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Definitions: Venter |
VenterNoun1. The region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis. 2. (law) the womb; "`in venter' is legal terminology for `conceived but not yet born'". 3. A belly-like body part (as the belly of a muscle). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "venter" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | Belly. (references) |
Medicine | Belly. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: VenterSynonyms: abdomen (n), belly (n), stomach (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Receptacle | Stomach, paunch, venter, ventricle, crop, craw, maw, gizzard, breadbasket; mouth. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Venter |
| Etymologies containing "venter": Eventration ♦ Ventrad, Ventral, Ventricle, Ventriculus, Ventriloquous, Ventrimeson. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Venter" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Latin (abdomen, belly, stomach, the stomach, tummy, womb). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Mens vi venter på Godot (1965) Vi venter på Godot (1962) Mens vi venter på kometen (2001) Venter på livet (1999) | |
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| "Venter" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "Venter" is used about 5 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) | 80% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 20% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "venter" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Venter | Last name | 170 | 48,821 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name |
| South Africa | Venter Leisure and Commercial Trailers Limited |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "venter": by one venter ♦ child of a second venter. Additional references. | |
| 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 |
dora venter | 76 |
craig venter | 14 |
claudia venter | 7 |
dora pic venter | 5 |
venter | 5 |
trailer venter | 4 |
danie venter | 4 |
craig j venter | 3 |
power venter | 3 |
edith venter | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "venter"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | Bark (abdomen, belly, diarrhoea, midriff, paunch, sag, stomach, trough, tummy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | زوجة أو أم منجبة, بطن (abdomen, back, belly, gorge, interiorize, internalize, line, middle, pad, paunch, quilt, redouble, stomach, underlay). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | Корем, Майка, Утроба. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | bug (abdomen, belly, belt, belt zone, bilge, bosh parallel, tummy, waist), abdomen (abdomen, gut). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | Ventre. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Venter. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | όήτρα, Εκφράζων, ίοιλιά. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | Has (abdomen, belly, guts, insides, little mary, lower part of the body, paunch, pod, riff, stomach, swag-belly, tummy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | ventre (abdomen, belly, belt, belt zone, bosh parallel, stomach, tummy, waist, womb), addome (abdomen, body). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | entervay Ventre (abdomen, belly, lower part of the body, tummy, womb), Mãe (bottoms, lees, mother, mother-animal, mum, old lady, old world). (various references) Живот. (various references) trbušna duplja, majka (ma, mother). (various references) Karın (abdomen, belly, inside, paunch, pod, stomach, tum, tummy, ventral), Ana Rahmi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 13, Verse 25 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | DikaioV esqwn empipla thn yuchn autou yucai de asebwn endeeiV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Iustus comedit et replet animam suam venter autem impiorum insaturabilis |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | The riytwis eteth, and fulfillith his soule; the wombe forsothe of vnpitous vnfilable. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | The righteous eateth to the satisfying of his soul: but the belly of the wicked shall want. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | The righteous eateth to the satisfying of his soul: but the belly of the wicked shall want. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | The upright man has food to the full measure of his desire, but there will be no food for the stomach of evil-doers. |
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| Language | Proverbs Chapter 13, Verse 25 |
| Bulgarian | Праведният яде до насищане на душата си, А коремът на нечестивите не ще се задоволи. |
| Cebuano | ¶ Ang matarung magakaon aron sa pagpabusog sa iyang kalag; Apan ang tiyan sa mga dautan pagagutomon. |
| Chinese | 義 人 喫 得 飽 足 ． 惡 人 肚 腹 缺 糧 。 |
| Croatian | Pravednik ima jela do sitosti, a trbuh opakih poznaje oskudicu. |
| Danish | Den retfærdige spiser, til Sulten er stillet, gudløses Bug er tom. |
| Dutch | De rechtvaardige eet tot verzadiging zijner ziel toe; maar de buik der goddelozen zal gebrek hebben. |
| Finnish | Vanhurskas saa syödä kylläksensä, mutta jumalattomain vatsa jää vajaaksi. |
| French | Le juste mange et satisfait son appétit, Mais le ventre des méchants éprouve la disette. |
| German | Der Gerechte ißt, daß sein Seele satt wird; der Gottlosen Bauch aber hat nimmer genug. |
| Haitian Creole | ¶ Moun k'ap mache dwat toujou gen ase pou yo manje. Men, vant mechan yo pa janm plen. |
| Hungarian | Az igaz eszik az õ kivánságának megelégedéséig; az istentelenek hasa pedig szûkölködik. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Orang yang baik selalu berkecukupan, tetapi orang jahat selalu kekurangan. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Bahwa orang yang benar itu makan sampai kenyang-kenyang, tetapi orang jahat akan kekurangan kelak sehingga hampa perutnya. |
| Italian | Il giusto mangia a saziet , ma il ventre degli empi soffre la fame. |
| Maori | ¶ Kai ana te tangata tika, makona ana tona wairua; ka hapa ia te kopu o te tangata kino. |
| Norwegian | Den rettferdige eter så han blir mett, men de ugudeliges buk blir tom. |
| Portuguese | O justo come e fica satisfeito; mas o apetite dos ímpios nunca se satisfaz. |
| Rumanian | Cel neprihqnit mqnkncq pknq se saturq, dar pkntecele celor rqi duce lipsq. - |
| Russian | рТБЧЕ"ОЙЛ ЕУФ "П УЩФПУФЙ, Б ЮТЕЧП 'ЕЪЪБЛПООЩИ ФЕТ ЙФ МЙЫЕОЙЕ. |
| Spanish | El justo come hasta saciar su alma, pero el estómago de los impíos sufrirá necesidad. |
| Swedish | Den rättfärdige får äta, så att hans hunger bliver mättad, men de ogudaktigas buk måste lida brist. >Ords. 10,3. |
| Thai | คนชอบธรรมรับประทานไ"้จนพอใจ แต่ท้องของคนชั่วร้ายจะหิว |
| Ukrainian | ¶ Праведний їсть, скільки схоче душа, живіт же безбожників завсіди брак відчува". |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "venter": venters. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "venter": inventer, preventer. (additional references) | |
Words containing "venter": inventers, preventers. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "venter" (pronounced ve"nter) |
| 5 | v e" n t er | inventor. |
| 4 | -e" n t er | center, centre, dissenter, enter, mentor, renter, Stentor. |
| 3 | -n t er | banter, blunter, canter, Cantor, carpenter, counter, covenanter, discounter, enchanter, encounter, epicenter, experimenter, fainter, grantor, headhunter, Hunter, Midwinter, Minter, multicenter, overwinter, painter, planter, pointer, presenter, printer, punter, reenter, saunter, splinter, sprinter, Supercenter, tormentor, winter. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-n-r-t-v" | |
-1 letter: enter, event, evert, nerve, never, rente, revet, terne, treen. | |
-2 letters: erne, even, ever, neve, rent, rete, teen, tern, tree, veer, vent, vert. | |
-3 letters: ere, ern, eve, nee, net, ree, ret, rev, tee, ten, vee, vet. | |
-4 letters: en, er, et, ne, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-n-r-t-v" | |
+1 letter: fervent, nervate, prevent, venters, venture, veteran. | |
+2 letters: antevert, averment, enervate, everting, inventer, inverted, inverter, levanter, nerviest, overlent, overneat, overtone, prevents, reinvent, reinvest, reinvite, relevant, renovate, revehent, revenant, reverent, sirvente, taverner, venerate, ventured, venturer, ventures, verboten, veterans. | |
+3 letters: adventure, advertent, anteverts, averments, breveting, converted, converter, denervate, divergent, enervated, enervates, fervently, innervate, intervale, intervene, interview, interwove, inventers, invertase, inverters, levanters, overeaten, overspent, overtaken, overtness, overtones, prevalent, prevented, preventer, ravelment, reconvert, reinvents, reinvests, reinvited, reinvites, renovated, renovates, resolvent, restriven, retentive, revenants, revertant, reverting, revesting, revetment, revetting, sirventes, taverners, tervalent, venerated, venerates, venerator, ventricle, venturers, veratrine, vestrymen, vignetter, virescent, volunteer. | |
+4 letters: adventured, adventurer, adventures, advertence, advertency, anteverted, aventurine, brevetting, cantilever, contravene, convergent, converters, covenanter, covertness, denervated, denervates, enervating, enervation, everything, generative, government, gravestone, harvestmen, innervated, innervates, interfluve, interleave, intervales, intervened, intervener, intervenes, intervenor, interviews, interweave, interwoven, inventress, inverities, invertases, invertible, inveteracy, inveterate, irrelevant, irreverent, ivermectin, nonveteran, overbeaten, overeating, overextend, overhunted, overlength, overmantel, overpotent, overstrewn, overturned, overwinter, perverting, prevalents, prevenient, preventers, preventing, prevention, preventive, protensive, ravagement, ravelments, reconverts, reinvented, reinvested, rejuvenate, relevantly, renovative, resolvents, retrieving, revealment, revelation, reverently, revertants, revetments, revilement, transverse, travertine, turnverein, uncreative, untraveled, vegetarian, venerating, veneration, venerators, ventricles, ventricose, veratrines, vertigines, vespertine, veterinary, vicegerent, vignetters, volunteers. | |
+5 letters: adventurers, adventuress, advertences, advertently, alternative, anteverting, argumentive, aventurines, bereavement, cantilevers, contravened, contravener, contravenes, convertible, countermove, counterview, covenanters, denervating, denervation, denigrative, depravement, divergently, divorcement, eigenvector, enervations, enteroviral, enterovirus, enumerative, environment, everlasting, evidentiary, exonerative, furtiveness, germinative, governments, governorate, gravestones, improvement, inadvertent, inoperative, insectivore, integrative, interactive, interfluves, interleaved, interleaves, intervalley, interveners, intervening, intervenors, interviewed, interviewee, interviewer, interweaved, interweaves, introverted, inventoried, inventories, investiture, ivermectins, menservants, nervosities, neuroactive, noncreative, nonreactive, nonrelative, nonrelevant, nonveterans, outmaneuver, overanxiety, overbeating, overbetting, overcounted, overearnest, overediting, overemoting, overextends, overgarment, overheating, overinflate, overintense, overletting, overmantels, overmelting, overnighted, overnighter, overpayment, overplanted, overprinted, oversetting, oversweeten, overtighten, overtnesses, overtrained, overviolent, overwetting, overwinters, overwritten, penetrative, personative, prevalently, preventable, preventible, preventions, preventives, privateness, pulverulent, ravagements, reconverted, reconvicted, reinnervate, reinterview, reinventing, reinvention, reinvesting, rejuvenated, rejuvenates, rejuvenator, reservation, restiveness, retentively, retentivity, revaccinate, revealments, revelations, reverberant, reverential, revilements, reviviscent, servantless, sovereignty, stevedoring, subservient, terminative, tetravalent, timeserving, transceiver, transverses, travertines, turnvereins, unassertive, unconverted, underactive, unharvested, unreceptive, untraversed, vegetarians, venerations, venturesome, veratridine, vicegerents, vinaigrette, viridescent, volunteered. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)56 65 6E 74 65 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)...- . -. - . .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010110 01100101 01101110 01110100 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)V e n t e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0056 0065 006E 0074 0065 0072 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)567180867184 |
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