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Troche

Definition: Troche

Troche

Noun

1. A medicated lozenge used to soothe the throat.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "troche" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1915. (references)


Synonyms: Troche

Synonyms: cough drop (n), pastil (n), pastille (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Troche

English words defined with "troche": CachundeTrochiscus. (references)
Etymologies containing "troche": Trochiscus. (references)

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Modern Usage: Troche

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Troche slonca (1958)

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

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Commercial Usage: Troche

DomainTitle

Books

  • Troche plotek o swietych (reference)

  • Ojczyzna jest zawsze troche dalej-- (reference)

  • Pod górke do Europy : o Turcji lat trzydziestych--ale tez troche o dzisiejszej Polsce (reference)

  • Pomnik troche niezupeny-- : rzecz o apokryfach i poezji Zbigniewa Herberta (reference)

  • Poznaniacy II : portretów kopa i troche (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Name Usage Frequency: Troche

The following table summarizes the usage of "troche" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
TrocheLast name1,00010,406
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Troche

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

mycelex troche

12

dawaj klawiaty mloda po tej troche

7

troche

7

online order troche

4

rose troche

3

mycostatin troche

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Troche

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

Albanian

  

pite (fritter, johnny-cake, mill cake, waffle), ilaç (cure, drug, healer, medicament, medicine, medicines, physic, potion, prescription, remedy), hapje (aperture, disclosure, dissection, inauguration, open, opening, orifice, rift, span, spreading, stretch, tablet, tabloid, vent, venthole). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏القرصة قرص طبي ملطف للسعال. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

таблетка (pastil, pastille, slab, tabloid). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

片剂 (Tablet, tablets). (various references)

   

German

  

runde Tablette. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

καταπότιο (pill), χάπι (pellet, pill, tablet, tabloid), τροχίσκοσ (caster, roller, rowel, trundle). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

pasztilla (pastille). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

トレンチ工法 (trawl, trawling, trench cut method, trend, trendy, trolling). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

トローチ . (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ochetray

   

Portuguese

  

trocisco (trochee). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

tabletã (lozenge, pad, pellet, slab, tabloid). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

лекарственная пастилка, лепешка (griddle cake, johnny-cake, lozenge, pastil, pastille, tortilla), пастилка (pastille). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

tableta (tablet). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Troche

Derivations

Words beginning with "troche": trochee, trochees, troches. (additional references)

Words containing "troche": electrochemical, electrochemically, electrochemistries, electrochemistry, petrochemical, petrochemicals, petrochemistries, petrochemistry. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Troche" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Etruschi, grosche, proche, rochem, toch, toche, tooche, torce, torche, Torchie, torchy, Torecha, torke, toshe, trache, trauchle, trich, Tricha, Trichet, troc, troce, trochae, trochar, trochlea, trochlear, trocken, troh, troke, Tronchet, trophee, tropho, trothe, Trucchi, truch, Truchart. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Troche"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "troche" (pronounced trÄ"kh)
3-r Ä" khcrotch.

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

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Anagrams: Troche

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: hector, rochet, rotche, tocher.

Words within the letters "c-e-h-o-r-t"

-1 letter: chert, chore, ocher, ochre, other, recto, retch, rotch, throe, torch.

-2 letters: cero, core, cote, echo, etch, hero, hoer, rote, thro, torc, tore.

-3 letters: cor, cot, eth, her, het, hoe, hot, orc, ore, ort, rec, ret, rho, roc, roe, rot, the, tho, toe, tor.

-4 letters: eh, er, et, he, ho, oe, oh, or, re, to.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-h-o-r-t"
 

+1 letter: botcher, cheroot, chortle, couther, crochet, hectors, notcher, retouch, rochets, rotches, tochers, torched, torches, toucher, trochee, troches.

 

+2 letters: anchoret, botchers, botchery, botchier, chelator, cheroots, chlorate, chlorite, chordate, chortled, chortler, chortles, chromate, chromite, clothier, coherent, comether, couthier, crochets, crotched, crotches, crotchet, hectored, notchers, outreach, reclothe, rhetoric, ricochet, scouther, theocrat, thoraces, tochered, torchere, torchier, touchers, touchier, trichome, trochees, trochlea.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Names: Frequency
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Rhymes
11. Anagrams
12. Bibliography


  

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