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Definitions: Venom |
VenomNoun1. Toxin secreted by animals (by certain snakes and poisonous insects (e.g., spiders and scorpions)). 2. Feeling a need to see others suffer. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "venom" was first used: sometime in the early 13th century. (references) |
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Health | That produced by the poison glands of the mouth and injected by the fangs of poisonous snakes. (references) |
Literature | Venom The venom is in the tail. The real difficulty is the conclusion. The allusion is to the scorpion, which has a sting in its tail. The French say, "It is always most difficult to flay the tail" (C'est lc plus difficile que d'écorcher la queue). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Venom is a general term for the toxins used by several groups of animal species for the purpose of defence and hunting prey. Most widely known are snakes, some species of which inject venom into their prey through hollow fangs, spiderss, which also inject venom through "fangs", and bees, who inject venom with a sting. The use of venom is much more widespread than just these examples, of course.
Antivenom (or antivenin) is used in the treatment of venomous bites. It is created by injecting a small amount of the targeted venom into an animal such as a horse, a goat, or a rabbit; the subject animal will suffer an immune response to the venom, producing antibodies against the venom's active molecule which can then be harvested from the animal's blood and used to treat envenomation in others.
See also : poison.
Venom is a fictional character in the Marvel Comics universe and a frequent opponent of Spider-Man.
Venom is also the name of a Black metal band (see Venom (band)).
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Venom is a band formed in Newcastle in England in 1979 by Cronos (vocals, bass), Mantas (guitar) and Abandon (drums). Dissatisfied with the metal scene at the time, where the toughest bands were Motorhead and JudasPriest, Cronos, Mantas and Abandon propose to push the genre further.
Originally, the band was called Oberon and consisted of 5 members. Mantas worked on the road and "Venom" was his nickname. Cronos initially joined the group as a guitarist Mantas asked him to sing Live Like An Angel, Die Like A Devil and the group immediately appreciated the result.
Their first album, Welcome To Hell (1981), was a remarkable tour de force at the time, when the only group that dared mention the name of Satan was Black Sabbath.
Black metal was born with the second Venom album, Black metal (1982). Much of the basic elements of Black metal throughout the ages are found in the music, the lyrics and even the song titles of this album.
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While embroiled in a major crossover storyline fighting a Secret War on an alien planet Spider-Man acquired an alien costume. It appeared to respond to his thoughts, was able to mimic street clothes and seemed to provide an inexhaustible supply of webbing. Unfortunately, once on Earth, Spider-Man learnt that the costume was in fact a sentient parasite. With the aid of Mister Fantastic, Spider-Man managed to have the costume removed. The costume made one more attempt to bond itself to Spiderman but was forcibly rejected. Weakened by the rejection the costume slithered away, presumed by Spiderman to perish.
Meanwhile, reporter Eddie Brock had been penning a number of articles on the recent Sin-Eater case. Following a false lead, he proceeded to writer a series of columns identifying the wrong man as the perpetrator of the crimes. His mistake was revealed when Spider-Man caught the real criminal. Blaming Spider-Man for the downturn in his career subsequent Eddie was found by the alien costume which bonded itself to the failed reporter. The process left both, already emotionally unstable individuals, permanently damaged. Adopting the name Venom the new symbiotic pair decided to take their revenge on Spiderman.
Gifted with strength in excess of Spider-Man's, agility, speed, web-shooters and the ability to remain undetected by Spider-Man's spider-sense the villain has come to be one of the more dangerous enemies the wall crawler has faced. Despite his lethal ability and homicidal hatred of Spider-Man, Venom remains curiously protective of those he considers innocent. He will generally avoid killing bystanders or innocents in his quest for vengeance if it can be avoided. (Of course the fact that he is insane means his definition of innocent as well as necessary casualties fluctuates as the story demands).Discography
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Synonyms: VenomSynonyms: malice (n), maliciousness (n), spite (n), spitefulness (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Bane | Poison, toxin; teratogen; leaven, virus venom; arsenic; antimony, tartar emetic; strychnine, nicotine; miasma, miasm, mephitis, malaria, azote, sewer gas; pest. |
Malevolence | Uncharitableness; Adjective: incompassionateness; a; gall, venom, rancor, rankling, virulence, mordacity, acerbity churlishness; (discourtesy). |
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Crosswords: Venom |
| English words defined with "venom": Alexiterical, anaphylactic shock, antivenene, antivenin, Atter ♦ black-necked cobra ♦ deadly, Death adder ♦ Hemachatus haemachatus ♦ kokoi venom ♦ Naja nigricollis, nonvenomous ♦ ophidism, Outvenom ♦ ringhals, rinkhals ♦ sea snake, snake venom, spitting cobra, spitting snake ♦ Vennation, venomous, virulent. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "venom": Amphibian Venoms, Ancrod, Antivenins, Apamin ♦ Batroxobin, buglix ♦ cobra venom factor ♦ Nastrond ♦ omega-Agatoxin IVA, omega-Conotoxin GVIA, omega-Conotoxins ♦ REPTILE FARMER ♦ Teprotide ♦ Venice Glass. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "venom": Venomous. (references) |
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Screenplays | They replaced my blood with aloe, my skin with chlorophyll, and filled my lips with venom. (Kisses him on the lips) Oh and Jason, one other thing. (Batman & Robin; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman) It says, 'May God deliver us from the venom of the Cobra, teeth of the tiger, and the vengeance of the Afghan. (Rambo III; writing credit: Sylvester Stallone) I don't use a pen. I write with a goose quill dipped in venom. (Laura; writing credit: Vera Caspary; Jay Dratler) One day we must invent a faster-working venom. (From Russia with Love; writing credit: Ian Fleming; Johanna Harwood) Quick! Suck it before the venom reaches my heart. (Head; writing credit: Jack Nicholson; Bob Rafelson) | |
Lyrics | He stomp the comp got cuts like venom ("I Wanna Rock"; performing artist: Prince) Sucked out the venom kept the little skin and ("Bath Of Fire"; performing artist: The Presidents) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Venom (1971) | |
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Health | Types of allergens that cause allergic reactions include pollens, dust particles, mold spores, food, latex rubber, insect venom, or medicines. (references) | |
Allergenic extracts are used for the diagnosis and treatment of allergic diseases such as allergic rhinitis ("hay fever"), allergic sinusitis, allergic conjunctivitis, bee venom allergy and food allergy. (references) | ||
Bone marrow transplantation (a procedure in which bone marrow from a healthy donor is infused into patients who have undergone drug or radiation therapy to suppress their immune system so they will not reject the donated marrow) and injections of venom from honey bees are also being studied. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | When we have differed with the Soviet Union, or other nations, for that matter, I have tried to differ quietly and with courtesy, and without venom. |
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| "Venom" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.15% of the time. "Venom" is used about 216 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) | 98.15% | 212 | 20,813 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.93% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.46% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.46% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 216 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "venom": be bursting with venom ♦ cobra venom factor ♦ kokoi venom ♦ snake venom ♦ venom sac. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "venom": venom-carrying, venom-gland, venom-induced, venom-producing. | |
Ending with "venom": Spit-venom. | |
| 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 |
venom | 1,008 |
spider man venom | 143 |
venom picture | 70 |
venom pic | 68 |
lip venom | 65 |
venom performance | 62 |
bee venom | 62 |
venom 400 | 57 |
venom nitrous | 55 |
venom viper | 52 |
venom racing | 46 |
snake venom | 41 |
marvel venom | 38 |
venom wallpaper | 38 |
dodge viper venom | 32 |
comic venom | 29 |
dj venom | 28 |
black metal venom | 26 |
carnage venom | 25 |
venom jacket | 21 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "venom"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | vrer (gall, virulence), zeher (poison), helm (bane, caustic, causticity, gall, poison, toxic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | حقد (animosity, antagonism, bear a grudge, bitter feeling, gall, grudge, hatred, hostility, ill will, malevolence, malice, malignancy, malignity, rancor, rancour, spite, spitefulness), غل (cuff, fetter, jealousy, malevolence, manacle, pique, shackle, yield), سم (bane, damp, poison, pore). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | отрова (aconite, bane, poison, virus), злъч, злоба (despite, devilry, grudge, malevolence, malice, malignancy, malignity, rancor, rancour, spite, spleen, virulence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | '物 (pest), '液. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zloba (grudge, ire, spite, wickedness), jedovatost (virulence), jed (poison). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | slangegiftsforgiftning (ophidism, poisoning by snake venom), slangegift (snake venom), serum mod edderkoppegift (spider venom antisera), ophidismus (ophidism, poisoning by snake venom), gift indtoerret som smaa blade (venom put up in dried flakes), bigift (bee poison, bee venom, bee-poison, bee-venom), ålegift (venom of eels). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | slangegift (snake venom), slangegif (snake venom), ophidiasis (ophidism, poisoning by snake venom), ofidisme (ophidism, poisoning by snake venom), ofidiase (ophidism, poisoning by snake venom), huidtest met bijegif (skin test with bee venom), gif in droge schilfers (venom put up in dried flakes), bijegif (bee poison, bee venom, bee-poison, bee-venom), aalgif (venom of eels). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مسموم کردن (Poison), مسموم شدن (Loco), کینه (Enmity, Grudge, Hatred, Onomastic, Peeve, Rancor, Spite, Vengeance), سم (Hoof, Nail, Poison), زهرماروعقرب وغیره , زهر (Poison). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | myrkyllisyys (poisonous qualities, toxicity), myrkky (poison, toxin), käärmeenmyrkky. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | venin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Gift (bane, boy, Helen, Henry, horse, jee jee, jojee, Jones, joy powder, Mrs.White, peanut butter, poison, scag, smack, toxin, white boy, white girl, white lady), gehässigkeit (bitchiness, hatefulness, meanness, nastiness, spite, spitefulness, viciousness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | δηλητήριο (arsenic, bane, poison, toxin, virus). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ארס (poison), רעל (bane, poison). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | méreg (anger, bane, bate, bother, poison, spunk, toxic, toxin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | racun (bane, poison, toxicant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | veleno (bane, poison, ptomaine, toxicity, toxin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | '液 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | どくえき. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | pyshoon (poison), nieu (poison, toxaemia, toxic, venomousness, virus). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | enomvay virulência de linguagem, veneno (bane, poison, virus), ruindade (badness, malignancy, wickedness), peçonha (poison, virus), maldade (badness, enormous, gall bladder, maleficent, malice, malignancy, naughtiness, perversity, slyness, turpitude, unrighteousness, wickedness, wrong, wrongdoing). (various references) venin (bitterness, fury, poison, rage, spite), rea-voinţã (hostility, ill will, malevolence, malignancy), rãutate (acrimony, archness, bad, badness, cattiness, cussedness, harm, ill nature, illness, malice, malignancy, malignity, rogue, spite, wickedness, wrong), otravã (bait, bane, bitterness, poison), fiere (bile, bitterness, gall, sorrows, troubles). (various references) яд (black bottle, poison, toxic, toxin). (various references) otrov (bane, hemlock, poison, toxicant, toxin). (various references) veneno (absorber, bane, poison). (various references) gift (hemlock, married, poison, toxin, virus, wedded). (various references) zehir (hemlock, poison), yılan zehiri, kin (animosity, animus, antagonism, despite, enmity, gall, grudge, hate, hatred, hostility, ill feeling, malevolence, malignity, rancor, rancour, resentment, revenge, spite, venomousness, virulence), düşmanlık (animosity, animus, antagonism, bad blood, dead set, enmity, feud, hatred, hostility, opposition, virulence, war), akrep zehiri. (various references) отрута (atter, bane, poison, toxic, toxicant, virus), злість (devilry, exacerbation, malice, rancor, rancour, spite, viciousness, wickedness). (various references) sự nham nhiểm, sự ác ý. (various references) gwenwyn (jealousy, poison). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | u. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | fel, felle, fellis, pura, pure, purum, venenum, viri, virique, viris, virisque, viritas, viro, virorum, virum. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | attor. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "venom": venomed, venomer, venomers, venoming, venomous, venomously, venomousness, venomousnesses, venoms. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "venom": envenom. (additional references) | |
Words containing "venom": envenomed, envenoming, envenomization, envenomizations, envenoms, nonvenomous. (additional references) | |
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"Venom" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: encom, enom, genom, Qenmo, vanno, vano, Vanov, vejo, velon, venak, veniam, Vennamo, veno, venor, Venos, venow, vento, venu, venum, venuw, Vinho, vinom, viom, voom, Vuono, xenom. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "venom" (pronounced ve"num) |
| 4 | -e" n u m | denim, phenom, plenum. |
| 3 | -n u m | acronym, aluminium, aluminum, arcanum, duodenum, granum, interregnum, lanthanum, laudanum, magnum, molybdenum, organum, platinum, tympanum. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-m-n-o-v" | |
-1 letter: meno, move, nome, omen, oven. | |
-2 letters: eon, men, mon, nom, one, voe. | |
-3 letters: em, en, me, mo, ne, no, oe, om, on. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-m-n-o-v" | |
+1 letter: venoms. | |
+2 letters: envenom, overman, overmen, unmoved, venomed, venomer. | |
+3 letters: envenoms, evonymus, mangrove, monitive, movement, omnivore, overmans, overmany, overmine, pivotmen, removing, venogram, venomers, venoming, venomous, vomerine. | |
+4 letters: envenomed, mangroves, manoeuvre, misgovern, movements, nevermore, normative, omnivores, overmined, overmines, unmovable, venograms, vermilion, verminous. | |
+5 letters: avgolemono, avouchment, bevomiting, devotement, dominative, envenoming, everywoman, everywomen, evolvement, evonymuses, government, lovemaking, malevolent, manoeuvred, manoeuvres, mavourneen, misgoverns, monovalent, mooncalves, moviegoing, nominative, overcoming, overinform, overmanage, overmanned, overmantel, overmining, overmixing, overtiming, unimproved, venomously, vermilions, vermillion. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)56 65 6E 6F 6D |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)...- . -. --- -- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010110 01100101 01101110 01101111 01101101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)V e n o m |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0056 0065 006E 006F 006D |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5671808179 |
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