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Stridulation

Definition: Stridulation

Stridulation

Noun

1. A shrill grating or chirping noise made by some insects by rubbing body parts together.

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

Date "stridulation" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1871. (references)


Crosswords: Stridulation

English words defined with "stridulation": House cricketSonification, Stridulatorytree cricket. (references)

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Specialty Definition: Stridulation

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Stridulation is the production of sounds by rubbing two parts of the body together; this mechanism is best known in cricketss, grasshoppers, and cicadas. Larval Lucanidae, Passalidae, and Geotrupidae also stridulate, rubbing a series of ridges on the coxa of the middle legs with a scraper on the trochanter of the hind leg.

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Usage Frequency: Stridulation

"Stridulation" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Stridulation" is used about 4 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)100%4175,879

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

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Modern Translation: Stridulation

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

Greek 

  

τσίρισμα (squeak, squeakiness), τεράτισμα. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

צרצור (chirping, noise of cricket, rasp). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

idulationstray

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Stridulation

Derivations

Words beginning with "stridulation": stridulations. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Stridulation"

Words rhyming with "stridulation" (pronounced 'Strid`u*la"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Stridulation

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-i-i-l-n-o-r-s-t-t-u"

-2 letters: industrial, lustration, nautiloids, traditions.

-3 letters: auditions, dilations, dilutions, distraint, durations, insulator, nautiloid, ritualist, saturniid, siltation, situation, striation, toluidins, tradition, tuitional, tutorials, utilidors.

-4 letters: altruist, antiriot, antirust, audition, auditors, diatrons, dilation, dilators, dilution, dilutors, dinosaur, distrain, distrait, diurnals, duration, indusial, intrados, introits, lutanist, naturist, ordinals, ostinati, outlands, outstand, rainouts, rotundas, rutilant, siluroid, standout, strontia.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-i-i-l-n-o-r-s-t-t-u"
 

+1 letter: stridulations.

 

+2 letters: distributional, postindustrial.

 

+3 letters: disarticulation, maldistribution.

 

+4 letters: disarticulations, intermodulations, maldistributions, redistributional.

 

+5 letters: denaturalizations, industrialization, underutilizations.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage Frequency
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography


  

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