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Spaying

Definition: Spaying

Spaying

Noun

1. Neutering a female by removing the ovaries.

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


Specialty Definition: Spaying

DomainDefinition

Medicine

Excision of an ovary. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Photo Album: Spaying

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Larry Aschenbrenner of the Forest Service spaying yellow starthistle in the Hells Canyon National Recreation area. Credit: Jerry Asher.

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

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Usage Frequency: Spaying

"Spaying" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "Spaying" is used about 14 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)50%7133,076
Lexical Verb (-ing form)28.57%4175,879
Adjective (general or positive)14.29%2245,945
Noun (proper)7.14%1339,140
                    Total100.00%14N/A

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Spaying

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

dog spaying

67

cat female spaying

3

spaying cat

45

cat cost low spaying

3

spaying and neutering

18

cat heat in spaying

3

spaying

14

feline spaying

3

cost low spaying

10

effects side spaying

3

kitten spaying

10

canada free neutering spaying

3

puppy spaying

7

benefit dog neutering spaying

2

pet spaying

7

animal neutering price reduced spaying

2

female dog spaying

7

dog heat in spaying

2

cost spaying

6

cat pregnant spaying

2

rabbit spaying

6

complication spaying

2

neutering pet spaying

5

canine spaying

2

cat cost spaying

5

after spaying

2

cat free spaying

5

animal neutering spaying

2

cat neutering spaying

5

chihuahua spaying

2

cost dog spaying

4

dog procedure spaying

2

free spaying

4

early spaying

2

animal spaying

4

spaying surgery

2

dog neutering spaying

4

female spaying

2

procedure spaying

4

after complication spaying

2

cat price spaying

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

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Modern Translation: Spaying

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

Danish

  

ovariotomi (ooephorotomy, oophorectomy, ovariectomy, ovariotomy), ovariektomi (oophorectomy, ovariectomy), oophorektomi (oophorectomy). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

ovariectomie (oophorectomy, ovariectomy), oöphorectomie (oophorectomy, ovariectomy). (various references)

   

French

  

ovariotomie, ovariectomie, oophorectomie, ablation des ovaires. (various references)

   

German

  

Eierstöcke entfernend. (various references)

   

Italian

  

ovariectomia (oophorectomy). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ayingspay

   

Portuguese

  

ovariectomia (ovariotomy), ooforectomia (oophorectomy, ovariotomy). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

удалять яичники у/ холощение. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

ovariotomía normal (oophorectomy, ovariectomy), ovariectomía (oophorectomy, ovariectomy), ootectomía (oophorectomy, ovariectomy), ooforectomía (oophorectomy), castración (castration, emasculation, gelding). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Spaying

Misspellings

"Spaying" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: spaling, spaming, spasing, spawing, spyingt. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Spaying

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-g-i-n-p-s-y"

-1 letter: paying, saying, spying.

-2 letters: aping, ayins, gains, gipsy, nipas, pains, pangs, pansy, pians, pinas, pings, pyins, spang, spiny, yagis, yangs.

-3 letters: agin, ains, anis, ayin, gain, gaps, gapy, gasp, gays, gins, gips, gyps, nags, naps, nays, nipa, nips, pain, pang, pans, pays, pian, pias, pigs, pina, ping, pins, piny, pyas, pyin, sagy, sain.

 Words containing the letters "a-g-i-n-p-s-y"
 

+1 letter: gypseian, palsying, splaying, spraying, yawpings.

 

+2 letters: agrypnias, bypassing, egyptians, raspingly, sparingly, synapsing.

 

+3 letters: autopsying, displaying, graspingly, misplaying, panegyrics, panegyrist, paralysing, pargylines, playthings, pleasingly, respraying.

 

+4 letters: angioplasty, misapplying, panegyrists, phantasying, pharyngitis, playactings, playmakings, saponifying, syncopating, tapestrying, typecasting, unsparingly.

 

+5 letters: appraisingly, asphyxiating, despairingly, palynologies, palynologist, plasmolyzing, playwritings, pugnaciously, redisplaying, scintigraphy, surpassingly, sympathising, sympathizing.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Images: Photo Album
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography


  

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