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Definition: Volatile |
VolatileAdjective1. (chemistry) evaporating readily at normal temperatures and pressures; "volatile oils"; "volatile solvents". 2. Liable to lead to sudden change or violence; "an explosive issue"; "a volatile situation with troops and rioters eager for a confrontation". 3. Marked by erratic changeableness in affections or attachments; "fickle friends"; "a flirt's volatile affections". 4. Tending to vary often or widely; "volatile stocks"; "volatile emotions". Noun1. A volatile substance; a substance that changes readily from solid or liquid to a vapor; "it was heated to evaporate the volatiles". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "volatile" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1374. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Volatile 1. |
Electrical Engineering | A characteristic of becoming lost or erased when power is removed, i. e. the loss of data where it is not returned or recovered when power is restored. Source: European Union. (references) |
Environment | Any substance that evaporates readily. (references) |
Mining | Readily vaporizable. (references) |
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Volatile storage is a category of Computer storage. Unlike Non-volatile storage, it requires power to retain data.Storage devices in this category include:
- RAM, DRAM, VRAM, WRAM
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Potential definitions:
Volatile things:
- Volatility is a basic process which complements a trigger mechanism.
- A situation is volatile if it is ready to change, just waiting for something to set it off.
- unstable situations subject to rapid and frequent change
See also: Chaos theory
- an explosive mixture of a volatile liquid and air.
- the stock market in a time of uncertainty.
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| VOCs | English | Volatile organic compounds | N/A |
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Synonyms: VolatileSynonyms: explosive (adj), fickle (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: nonvolatile (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Caprice | Adjective: capricious; erratic, eccentric, fitful, hysterical; full of whims; Noun: maggoty; inconsistent, fanciful, fantastic, whimsical, crotchety, kinky, particular, humorsome, freakish, skittish, wanton, wayward; contrary; captious; arbitrary; unconformable; penny wise and pound foolish; fickle; (irresolute); frivolous, sleeveless, giddy, volatile. |
Excitability | Impulsive, impetuous, passionate; uncontrolled, uncontrollable; ungovernable, irrepressible, stanchless, inextinguishable, burning, simmering, volcanic, ready to burst forth, volatile. |
Gaseity | Elastic fluid, gas, air, vapor, ether, steam, essence, fume, reek, effluvium, flatus; cloud; ammonia, ammoniacal gas; volatile alkali; vacuum, partial vacuum. |
Adjective: gaseous, aeriform, ethereal, aerial, airy, vaporous, volatile, evaporable, flatulent. | |
Irresolution | Vacillating; Verb: unsteady; (changeable); unsteadfast, fickle, without ballast; capricious; volatile, frothy; light, lightsome, light-minded; giddy; fast and loose. |
Levity | Adjective: light, subtile, airy; imponderous, imponderable; astatic, weightless, ethereal, sublimated; gossamery; suberose, suberous; uncompressed, volatile; buoyant, floating. Verb: portable. |
Pungency | Mustard, cayenne, caviare; seasoning. (condiment); niter, saltpeter, brine (saltiness) a; carbonate of ammonia; sal ammoniac, sal volatile, smelling salts; hartshorn (acridity) a. |
Vaporization | Adjective: volatilized. Verb: reeking. Verb: volatile; evaporable, vaporizable. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | I argued that television was a volatile industry in which success and failure were determined week by week (Network; writing credit: Paddy Chayefsky) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Field analyzing for volatile organic vapors VOC with Photo Ion DetectorCotton Wood Field OfficeUCSCUpper Columbia Salmon Clearwater District. Credit: Tim Fuller. |
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 | Effervescent; airy; boiling; bouncy; bubbling; bubbly; carbonated; elastic; expansive; fermenting; fizzy; foaming; foamy; frothing; frothy; resilient; sparkling; volatile; fizzing; fizz. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Henry David Thoreau | The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement. |
Jonathan Swift | As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold. |
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Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | And we often find by experience that young men are too opinionative and volatile to be guided by the sober dictates of their seniors |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The variety of street names for PCP reflects its bizarre and volatile effects. (references) | |
Early studies of KS showed that many people with KS had used volatile nitrites. (references) | ||
Inhalants are volatile substances that produce chemical vapors that can be inhaled to induce a psychoactive, or mind-altering, effect. (references) | ||
Business | Recently, the generation of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) has been increasing. (references) | |
Unemployment remains a volatile political issue, especially as Germany prepared for the fall 1998 elections. (references) | ||
Because previous governments have avoided electric power reform, the current plan to do so has made it a volatile political issue. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Bangladesh | The situation on public university campuses remains volatile, seriously inhibiting the ability of students to receive a university education and of teachers to teach. (references) |
Fiji | A proposed march by the Fiji Anti-War Movement (a coalition of NGO's) was denied a permit in November; the Government claimed the political situation was still volatile. (references) | |
Economic History | Croatia | Money market activity was low, which is reflected in the very volatile average daily interest rates. (references) |
Human Rights | Nigeria | Due to limited manpower and resources, the police and armed forces rarely were able to confront the perpetrators of these acts, especially in the volatile Delta region. (references) |
Nigeria | Multinational oil companies and domestic oil producing companies subcontract police and soldiers from area units particularly to protect the oil facilities in the volatile Niger Delta region. (references) | |
Political Economy | Colombia | In the face of an extremely difficult internal situation and a volatile international economy, Pastrana's administration can point to a number of important achievements. (references) |
Trade | Colombia | The system is purportedly intended to cover domestic producers and consumers from volatile world prices by raising import duties when import prices are low and lowering duties when prices are high. (references) |
Travel | Cote D'ivoire | Although you may be curious, large gatherings of people and political demonstrations can be volatile in a developing democracy like Côte d'Ivoire. (references) |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | Towering over this volatile, changing world, like a thundercloud on a summer day, looms the awesome power of nuclear weapons. |
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| "Volatile" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.03% of the time. "Volatile" is used about 513 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) | 99.03% | 508 | 11,908 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.78% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (common) | 0.19% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 513 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "volatile": nonvolatile vs volatile ♦ sal volatile ♦ volatile alkali ♦ volatile esters ♦ volatile file ♦ volatile liniment ♦ volatile matter ♦ volatile memory ♦ volatile oil ♦ volatile oils ♦ volatile solids ♦ volatile storage ♦ volatile temper ♦ volatile thrush ♦ volatile variable. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "volatile": volatile-poor, volatile-rich. | |
Ending with "volatile": high-volatile, medium-volatile, non-volatile. | |
Containing "volatile": non-volatile memory, Non-Volatile Random Access Memory, non-volatile storage. | |
| 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 "volatile"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shpërthyes (detonating, eruptive, explosion, explosive, hair-trigger, plosive, volcanic), i paqëndrueshëm (changeable, cranky, fickle, fluent, fluid, inconsequential, inconstant, infirm, labile, mutable, non-persistent, protean, rocky, soft, tipsy, tottering, unequable, unstable, unsteady, variable, waggly, wayward), i avullueshëm. (various references) | |
Arabic | متقلب (capricious, changeable, changeful, choppy, fickle, flighty, fluctuant, fluky, freakish, incalculable, inconsistent, inconstant, jumpy, mercurial, mobile, moody, mutable, reversible, rough and tumble, shaky, skittish, temperamental, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, variable, versatile, wavering, wayward, weather vane, whimsical, yeasty), متطاير, متبخر, سريع التأثر (oversensitive, susceptible), سريع الزوال (ephemeral, evanescent, flighty, fragile, fugacious, transient, transitory), طائر (bird, climber, flown), خلي (vinegary), خال من الهموم. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | хвъркато същество, хвъркат, критичен (acerb, acerbic, censorious, climacteric, critical, judicial, touch and go), крилато същество, опасен (adventurous, awkward, breakneck, dangerous, hazardous, hot, insecure, lively, parlous, perilous, pestiferous, precarious, redoubtable, risky, rocky, rum, rummy, slippery, slippy, trappy, ugly, unchancy, unsafe, unsure, virulent, warm), неуловим (elusive, evasive, impalpable, imperceptible, inappreciable, intangible, tenuous), непостоянен (astatic, capricious, casual, changeable, changeful, discontinuous, erratic, fickle, fluctuating, fluid, impermanent, inconstant, irregular, liquid, lubricous, mobile, mutable, non-persistent, seesaw, sporadic, streaky, uncertain, unequable, uneven, unreliable, unstable, unsteady, vagarious, variable, variant, wayward, whimsical, yo-yo), жив (above ground, active, agile, alert, alive, animate, breezy, brisk, cheerful, dashing, high-colored, high-coloured, jaunty, jazz, jazzy, live, lively, living, lusty, mercurial, mobile, nervous, nimble, organic, peppy, perky, pert, picturesque, pregnant, quick, racy, rattling, round, saucy, sharp, skittish, snappy, spicy, spirited, sprightly, spry, swinging, vital, vivacious, vivid, warm, whippy, zappy, zippy), летливо вещество, летлив (essential, vaporous), пъргав (active, agile, alert, alive, deft, elastic, lissom, lithesome, lively, nifty, nimble, nippy, pretty, prompt, quick, ready, resilient, sinuous, smart, snappy, spring, spry, versatile, wanton, warm, whippy, zippy), променлив (baffling, changeable, choppy, erratic, fitful, fluctuating, fluent, inconsistent, inconstant, liquid, mobile, protean, shifting, undecided, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, variable, variant, varied, versatile), изменчив (erratic, variable), избухлив (explosive, fiery, hot, inflammable, irritable, passionate, peevish, plosive, quick tempered, short tempered, violent). (various references) | |
Chinese | 挥发性 (Volatility). (various references) | |
Czech | vrtkavý (inconstant, unstable), tìkavý (desultory, flighty, rambling, runabout, wandering, wool gathering, woolgathering), prchavý (elusive, elusory, ephemeral, fleeting, fragile, fugitive), nestálý (changeable, erratic, fickle, floating, impermanent, inconstant, passing, unceasing, unsettled, unstable, unsteady). (various references) | |
Danish | flygtig. (various references) | |
Dutch | vluchtig (shallowly, superficial). (various references) | |
Farsi | فرار(farraar), لطیف (Benign, Delicate, Fine, Gaseous, Gentle, Gossamer, Rare, Rosewater, Soft, Subtle, Tender, Tenuous), سبک (Buoyant, Gossamer, Levigate, Levity, Mode, Order, Phraseology, Portable, Soft, Structure, Style, Thin), بخارشدنی . (various references) | |
Finnish | tuvainen (ethereal, evanescent, fleeting, fugitive, passing), tuva (ethereal, evanescent, fleeting, fugitive, passing), haihtuva. (various references) | |
French | volatil. (various references) | |
German | flüchtig (brief, casual, cursorily, cursory, desultory, elusive, ephemeral, fleeting, fleetingly, flighty, fugitive, fugitively, momentary, non-permanent, passing, perfunctory, quick, sketchily, sketchy, slapdash, slight, summarily, volatilely, voltile), unbeständig (changeable, erratic, fickle, fitful, flighty, impermanent, inconsistent, inconsistently, inconstant, inconstantly, labile, Moody, transitory, uncertain, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, variable). (various references) | |
Greek | πτητικός. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מת "ף (evaporable), עפיף, מו' (fading away, frightened), "יף (evaporable). (various references) | |
Hungarian | illó, illékony, frivol (corky, frivolous, lascivious). (various references) | |
Indonesian | atsiri. (various references) | |
Italian | volatile (bird, ephemeral, fleeting, sketchily, winged). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 揮発性 (volatility), 揮発性 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | きはつせい. (various references) | |
Korean | 휘발성 (Volatility). (various references) | |
Manx | so-ghaalagh, caghlaaee (alternative, changeable, changing), bioyr (breezy, bright, brisk, frisky, graphic, lively, nippy, smart, soulstirring, spirited, spry, vibrant, vivacious, vivid, vivid as imagination), aeroil (airy, jaunty). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | olatilevay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | volátil (ethereal). (various references) | |
Romanian | volatil, vioi (active, alert, animated, breezy, bright, brisk, briskly, cheery, chirpy, crisp, full of beans, gamy, hasty, hoity toity, lightsome, lithe, live, lively, living, mercurial, merry, mettlesome, nimble, nimbly, pleasant, quick-witted, racy, Randy, ready, smart, snappy, spirited, sportive, sprightly, spry, vigorous), uşuratic (airily, airy, careless, carelessly, fast, feather-brained, flyaway, frail, glib, light minded, light-mindedly, thoughtless, trifling), schimbãtor (capricious, catching, changeable, chequered, choppy, fickle, inconstant, mobile, Moody, moonish, mutable, shifty, slippery, switch, unequal, unsettled, unsteady, variable, varied, versatile), nestatornic (changeable, fickle, flyaway, giddy, lubricous, mobile, mutable, ticklish, unfaithful, unreliable, unstable, variably, versatile, wayward), fluşturatic (fickle, flighty, flippant, thoughtless). (various references) | |
Russian | непостоянный (casual, changeable, changeful, fast and loose, fickle, impermanent, inconstant, mercurial, mutable, unabiding, unstable, unsteady, variable, wanton), летучий;изменчивый, летучий (flying), быстро испаряющийся. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | promenljiv (changeable, changing, declinable, fickle, impermanent, mutable, shifting, unsettled, unsteady, variable, variant), nestalan (changeable, erratic, fickle, fleeting, impermanent, inconsistent, inconstant, mercurial, shifty, skittish, transient, unabiding, unsteady, versatile, voluble), isparljiv (evaporative, perspirable). (various references) | |
Spanish | volátil. (various references) | |
Swedish | flyktig (casual, cursorial, cursory, elusive, evanescent, fleet, fleeting, flighty, fugacious, fugitive, glancing, quick, transient, voiatile). (various references) | |
Turkish | uçucu (evaporating, fugacious), havai (aerial, overhead), gelgeç (fickle, flighty, inconstant), geçici (ad interim, Band aid, casual, curable, deciduous, ephemeral, extrinsic, fading, flying, fortuitous, fugacious, impermanent, interim, interlocutory, jury, makeshift, momentary, palliative, passing, pro forma, provisional, provisory, provo, stopgap, temporal, temporary, tentative, transient, transitory), dönek (apostate, capricious, changeable, changeful, deserter, fickle, flukey, fluky, inconstant, lubricious, piker, protean, quitter, rat, Ratter, renegade, turnabout, turncoat, untrustworthy, versatile), buharlaşan. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | крилатий (feathered, winged), непостійний (ambulatory, capricious, changeable, changeful, fickle, flighty, impermanent, instable, mercurial, non-permanent, shifting, unstable, unsteady, variant, voluble, weathercock), леткий, легковажний (airy, careless, daft, featherbrained, flighty, frivolous, giddy, gossipy, harum scarum, hoity toity, light-headed, lightsome, puerile). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | hoạt bát (alert, bright, chipper, chirpy, dapper, mercurial, quick, spry, up-and-coming, vivacious), hay thay đổi; nhẹ dạ vui vẻ. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | volatilis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Genesis Chapter 7, Verse 14 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai panta ta qhria kata genoV kai panta ta kthnh kata genoV kai pan erpeton kinoumenon epi thV ghV kata genoV kai pan peteinon kata genoV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Ipsi et omne animal secundum genus suum universaque iumenta in genus suum et omne quod movetur super terram in genere suo cunctumque volatile secundum genus suum universae aves omnesque volucres |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Thei, and al beest after her kynde, and alle iumentis in her kynde, and al that moueth vpon the erthe in his kynde, and al volatile after his kynde, |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Both they and all maner of beastes in their kide and all maner of catell in their kynde and all maner of wormes that crepe vppon the erth in their kynde and all maner of byrdes in there kynde. and all maner off foules what soever had feders. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping animal that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And with them, every sort of beast and cattle, and every sort of thing which goes on the earth, and every sort of bird. |
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| Language | Genesis Chapter 7, Verse 14 |
| Cebuano | Sila, ug ang tanan nga mga mananap ingon sa ilang matang, ngatanan nga mga kahayupan ingon sa ilang matang, ug ang tanan nga mga mananap nga nagakamang sa ibabaw sa yuta ingon sa ilang matang, ug ang tanan nga mga langgam ingon sa ilang matang, ug tanan nga mga nagkalainlaing langgam. |
| Croatian | oni, pa sve vrste životinja: stoka, gmizavci što po tlu gmižu, ptice i svakovrsna krilata stvorenja, |
| Danish | og desuden alle vildtlevende Dyr efter deres Arter, alt Kvæg efter dets Arter, alt Kryb på Jorden efter dets Arter og alle Fugle efter deres Arter, alle Fugle, alt, hvad der har Vinger; |
| Dutch | Zij, en al het gedierte naar zijn aard, en al het vee naar zijn aard, en al het kruipend gedierte, dat op de aarde kruipt, naar zijn aard, en al het gevogelte naar zijn aard, alle vogeltjes van allerlei vleugel. |
| Finnish | he ja kaikki metsäeläimet lajiensa mukaan ja kaikki karjaeläimet lajiensa mukaan ja kaikki matelijat, jotka maan päällä matelevat, lajiensa mukaan ja kaikki linnut lajiensa mukaan, kaikki lintuset, kaikki, mikä siivekästä on. |
| French | eux, et tous les animaux selon leur espèce, tout le bétail selon son espèce, tous les reptiles qui rampent sur la terre selon leur espèce, tous les oiseaux selon leur espèce, tous les petits oiseaux, tout ce qui a des ailes. |
| German | dazu allerlei Getier nach seiner Art, allerlei Vieh nach seiner Art, allerlei Gewürm, das auf Erden kriecht, nach seiner Art und allerlei Vögel nach ihrer Art, alles was fliegen konnte, alles, was Fittiche hatte; |
| Haitian Creole | ansanm ak tout kalite bèt domestik, tout kalite bèt ki trennen sou vant ak tout kalite zwazo, tout kalite ti zwazo, tout kalite bèt ki gen zèl. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Bersama-sama dengan mereka masuk pula setiap jenis burung dan binatang lainnya, baik yang jinak maupun yang liar, yang besar maupun yang kecil. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka mereka itu serta dengan segala binatang yang liar dengan bakanya dan segala binatang yang jinak dengan bakanya dan segala binatang yang melata di atas bumi dengan bakanya dan segala unggas dengan bakanya dan segala burung-burung dengan pelbagai sayapnya. |
| Italian | essi e tutti i viventi secondo la loro specie e tutto il bestiame secondo la sua specie e tutti i rettili che strisciano sulla terra secondo la loro specie, tutti i volatili secondo la loro specie, tutti gli uccelli, tutti gli esseri alati. |
| Maori | Ratou ko nga kirehe mohoao katoa o ia ahua, o ia ahua, ko nga kararehe katoa o ia ahua, o ia ahua, ko nga mea ngoki katoa e ngokingoki nei i runga i te whenua, o ia ahua, o ia ahua, me nga manu katoa, o ia ahua, o ia ahua, me nga mea whai parira u katoa, o ia ahua, o ia ahua. |
| Norwegian | de og alle de ville dyr efter sitt slag og alt feet efter sitt slag og alt krypet som rører sig på jorden, efter sitt slag og alle fuglene efter sitt slag, alt som flyver, alt som har vinger. |
| Portuguese | e com eles todo animal segundo a sua espécie, todo o gado segundo a sua espécie, todo réptil que se arrasta sobre a terra segundo a sua espécie e toda ave segundo a sua espécie, pássaros de toda qualidade. |
| Rumanian | ei, wi toate fiarele ckmpului, dupq soiul lor, toate vitele dupq soiul lor, toate tkrktoarele cari se tkrqsc pe pqmknt dupq soiul lor, toate pqsqrile dupq soiul lor, toate pqsqrelele, tot ce are aripi. |
| Russian | пОЙ, Й ЧУЕ ЪЧЕТЙ П ТП"Х ЙИ, Й ЧУСЛЙК УЛПФ П ТП"Х ЕЗП, Й ЧУЕ ЗБ"Щ, ТЕУНЩЛБАЭЙЕУС П ЪЕНМЕ, П ТП"Х ЙИ, Й ЧУЕ МЕФБАЭЙЕ П ТП"Х ЙИ, ЧУЕ ФЙ"Щ, ЧУЕ ЛТЩМБФЩЕ, |
| Spanish | Entraron ellos y todos los animales según su especie, todos los animales domésticos según su especie, todos los animales que se desplazan sobre la tierra según su especie, todas las aves según su especie, y todo pájaro, todo lo que tiene alas. |
| Swedish | därtill alla vilda djur, efter sina arter, och alla boskapsdjur, efter sina arter, och alla kräldjur som röra sig på jorden, efter sina arter, och alla flygande djur, efter sina arter, allt vad fåglar heter, av alla slag. |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "volatile": volatileness, volatilenesses, volatiles. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "volatile": nonvolatile. (additional references) | |
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"Volatile" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: volaties, volatil, volatilis, volative, volatle, voletile, volitile, volotile, voltile. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "volatile" (pronounced vÄ"lutul) |
| 7 | v Ä" l u t u l | nonvolatile. |
| 5 | -l u t u l | skeletal. |
| 4 | -u t u l | capital, Capitol, congenital, digital, extramarital, genital, marital, occipital, orbital, parietal, pivotal, premarital, societal, vegetal, versatile. |
| 3 | -t u l | infantile, infertile, accidental, acquittal, anecdotal, artiodactyl, battle, beetle, belittle, betel, bicoastal, bottle, brattle, Bristol, brittle, brutal, butyl, Cantle, cattle, chattel, chortle, coastal, coincidental, committal, compartmental, consonantal, continental, crustal, crystal, dental, detrimental, developmental, disgruntle, dismantle, distal, ductile, elemental, embattle, entitle, environmental, experimental, fatal, fertile, fetal, fractal, frontal, fundamental, futile, gentle, glottal, governmental, horizontal, hospital, hostel, hostile, hurtle, immortal, immotile, incidental, incremental, spittle, startle, subtitle, subtle, supplemental, tactile, tattle, temperamental, instrumental, intercontinental, intergovernmental, judgmental, kettle, Kittel, Kittle, lentil, lintel, little, mantel, mantle, mental, metal, mettle, monumental, mortal, motile, Myrtle, Natal, neonatal, nettle, noncommittal, nonfatal, nongovernmental, occidental, oriental, ornamental, parental, pedestal, periodontal, petal, Pistil, pistol, portal, postal, postnatal, Pottle, prattle, prefrontal, prenatal, projectile, quintal, rattle, rebuttal, recital, rectal, regimental, rental, resettle, scuttle, sentimental, settle, shuttle, skittle, throttle, title, tittle, tootle, total, transcendental, transcontinental, transmittal, turtle, unsentimental, unsettle, unsubtle, varietal, vestal, vital, vittle, Whittle, Wintle. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-l-l-o-t-v" | |
-1 letter: alveoli, violate. | |
-2 letters: taille, telial, villae, violet. | |
-3 letters: alive, allot, atoll, ileal, laevo, lovat, olive, ovate, telia, teloi, toile, valet, villa, viola, vitae, vital, voila, voile, volta, volte, volti. | |
-4 letters: alit, aloe, alto, evil, ilea, iota, late, lati, lave, leal, leva, levo, lilt, lite, live, lota, loti, love, olea, olla, oval, tael, tail, tale. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-l-l-o-t-v" | |
+1 letter: volatiles. | |
+2 letters: alleviator, volatilise, volatilize, vorticella. | |
+3 letters: alleviation, alleviators, colligative, inviolately, nonvolatile, outcavilled, outrivalled, overliteral, ultraviolet, vectorially, volatilised, volatilises, volatilized, volatilizes, vorticellae, vorticellas. | |
+4 letters: alleviations, devotionally, levitational, lovabilities, ultraviolent, ultraviolets, volatileness, volatilities. | |
+5 letters: collaborative, correlatively, exploratively, inventorially, solvabilities, ultraviolence, ventriloquial, violabilities, volatilizable. | |
| 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. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Sounds 8. Quotations: Familiar | 9. Quotations: Fiction 10. Quotations: Non-fiction 11. Quotations: Speeches 12. Usage Frequency | 13. Expressions 14. Expressions: Internet 15. Translations: Modern 16. Translations: Ancient | 17. Bible Trace 18. Abbreviations 19. Acronyms 20. Derivations | 21. Rhymes 22. Anagrams 23. Bibliography |
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