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Sod

Definition: Sod

Sod

Noun

1. Surface layer of ground containing a matt of grass and grass roots.

2. An enzyme that catalyzes the conversion of superoxide into hydrogen peroxide and oxygen; "oxygen free radicals are normally removed in our bodies by the superoxide dismutase enzymes".

3. Someone who engages in anal copulation (especially a male who engages in anal copulation with another male).

4. (British) "the poor sod couldn't even buy a drink".

Verb

1. Cover with sod.

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

Date "sod" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Note: Sod \Sod\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Sodden; Sodding.]. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Sod

DomainDefinition

Food & Agriculture

To cover with sod (many gullies on the ridge have been sodded with grass). Source: European Union. (references)
 A surface layer of soil matted or held together by roots, rhizomes and stolons of grasses and other herbs ; sliced section of soil with grass and roots intact. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Specialty Definition: Superoxide dismutase

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The enzyme superoxide dismutase , or SOD, catalyzes the dismutation of superoxide into oxygen and hydrogen peroxide:

There are at least three forms of superoxide dismutase in nature. Human erythrocytes contain an SOD enzyme with divalent copper and divalent zinc (bovine erythrocyte: PDB 1SXA, EC 1.15.1.1). Chicken liver mitochondria and E. coli contain a form with trivalent manganese (human mitochondrion: PDB 1ABM, EC 1.15.1.1). E. coli also contains a form of the enzyme with trivalent iron ( PDB 1ISA, EC 1.15.1.1). The Cu-Zn enzyme is a dimer of molecular weight 32,500. The two subunits are joined by a disulfide bond.

Although the enzyme isn't especially fast relative to the spontaneous dismutation of superoxide, the ability of the enzyme to provide some protection to organisms is shown by the existence of a motor neuron disease in individuals who have point mutations in SOD and by the finding that the absence of SOD may lead to a form of anemia.

A short but substantive overview of SOD and its literature can be found here.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Superoxide dismutase."

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Sod

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

SOD

DutchSuperoxyde-dismutaseN/A

SOD

EnglishSpecial Operation DivisionN/A

SOD

FinnishSuperoksididismutaasiMedicine

SOD

FrenchSuperoxyde dismutaseMedicine

SOD

ItalianSuperossido dismutasiMedicine

SOD

SpanishSuperóxido dismutasaMedicine

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

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Synonyms: Sod

Synonyms: bugger (n), greensward (n), sodomist (n), sodomite (n), superoxide dismutase (n), sward (n), turf (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Sod

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Interment

Adverb: in memoriam; post obit, post mortem; beneath the sod.

Plain

Meadow, mead, haugh, pasturage, park, field, lawn, green, plat, plot, grassplat, greensward, sward, turf, sod, heather; lea, ley, lay; grounds; maidan, agostadero.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Sod

English words defined with "sod": adobe housebunch grass, bunchgrassGazonigloo, iglusod house, soddy. (references)
Specialty definitions using "sod": CEMETERY WORKERDiazinon, Ditch-in-front, ditch-in-rear, ditch both sides, dumped fillFARM-MACHINE OPERATORGARDEN WORKER, gardener-florist, GossypiaHorticultural specialty cropsNo Tillplaced sod lining. (references)
Etymologies containing "sod": soddy. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Sod" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Scottish (an awkward person, noise of boiling water).

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Modern Usage: Sod

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Sod Sisters (1969)

How to Be a Little Sod (1995)

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

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Commercial Usage: Sod

DomainTitle

Books

  • An Altar of Sod (reference)

  • Mike Kelley/Paul McCarthy: Sod & Sodie Sock (reference)

  • Patterns from the Sod (The Management of Public Lands in the United States) (reference)

  • Sexual Symbolism and Merkavah Speculation in Medieval Germany: A Study of the Sod Ha-Egoz Texts (reference)

  • Sod and Stubble: The Unabridged and Annotated Edition [UNABRIDGED] (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

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

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Image Slideshow: Sod

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Photo Album: Sod

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A native Aleut village at Karluk. Sod houses serve as insulation against the cold. F&WS 14,664. Credit: America's Coastlines.

No-till farmers from Jackson County inspect corn planted no-till into sod. Credit: Gene Alexander.

Sod House Remains on Tundra. Credit: Alaska Historical Image Library.

St. Makarius, Amchitka Island Sod House Remains. Credit: Alaska Historical Image Library.

Sections, west elevation, entry details, window details. Measured drawing delineated by W.C. Yanike, March 1934. (Reproduction Number: HABS NE-35-10, sheet 2 of 2; negative number LC-USZA3-34) Many early white settlers in the Western plains built sod-block houses such as this one because they could not afford lumber. Some sod houses had dirt floors, sod walls that sprouted grass in the summer, and roofs of tree branches covered with more sod. Others had wooden roofs and floors and plaster walls. All needed frequent repairs, and few lasted longer than fifty years. Gustav Rohrich, an Austrian-born farmer, built this two-room house with an attached cellar in 1883 for his young family. He was still living in the house when these drawings were made in 1934. At that time, he was eighty-five years old and his well-maintained house was the last "soddy" standing in the township. Credit: Library of Congress.

[Details of the construction of a sod house roof]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

[A sod building, Harbin]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

The only remaining sod school house in Decatur County, Kansas. Credit: Library of Congress.

Breaking sod on the range for a crop of crested wheat grass, Madison County, Montana. Credit: Library of Congress.

Sod houses. Alliance, Nebraska. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: Sod

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Treatment for SOD is symptomatic. (references)

The optical problems associated with SOD are generally not treatable. (references)

The prognosis for individuals with SOD varies according to the presence and severity of symptoms. (references)

Human Rights

Liberia

In August three SOD officers were arrested and charged with involvement in the incident; they remained in detention at year's end. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Sod

"Sod" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 62.65% of the time. "Sod" is used about 423 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)62.65%26518,112
Lexical Verb (base form)25.06%10631,637
Noun (proper)7.8%3360,273
Lexical Verb (infinitive)4.49%1980,337
                    Total100.00%423N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Cities: Sod


1. Sod, WV
Zip Code(s): 25564
Country: USA

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Expression: Sod

Expressions using "sod": beneath the sod placed sod lining sod grass sod house sod it! sod off! sod oil sod runway sod seeding under the sod. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "sod": sod-all, sod-built, sod-the-brewer.

Ending with "sod": Zn-sod.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Sod

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
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

sod

1,166

install sod

24

sod cutter

193

cost sod

24

laying sod

157

care new sod

23

sod farm

139

new sod

22

sod grass

108

sod western

22

sod installation

75

sod watering

22

sod price

71

arizona sod

20

lay sod

70

florida sod

20

planting sod

58

farm michigan sod

20

marathon sod

51

sod web worm

20

sod care

51

calgary sod

19

dolly sod

50

sod farming

19

lawn sod

50

southland sod

17

installing sod

45

new sod watering

15

sod super

37

cutter rental sod

14

bermuda sod

37

sod webworms

14

the sod house

34

bob sod

14

zoysia sod

30

plant sod

14

st augustine sod

29

sod type

13

pacific sod

28

sod cutting

13

diclofenac sod

26

removal sod

13
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Sod

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

Albanian

  

vend me bar, pederast (bugger, fag, pederast, queer, sodomite). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏حقير (abject, base, beggarly, blackguardly, cheap, despicable, dingy, dirty, frowzy, grubby, ignoble, inferior, insignificant, lousy, low, low down, lowly, mean, menial, niggling, paltry, pettifogger, petty, pip squeak, pitiable, pitiful, poor, popinjay, rotten, scabby, scaly, scoundrelly, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, servile, shabby, shoddy, slavish, slim, slushy, small minded, snide, squalid, swine, tacky, trifling, ungracious, unworthy, varmint, vile, villainous, worthless, wretched), ‏أحمق (ass, barmy, berk, bonkers, brutish, childish, chuckle-head, chump, cuckoo, daft, empty, empty headed, fantastic, fat, fathead, fatuous, foolish, footless, goofy, goon, haywire, idiotic, impolitic, imprudent, indiscreet, inept, injudicious, insensate, jerk, lemon, mad, meaningless, nit, nitwit, nonsensical, numskull, ornery, oyster, perverse, pointless, prat, screwball, senseless, stupid, unwise, vacant, wacky, weak, weak-minded, whacky, witless, wood-headed, zany), ‏أبله (asinine, ass, brainless, coot, cuckoo, daw, dense, dim witted, dullard, fatuous, feeble minded, gaga, gawky, goofy, half-witted, idiotic, imbecile, lemon, mad, patsy, screwed, sheepish, silly, sodden, softy, soppy, stick in the mud, stupid, vacant, vacuous, wood-headed). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

чим (sward, turf), мръсник (bugger, cad, cuntface, heel, stinkard), педераст (bugger, fag, faggot, fagot, homosexual, pansy, pederast, pouf, quean, queen, queer, sodomite, swish), пакостник (imp, mischievous, monkey, naughty, rascal, rogue, varmint). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

草皮 (turf, Turfs), 草地 (lawn, meadow, turf). (various references)

   

Czech

  

drn (greensward, sward, turf). (various references)

   

Danish

  

sodolie (moellon, natural degras, sod oil), såning (direct drilling, direct seeding, seeding, sod seeding, sowing), plovlegeme til grønjordspløjning (grassland body, ley body, match body, plow bottom for sod and clay), naturlig degras (moellon, natural degras, sod oil), moellon (moellon, natural degras, sod oil), kompletteringssaaning (interseeding, intersowing, sod seeding), graesmoel (grassmoth, lawn moth, sod webworm, webworm), graesbevoksede vandloeb (grassed waterways, sod waterways), direkte såning (direct drilling, direct seeding, sod seeding). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

zode (sod of grass, turf), graszode (sod of grass, turf). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

gazonero (sod of grass, turf). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

turve (peat, turf). (various references)

   

French

  

salaud, motte, gazon, couillon, con. (various references)

   

German

  

scheißkerl (bastard, bugger, heel, stinker), saukerl (bastard, hog, yahoo), sau (bitch, dirty swine, hog, pig, sow, wild boar), sack (bag, bastard, bursa, pocket, poke, pouch, sac, sack, sackful), Rasenstück, Rasen (belt, career, court, dash, field, grass, green, hurtle, lawn, lawns, pitch, power, race, rage, raging, rave, scorch, spin along, sward, tear, to rave, to rush, turf, turfs), grassode (turf), fiesling (bastard, slob), arsch (anus, arse, arseBrit, ass, backside, bastard, bugger, bum, butt, Fanny, prick, rump, wanker). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

βώλοσ (bolus, loaf, lump), παλούκι (pale, peg, picket, pile, pole, stake, stick), χώμα μετά ρίζων, χλοοτάπητασ. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

פסת עשב". (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

gyep (green, lawn, sward, turf, turves). (various references)

   

Irish

  

fód. (various references)

   

Italian

  

zolla erbosa (sward, turf), canaglia (bounder, rascal, reprobate, riffraff, scamp, scoundrel, villain). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

芝草 (lawn, turf), (lawn, turf), 平芝 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

しばくさ (lawn, turf), しば (brushwood, firewood, lawn, turf), ひらしば. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

(Herd). (various references)

   

Manx

  

scrah (green sod, scraw, turf), foyn (greensward), foaid (block of peat, divot, turf), ceau ceabbyn. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

odsay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

sodomita (sodomite), torrão de relva, céspede. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

pãmânt (acre, all over the world, clay, clod, country, dirt, earth, estate, Glebe, ground, land, Mold, mould, property, region, soil, territory, throughout the world), gazon (grass, greensward, sward, turf), brazdã cu iarbã, acoperi cu iarbã verde. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

дерн (divot, greensward, turf). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

sgrath (outer skin or rind, turf), fòid (clod, peat, turf). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

travnjak (herbage, lawn, sward), busen (clod, cluster, greensward, turf). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

césped (grass, green, greensward, lawn, sward, turf). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

grästorv (sward, turf). (various references)

   

Thai

  

หญ้าบริเว"ผิว"ิน. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

oğlancı (bugger, paederast, pederast, sodomite), ibne (catamite, fag, faggot, fagot, fruit, queer, swish), homoseksüellik (being gay, homosexuality, inversion, pederasty, sodomy), homoseksüel (camp, fruit, gay, homo, homoerotic, homophile, homosexual, invert, pederast, poof, queen, queer, sodomite, swish), herif (blighter, bloke, bozo, bugger, Buster, cove, cuss, customer, Dick, dog, fellow, guy, Johnny, josser, mug, stooge, varlet), çimle kaplamak, çimen (bent, bent grass, divot, grass, greensward, lawn, meadow grass, sward, turf), çim (grass, lawn, sward, swarded, turf). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

земля (earth, ground, land, mould, shore, soil, territory, universe), дерен (divot, grass, greensward, sward, turf). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

tywarchen (turf). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Sod

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

humus. (various references)

Middle Dutch1100-1500

sode. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: Sod

LanguageDateSourceGenesis Chapter 25, Verse 29
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintHyhsen de iakwb eyema hlqen de hsau ek tou pediou ekleipwn
Latin405VulgateCoxit autem Iacob pulmentum ad quem cum venisset Esau de agro lassus
Middle English1395WyclifJacob forsothe hadde sothun potage; to whom whan Esau was comen wery fro the felde, seith,
Renaissance English1526TyndaleIacob sod potage and Esau came from the feld and was faine
Jacobean English1611King JamesAnd Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint:
Victorian English1833WebsterAnd Jacob boiled pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint.
Basic English1964OgdenAnd one day Jacob was cooking some soup when Esau came in from the fields in great need of food;

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

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Matched Bible Translations: Sod

LanguageGenesis Chapter 25, Verse 29
CebuanoUg nagluto si Jacob ug sud-an nga sinabawan; ug mipauli si Esau gikan sa kapatagan ug gikapuyan siya:
CroatianJednom Jakov kuhaše jelo. Ezav stigne s polja, gladan.
DanishJakob havde engang kogt en Ret Mad, da Esau udmattet kom hjem fra Marken.
DutchEn Jakob had een kooksel gekookt; en Ezau kwam uit het veld, en was moede.
FinnishKerran, kun Jaakob oli keittänyt itselleen keiton, tuli Eesau kedolta nälästä nääntyneenä.
FrenchComme Jacob faisait cuire un potage, Ésaü revint des champs, accablé de fatigue.
GermanUnd Jakob kochte ein Gericht. Da kam Esau vom Felde und war müde
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hariPada suatu hari ketika Yakub sedang memasak sayur kacang merah, datanglah Esau dari perburuannya. Ia lapar.
Indonesian-Terjemahan LamaHata, pada sekali peristiwa Yakub telah merebus suatu rebusan, maka datanglah Esaf dari padang dengan lelahnya.
Maori¶ Na ka kohuatia he kai e Hakopa, a ka haere mai a Ehau i te koraha, a e hemo ana ia:
NorwegianEngang da Jakob holdt på å koke en velling, kom Esau hjem fra marken og var rent opgitt.
RumanianOdatq, pe cknd ferbea Iacov o ciorbq, Esau s`a kntors dela ckmp, rupt de obosealq.
SwedishEn gång, då Jakob höll på att koka något till soppa, kom Esau hem från marken, uppgiven av hunger.

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

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Derivations & Misspellings: Sod

Derivations

Words beginning with "sod": soda, sodaless, sodalist, sodalists, sodalite, sodalites, sodalities, sodality, sodamide, sodamides, sodas, sodbuster, sodbusters, sodded, sodden, soddened, soddening, soddenly, soddenness, soddennesses, soddens, soddies, sodding, soddy, sodic, sodium, sodiums, sodom, sodomies, sodomist, sodomists, sodomite, sodomites, sodomitic, sodomitical, sodomize, sodomized, sodomizes, sodomizing, sodoms, sodomy, sods. (additional references)

Words ending with "sod": resod. (additional references)

Words containing "sod": chordamesoderm, chordamesodermal, chordamesoderms, episode, episodes, episodic, episodical, episodically, isodiametric, isodose, mesoderm, mesodermal, mesoderms, perissodactyl, perissodactyls, prosodic, prosodical, prosodically, prosodies, prosodist, prosodists, prosody, resodded, resodding, resods, rhapsode, rhapsodes, rhapsodic, rhapsodical, rhapsodically, rhapsodies, rhapsodist, rhapsodists, rhapsodize, rhapsodized, rhapsodizes, rhapsodizing, rhapsody, vasodilatation, vasodilatations, vasodilation, vasodilations, vasodilator, vasodilators. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Sod" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eod, sadc, sadd, sadu, sbodn, scod, sd, sdr, sdt, sebd, sed, shdd, sid, sidh, sjord, skd, skod, sld, slod, slood, smd, smod, smood, sode, Sodhi, sodi, sodo, sody, soed, sof, soid, soj, sood, soq, sor, sov, soyd, soz, spod, srod, sso, stod, sud, sudo, syd, vod, yod, Ysd, zod, zodd, zodo, zood, zoyd, zud, zudd. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Sod"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "sod" (pronounced sÄ"d)
3s Ä" dfacade.
2-Ä" dBallade, cod, esplanade, God, nod, odd, plod, pod, prod, quad, rod, roughshod, scrod, shod, squad, Tod, trod, wad.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Sod

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: dos, ods.

Words within the letters "d-o-s"

-1 letter: do, od, os, so.

 Words containing the letters "d-o-s"
 

+1 letter: ados, bods, cods, docs, does, dogs, dols, doms, dons, dors, dose, doss, dost, dots, dows, duos, gods, hods, mods, nods, odds, odes, olds, ouds, pods, rods, shod, soda, sods, sold, sord, tods, udos, yods.

 

+2 letters: adios, apods, bodes, bolds, bonds, clods, codas, codes, coeds, colds, cords, dados, dagos, datos, decos, demos, dhows, didos, diols, dipso, disco, doats, docks, dodos, doers, doest, doffs, doges, doits, dojos, doles, dolls, dolts, domes, donas, dongs, donsy, dooms, doors, dopas, dopes, dorks, dorms, dorps, dorrs, dorsa, dosed, doser, doses, dotes, doums, douse, doves, downs, dowse, dozes, drops, dross, duros, eidos, fados, feods, fidos, folds, fonds, foods, fords, goads, golds, goods, gowds, holds, hoods, hosed, idols, judos, kudos, lidos, loads, lodes, lords, misdo, modes, modus, molds, moods, nodes, nodus, nosed, odist, odors, odyls, ordos, oxids, plods, ponds, poods, posed, prods, quods, redos, resod, roads, roods, rosed, sarod, scold, scrod, scudo, shoed, sloid, slojd, sloyd, snood, sodas, soddy, sodic, sodom, soldi, soldo, soled, solid, sonde, sords, sound, sowed, spado, spode, stood, sudor, sword, synod, toads, updos, voids, woads, wolds, woods, words, yodhs.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Quotations: Non-fiction
9. Usage Frequency
10. Cities
11. Expressions
12. Expressions: Internet
13. Translations: Modern
14. Translations: Ancient
15. Bible Trace
16. Abbreviations
17. Acronyms
18. Derivations
19. Rhymes
20. Anagrams
21. Bibliography


  

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