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Definition: Spiracle |
SpiracleNoun1. A breathing orifice. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "spiracle" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Airpipe | Noun: air pipe, air tube; airhole, blowhole, breathinghole, venthole; shaft, flue, chimney, funnel, vent, nostril, nozzle, throat, weasand, trachea; bronchus, bronchia; larynx, tonsils, windpipe, spiracle; ventiduct, ventilator; louvre, jalousie, Venetian blinds; blowpipe. (wind); pipe. (tube); jhilmil; smokestack. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Spiracle."
Crosswords: Spiracle |
| English words defined with "spiracle": blowhole ♦ Spiracular. (references) |
| "Spiracle" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Spiracle" is used about 2 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
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 |
spiracle | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "spiracle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | vrimë frymëmarrjeje, vrimë ajrimi (blowhole). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | الفوهة التنفسية في الحشرات, شق (chap, check, chink, cleavage, cleave, cleft, crack, cranny, crash, crevasse, crevice, cut, excavate, fissure, flaw, fracture, hew, hole, incise, incision, jag, loophole, lump, nick, open, overture, part, rift, rip, rive, slash, slit, slot, snag, snip, splinter, split, spring, tear, twist). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | стигма, отдушник (air hole, outlet, safety valve, vent, ventage, venthole, vent-pipe), дихателен отвор (fistula). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | prùduch (vent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | stigmate, orifice d'aération. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Atemloch (blowhole, spout). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | φυσητήρ (sprout), οπή αναπνοήσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szellőzőnyílás (blow-hole, louver, ventilator), stigma (stigma, stigmata), pinceablak (areaway), légzõnyílás, légzőnyílás, légnyílás (ear), krátercsatorna, kilégzőnyílás. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | orifizio respirativo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | towl ennal (airport). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | iraclespay respiradouro (air-shaft, blowhole, breather, fistula, venthole), espiráculo (vent, ventage). (various references) дыхало. (various references) odušak (opening, vent). (various references) espiráculo. (various references) solunum deliği, solungaç yarığı, hava deliği (air passage, blowhole, vent, vent hole). (various references) вентилятор (air blast, blower, fan, ventilator), душник. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "spiracle": spiracles. (additional references) | |
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"Spiracle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: psoralen, Shiralee, sidalcea, spracle. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "spiracle" (pronounced 'Spir"a*cle'): Adminicle, Ancle, Appendicle, Arbuscle, Auricle, Bernacle, Bernicle, bicycle, Binnacle, Binocle, Bittacle, Calicle, Canticle, Carbuncle, Cardiacle, Caulicle, Charbocle, Cicatricle, Clavicle, Conceptacle, Conventicle, Coracle, Cornicle, Covercle, Cubicle, Curricle, Cuticle, follicle, funicle, furuncle, granduncle, hemicycle, Hibernacle, icicle, Mascle, monocle, Monticle, Muscle, Obstacle, Opercle, Orbicle, Ossicle, Panicle, Particle, Pedicle, Peduncle, Pellicle, Pendicle, Pentacle, Perpendicle. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: calipers, replicas. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-l-p-r-s" | |
-1 letter: caliper, carpels, claries, clasper, eclairs, parcels, placers, plaices, reclasp, replica, scalier, scalper, scrapie, spacier, special, splicer. | |
-2 letters: apices, ariels, aspire, capers, capris, caries, carles, carpel, cerias, clears, crapes, cripes, eclair, epical, ericas, escarp, espial, lacers, lacier, lapser, lipase, lisper, pacers, palier, parcel, paries, parles, parsec, pearls, perils, placer, places, plaice, plicae, pliers. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-l-p-r-s" | |
+1 letter: callipers, caprioles, particles, peculiars, prelacies, replicase, specialer, spherical, spiracles. | |
+2 letters: aspherical, fireplaces, kiloparsec, percalines, porcelains, reclasping, replicases, replicates. | |
+3 letters: acropolises, altarpieces, apicultures, birthplaces, capillaries, complainers, explicators, kiloparsecs, paraplegics, participles, periodicals, peristaltic, plasticizer, polariscope, pratincoles, predicables, proclaimers, reciprocals, replicators, republicans, specularity, spermicidal, spherically, spirochetal, superficial, triplicates. | |
+4 letters: accomplisher, archesporial, archipelagos, capitularies, caterpillars, dimercaprols, discrepantly, hyperplastic, malpractices, microcapsule, narcolepsies, narcoleptics, necrophilias, nonspherical, paramedicals, parfocalizes, particulates, percolations, perspectival, phylacteries, pilocarpines, placekickers, planispheric, plasticizers, plebiscitary, plutocracies, polariscopes, postcardlike, precariously, precessional, preeclampsia, problematics, processional, profligacies, reduplicates, replications, semitropical, seraphically, spectatorial, superciliary, superhelical, superplastic, superspecial, tropicalizes, ultraprecise. | |
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