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"TOADS" is a plural of: toad. |
Date "TOADS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | An order of amphibia comprising the frogs, toads, tree toads. Source: European Union. (references) |
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| 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. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
TOADS | English | Temporarily obsolete abandoned derelict site | Environment |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: TOADS |
| English words defined with "TOADS": Alytes, Amphibia, Anura, anuran, anurous ♦ Batrachia, batrachian, Bombina, Brevicipitidae, Bufonidae ♦ class Amphibia ♦ Discoglossidae ♦ family Brevicipitidae, family Bufonidae, family Discoglossidae, family Microhylidae, family Pelobatidae ♦ Gastrophryne, genus Alytes, genus Bombina, genus Bufo, genus Gastrophryne, genus Hyla, genus Scaphiopus ♦ Hyla ♦ Microhylidae ♦ order Anura, order Batrachia, order Salientia ♦ Parotoid, Pelobatidae ♦ Ranine ♦ Salientia, salientian, Scaphiopus ♦ tailless. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "TOADS": Amphibian Venoms, amphibians ♦ Bombesin, Bufo arenarum ♦ GEOGRAPHER ♦ Jail-bird, Johnny Crapaud ♦ Li-Flambe ♦ Methoxydimethyltryptamines, Misnomers ♦ Potable ♦ Ranavirus, realism, Rodrigo ♦ tail-less amphibians, Toad, tree toads. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "TOADS": Toadeater. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
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) | |
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| Play | Caption |
| Toads croaking. | |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | |
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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. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 92.86% | 117 | 29,823 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 3.97% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.17% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 126 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "TOADS": tree toads ♦ true toads. Additional references. | |
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| 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 Salientia (frogs, tail-less amphibians, tree toads), anuros (frogs, tail-less amphibians, tree toads). (various references) batracios. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Anura, Salientia. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "TOADS": toadstone, toadstones, toadstool, toadstools. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "TOADS": hoptoads. (additional references) | |
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"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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "TOADS" (pronounced tō"dz) |
| 3 | -ō" d z | bodes, busloads, codes, corrodes, erodes, explodes, implodes, loads, lodes, modes, nodes, odes, reloads, roads, unloads. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
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. | |
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