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Definition: Veronal |
VeronalNoun1. A barbiturate used as a hypnotic. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "veronal" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1919. (references) |
Synonyms: VeronalSynonyms: barbital (n), barbitone (n), diethylbarbituric acid (n), diethylmalonylurea (n). (additional references) |
| "Veronal" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 83.33% of the time. "Veronal" is used about 6 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) | 83.33% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (proper) | 16.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
veronal | 2 |
buffer veronal | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "veronal"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | веронал. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | Veronal buffer (veronal buffer), stødpude veronalopløsning (veronal loading solution). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | veronal-bufferoplossing (veronal loading solution), Veronal-buffer (veronal buffer), veronaal-buffer (veronal buffer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | tampon de véronal (veronal buffer), solution tampon véronal (veronal loading solution). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Veronalstammlösung (veronal loading solution), Veronalpuffer (veronal buffer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | ρυθμιστικό διάλυμα Veronal (veronal buffer), φορτισμένο διάλυμα βαρβιτάλης (veronal loading solution). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | tampone veronal (veronal buffer), soluzione tampone veronal (veronal loading solution). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Manx | veroanagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eronalvay solução de carga de veronal (veronal loading solution). (various references) solución de carga de veronal (veronal loading solution). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-l-n-o-r-v" | |
-1 letter: loaner, reloan, vernal. | |
-2 letters: alone, anole, enrol, laevo, laver, learn, loner, loran, lover, navel, nerol, novae, novel, ravel, raven, renal, roven, valor, velar, venal, volar. | |
-3 letters: aeon, aero, aloe, arvo, aver, earl, earn, elan, enol, lane, lave, lean, lear, leno, leva, levo, loan, lone, lore, lorn, love, nave, near, noel, nova, olea, oral, orle, oval, oven, over, rale, rave, real, roan, role, rove, vale, vane, veal, vela, vena, vera, vole. | |
-4 letters: ale, ane, are, ave, avo, ear, eon, era, ern, lar, lav, lea, lev, nae, nor, oar, ole, one, ora, ore, ova, ran, rev, roe, van, var, voe. | |
-5 letters: ae, al, an, ar, el, en, er, la, lo, na, ne, no, oe, on, or, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-l-n-o-r-v" | |
+1 letter: novercal, overlain, overland, overplan. | |
+2 letters: nonverbal, overclean, overladen, overlands, overlearn, overplans, overplant, versional. | |
+3 letters: adenoviral, governable, overcleans, overhandle, overlading, overlaying, overlearns, overmantel, overplants, ravenously, revelation, unprovable, ventilator. | |
+4 letters: cavernously, conversable, countervail, enteroviral, inventorial, involucrate, nonrelative, nonrelevant, nonverbally, normatively, observantly, overanalyze, overbalance, overcalling, overcleaned, overexplain, overhandled, overhandles, overhauling, overinflate, overlapping, overleaping, overlearned, overloading, overmantels, overplanned, overplanted, overplaying, oversalting, overtalking, overvaluing, previsional, revaluation, revelations, reversional, unfavorable, unremovable, vainglories, ventilators, ventilatory, voluntaries. | |
+5 letters: clairvoyance, conversional, countervails, derivational, dorsiventral, dorsoventral, evolutionary, flavoprotein, galvanometer, governmental, intervocalic, malversation, nonrelatives, nonuniversal, overanalyses, overanalysis, overanalyzed, overanalyzes, overbalanced, overbalances, overclaiming, overcleaning, overclearing, overexplains, overhandling, overinflated, overinflates, overlaboring, overlearning, overpedaling, overplanning, overplanting, overreliance, provableness, providential, reevaluation, renovascular, revalidation, revalorizing, revaluations, ultraviolent, unforgivable, ungovernable, unobservable, unresolvable, velarization, ventromedial. | |
| 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 65 72 6F 6E 61 6C |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)...- . .-. --- -. .- .-.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010110 01100101 01110010 01101111 01101110 01100001 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)V e r o n a l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0056 0065 0072 006F 006E 0061 006C |
| 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)56718481806778 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage Frequency 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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