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Definition: Tonsil |
TonsilNoun1. Either of two masses of lymphatic tissue one on each side of the oral pharynx. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | A round-to-oval mass of lymphoid tissue embedded in the lateral wall of the pharynx situated on each side of the fauces, between the anterior and posterior pillars of the soft palate. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: TonsilSynonyms: faucial tonsil (n), palatine tonsil (n), tonsilla (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Tonsil |
| English words defined with "tonsil": Tonsilitis, Tonsilotomy. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "tonsil": amygdalitis ♦ tonsillar, Tonsillar Neoplasms. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "tonsil": Tonsilitis. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Tonsil" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (tonsil), Welsh (tonsil). |
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Theater & Movies | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Stethoscopes, chest, tonsil, ... and ear instruments. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | There have been reports of other ways of diagnosing the disease, including tonsil biopsies, which may lead to other tests. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Tonsil" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tonsil" is used about 6 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% | 6 | 143,867 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "tonsil" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Tonsil | Last name | 170 | 49,003 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name |
| Poland | Tonsil S.A. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "tonsil": faucial tonsil ♦ Luschka's tonsil ♦ palatine tonsil ♦ pharyngeal tonsil ♦ third tonsil. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "tonsil": tonsil-trembling. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "tonsil"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | gjandër bajame, bajame (almond, almond tree, nut, quinsy, tonsillitis, tonsils). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | لوزة الحلق. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | сливица. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 扁桃腺, 扁桃" . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | mandle (almond, tonsils). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | tonsil, mandel (almond, almond-tree). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | tonsil (amygdalas), amandel (almond, almond-tree). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | tonsilo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | mandla (almond). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | لوزه(تش.), بادامک . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | risa (adenoid), nielurisa. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | amygdale. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frisian | mangel (almond). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | mandel (almond, almond-tree). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | παρωτίδα, αμυγδάλη του λαιμού. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | בלוטת "שק". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | mandula (almond). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | amandel (almond). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | tonsilla. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | keshleen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Papiamen | amandel (almond). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | onsiltay tonsila, amígdala (almond, amygdala). (various references) amigdalã (almond). (various references) миндалевидная железа, миндалина. (various references) krajnik (almond). (various references) ami/gdalas, amígdala (amygdala). (various references) tonsill, mandel (almond), halsmandel. (various references) bademcik (palatine tonsil, tonsillar), bademcík. (various references) мигдалина (almond, amygdala, amygdalae). (various references) amiđan. (various references) tonsil. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | glandula. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tonsil": tonsilar, tonsillar, tonsillectomies, tonsillectomy, tonsillitis, tonsillitises, tonsils. (additional references) | |
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"Tonsil" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Jonsil, nonslip, Otoniel, tencil, tensil, todshill, tonail, toncil, tonio, tonish, tonnail, tonsel, tonsilar, tonsille, tonsul, tonvit, tonzi, Tosi, Tosio, tosyl, tynesid. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "tonsil" (pronounced tÄ'nsul) |
| 4 | -n s u l | cancel, consul, council, counsel, Hansel, pencil, Proconsul, stencil, tensile, tinsel, unsell, utensil. |
| 3 | -s u l | antimissile, apostle, Axel, axle, basal, brasil, bristle, bustle, capsule, Castle, colossal, diesel, dismissal, dispersal, docile, dorsal, epistle, facile, fissile, fossil, gracile, gristle, Hassel, hassle, housel, hustle, imbecile, jostle, microfossil, missal, missel, missile, morsel, mucosal, muscle, mussel, Nestle, parcel, Passel, pixel, rehearsal, reversal, rustle, tassel, Tattersall, Tercel, Thistle, Tressel, trestle, tussle, universal, vassal, vessel, whistle, wrestle. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-l-n-o-s-t" | |
-1 letter: linos, lints, lions, loins, noils, toils. | |
-2 letters: into, ions, lino, lins, lint, lion, list, lits, loin, lost, loti, lots, nils, nits, noil, oils, silo, silt, slit, slot, snit, snot, soil, soli, tils, tins, toil, tons. | |
-3 letters: ins, ion, its, lin, lis, lit, lot, nil, nit, nos, not, oil, ons, sin, sit, sol, son. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-l-n-o-s-t" | |
+1 letter: entoils, latinos, lintols, lotions, nostril, pontils, soliton, stonily, talions, tiglons, tonsils, tylosin. | |
+2 letters: alations, antilogs, antlions, biltongs, botulins, colistin, colonist, diplonts, elations, elutions, holstein, hotlines, inkblots, inositol, insolate, insolent, jostling, kilotons, lanosity, lections, linocuts, linstock, looniest, neoliths, nitinols, nitrosyl, nostrils, novelist, oilstone, outlines, pinitols, potlines, retinols, slipknot, slotting, snootily, snottily, solating, solation, solitons, solution, stallion, stolonic, stooling, telsonic, thionyls, tinfoils, toenails, tolidins, tonishly, tonsilar, toolings, toplines, tousling, towlines, tylosins, unspoilt, volutins. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 6F 6E 73 69 6C |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- --- -. ... .. .-.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01101111 01101110 01110011 01101001 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T o n s i l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 006F 006E 0073 0069 006C |
| 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)548180857578 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Quotations: Non-fiction 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Names: Frequency 10. Names: Company Usage 11. Expressions 12. Expressions: Internet | 13. Translations: Modern 14. Translations: Ancient 15. Derivations 16. Rhymes | 17. Anagrams 18. Orthography 19. Bibliography |
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