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Definition: Sunstroke |
SunstrokeNoun1. Sudden prostration due to exposure to the sun or excessive heat. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sunstroke" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Botanical | A stroke due to excessive exposure to the sun. Treated with Mangifera, Tamarindus. (references) |
Medicine | Term confined to exposure to environmental conditions of heat and humidity causing the heat regulating mechanism to break down. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: SunstrokeSynonyms: insolation (n), siriasis (n), thermic fever (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Calefaction | Sunstroke, coup de soleil; insolation. |
Insanity | Vertigo, dizziness, swimming; sunstroke, coup de soleil, siriasis. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Sunstroke |
| English words defined with "sunstroke": Coup de soleil ♦ Havelock ♦ Sun-struck ♦ thermic fever. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I gained most of my vast knowledge of the outback from my father Russell Coight Snr who taught me everything I know before he died from a combination of a self-inflicted axe wound, sunstroke and snake-bite. (Russell Coight's All Aussie Adventures; writing credit: Tom Gleisner) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Sunstroke (1986) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Sunstroke" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.45% of the time. "Sunstroke" is used about 22 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) | 95.45% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 4.55% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 22 | N/A |
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 |
sunstroke | 83 |
sunstroke symptom | 21 |
cure sunstroke | 3 |
sunstroke treatment | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "sunstroke"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | ضربة شمس (heatstroke, sunburn). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | слънчев удар (heliosis, insolation, thermoplegia), слънчасване (insolation, siriasis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 日伤. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | úpal (heatstroke, sun-stroke), úžeh (heat stroke, heatstroke, sun-stroke). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | solstik (heat stroke, heliosis, insolation, siriasis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | siriasis (heat stroke, heliosis, siriasis), zonnesteek (heat stroke, heliosis, insolation, siriasis), insolatio (heat stroke, heliosis, insolation, siriasis), heliosis (heliosis), heliose (heliosis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | گرمازدگی . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | auringon-pisto. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | insolation (sunburn, sunscald), coup de soleil (sunburn). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Sonnenstich (heatstroke). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ηλίαση (heat stroke). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מכת שמש, שזפון (sunburn, tan). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | napszúrás (heat stroke), hőguta (heat stroke). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | insolazione (insolation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 霍乱 (heatstroke), 暑気 (heat stroke, hot weather), 日射病 (heatstroke). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しょき (anticipated, clerk, desire, early, expectation, expected, heat stroke, hope, hoped-for, hot weather, initial, initial stage, secretary), にっしゃびょう (heatstroke), かくら" (disturbance, heatstroke). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 일사병. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | gorley greiney. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | unstrokesay insolação (calenture). (various references) insolaţie (heat stroke, insolation, sunburn). (various references) солнечный удар (insolation, siriases, siriasis). (various references) sunčanica. (various references) insolación (heatstroke, insolation). (various references) solstyng. (various references) güneş çarpması (heat prostration, heatstroke, insolation, touch of the sun). (various references) сонячний удар (insolation). (various references) sự say nắng. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "sunstroke": sunstrokes. (additional references) | |
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"Sunstroke" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Santrock. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-k-n-o-r-s-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: kurtoses, tonsures. | |
-2 letters: estrous, nestors, oestrus, ousters, sourest, souters, stokers, stoners, stoures, strokes, sunkets, tenours, tensors, tonsure, tonuses, tuskers, tussore, unrests. | |
-3 letters: estrus, knouts, nestor, noters, nouses, nurses, onsets, onuses, ouster, outers, rosets, rouens, rouses, rousts, routes, russet, senors, sensor, serous, setons, setous, snores, snorts, snouts, sorest, souter, stenos, sterns, stoker, stokes, stoner. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-k-n-o-r-s-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: sunstrokes. | |
+2 letters: subnetworks. | |
+3 letters: countersinks. | |
+5 letters: counterstrikes, counterstrokes, thunderstrokes. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Anagrams 11. Bibliography |
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