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Definitions: Viscous |
ViscousAdjective1. Having a relatively high resistance to flow. 2. Having the properties of glue. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "viscous" was first used: 1392. (references) |
Etymology: Viscous \Vis"cous\, adjective. [Latin expression viscosus. See Viscid.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Aerospace | Pertaining to viscosity, as a viscous fluid. (references) |
Chemical Industry | Having a relatively high viscosity. Source: European Union. (references) |
Chemistry | Sticky; glutinous; viscid; having marked viscosity. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. Adhesive or sticky, having a ropy or glutinous consistency b. Imperfectly fluid; designating a substance that, like tar or wax, will change its form under the influence of a deforming force, but notinstantly, as more perfect fluids do. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: ViscousSynonyms: gluey (adj), glutinous (adj), gummy (adj), mucilaginous (adj), pasty (adj), sticky (adj), syrupy (adj), viscid (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Semiliquidity | Gelatinous, albuminous, mucilaginous, glutinous; glutenous, gelatin, mastic, amylaceous, ropy, clammy, clotted; viscid, viscous; sticky, tacky, gooey; slab, slabby; lentous, pituitous; mucid, muculent, mucous; gummy. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Henry Brooks Adams | No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Trade | Canada | Net Quantity Declaration: should be expressed in metric units of volume when the product is a liquid or a gas, or is viscous; or in metric units of weight when the product is solid or by numerical count. (references) |
Honduras | The content must be specified in units of the international system and in the following manner: by volume for liquid food products, by weight for solid food products, and by either weight or volume for semi-solid or viscous food products. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Viscous" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Viscous" is used about 181 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) | 100% | 181 | 22,953 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "viscous": viscous flow ♦ viscous substance ♦ viscous water. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "viscous": highly-viscous, semi-viscous. | |
| 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 "viscous"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | veshtullor, ngjitës (adhesive, agglutinative, ascendant, catching, cement, communicable, contagious, dauby, epidemic, epidemical, glue, gluey, glutinous, gooey, gummy, hum paste, infectious, mucilage, pitchy, soaring, stick, sticking, sticky, tacky, tenacious, transmissible, upward), i trashë (bearish, clumsy, coarse, coarse grained, crass, deep, dense, dullish, dumb, dummy, fat, fatuous, fool, full-bodied, full-fed, gross, gruff, lardy, oafish, obese, obtuse, puddingy, purblind, ropy, rough and ready, round, roundabout, slapstick, slow witted, slowcoach, stupid, tactless, thick, uncouth, wooden, wooden-headed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | لزج (adherent, adhesive, clingy, glairy, gluey, glutinous, gummy, ropy, slimy, sticky, stringy, tacky, tenacious, tough, viscid), دبق (adhesive, clingy, fatty, gelation, glutinous, gummy, limy, slimy, sticky, stringy, tacky, tenacious, viscid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | гъст (bushy, dense, double, full-bodied, gross, heavy, impenetrable, rich, stiff, stringy, thick, turbid), вискозен (viscid), леплив (adhesive, gluey, limy, viscid), полутечен (semi-fluid, viscid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 黏 (Gluey, slimy, Viscid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | viskózní, vazký. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | viskos, viskøs (heavy, ropy, sticky), tyktflydende (heavy, of high viscosity, ropy, sticky). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | viskeus (heavy), visceus (heavy), dikvloeibaar (heavy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | sitkeä (dogged, heavy, persevering, sticky, stubborn, tenacious, tough). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | visqueux (of high viscosity, viscid, viscose). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | zähflüssig (gooey, ropy, slow moving, thick, viscously), schwerflüssig (heavy), dickflüssig (heavy, of high viscosity, sticky, syrupy, thick), viskos (sticky). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κολλώδησ (adhesive, gluey, glutinous, gooey, gummy, mucilaginous, pasty, sticky, tacky, viscid), συνεκτικό, ιξώδησ (flocculent, viscose), ιξώδης (heavy), ιξώδες (viscosity), παχύρρευστο. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | "ביק (adhesive, gluey, glutinous, pasty, sticky), צמי' (gluey, sticky, tire, tyre, viscid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | ragadós (adherent, adhesive, dauby, gluey, glutinous, gummy, lentous, mucilaginous, sticky, stiff, tacky, viscid), nyúlós (clammy, doughy, glutinous, gooey, pasty, ropy, runny, sticky, stiff, stringy, viscid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | kental (coagulated, congealed, thick (liquid)). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | viscoso (heavy, of high viscosity, ropey, ropy, sticky, tacky). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 粘 , 切れが悪い (be dull, thick). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | きれがわるい (be dull, thick), ね"ちゅう. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 성 (Viscid, Viscosity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | gleiynagh (adhesive, gelatinous, mucilaginous, slimy, sticky), chiu reen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | iscousvay viscoso (dauby, glairy, gluey, heavy, lentous, limy, of high viscosity, ropy, semifluid, slimy, sticky, stiff, stringy, tacky, tenacious, viscid). (various references) viscos (adhesive, Cloggy, gluey, glutinous, viscid), lipicios (adhesive, agglutinative, gluey, glutinous, gummy, limy, mucous, slimy, sticky, tacky, unctuous), clisos (argillaceous, gluey, sticky), cleios (adhesive, Cloggy, gluey, glutinous, gummy, limy, pasty, slack-baked, sticky, viscid). (various references) клейкий (adherent, clammy, glue, gluey, glutinous, gummy, lentous, limy, ropy, sticky, tacky), вязкий (adherent, adhesive, filmy, plastery, semi-fluid, stringy, tensile), липкий (adhesive, clingy, dauby, gluey, glutinous, goo, gooey, gummy, lentous, ropy, sticky, tacky). (various references) viskozan. (various references) viscoso (clammy, dank, gooey, heavy, of high viscosity, ropy, sizing, sling, slippery, sticky, viscid, viscose). (various references) viskös (heavy), tjockflytande, seg (dogged, gluey, leathery, ropy, rubbery, tenacious, tough, wiry). (various references) viskoz (viscose), yapışkan (adherent, adhesive, agglutinate, clamant, clammy, clinging, clingy, cohesive, gluey, glutinous, greasy, gummy, like a limpet, mucilaginous, ropy, sticking, sticky, tenacious, viscid), yapış yapış (gluey, glutinous, gummy, ropy, sticky, tacky, viscid), ağdalı (gummy, heavy, ropy, treacly). (various references) клейкий (adherent, adhesive, agglutinative, clammy, gluey, glutinous, gooey, gummy, mucilaginous, tacky, tenacious, viscid). (various references) sền sệt (pappy, pasty, viscid), nhớt dẻo (viscid), lầy nhầy (slimy, viscid), dính (adhesive, glutinous, limy, viscid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | viscum. (various references) |
| Late Latin | 300-700 | viscosus. (various references) |
| Middle English | 1100-1500 | clam. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "viscous": viscously, viscousness, viscousnesses. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "viscous": nonviscous. (additional references) | |
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"Viscous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ovisco, vaccous, vacous, vascous, vicous, vicsious, vicsous, viscious, viscos, viscuos, viscuous, visious, visous. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "viscous" (pronounced vi"skus) |
| 5 | -i" s k u s | discus. |
| 3 | -k u s | abacus, amicus, carcass, caucus, circus, coccus, crocus, focus, fracas, hocus, locus, markkas, mucous, mucus, Orcas, raucous, refocus, ruckus, streptococcus, yarmulkes. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-i-o-s-s-u-v" | |
-1 letter: viscus. | |
-2 letters: cusso. | |
-3 letters: coss, cuss, sics, sous. | |
-4 letters: cis, cos, sic, sis, sos, sou, vis. | |
-5 letters: is, os, si, so, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-i-o-s-s-u-v" | |
+2 letters: viscounts, viscously. | |
+3 letters: concussive, lascivious, muscovites, nonviscous. | |
+4 letters: compulsives, convulsions, echoviruses, mischievous, piscivorous, viciousness, viscountess, viscounties, viscousness. | |
+5 letters: consumptives, lasciviously, obstructives, overissuance, subvocalizes, viscountcies, voicefulness. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)56 69 73 63 6F 75 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)...- .. ... -.-. --- ..- ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010110 01101001 01110011 01100011 01101111 01110101 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)V i s c o u s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0056 0069 0073 0063 006F 0075 0073 |
| 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)56758569818785 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Familiar 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Translations: Ancient 12. Derivations | 13. Rhymes 14. Anagrams 15. Orthography 16. Bibliography |
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