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Definition: Sprue |
SprueNoun1. A chronic disorder that occurs in tropical and nontropical forms and in both children and adults; nutrients are not absorbed; symptoms include foul-smelling diarrhea and emaciation. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Note: Sprue \Sprue\, noun. [Etymology uncertain.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Medicine | A non febrile tropical disease of uncertain origin. Source: European Union. (references) |
Metallurgy | The metal which solidifies in the channels leading to the mould. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: SprueSynonym: tropical sprue (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Uncleanness | Hogwash; ditchwater, dishwater, bilgewater; rinsings, cheeseparings; sweepings; (useless refuse); offscourings, outscourings; off scum; caput mortuum, residuum, sprue, fecula, clinker, draff; scurf, scurfiness; exuviae, morphea; fur, furfur; dandruff, tartar. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Sprue |
| English words defined with "sprue": keratomalacia ♦ malabsorption syndrome ♦ Sullage piece. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "sprue": ANKLE-PATCH MOLDER ♦ bonding-machine operator, BUFFER, AUTOMATIC ♦ MACHINE-MADE-SHOE UNIT WORKER ♦ shell mold bonder, SHELL-MOLD-BONDING-MACHINE OPERATOR, sprue puller. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Sprue" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (sprue), Hungarian (sprue). |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Celiac disease is also known as celiac sprue, nontropical sprue, and gluten-sensitive enteropathy. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Sprue" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sprue" is used about 5 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% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "sprue": choke the sprue ♦ sprue cup ♦ sprue opening ♦ sprue puller ♦ Tropical Sprue. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
celiac sprue | 226 |
sprue | 103 |
celiac sprue disease | 27 |
tropical sprue | 13 |
celiac sprue association | 12 |
sprue disease | 9 |
celiac sprue symptom | 6 |
nontropical sprue | 6 |
celiac sprue diet | 4 |
ciliac sprue | 4 |
picker sprue | 3 |
non tropical sprue | 3 |
diet sprue | 3 |
celiac disease sprue symptom | 2 |
celica sprue | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "sprue"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | إسهال البلاد الحارة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | спру, спилоза, вертикален стояк, вертикален леяк. (various references) | |
Danish | sprue, tap (butt, chuck, core, disc pivot, dowel, hinge bolt, journal, peg, pintle, pivot, shoulder, spigot, spike tooth, tack, tap, tenon, wire nail), kerne (nucleus), indloebstap (stalk), indloebsskrot (gate, git), indloeb (gate, inlet, stalk), gluteninduceret enteropati, coeliaki. (various references) | |
Dutch | spruw (diarrhea alba, diarrhoea alba, thrush), ziekte van Herter-Heubner, ziekte van Gee-Thaysen, ziekte van Gee-Herter, psilosis (diarrhea alba, diarrhoea alba), psilose, niet-tropische spruw, kern (core, essence, gist, kernel, nucleus, pit), intestinaal infantilisme, idiopathische steatorree, gietkegel (stalk). (various references) | |
Finnish | syöttökanava (feeder channel, forehearth, stalk), keerna (core). (various references) | |
French | sprue. (various references) | |
German | Sprue, Trichter- und Gießknochen (gate, git), Psilosis, Knochen (bone, bones, knucklebone, large door-key), Kern (center, centre, core, crux, essence, gist, gut, heart, heartwood, kernel, marrow, nub, nucleus, pip, pit, pith, quintessence, seed, stone), idiopathische Steatorrhoe, Gießknochen (gate, git), Anguss (deadhead, dead-head, feeder, hot top, runner, stalk). (various references) | |
Greek | κώνος χυτεύσεως (stalk), κύλινδρος (cylinder, roll), καρότο (carrot), καρδία (core), σκωρία μέταλλου (slag), πύλη (aedicule, gate, gateway, portal), πυρήνας (core, kernel, nucleus, nucleus nuclei), χοάνη (crucible, hopper), άφθαι. (various references) | |
Hungarian | sprue. (various references) | |
Indonesian | sariawan. (various references) | |
Italian | sprue idiopatica, sprue, radice (origin, radish, radix, root, root word, stem), materozza (biscuit, core, cull, deadhead, dead-head, hot top, slug, stub end), maschio (boy, bull, Jack, male, man, manful, manly, masculine, son), dissenteria catarrale, colaticcio (black liquid, gate, git, liquid manure, manure effluent, semi-liquid manure, slurry). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | uespray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | psilose, núcleo (center, centre, core, kernel, nucleus, pit), metal a desprezar que se solidifica no canal (gate, git), jito, haste (bar, bind, bine, fish rod, halm, haulm, rod, spindle, stalk, stem, stock, wattle), gito de fundição (gate, git), espiga de fundição (gate, git), canal de vazamento (core). (various references) | |
Romanian | gurã de scurgere. (various references) | |
Russian | спру, тропические афты, псилоз. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | spru, otvor na kalupu za izlivanje metala. (various references) | |
Spanish | rabos de colada (gate, git), noyo (core), mazarota (biscuit, deadhead, dead-head, hot top, slug, stalk, stub end), cañas de colada (gate, git), bebedero (core, down runner, drinker, drinking bowl, drinking throug, fountain, stalk, trough, trumpet, water trough, waterer). (various references) | |
Swedish | kärna (churn, core, gist, guts, heart, kernel, keystone, marrow, meat, nucleus, pip, pit, putting-stone, stone), inloppstapp (cull, stalk), ingöt (cull, stalk), gjutkanal (core, launder). (various references) | |
Turkish | tropik bir hastalık, döküm deliği, döküm cürufu, bağırsak iltihaplı tropik hastalık. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "sprue": sprues. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words ending with "ue": Bague, Blague, Brogue, Brusque, Cangue, Casque, Cheque, Cinque, Cirque, Claque, Cogue, Coque, Fugue, Gangue, Gigue, marque, masque, morgue, mosque, Mue, Orgue, paque, Pasque, Plaque, Pue, Que, Roque, Sinque, Skue, toque, torque, Tuque, Vogue. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: purse, super. | |
| Words within the letters "e-p-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: pure, purs, reps, rues, ruse, spue, spur, suer, supe, sure, user. | |
-2 letters: ers, per, pes, pur, pus, rep, res, rue, ser, sue, sup, ups, use. | |
-3 letters: er, es, pe, re, up, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-p-r-s-u" | |
+1 letter: drupes, dupers, erupts, pareus, pauser, perdus, peruse, poseur, prudes, prunes, pulers, pulser, purees, purest, purges, pursed, purser, purses, pursue, pusher, rupees, spruce, sprues, spurge, superb, supers, supper, uppers, uprise, uprose. | |
+2 letters: apercus, aruspex, bumpers, croupes, cuppers, dumpers, euripus, gulpers, jumpers, leprous, lumpers, mumpers, oversup, parures, pasture, paupers, pausers, pelorus, percuss, perdues, perfuse, perukes, perusal, perused, peruser, peruses, petrous, pleuras, plusher, poseurs, posture, pourers, pouters, precuts, predusk, presume, prevues, profuse, proteus, pruners, puckers, puffers, pugrees, pullers, pulpers, pulsers, pumpers, punkers, punners, punster, punters, purfles, purgers, purines, purples, purpose, pursers, pursier, pursued, pursuer, pursues, purveys, pushers, pushier, pussier, putters, recoups, repours, repugns, repulse, repumps, reputes, rumples, scauper, screwup, scruple, scupper, slurped, soupier, splurge, sporule, spouter, spruced, sprucer, spruces, spudder, spumier, spurges, spurned, spurner, spurred, spurrer, spurrey, spurted, spurtle, sputter, stumper, sumpter, supered, suppers, suppler, supreme, supremo, suspire, troupes, umpires, upbears, updries, uphroes, upraise, uprates, uprears, uprisen, upriser, uprises, uprouse, upstare, upsurge, uptears, usurped, usurper, yaupers. | |
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