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"TORRENTS" is a plural of: torrent. |
Date "TORRENTS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | Beds of quicksand encountered below the chalk marl in the Anzin Coalfield,in France. (references) |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
River | Rain hard, rain in torrents, rain cats and dogs, rain pitchforks; pour with rain, drizzle, spit, set in; mizzle. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Throwing torrents of abuse to every single person who steps off those boats (Gangs of New York; writing credit: Jay Cocks) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Torrents of Spring (1959) Torrents (1946) Saved from the Torrents (1911) | |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
James Madison | 1809-1817 | Torrents of blood have been split in the old world, by vain attempts of the secular arm, to extinguish Religious discord, by proscribing all difference in Religious opinion. |
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| "TORRENTS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "TORRENTS" is used about 72 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) | 100% | 72 | 39,377 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "TORRENTS": pour in torrents ♦ rain in torrents ♦ torrents of rain. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "TORRENTS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Finnish | tulvanaan (in torrents), vuolaasti (copiously, in torrents, rapidly, swiftly). (various references) | |
German | Sturzfluten, Sturzbächen, Sturzbäche. (various references) | |
Hungarian | sértő kifejezések özöne (torrents of abuse), patakban ömlik (pour in torrents). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | orrentstay.(various references) | |
Russian | хлынуть (gush, gush out, pour in torrents, stream). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | liti kao iz kabla (pour in torrents). (various references) | |
Spanish | torrentes. (various references) | |
Turkish | bardaktan boşanırcasına yağmak (beat down, bucket, come down in sheets, lash, lash down, pelt, rain cats and dogs, rain in torrents, teem), bardaktan boşanırcasına yağma (torrents of rain). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"TORRENTS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: horrents, tarento, tarrent, Teoranta, torrant, torren, torrenns, torrens, torrenti, torrets, tourent, tourents, tourrents, trents, turents, turrent. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "TORRENTS" (pronounced tô"runts) |
| 6 | -ô" r u n t s | warrants. |
| 5 | -r u n t s | adherents, celebrants, emigrants, entrants, grandparents, hydrants, immigrants, migrants, parents, registrants, tyrants, vagrants. |
| 4 | -u n t s | accelerants, accidents, accompaniments, accomplishments, abandonments, abatements, abortifacients, accountants, accouterments, achievements, adjustments, adolescents, advancements, advertisements, agents, agreements, ailments, alignments, allotments, amendments, amusements, ancients, announcements, antecedents, antidepressants, antioxidants, apartments, applicants, appointments, arguments, armaments, arraignments, arrangements, aspirants, assailants, assessments, assignments, assistants, astringents, attachments, attendants, basements, battlements, belligerents, blandishments, bombardments, claimants, clients, coefficients, combatants, commandments, commitments, compartments, complainants, complements, components, condiments, consonants, constants, constituents, consultants, contaminants, contestants, continents, contingents, coolants, copayments, cormorants, correspondents, covenants, Crosscurrents, currents, curtailments, decedents, decongestants, defendants, deferments, defoliants, delinquents, deodorants, departments, dependents, deployments, depressants, derailments, descendants, descendents, detergents, determinants, deterrents, developments, deviants, disagreements, disappointments, disbursements, disinfectants, dispersants, displacements, dissidents, divestments, docents, documents, elements, elephants, embarrassments, emplacements, employments, enactments, encampments, encroachments, endorsements, endowments, enforcements, engagements, enhancements, enjoyments, enlargements, enrollments, entanglements, entertainments, enticements, entitlements, environments, equipments, equivalents, escarpments, establishments, experiments, exponents, figments, filaments, fluorescents, formants, fragments, frequents, garments, giants, governments, impairments, impeachments, impediments, implements, impoundments, improvements, incidents, incitements, incompetents, increments, incumbents, independents, indictments, indigents, inducements, infants, informants, infringements, ingredients, inhabitants, inhalants, innocents, inpatients, installments, instruments, insurgents, investments, involvements, irritants, judgements, judgments, lieutenants, ligaments, litigants, lubricants, managements, measurements, merchants, militants, miscreants, misjudgments, misstatements, moments, monuments, movements, mutants, noncombatants, nonresidents, nutrients, occupants, opponents, ornaments, overpayments, overstatements, oxidants, pageants, parliaments, participants, patents, patients, pavements, payments, peasants, pennants, pheasants, pigments, placements, pollutants, postponements, precedents, predicaments, prepayments, presents, procurements, pronouncements, propellants, proponents, protestants, punishments, readjustments, reagents, realignments, reassignments, recipients, redeployments, reenactments, refinements, refreshments, refrigerants, Regents, regiments, reimbursements, reinforcements, remnants, repayments, replacements, requirements, resentments, residents, respondents, restatements, retirements, retrenchments, rodents, rudiments, sacraments, savants, sealants, sediments, segments, sentiments, sergeants, serpents, servants, settlements, shipments, solvents, statements, stimulants, students, subcontinents, succulents, supergiants, superintendents, supplements, talents, temperaments, tenants, tenements, tournaments, transients, treatments, undercurrents, undergarments, underpayments, variants. |
| 3 | -n t s | accents, accounts, affronts, amounts, ants, appoints, aunts, ballpoints, blueprints, blunts, brents, cents, chants, checkpoints, circumvents, comments, complaints, compliments, confidants, confronts, consents, constraints, contents, counts, croissants, dachshunds, debutantes, dents, descents, disappoints, discontents, discounts, dissents, eggplants, events, ferments, fingerprints, flaunts, flints, fonts, footprints, forints, fronts, grants, grunts, haunts, hints, hunts, implants, imprints, intents, invents, jaunts, joints, laments, malcontents, mints, misrepresents, mounts, paints, pants, percents, pinpoints, pints, plants, points, portents, presidents, prevents, prints, punts, quints, recounts, rents, represents, reprints, resents, restaurants, restraints, saints, scents, splints, sprints, standpoints, stints, storefronts, stunts, sweatpants, taints, taunts, tents, tints, torments, transplants, underpants, vents, viewpoints, wants, waterfronts. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-n-o-r-r-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: retorts, rotters, snorter, stentor, stertor, torrent. | |
-2 letters: nestor, noters, otters, resort, retorn, retort, retros, roster, rotten, rotter, rottes, snorer, sorner, sorter, stoner, tenors, tensor, teston, toners, torten, tortes, toters, trones. | |
-3 letters: nerts, netts, noter, notes, onset, otter, rents, retro, roset, rotes, rotte, senor, seton, snore, snort, sorer, steno, stern, stone, store, tenor, tents. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-n-o-r-r-s-t-t" | |
+2 letters: introverts, nonstarter, storefront, tormenters, tormentors. | |
+3 letters: alternators, controverts, integrators, nonstarters, northeaster, northwester, paternoster, reconstruct, remonstrant, remonstrate, restoration, restriction, retractions, sternutator, storefronts, terminators, transported, transportee, transporter, trochanters, waterfronts. | |
+4 letters: contractures, counterparts, demonstrator, extortioners, gerontocrats, interceptors, interdictors, intergrowths, interjectors, interrogates, interruptors, intromitters, northeastern, northeasters, northernmost, northwestern, northwesters, ornithopters, orthocenters, orthopterans, partitioners, paternosters, reconstructs, registration, reiterations, remonstrants, remonstrated, remonstrates, remonstrator, reorientates, repartitions, restorations, restrictions, retardations, retributions, retroactions, sternutators, tetrahedrons, thunderstorm, transportees, transporters, trimetrogons. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Modern 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Speeches | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Bibliography |
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