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Definition: Suspensory |
SuspensoryNoun1. A bandage of elastic fabric applied to uplift a dependant part (as the scrotum or a pendulous breast). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "suspensory" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1882. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Medicine | Supporting a part. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: SuspensorySynonym: suspensory bandage (n). (additional references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Suspensory" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Suspensory" is used about 10 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 10 | 111,207 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "suspensory": suspensory bandage ♦ suspensory ligament ♦ suspensory muscle. 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 |
suspensory | 24 |
ligament suspensory | 11 |
horse ligament suspensory | 6 |
ligament suspensory treatment | 4 |
jock strap suspensory | 3 |
equine ligament suspensory | 3 |
horse in injury suspensory | 3 |
man suspensory | 2 |
suspensory underwear | 2 |
horse injury ligament suspensory | 2 |
injury suspensory | 2 |
go jock software strap suspensory | 2 |
jock suspensory | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "suspensory"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | mbajtës (bearer, deterrent, handler, holder, keeper, retentive, supporting, wearer), lidhëse mbajtëse. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | معطل مؤقتا, المعلاق أداة, رباط للتعليق. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | суспензорий, закъснителен, забавящ (retardant), задържащ (inhibitory, retentive), бандаж (bandage, jockstrap, truss), провесващ, превръзка (bandage, bandaging, dressing, fillet, ligature), презрамка (shoulder strap), поддържащ (supporting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | visací (hanging). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | suspensorium. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | suspensorium. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | suspensoir. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | suspensorium (jockstrap), hängend (gibbeting, hanging, pendulous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κρεμαστάρι (hanger, rack), υποστήριγμα (bracket, cantilever, crutch, shore, strut, support, sustainment), αναρτικόσ, αναρτήρ, ανασταλτικόσ (suspending). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | תלי (hanger, peg, quiver). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | felfüggesztõ izom, függesztõ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sospensorio (jockstrap). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | lhiettalagh (cloggy, counteracting, counteractive, deterrent, discouraging, filibuster, handicapper, hinderer, inhibiter, inhibiting, interceptor, obstructive, obstructor, preventive, restricting, restrictive, veto). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | uspensorysay suspensivo (deterrent, suspensive), suspensório (braces). (various references) поддерживающая повязка, поддерживающий (backer, supporting, supportive, sustaining). (various references) viseći (floppy, hanging, impendent, impending, pendent, pendulous, pensile, suspension), utega (truss). (various references) suspensorio (jockstrap). (various references) suspensoar (jockstrap). (various references) แถบผ้ายื"ช่วยพยุงส่วนของร่างกายที่ไ"้รับบา"เจ็บ, เส้นเอ็นพยุง, หยุ"ชั่วคราว (suspensive). (various references) suspensuar (suspensory bandage), kasık bağı (suspensory bandage, truss), ertelenen (deferred, postponed, suspensive), askı (clothes hanger, hanger, rack, shoulder strap, suspender), asılı (dependent, hanging, pendant, pendent, pending, pendulous, suspended), asıcı kas (suspensory muscle), asıcı bağ (suspensory ligament), asıcı. (various references) суспензорій, підтримуючий (supporting, sustaining). (various references) treo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-n-o-p-r-s-s-s-u-y" | |
-1 letter: suspensor. | |
-2 letters: sourness, spryness, synopses. | |
-3 letters: ospreys, persons, poseurs, prosses, pyrones, sensors, sensory, spouses. | |
-4 letters: nouses, nurses, onuses, opuses, osprey, penury, person, posers, poseur, posses, proses, prunes, purses, pusses, pyoses, pyrone, rouens, rouses, senors, senryu, sensor, sepoys, serous, snores, souses, spores, spouse, sprues, spurns, supers, syrens, syrups, sysops, uprose, yupons. | |
-5 letters: euros, noses, nosey, nurse. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-n-o-p-r-s-s-s-u-y" | |
+2 letters: supersensory. | |
+4 letters: psychoneuroses, psychoneurosis, psychosurgeons. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Anagrams | 9. Bibliography |
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