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TOADS

"TOADS" is a plural of: toad.

Date "TOADS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)


Specialty Definition: TOADS

DomainDefinition

Food & Agriculture

An order of amphibia comprising the frogs, toads, tree toads. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: TOADS

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

TOADS

EnglishTemporarily obsolete abandoned derelict siteEnvironment

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

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Crosswords: TOADS

English words defined with "TOADS": Alytes, Amphibia, Anura, anuran, anurousBatrachia, batrachian, Bombina, Brevicipitidae, Bufonidaeclass AmphibiaDiscoglossidaefamily Brevicipitidae, family Bufonidae, family Discoglossidae, family Microhylidae, family PelobatidaeGastrophryne, genus Alytes, genus Bombina, genus Bufo, genus Gastrophryne, genus Hyla, genus ScaphiopusHylaMicrohylidaeorder Anura, order Batrachia, order SalientiaParotoid, PelobatidaeRanineSalientia, salientian, Scaphiopustailless. (references)
Specialty definitions using "TOADS": Amphibian Venoms, amphibiansBombesin, Bufo arenarumGEOGRAPHERJail-bird, Johnny CrapaudLi-FlambeMethoxydimethyltryptamines, MisnomersPotableRanavirus, realism, Rodrigotail-less amphibians, Toad, tree toads. (references)
Etymologies containing "TOADS": Toadeater. (references)

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Modern Usage: TOADS

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Today, it's rain of toads. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

Oh, is he the tall backwards boy always toying with toads and things? (The Lady Eve; writing credit: Monckton Hoffe; Preston Sturges)

If you don't scold and dominate us We will never give you cause to hate us We won't hide your spectacles so you can't see Put toads in your bed or pepper in your tea. (Mary Poppins; writing credit: P.L. Travers; Bill Walsh)

Tongue Twisters

Two toads, totally tired. (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

The Tijuana Toads (1969)

Cane Toads (1988)

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

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Commercial Usage: TOADS

DomainTitle

Books

  • Frogs, Toads, and Turtles (Take-Along Guide) (reference)

  • An analysis of toads of the Bufo americanus group in a contact zone in central northern North America (reference)

  • Frogs, Toads, and Treefrogs: Everything About Selection, Care, Nutrition, Breeding, and Behavior (reference)

  • Care of Uncommon Pets: Rabbits, Guinea Pigs, Hamsters, Mice, Rats, Gerbils, Chickens, Ducks, Frogs, Toads and Salamanders, Turtles and Tortoises, Sn (reference)

  • Singing Penguins & Puffed Up Toads (reference)

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Theater & Movies

  

Music

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

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Image Slideshow: TOADS

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Sounds Captioned with "TOADS".

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

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Use in Literature: TOADS

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: TOADS

SubjectTopicQuote

Civil Liberties

Egypt

On May 6, the Islamic Research Center called for the banning from circulation of two books, "The Woes of Toads," by Alaa Hamed and "A Call to Think About the Quran and the Hadith," by Ibrahim Abu Khalil. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: TOADS

"TOADS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 92.86% of the time. "TOADS" is used about 126 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 (plural)92.86%11729,823
Lexical Verb (-s form)3.97%5157,705
Noun (proper)3.17%4175,879
                    Total100.00%126N/A

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

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Expressions: TOADS

Expressions using "TOADS": tree toads true toads. Additional references.

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

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Modern Translation: TOADS

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

Danish

  

springpadder (frogs, tail-less amphibians, tree toads). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

kikkerachtigen (frogs, tail-less amphibians, tree toads). (various references)

   

French

  

anoures (tree toads). (various references)

   

German

  

Froschlurche (frogs, tail-less amphibians, tree toads). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

άκερκα (frogs, tail-less amphibians, tree toads), άνουρα (frogs, tail-less amphibians, tree toads). (various references)

   

Italian

  

salienti (frogs, tail-less amphibians, tree toads), anuri (frogs, tail-less amphibians, tree toads). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oadstay

   

Portuguese

  

Salientia (frogs, tail-less amphibians, tree toads), anuros (frogs, tail-less amphibians, tree toads). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

batracios. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: TOADS

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Anura, Salientia. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: TOADS

Derivations

Words beginning with "TOADS": toadstone, toadstones, toadstool, toadstools. (additional references)

Words ending with "TOADS": hoptoads. (additional references)


Misspellings

"TOADS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: noads, tadz, taids, tauds, Tejada, toade, toaid, toars, toda, todas, todays, Todds, tods, toiad, toid, Toida, Tokacs, tolds, Torada, tsades, tuads, tuesd. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "TOADS"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "TOADS" (pronounced tō"dz)
3-ō" d zbodes, busloads, codes, corrodes, erodes, explodes, implodes, loads, lodes, modes, nodes, odes, reloads, roads, unloads.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: TOADS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: datos, doats.

Words within the letters "a-d-o-s-t"

-1 letter: ados, dato, doat, dost, dots, oast, oats, soda, stoa, tads, taos, toad, tods.

-2 letters: ado, ads, dos, dot, oat, ods, sad, sat, sod, sot, tad, tao, tas, tod.

-3 letters: ad, as, at, do, od, os, so, ta, to.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-o-s-t"
 

+1 letter: adopts, dattos, octads, todays.

 

+2 letters: astound, boasted, coasted, costard, dacoits, dakoits, daltons, dashpot, diatoms, donates, dopants, dotages, dotards, fantods, iodates, mastoid, outadds, podesta, roasted, sandlot, solated, stardom, toadies, toadish, toasted, torsade, tostada, tostado, towards, tsardom.

 

+3 letters: accosted, adaptors, adjoints, adjustor, adoptees, adopters, assorted, asteroid, astonied, astounds, athodyds, atomised, auditors, azotised, broadest, cantdogs, carotids, cathodes, coadmits, costards, dashpots, delators, desolate, diastole, diatrons, dilators, dioptase, dogcarts, donators, doormats, downcast, dystocia, dystonia, dystopia, endocast, endostea, extrados, factoids, fadeouts, fatwoods, fondants, footpads, handouts, hardtops, headmost, holdfast, hoptoads, hotheads, intrados, isolated, kathodes, leotards, loadstar, lodestar, madworts, mastodon, mastoids, matadors, mattoids, mordants, notepads, odonates, odorants, ostracod, outasked, outdares, outdates, outdrags, outdraws, outlands, outreads, outstand, outwards, oxidants, oxidates, parodist, parotids, pastored, pintados, podestas, postcard, postdate, postgrad, postpaid, potheads, potshard, readopts, readouts, redcoats, roadster, rotundas, saintdom, sandlots, sandwort, sarodist, satinpod, sedation, sodalist, sodalite, sodality, softhead, solvated, standoff, standout, stardoms, stoccado, stockade, stomodea, sudation, sudatory, tabloids, tacnodes, tadpoles, tandoors, tardyons, thousand, toadfish, toadless, toadyish, toadyism, tornados, torsades, tostadas, tostados, towheads, trolands, tsardoms, tzardoms.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Sounds
7. Quotations: Fiction
8. Quotations: Non-fiction
9. Usage Frequency
10. Expressions
11. Translations: Modern
12. Translations: Ancient
13. Abbreviations
14. Acronyms
15. Derivations
16. Rhymes
17. Anagrams
18. Bibliography


  

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