |
| 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 6E 73 69 74 69 7A 65 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100101 01101110 01110011 01101001 01110100 01101001 01111010 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S e n s i t i z e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0065 006E 0073 0069 0074 0069 007A 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)537180857586759271 |
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