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Vomit

Definition: Vomit

Vomit

Noun

1. The matter ejected in vomiting.

2. A medicine that induces nausea and vomiting.

3. The reflex act of ejecting the contents of the stomach through the mouth.

Verb

1. Eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; "After drinking too much, the students vomited".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "vomit" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Vomit

DomainDefinition

Dream Interpretation

To dream of vomiting, is a sign that you will be afflicted with a malady which will threaten invalidism, or you will be connected with a racy scandal.
To see others vomiting, denotes that you will be made aware of the false pretenses of persons who are trying to engage your aid.
For a woman to dream that she vomits a chicken, and it hops off, denotes she will be disappointed in some pleasure by the illness of some relative. Unfavorable business and discontent are also predicted.
If it is blood you vomit, you will find illness a hurried and unexpected visitor. You will be cast down with gloomy forebodings, and children and domesticity in general will ally to work you discomfort. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....

Multilingual Slang

Catalan (orxegar ), English (chuck), German (göbeln, kübeln, kotzen, reihern ), Hungarian (kitaccsolni, re'pakocka , ro'ka'zni), Swiss German (chörblä, chiisä ). (references)

Slang

Chuck. (references)

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Specialty Definition: Vomit

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Vomiting or regurgitation is the sudden expulsion of vomit (the contents of the stomach) through the mouth. It is a mechanism for expelling ingested poisons, and may be triggered by stimuli which might indicate the possibility of poisoning, such as motion sickness, or sight of decayed food, or other people vomiting.

The feeling that one is about to vomit is called nausea.

Human vomits can sometimes be used to identify illness, such as by examining the micro-fungus in the content.

Some Adult birds regurgitate food to feed their young. The food can be either incompletely digested or partially predigested, depending on the species.

Some bird species may also use regurgitation as a form of defense, vomiting when wounded or molested. When an intruder or a predator comes near a fulmar on its nest, the bird vomits oil up to 3 feet at the enemy.

Slang terms for vomiting: Throw up (phrasal verb), puke, barf, chunder, heave, boke, hurl, blow chunks, spew, upchuck.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Vomit."

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Synonyms: Vomit

Synonyms: disgorgement (n), emesis (n), emetic (n), nauseant (n), puking (n), regurgitation (n), vomiting (n), vomitive (n), vomitus (n), barf (v), be sick (v), cast (v), cat (v), chuck (v), disgorge (v), honk (v), puke (v), regorge (v), regurgitate (v), retch (v), sick (v), spew (v), spue (v), throw up (v), upchuck (v), vomit up (v). (additional references)
Antonym: keep down (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Vomit

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Ejection

Vomit, throw up, regurgitate, spew, puke, keck, retch, heave, upchuck, chuck up, barf; belch out; cast up, bring up, be sick, get sick, worship the porcelain god.

Vomit, vomitus, puke, barf.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Vomit

English words defined with "vomit": aspiration pneumoniaBelk, BespewEmetical, EvomitgagheaveKeck, KecklishnauseatedParbreakQualmish, queasyretchsick, sickbag, sickishTo cast up, To heave up, To throw upVomited, Vomito, VomituritionYellow atrophy, Yellow fever. (references)
Specialty definitions using "vomit": Cat Proverbs, chucksFlay a Fox, FLEARenarderSHOOT THE CAT, Sick as a HorseTO CASCADE, TO CAT, To FLASH THE HASH, To FLAY. (references)
Etymologies containing "vomit": Vomica. (references)

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Modern Usage: Vomit

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Why you little maggot, you make me want to vomit! (Full Metal Jacket; writing credit: Gustav Hasford; Michael Herr)

Didn't you notice on the plane when you started talking, eventually I started reading the vomit bag (Planes, Trains and Automobiles; writing credit: John Hughes)

If you tell me to turn my frown upside down, I swear I'm gonna vomit. (Caroline in the City; writing credit: Angela Carneiro)

These candidates make me want to vomit in terror (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

You can't really dust for vomit. (This Is Spinal Tap; writing credit: Christopher Guest; Michael McKean)

Lyrics

There's vomit on his sweater already, mom's spaghetti (Lose Yourself; performing artist: EMINEM)

Movie/TV Titles

Dieu vomit les tièdes (1989)

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Commercial Usage: Vomit

DomainTitle

Books

  

Music

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Sounds Captioned with "Vomit".

PlayCaption
Vomit; regurgitate; regurgitating; barf; be seasick; be sick; belch; bring up; disgorge; dry heave; emit; expel; gag; heave; hurl; keck; lose it; puke; regurgitate; retch; ruminate; spew; spit up; throw up; upchuck.
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Non-Fiction Usage: Vomit

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Black tarry stools or blood in vomit. (references)

The acid in the vomit can hurt the teeth by corroding the tooth enamel. (references)

Roll the person on his or her side to prevent choking on any fluids or vomit. (references)

Human Rights

Nicaragua

Azucena Baltodano took her brother home, but he continued to vomit blood. (references)

Nicaragua

The Nicaraguan Association for Human Rights (ANPDH), a nongovernmental organization (NGO), reported that he was arrested and brought to jail where police officers, particularly by officer Silvio Gutierrez, beat him so severely that he began to vomit blood. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Vomit

"Vomit" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 54.55% of the time. "Vomit" is used about 198 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)54.55%10831,306
Lexical Verb (infinitive)41.41%8236,594
Lexical Verb (base form)4.04%8124,375
                    Total100.00%198N/A

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Expressions: Vomit

Expressions using "vomit": black vomit vomit nut vomit up. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "vomit": vomit-filled, vomit-freak.

Ending with "vomit": binge-and-vomit, binge-vomit, mid-vomit.

Containing "vomit": binge-vomit syndrome.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Vomit

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

vomit

496

blow job vomit

9

picture vomit

34

story vomit

9

vomit fetish

32

blood vomit

9

vomit sex

32

black vomit

8

dog vomit

31

sound vomit

8

video vomit

29

picture puke vomit

8

vomit pic

28

pig vomit

8

cat vomit

27

movie vomit

8

puke vomit

19

bile dog vomit

6

girl vomit

19

eating vomit

6

scat vomit

17

piss scat vomit

6

make vomit yourself

17

online vomit

6

porn vomit

15

baby vomit

6

dog fungus vomit

14

japan vomit

6

blood in vomit

13

induce vomit

6

remover vomit

13

vomit yellow

6

fake vomit

11

clip vomit

6

cum vomit

10

photo vomit

5

comet vomit

10

rate vomit

5

spit vomit

9

vomit wav

5
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Modern Translation: Vomit

Language Translations for "vomit"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

vjellje (eructation, retch, spew), vjellët (vomiting), vjell (belch, bring up, disgorge, eructate, puke, regorge, reject, spew, spue, void), të vjella (sickness, vomiting), nxjerr (belch, conclude, derive, discharge, discover, display, distil, distill, divulge, drag out, draw, educe, eject, elicit, emit, evolve, excrete, exhale, exhibit, exhume, expel, extract, extricate, extrude, feature, fish out, gain, generate, get off, get out, give away, give off, hatch, heave, hustle, incubate, infer, issue, lay out, leak, let off, let out, liberate, lift out, make out, move out, obtrude, out, pan out, pop, puff, pull, pull out, raise, release, rip out, rout, run against, secrete, send, spit, stick, stick out, take out, tear off, turf out, turn away, uncase, unearth, utter, whiffle), lëshoj shtëllungë, gufon (boil, eject, erupt, expel, heave, spout, spring, spurt). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏قىء (vomiting), ‏قذف (accuse of, aspersion, calumniate, cast, casting, charge with, defamation, defame, discharge, disgorge, ejaculation, eject, ejectment, emit, expel, extrude, extrusion, fling, libel, malediction, malign, mud, mudslinging, obloquy, pelt, pelt with, pitch, projection, puke, row, scandal, slander, speak evil of, strike with, striking, throw, throw out, throwing, toss, vilify, vituperate), ‏تقيؤ (puke, vomiting), ‏تقيأ (disgorge, gag, heave, puke, regurgitate, reject, retch, spew, throw up, upchuck), ‏أخرج (bring out, direct, dispossess, draw out, egress, eject, fetch, get, give off, move out, obtrude, poke, produce, push along, quit, read out, realize, remove, set, shell off, subtract, take out). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

бълвоч, бълвам (belch, erupt, spew, throw up), предизвиквам повръщане, причинявам повръщане, повърнато, повръщам (be sick, bring up, cat, disgorge, gulp up, puke, regorge, regurgitate, reject, sick up, throw up), изригвам (belch, eruct, erupt, shoot out, spew, spout, spue), изхвърлям (bounce, cast aside, cast away, detrude, discharge, dump, ejaculate, eject, excrete, expel, out, project, push out, put out, reject, relegate, sack, shoot out, spew, spill, spirt, spurt, throw, throw out, throw up, thrust forth, tip, turf out, whop). (various references)

   

Catalan

  

vomitar (throw up). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

' (planet Jupiter), 呕吐 (spew, Spewed, Spewing, Vomited, Vomiting), "吐 , " , (to spit). (various references)

   

Czech

  

vyvrhovat, vrhnout (cast, puke, spew, thrust, toss), zvracet (be sick, fetch up, heave, retch, spew), zvracení (sickness), dávit (choke), dávidlo. (various references)

   

Danish

  

kaste op (throw up). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

spugen (spit, throw up), overgeven (convey, hand, hand over, pass, throw up), kotsen (throw up), braken (throw up). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

vomi (throw up). (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

spýggja (throw up). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

هراشیدن , قی کردن (Cat, Regurgitate, Retch, Spew), استفراغ کردن (Disgorge), برگرداندن (Convert, Evoke, Rebut, Reflect, Refract, Regurgitate, Repay, Retort, Return, Reverse, Turquoise, Upset). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

oksentaa (throw up), oksennuttaa (throw up), oksennus (vomiting). (various references)

   

French

  

vomissure, vomir (void). (various references)

   

German

  

erbrechen (be sick, bring up, force, puke, regorge, regurgitate, regurgitation, sickness, throw up, upchuck), sich erbrechen (throw up), sich übergeben (be sick, throw up), erbreche. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κάνω εμετό (be sick, I puke my guts up, puke, throw up), ξερνώ (belch, puke, sick up, spew, spew forth, spue, throw up). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

לפלוט (blurt, deliver, disgorge, eject, emit, escape, slip, spew, throw up), ל"קיא (disgorge, puke, spew, throw up, upchuck), קיא (puke, retch). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

okádik (puke, to barf), hányás (pitching, puke, spew, vomiting), hány (how many, how many/much, how much, puke, threw, thrown, to barf, to be sick, to cat, to dump one's load, to puke, to shoot the cat, to sputter, to throw, to throw up, to vomit). (various references)

   

Icelandic

  

spýja (throw up). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

muntahan, muntah (puke), memuntahkan (belch, disgorge, puke, spue). (various references)

   

Irish

  

aisig (restore; vomit). (various references)

   

Italian

  

vomitare (disgorge, retch, spew, throw, throw up). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

吐出 (disgorge, spew). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

としゅつ (disgorge, spew). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

(Vomiting). (various references)

   

Malay

  

muntah (throw up). (various references)

   

Manx

  

tilgey (abort, cast, cast off, casting, chuck, discharge, disgorge, ejection, fling, hurl, launch; throwing, miscarriage, miscarry, misconception; found, moulting, pitch, plunge, pot, precipitate, precipitation, project, projection, shedding, shoot, sling, throw, toss, toss up, toss up coin, tossing, void, vomiting), skeeah (spew), skeayrey, skeay. (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

saka (throw up), arohá (throw up). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

omitvay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

vomitar (belch, cat, disgorge, puke, regorge, regurgitate, reject, spew, spue, throw up). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

vomita (disgorge, fetch up, heave, puke, regorge, reject, spew, throw up), vãrsãturã (casting, eructation, vomiting), vãrsa (circumfuse, disgorge, effuse, eject, infuse, outpour, pour forth, puke, regorge, shed, spew, spill, spout, tipple), deborda (gush, overflow), borî. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

рвотное средство, рвотное (emetic, vomitive, vomitory), рвотная масса, рвота (puke, retch, retching, spew), тошнить (feel sick), блевотина. (various references)

   

Scottish

  

tilg (cast, cast out, fling, throw), sgeith (nf. g.+e; vomited matter, throw up). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

povratiti (heave, reclaim, reproduce, restore, resume, retrieve), povraćati (puke, throw up), povraćanje (puke), izbljuvati (eructate, erupt, puke), izbljuvak (puke, vomitus). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

vomitar (bring up, disgorge, keep down, throw up), vómito (puke). (various references)

   

Sranan

  

fomeri (throw up). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

kräkas (be sick, cast up, chuck, puke, throw up), spy (be sick, cat, puke, spew, throw up, womit). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

püskürtmek (atomize, beat off, belch, dash, pulverization, pulverize, repel, repulse, spout, spray, spray on, squirt, vaporize), püskürtme (belching, repulse, rollback, spraying), lav püskürtmek, kusturan ilaç (emetic, vomitive, vomitory), kusmuk, kusmak (bring up, cast, disgorge, feed the fishes, heave, puke, reject, spew, spew forth, spew out, spew up, spue, spue forth, spue out, spue up, throw up, upchuck), kusma (puke, sickness, spew, throwing up, vomiting), istifrağ etmek (puke, spew, spue, throw up), çıkarmak (bare, belch, blank, bring out, bruit about, deduct, delete, derive, disconnect, dislocate, dislodge, dismantle, displace, divest, doff, draw off, draw out, drive out, drop, educe, eject, elicit, eliminate, emit, enact, enucleate, evolve, exclude, excogitate, excrete, exhale, exhaust, expel, expunge, extract, extricate, extrude, exude, foot, foot up, give forth, give off, haul up, hawk, issue, let out, make out, omit, order off, order out, oust, out, pay off, present, print out, provoke, publish, pull off, put off, put out, put up, reject, remove, rest, rout out, rout up, rule out, scratch, shoot out, slip off, spew forth, spew out, spew up, spit, start, stick out, strike, strike off, strike through, strip, strip off, subtract, take, take from, take off, take out, throw off, throw out, tide over, touch off, uncase, unfix, vent, void, winkle out, wipe out, wipe up, work out, wreak). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

pitirdemek (crawl away), цgemek, gusmak (puke, throw up). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

блювота (puke, retch), блювати (belch, cascade, keck, puke, retch, sick up, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

chất nôn mửa ra thuốc mửa, chất l m nôn mửa. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

cyfogi, chwydu (spue), chwydiad, chwy+d. (various references)

   

Yucatec

  

xeh (throw up). (various references)

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Ancestral Language Translations: Vomit

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

eice, eicere, eicerent, eiceret, eiciam, eiciant, eiciat, eiciebant, eiciebat, eiciens, eicient, eicientem, eicientes, eicientur, eiciet, eicio, eicis, eicit, eicite, eicitur, eiciunt, eieceram, eiecerat, eiecerint, eiecero, eiecerunt, eieci, eiecimus, eiecique, eiecissent, eiecisset, eiecisti, eiecistis, eiecit, eiecitque, eiecta, eiectam, eiecti, eiectis, eiecto, eiectos, eiectum, vome, vomentis, vomere, vomerem, vomeres, vomitare, vomite, vomitu, vomitum. (various references)

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Bible Trace: Vomit

LanguageDateSourceProverbs Chapter 26, Verse 11
Latin405VulgateSicut canis qui revertitur ad vomitum suum sic inprudens qui iterat stultitiam suam
Middle English1395WyclifAs an hound that tourneth ayeen to his vome; so an vnprudent man, that reherseth his folie.
Jacobean English1611King JamesAs a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.
Victorian English1833WebsterAs a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.
Basic English1964OgdenLike a dog going back to the food which he has not been able to keep down, is the foolish man doing his foolish acts over again.

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Matched Bible Translations: Vomit

LanguageProverbs Chapter 26, Verse 11
Cebuano¶ Maingon sa usa ka iro nga nagabalik sa iyang sinuka, Ingon niana ang usa ka buang nga nagabalikbalik sa iyang binuang.
Chinese愚 昧 人 行 愚 妄 事 、 行 了 又 行 、 就 如 狗 轉 過 來 喫 所 吐 的 。
CroatianBezumnik se vraæa svojoj ludosti kao što se pas vraæa na svoju bljuvotinu.
DanishSom en Hund, der vender sig om til sit Spy, er en Tåbe, der gentager Dårskab.
DutchGelijk een hond tot zijn uitspuwsel wederkeert, alzo herneemt de zot zijn dwaasheid.
FinnishKuin koira, joka palajaa oksennuksilleen, on tyhmä, joka yhä uusii hulluuksiansa.
FrenchComme un chien qui retourne ce qu`il a vomi, Ainsi est un insensé qui revient sa folie.
GermanWie ein Hund sein Gespeites wieder frißt, also ist der Narr, der seine Narrheit wieder treibt.
Haitian Creole¶ Menm jan yon chen tounen vin manje sa li vonmi, se konsa moun san konprann yo ap toujou fè sa y'ap fè a.
HungarianMint az eb megtér a maga okádására, úgy a bolond megkettõzteti az õ bolondságát.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hariSeperti anjing kembali kepada muntahnya, begitulah orang bodoh yang mengulangi kebodohannya.
Indonesian-Terjemahan LamaSeperti anjing balik makan muntahnya, demikianpun orang bodoh suka balik kepada bodohnya.
ItalianCome il cane torna al suo vomito, così lo stolto ripete le sue stoltezze.
Maori¶ Ka rite ki te kuri e hoki nei ki tona ruaki, te wairangi e tuarua ana i tona poauau.
NorwegianLik hunden som vender tilbake til sitt eget spy, er en dåre som kommer igjen med sin dårskap.
PortugueseComo o cão que torna ao seu vômito, assim é o tolo que reitera a sua estultícia.   
RumanianCum se kntoarce cknele la ce a vqrsat, awa se kntoarce nebunul la nebunia lui. -
RussianлБЛ ЕУ ЧПЪЧТБЭБЕФУС ОБ 'МЕЧПФЙОХ УЧПА, ФБЛ ЗМХ ЩК ПЧФПТСЕФ ЗМХ ПУФШ УЧПА.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Vomit

Derivations

Words beginning with "vomit": vomited, vomiter, vomiters, vomiting, vomitive, vomitives, vomito, vomitories, vomitory, vomitos, vomitous, vomits, vomitus, vomituses. (additional references)

Words ending with "vomit": bevomit. (additional references)

Words containing "vomit": bevomited, bevomiting, bevomits. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Vomit" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fomite, Movita, ovit, somit, vami, vamic, vamid, vermit, vimi, vimid, vimt, vincit, vinit, voig, voij, voim, voip, voir, voit, Voith, voiu, voiz, vom, vomet, vomia, vomic, vommit, vont, votim. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Vomit"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "vomit" (pronounced vÄ"mut)
4-Ä" m u tcomet.
3-m u tanimate, approximate, climate, consummate, illegitimate, inanimate, estimate, gamut, guesstimate, helmet, hermit, intimate, legitimate, limit, microclimate, plummet, proximate, summit, ultimate.

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Anagrams: Vomit

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "i-m-o-t-v"

-1 letter: omit.

-2 letters: mot, tom, vim.

-3 letters: it, mi, mo, om, ti, to.

 Words containing the letters "i-m-o-t-v"
 

+1 letter: mikvot, motive, vomito, vomits.

 

+2 letters: bevomit, emotive, mikvoth, motived, motives, motivic, vicomte, vomited, vomiter, vomitos, vomitus.

 

+3 letters: bevomits, demivolt, mitsvoth, mitzvoth, monitive, motivate, motiving, motivity, overtime, overtrim, pivotman, pivotmen, vicomtes, voltaism, vomiters, vomiting, vomitive, vomitory, vomitous.

 

+4 letters: bevomited, combative, demivolts, emotively, emotivity, formative, leitmotiv, microvolt, millivolt, motivated, motivates, motivator, muscovite, normative, outmoving, overtimed, overtimes, overtrims, promotive, sovietism, voltaisms, vomitives, vomituses, vorticism.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Sounds
8. Quotations: Non-fiction
9. Usage Frequency
10. Expressions
11. Expressions: Internet
12. Translations: Modern
13. Translations: Ancient
14. Bible Trace
15. Derivations
16. Rhymes
17. Anagrams
18. Bibliography


  

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