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Definition: Vaseline |
VaselineNoun1. A trademarked brand of petroleum jelly. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Vaseline" was first used: 1874. (references) |
Etymology: Vaseline \Vas"e*line\, noun. [Said by the manufacturer to be derived from German wasser water Greek 'e`laion olive oil.]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: Vaseline |
| English words defined with "Vaseline": Cosmoline ♦ spitball, spitter. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Vaseline": blocker, polishing ♦ Diem's adhesive foil instrument ♦ GAS-CHECK-PAD MAKER ♦ Kotze konimeter ♦ lyddite ♦ Smith-Noguchi culture medium, STONER, HAND. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Vaseline" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Danish (vaseline), Dutch (vaseline), French (petroleum jelly, Vaseline), German (vaseline). |
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Screenplays | Might as well eat Vaseline. Got about as much flavor. (A Family Thing; writing credit: Billy Bob Thornton; Tom Epperson) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Health | Vaseline is a kind of petrolatum, but is likely to irritate the eyes if applied. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Vaseline" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 54.35% of the time. "Vaseline" is used about 46 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 (proper) | 54.35% | 25 | 69,787 |
| Noun (singular) | 45.65% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Total | 100.00% | 46 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "Vaseline": vaseline-covered, vaseline-smeared. | |
| 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 "Vaseline"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | Vazelinë (petrolatum, petroleum jelly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | فازلين, مرهم الفازالين. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | 'азелин. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | Vazelína (mineral-jelly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | vaseline (amorphous wax, petrolatum, petrolatum wax). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | vaseline (amorphous wax, petrolatum, petrolatum wax, petroleum jelly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | vazelino. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | وازلین(petrolatum=). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | vaseliini (amorphous wax, petrolatum, petrolatum wax). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | Vaseline. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Vaseline, Vaselin (petroleum jelly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | βαζελίνη (amorphous wax, petrolatum, petrolatum wax, petroleum jelly), 'ασελίνη, 'αζελίνη. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ֵזלין. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | Vazelin (liquid paraffine, petrolatum), Bevazelinoz. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | vaselin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | vaselina (petroleum jelly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | ワープロ馬鹿 (business shirt, dead silence after a joke falls flat, food wagon service, multi-national enterprise, news program, shirt, someone whose kanji-writing ability has suffered due to overreliance on the kana->kanji conversion systems used to input Japanese text on a computer, table-side service, talk and varietyshow, vaccine, vagina, wacoal, Wagner, wagon, wagon sale, Waikiki, warlock, washer, Washington, Washington Post, WASP, watt, wax, wide, wide-angle lens, wide-band, wife, wild, wild pitch, windshield wipers, windup, wine, wine color, wine glass, wine list, wine red, winecooler, winery, wipe, wipe in, wipe out, wire, wire glass, wired, wireless, wireless mike, wire-wrapping, wise, wivern, working holiday, workshop, World, world class, World Cup, world enterprise, World Games, World Series, worm, wow, wow and flutter, Wyoming, wyvern). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ワセリン . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | "셀린. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Malay | vaselin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | vasleen, ooill ushtey. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Papiamen | vaselin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | aselinevay vaselina (crude petroleum jelly, petrolatum, petroleum jelly, petroleum oil). (various references) Vaselinã. (various references) 'азелин. (various references) vazelin. (various references) vaselina (petroleum jelly). (various references) Vaselin (petrolatum). (various references) Vazelin (petrolatum, petroleum jelly). (various references) 'азелін. (various references) vazơlin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| German | 100 BCE-Modern | Wasser. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Vaseline" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aveline, Avellino, haseldine, vaselines, Veselin. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "Vaseline" (pronounced 'Vas"e*line'): Acauline, Acervuline, Aline, Alkaline, Amygdaline, Anticline, Aquiline, Baculine, Bandoline, Benzoline, Berylline, Bowline, Bubaline, Buntline, Caballine, Cappeline, Capreoline, Cauline, Choline, Chrysaniline, Cinnoline, Circuline, Clothesline, Colline, Contline, Corolline, Corrovaline, Cosmoline, Crepusculine, Crinoline, Crotaline, Cryptocrystalline, Deline, Disincline, Dispoline, Ecboline, Feline, Flavaniline, Fringilline, Gantline, Ghibelline, Girtline, Glyoxaline, Gobline, Gralline, Haloxyline, Harmaline, headline, Herakline, Hexactinelline, Holocrystalline, Houseline, Hypocrystalline, indiscipline, Indoaniline, Induline, Inquiline, Intercolline, Interline, Iridoline, Isabelline, Kairoline, Leucaniline, Leucoline, Limicoline, Lobeline, Lurchline, marteline, masculine, Mauvaniline, Melaniline, Microcline, microcrystalline, Misincline, Moelline, Moline, Monocline, Mousseline, Musteline, Nemaline, Nigraniline, Nitraniline, Odorline, Orphaline, Orpheline, Oxyquinoline, Parvoline, Pauline, Penduline, Perivitelline, Petroline, Phanerocrystalline, Phenanthroline, Picoline, Pipe-line, Praline, Pyrroline, Quinoline, Quinoxaline, Ralline, Ramline, Reguline, Rombowline, Rosaniline, Rupicoline, Sarcoline, saxicoline, Scopeline, self-discipline, Semicrystalline, sibylline, Sinapoline, Sincaline, spline, Spurling-line, Staphyline, streamline, Strobiline, Subcrystalline, Subsaline, Suilline, Sylvicoline, Syncline, tapeline, Thionoline, Timaline, tourmaline, towline, Triphyline, Tripoline, Tumpline, underline, Unline, Up-line, Violaniline, Vitelline, Vituline. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-i-l-n-s-v" | |
-1 letter: alevins, enslave, leavens, valines. | |
-2 letters: alevin, aliens, alines, alvine, aneles, anvils, elains, enisle, ensile, envies, leaven, leaves, levies, levins, lianes, livens, naives, navels, navies, nieves, saline, savine, senile, silane, silvae, silvan, sleave, snivel, valine, valise, veenas, veinal, venial, vinals, vineal. | |
-3 letters: aisle, alien, aline, alive, anele, anile, anils, anise, anvil, avens, easel, eaves, elain, elans, elves, evens, evils, lanes, laves, leans, lease, leave, lenes, lenis, lense, levin, liane, liens, lieve, lines, liven, lives, naevi, nails, naive, navel, naves, neves, nieve, nival, salve, savin, seine, selva, seven, sieve, silva, slain, slave, snail, vails, vales, valse, vanes, veals, veena, veils, veins, venae, venal, vials, vinal, vinas, vines. | |
-4 letters: ails, ains, alee, ales, anes, anil, anis, aves, ease, eave, eels, elan, else, even, eves, evil, ilea, isle, lain, lane, lase, lave, lavs, lean, leas, lees, leis, lens, leva, lien, lies, line, lins, live, nail, nave, neve, nevi, nils, sail, sain, sale, sane, save, seal, seel, seen, sene, sial, sine, vail, vain, vale, vane, vans, vase, veal, vees, veil, vein, vela, vena, vial, vies, vile, vina, vine, visa, vise. | |
-5 letters: ail, ain, ais, ale, als, ane, ani, ave, eel, els, ens, eve, ins, las, lav, lea, lee, lei, lev, lie, lin, lis, nae, nee, nil, sae, sal, sea, see, sei, sel, sen, sin, van, vas, vee, via, vie, vis. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-i-l-n-s-v" | |
+1 letter: aliveness, valencies. | |
+2 letters: elevations, evangelism, evangelist, intervales, investable, leavenings, shinleaves, valentines, venalities, venialness, ventilates, vernalizes, villenages. | |
+3 letters: alivenesses, cantilevers, covalencies, eigenvalues, equivalents, evangelisms, evangelists, evangelizes, everlasting, expansively, heavenliest, interleaves, livableness, relevancies, revelations, reversional, villanelles, vulneraries. | |
+4 letters: allusiveness, alternatives, ambivalences, deliverances, enviableness, equivalences, evangelicals, evangelistic, everlastings, heavenliness, intervalleys, irrelevances, lavishnesses, nonrelatives, overexplains, overinflates, surveillance, universalize, variableness, venialnesses, verticalness, vespertilian, villainesses, violableness, voidableness, volatileness. | |
+5 letters: advisableness, antislaveries, availableness, equivalencies, equivocalness, eventualities, everlastingly, immovableness, inviolateness, irrelevancies, livablenesses, lucrativeness, multivalences, overreliances, plaintiveness, reevaluations, slavishnesses, surveillances, talkativeness, televangelism, televangelist, unassertively, universalized, universalizes, universalness, unserviceable, valiantnesses, veritableness, versatileness. | |
| 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)56 61 73 65 6C 69 6E 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)...- .- ... . .-.. .. -. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010110 01100001 01110011 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)V a s e l i n e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0056 0061 0073 0065 006C 0069 006E 0065 |
| 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)5667857178758071 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Translations: Ancient 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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