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TAKE-ALL

Specialty Definition: TAKE-ALL

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Food & Agriculture

A fungus disease of cereals and grasses that is carried over in the soil from one crop to the next in the diseased crop residues. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Photo Album: TAKE-ALL

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Wheat seeds treated with bacteria like those colonized in this petri dish are nearly immune to wheat take-all, a root-destroying fungal disease. The sequencing gel in the background bears the genetic code for bacterial enzymes that synthesize natural antibiotics. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Jack Dykinga..

Near Pullman, Washington, (left to right) Kurtis Schroeder, Linda Thomashow, Jim Cook, and David Weller examine healthy wheat thriving in a filed infected by the fungus that causes wheat take-all. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Jack Dykinga..

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

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Usage Frequency: TAKE-ALL

"TAKE-ALL" is generally used as a determiner (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "TAKE-ALL" 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Determiner (general)100%2245,945

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

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Expression: TAKE-ALL

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "TAKE-ALL": winner-take-all.

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

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Modern Translation: TAKE-ALL

Language Translations for "TAKE-ALL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

gold fodsyge. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

roestbesmetting. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

mustatyvi. (various references)

   

French

  

piétin. (various references)

   

German

  

Befall (attack, infestation). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

παρασιτικόν πλάγιασμα. (various references)

   

Italian

  

mal del piede. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ake-alltay

   

Portuguese

  

podridão do pé. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

roya (blight, brand, rust), chahuistle, añublo (blast, mildew, purple). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

basalröta. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: TAKE-ALL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-e-k-l-l-t"

-2 letters: akela, alate, latke.

-3 letters: alae, kale, kata, lake, late, leak, leal, tael, taka, take, tala, tale, talk, tall, teak, teal, tela, tell.

-4 letters: aal, ala, ale, all, alt, ate, eat, elk, ell, eta, kae, kat, kea, lat, lea, lek, let, tae, tea, tel.

-5 letters: aa, ae, al, at, el, et, ka, la, ta.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-e-k-l-l-t"
 

+1 letter: alkylate, talkable.

 

+2 letters: alkylated, alkylates, leafstalk.

 

+3 letters: basketball, leafstalks.

 

+4 letters: alkalimeter, alkalimetry, basketballs, talkatively.

 

+5 letters: alkalimeters, alkalinities.

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

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INDEX

1. Images: Photo Album
2. Usage Frequency
3. Expressions
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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