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Definitions: Tampon |
TamponNoun1. Plug of cotton or other absorbent material; inserted into wound or body cavity to absorb exuded fluids (especially blood). Verb1. Plug with a tampon. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tampon" was first used: 1848. (references) |
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Medicine | A plug used to occludate an orifice in the control of bleeding, or to mop up secretions ; an absorbant pad. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A tampon is a small absorbant device, ususally made from cotton, that a woman inserts into her vagina during her period to absorb menstrual blood.
Tampons have a string for ease of removal, and may have attached applicators to aid with insertion. They can be used instead of sanitary pads.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Tampon."
Crosswords: Tampon |
| English words defined with "tampon": Tampax, tamponade, tamponage. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "tampon": Colin Tampon. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "tampon": tampion, Tompon. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Tampon" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Albanian (sponge, swab, swob, tampon, tent), Czech (swab, wipe), Danish (plug, tampon), Dutch (plug, tampon), French (buffer, bumper, duster, pad, plug, rubber stamp, swab, tampon, wad), German (plug, tampon), Hungarian (dossil, gauze plug, sponge, swab, tampon, wad), Romanian (buffer, cushion, pad, plug, plugging, tampon, wad, Wick), Serbo-Croatian (swab, swob, tampon), Turkish (buffer, bumper, cushion, fender, packing, shock absorber, tampon, wad). |
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Screenplays | If they find out you've seen this, your life will be worth less than a truckload of dead rats in a tampon factory. (Top Secret!; writing credit: Jim Abrahams; David Zucker) Try this on for sizeBlood drenched frozen tampon popsicle! (South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut; writing credit: Trey Parker; Matt Stone) You can have all your whips and chains and never have to deal with the tampon trips to the 7-Eleven. (Just Looking; writing credit: Tyler Bensinger) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Le Tampon du capiston (1950) Tampon Tango (1975) | |
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Health | The same instruction would apply to a new vaginal spray, douche, sanitary napkin, or tampon. (references) | |
Streptococcal toxic shock syndrome (STSS), causes blood pressure to drop rapidly and organs (e.g., kidney, liver, lungs) to fail. STSS is not the same as the "toxic shock syndrome" frequently associated with tampon usage. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Tampon" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tampon" is used about 29 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% | 29 | 64,444 |
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 |
tampon | 649 |
insertion tampon | 164 |
insert a tampon | 116 |
use a tampon | 111 |
picture tampon | 64 |
tampon pic | 62 |
bloody tampon | 61 |
inserting tampon | 48 |
tampon sex | 35 |
insertion picture tampon | 35 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "tampon"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | tampon (sponge, swab, swob, tent). (various references) | |
Arabic | حشا (beef up, cake, cram, jam, load, pack, pad, poke, quilt, ram, stuff, tamp, wad), سدادة قطنية. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | слагам тампон на рана, тампон (ink pad, pad, pledget, sponge, tent, wad). (various references) | |
Czech | tamponovat, tampón. (various references) | |
Danish | tampon (canvas, compress, dabber, pad, pledget, plug, sponge, swab). (various references) | |
Dutch | tampon (canvas, compress, dabber, pad, pledget, plug, sponge, swab, wick). (various references) | |
Esperanto | tampono (plug). (various references) | |
French | tampon. (various references) | |
German | tampon (canvas, compress, dabber, pad, pledget, plug, sponge, swab). (various references) | |
Greek | ταμπόν (canvas, dabber, ink pad, packing, paint pad). (various references) | |
Hebrew | טמפון. (various references) | |
Hungarian | tampon (dossil, gauze plug, sponge, swab, wad). (various references) | |
Italian | tampone (bott, buffer, canvas, compress, dabber, pad, pledget, plug, sponge, stopper, swab, swob, tent, wad). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | タンパク質 (protein). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | タンポン . (various references) | |
Manx | stupaid. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ampontay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | tamponar (plug), tampão periódico, tampão higiênico, tampão (cap, disc brake, disk, dome nut, Dot, plug, seal, stop, stopgap, stopper, tampion, turntable), aplicar tampão em. (various references) | |
Romanian | tampona (dab), tampon (buffer, cushion, pad, plug, plugging, wad, Wick). (various references) | |
Russian | тампон (dossil, pledget). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | tampon (swab, swob), čep (bung, cork, plug, spigot, spile, stopple, tampion, wad). (various references) | |
Spanish | tampón (buffer, buffer memory, buffer storage, buffer store, inkpad, pad, plug), tapón (bott, bottleneck, bridging of hole, bulling, bung, cap, capful, cellar plug, cellar plug(California), compress, cork, cover, head, pad, peg, pledget, plug, sponge, stopper, stopper head, stopper-end, stopple, swab, tampion, traffic bottleneck, wad, wadding). (various references) | |
Swedish | tampong (pledget, swab). (various references) | |
Thai | ผ้าอนามัยแบบสอ", ก้อนสำลีสำหรับห้ามเลือ". (various references) | |
Turkish | tampon koymak, tampon ile temizlemek, tampon (buffer, bumper, cushion, fender, packing, shock absorber, wad), tıpa (bung, Cork, plug, stopper, stopple, wad), tıkamak (block, block up, bung, bung up, choke, choke up, clog, congest, engorge, foul, foul up, glut, hold, jam, obliterate, obstruct, obturate, occlude, plug, plug up, seal off, Spike, spile, stop, stop up, stopple, stuff, wad), tıkaç (bung, Cork, filler, gag, packing, plug, spigot, spill, stopper, stopple, wad, wadding). (various references) | |
Ukranian | тампонувати, тампон (swab, swob, wad). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Middle French | 1400-1600 | tampon. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tampon": tamponed, tamponing, tampons. (additional references) | |
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"Tampon" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ampoon, campon, tamon, tanon, tanpon, tapon, temon, tempen, Tiamzon, timop, Tiumpan, Tompion, Tompot, trampdom, trampen, trampo, tsampo, Tummon, tzampa. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: potman. | |
| Words within the letters "a-m-n-o-p-t" | |
-1 letter: panto, toman. | |
-2 letters: atom, atop, mano, moan, moat, noma, nota, pant, tamp. | |
-3 letters: amp, ant, apt, man, map, mat, moa, mon, mop, mot, nam, nap, nom, not, oat, opt, pam, pan, pat, pom, pot, tam, tan, tao, tap, tom, ton, top. | |
-4 letters: am, an, at, ma, mo, na, no, om, on, op, pa, ta, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-m-n-o-p-t" | |
+1 letter: maintop, pantoum, phantom, postman, ptomain, tampion, tampons, timpano, tympano. | |
+2 letters: maintops, pantoums, phantoms, pivotman, pointman, protamin, ptomaine, ptomains, tampions, tamponed. | |
+3 letters: complaint, compliant, copayment, impaction, important, nonimpact, palmation, pantomime, paramount, patrimony, patrolman, patrolmen, protamine, protamins, protonema, ptomaines, pulmonate, sportsman, tamponing, taphonomy, treponema. | |
+4 letters: amputation, assumption, compacting, compaction, comparting, compensate, complacent, complaints, copayments, foretopman, homopteran, impactions, importance, importancy, imputation, miscaption, morphactin, nonoptimal, nonpayment, palmations, pantomimed, pantomimes, pantomimic, paramounts, patronymic, permeation, phonematic, pitchwoman, portamenti, portamento, postmating, poultryman, protamines, protohuman, protonemal, provitamin, pulmonates, taphonomic, temptation, trampoline, treponemal, treponemas, utopianism. | |
+5 letters: accompanist, adoptianism, adoptionism, aminopterin, amphictyony, amputations, amylopectin, appointment, assumptions, compactions, compactness, compartment, compensated, compensates, compensator, compilation, complainant, complaisant, compliantly, computation, contemplate, emancipator, homopterans, hymenoptera, impartation, impersonate, impetration, implication, importances, importantly, importation, importunate, imprecation, impregnator, imputations, incompliant, kleptomania, malposition, manipulator, metanephroi, metanephros, misanthrope, misanthropy, miscaptions, morphactins, mountaintop, nonemphatic, nonpayments, nontemporal, overpayment, pantomiming, pantomimist, paramountcy, paramountly, patrimonial, patrimonies, patronymics, pentamerous, permeations, permutation, phantomlike, pomegranate, portamentos, portmanteau, postmarking, predominant, predominate, prenominate, preromantic, prognathism, promotional, protohumans, protonemata, provitamins, sportsmanly, sportswoman, synaptosome, taphonomies, taphonomist, temptations, toponymical, trampoliner, trampolines, treponemata, trypanosome, unimportant, utopianisms. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 61 6D 70 6F 6E |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- .- -- .--. --- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01100001 01101101 01110000 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T a m p o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0061 006D 0070 006F 006E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)546779828180 |
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