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Definition: Transmissible |
TransmissibleAdjective1. (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection. 2. Tending to occur among members of a family usually by heredity; "an inherited disease"; "familial traits"; "genetically transmitted features". 3. Inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent; "ancestral home"; "ancestral lore"; "hereditary monarchy"; "patrimonial estate"; "transmissible tradition". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "transmissible" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1790. (references) |
Etymology: Transmissible \Trans*mis"si*ble\, adjective. [Compare to the French expression transmissible.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: TransmissibleSynonyms: ancestral (adj), catching (adj), communicable (adj), contagious (adj), contractable (adj), familial (adj), genetic (adj), hereditary (adj), inherited (adj), patrimonial (adj), transmittable (adj), transmitted (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Transmissible |
| English words defined with "transmissible": Traditive, Transmissibility, Transmittible. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "transmissible": Angiostrongylus, Avian Leukosis ♦ Brucella ♦ choken, contagious ecthyma, Coronavirus Infections ♦ Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker syndrome ♦ Marburg Virus Disease, Marek Disease ♦ Streptococcus equi infection ♦ T-Lymphocytopenia, Idiopathic CD4-Positive, TSEs, Tuberculosis, Bovine ♦ VETERINARY EPIDEMIOLOGIST, VETERINARY LIVESTOCK INSPECTOR. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Transmissible" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (communicable, transferable, transmissible, transmittable, transmitted). |
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Health | It therefore seems unlikely that CFS is a transmissible disease. (references) | |
Not every existing or emerging infectious disease is potentially transmissible through transfusion. (references) | ||
CJD belongs to a family of human and animal diseases known as the transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs). (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Transmissible" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Transmissible" is used about 33 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 33 | 60,273 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "transmissible": Production of glycopeptide antigens of porcine Transmissible Gastroenteritis Virus ♦ serious transmissible disease ♦ transmissible serositis. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "transmissible": non-transmissible, phloem-transmissible. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
transmissible tumor venereal | 6 |
maladie sexuellement transmissible | 5 |
transmissible tumor veneral | 4 |
encephalopathy spongiform transmissible | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "transmissible"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | ngjitës (adhesive, agglutinative, ascendant, catching, cement, communicable, contagious, dauby, epidemic, epidemical, glue, gluey, glutinous, gooey, gummy, hum paste, infectious, mucilage, pitchy, soaring, stick, sticking, sticky, tacky, tenacious, upward, viscous), molepsës (infectious, infective, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential), i transmetueshëm. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | معد (catching, catchy, communicable, contagious, designed, destined, infectious, intended, preparator, prepared, ready). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | който може да се превключва, който може да се предаде, който може да се излъчи. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | přenosný (contagious, contractible, portable, transferable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | transmissible spongiforme encephalopatier (transmissible spongiform encephalopathy), transmissibel minkencephalopati (transmissible mink encephalopathy), værdipapir som kan overdrages (transferable security, transmissible security), sygdom,der kan overfoeres ved blodtransfusion (disease transmissible by blood transfusion), sygdom der kan overføres via sæd (disease transmissible through semen), smitsom sygdom (contagious disease, infectious disease, transmissible disease), seksuelt overført sygdom (sexually transmissible disease, sexually transmitted disease, venereal disease), overførbar spongiform encephalopati (transmissible spongiform encephalopathy), overførbar porcin gastroenteritis (transmissible gastroenteritis of pigs), overdrageligt værdipapir (transferable security, transmissible security), alvorlig smitsom sygdom (serious transmissible disease). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | T.G.E. (Transmissible Gastroenteritis), ziekte die door sperma kan worden overgedragen (disease transmissible through semen), ziekte die door bloedtransfusie kan worden overgebracht (disease transmissible by blood transfusion), sexueel overdraagbare aandoening (sexually transmissible disease, sexually transmitted disease), overdraagbare varkensgastroenteritis (transmissible gastroenteritis of pigs), overdraagbare spongiforme encephalopathie (transmissible spongiform encephalopathy), overdraagbaar effect (transferable security, transmissible security), ernstige besmettelijke ziekte (serious transmissible disease), besmettelijke spongiforme encephalopathie (transmissible spongiform encephalopathy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | transmissible (transferable, transmittable, transmitted). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | übersendbar. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | διαβιβάσιμοσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | átadható. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | titolo trasferibile (transferable security, transmissible security), titolo cedibile (transferable security, transmissible security), titolo trasmissibile (transferable security, transmissible security), malattia trasmissibile mediante trasfusione di sangue (disease transmissible by blood transfusion), encefalopatia spongiforme trasmissibile (transmissible spongiform encephalopathy), encefalopatia trasmissibile del visone (transmissible mink encephalopathy), gastroenterite trasmissibile dei suini (transmissible gastroenteritis of pigs), malattia a trasmissione sessuale (sexually transmissible disease, sexually transmitted disease, venereal disease), malattia trasmessa sessualmente (sexually transmissible disease, sexually transmitted disease), encefalomielite bovina sporadica (Buss disease, Chlamydial encephalomyelitis, sporadic bovine encephalomyelitis, transmissible serositis), malattia trasmissibile attraverso lo sperma (disease transmissible through semen), malattia trasmissible grave (serious transmissible disease), malattie a trasmissione sessuale (sexually transmissible disease), MST (sexually transmissible disease), SBE (Buss disease, Chlamydial encephalomyelitis, sporadic bovine encephalomyelitis, transmissible serositis), malattia trasmissibile (communicable disease, transmissible disease). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | so-chur. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ansmissibletray transmissível (descendable, devisable, transferable). (various references) transmisibil (catching, contagious, infectious, infective, inheritable). (various references) передаваемый (transmittable). (various references) provodni, prenosiv (assignable, negotiable, portable, transferable, transportable). (various references) transmisible (contagious, descendable, transmittable). (various references) nakledilebilir (transferable), geçirilebilir. (various references) що переда"ться (communicable), заразний (cankerous, contagious, infectious, pestiferous, taking, virulent, zymotic). (various references) có thể truyền được (transmissive, transmittable), có thể chuyển giao. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Transmissible" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: transmissable. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "transmissible" (pronounced 'Trans*mis"si*ble'): Abatable, Abdicable, Abhominable, Abhorrible, Abolishable, Abominable, Abrogable, Absolvable, Absorbable, Abusable, Accendible, Accentuable, Acceptable, Accessible, Acclimatable, Acclimatizable, Accommodable, Accompanable, Accomplishable, Accomptable, Accordable, Accostable, Accountable, Accusable, Accustomable, Acetable, Achievable, Acidifiable, Acquaintable, Acquirable, Acreable, Actable, Actionable, Adaptable, Addable, Addible, Adducible, Adjustable, Administrable, Admirable, Admissible, Admittable, Adoptable, Adorable, Adustible, Advantageable, Advisable, Affable, Affectible, Affiliable. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-i-i-l-m-n-r-s-s-s-t" | |
-2 letters: lesbianisms, seminarists. | |
-3 letters: bairnliest, lesbianism, seminarist, serialisms, serialists, tribalisms. | |
-4 letters: albinisms, alienisms, alienists, asterisms, bailments, balminess, banisters, bassinets, brainiest, brainless, brasilins, brassiest, insisters, lamisters, marbliest, melanists, ministers, minstrels, misalters, misbiases, misinters, mislearns, mislearnt, misraises, mistiness, mistrains, mistrials, saintlier, saltiness, sanitises, satirises, serialism, serialist, sibilants, sibilates, sinistral, sliminess, slimsiest, smaltines, smartness, snarliest, stainless, terminals. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-i-i-l-m-n-r-s-s-s-t" | |
+5 letters: interminablenesses, transmissibilities. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 72 61 6E 73 6D 69 73 73 69 62 6C 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- .-. .- -. ... -- .. ... ... .. -... .-.. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01110010 01100001 01101110 01110011 01101101 01101001 01110011 01110011 01101001 01100010 01101100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T r a n s m i s s i b l e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0072 0061 006E 0073 006D 0069 0073 0073 0069 0062 006C 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)54846780857975858575687871 |
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