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Definition: Fulminate |
FulminateNoun1. A salt or ester of fulminic acid. Verb1. Criticize severely; "He fulminated against the Republicans' plan to cut Medicare"; "She railed against the bad social policies". 2. Come on suddenly and intensely; "the disease fulminated". 3. Cause to explode violently and with loud noise. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "fulminate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | An explosive compound of mercury, HgC2 N2 O2 , that is employed for the caps or exploders, by means of which charges ofgunpowder, dynamite, etc., are fired. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: FulminateSynonym: rail (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Arms | Explosive; gunpowder, guncotton; mercury fulminate; picrates; pentaerythritol tetranitrate, PETNoun: |
Disapprobation | Execrate; exprobate, speak daggers, vituperate; abuse, abuse like a pickpocket; scold, rate, objurgate, upbraid, fall foul of; jaw; rail, rail at, rail in good set terms; bark at; anathematize, call names; call by hard names, call by ugly names; avile, revile; vilify, vilipend; bespatter; backbite; clapperclaw; rave against, thunder against, fulminate against; load with reproaches. |
Malediction | Execrate, beshrew, scold; anathematize; (censure); bold up to execration, denounce, proscribe, excommunicate, fulminate, thunder against; threaten. |
Regression | Dart, lance, tilt; ejaculate, jaculate; fulminate, bolt, drive, sling, pitchfork. |
Threat | Defy; intimidate; keep in terrorem, hold up in terrorem, hold out in terrorem; shake the fist at, double the fist at, clinch the fist at; thunder, talk big, fulminate, use big words, bluster, look daggers, stare daggers. |
Violence | Explode; let fly, fly off; discharge, detonate, set off, detonize, fulminate. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Fulminate |
| English words defined with "fulminate": aurum fulminans ♦ Center-fire cartridge ♦ Detonating powder ♦ fulminate of mercury, Fulminated, Fulminating, fulminating mercury, Fulminating powder, Fulminating silver, Fulmine, fulminic acid ♦ mercury fulminate ♦ Needle gun. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "fulminate": electric fuse. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | To fulminate such a word at the thunderbolt which kills you is victory. |
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| "Fulminate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Fulminate" is used about 4 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 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 75% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (singular) | 25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "fulminate": fulminate against ♦ Fulminate of gold ♦ fulminate of mercury ♦ fulminate of silver ♦ mercury fulminate. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "fulminate": mercury-fulminate. | |
| 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 |
fulminate | 12 |
mercury fulminate | 11 |
fulminate make mercury | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "fulminate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | fulminat, zhvillohet me vrull, shpërthen, shpërthej në sulme, shkreptin (glance, stare), lëndë plasëse (detonator, explosive), bubullin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | تفجر (burst, detonate, explode, gush, outburst, spurt, well), تفشى (catch, spread), الفلمنيات مركب متفجر, شجب (condemn, condemnation, decry, denounce, denouncement, denunciation, excoriation, execrate, rail, reprehend, stigmatize). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | светвам (flash, fulgurate, kindle, lighten), фулминат, гърмя (bang, bellow, boom, peal, pop off, roll, speak, thunder), възпламенявам (detonate, enkindle, ignite, set off, touch off), експлодирам (blow off, blow up, bust, detonate, explode), блясвам (flare, kindle, scintillate, shine out), избухвам (blaze, blow, blow up, break forth, burst out, erupt, explode, fire, flash, fly into a rage, go off the deep end, lose one's temper, pop off). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | hřímat (storm). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | knaldkviksølv (fulminating mercury, mercuric cyanate, mercuric fulminate, mercury fulminate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | fulminaat. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | fulminer, fulminate, fulminante de mercure, dénoncer. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | wettern (be thundering and lightening, curse and swear, rant and rave, to fulminate), donnern (boom, roar, rumble, rumbling, thunder, to boom, to fulminate, to thunder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κεραυνοβολώ, επιτίθεμαι βίαια (thunder against). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ל'רום ל"תפוצצות, ל' ות בחריפות, לברוק (flash), לרעום (peal, rage, roar, rumble, thunder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | fulminát. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | fulminare (strike by lightning, strike dead). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | taarnaghey (thunder, thundering), baggyrt (caution, forebode, impend, threat, threaten). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ulminatefay fulminar (scathe), fulgurar (flare, fulgurate, shine), trovejar (thunder), explodir (blast, burst, explode, go), excomungar (curse, defrock, unchurch), detonar (detonate, discharge, fire), brilhar como relâmpago. (various references) fulgera (dumbfound, flash, gleam, glitter, lighten, sparkle, strike, thunder), trãsni (hit, roar, thunder), exploda (blast, blow out, blow up, burst, detonate, explode, go bang, go off, go up), detuna (annihilate, blast, destroy, explode, thunder). (various references) громить (destroy, fulminate against, smash). (various references) besneti (be furious, rage, rave, tempest). (various references) fulminar (thunder). (various references) explodera (blow up, burst, detonate, explode). (various references) "่าว่าหรือวิพากษ์รุนแรง. (various references) yasaklama getirmek, verip veriştirmek (flay), patlamak (blow, blow out, blow up, break, burst, crack, detonate, erupt, explode, go off, go pop, go up, knock back, let fly, plonk, plunk, pop, puncture, set back, snap, spring), parlamak (beam, blaze, blink, coruscate, flare up, flash, glare, gleam, glint, glisten, glitter, glow, light up, lighten, loose off at, shine, shine out, smile, sparkle, twinkle), ateş püskürmek (be angry, fizz, harrumph, rant, spit fire). (various references) гриміти (bang, brattle, clatter, grumble, peal, thunder), блискати (flash, glance, glint), підривати (blast, cave, detonate, disrupt, erode, explode, sap, tear up, undermine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "fulminate": fulminated, fulminates. (additional references) | |
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"Fulminate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: flumina, fluminate, fuliminate, fulmigate, fulminat, fulminte, pulmonale. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "fulminate" (pronounced fuh"lmunā't) |
| 6 | -l m u n ā' t | culminate. |
| 5 | -m u n ā' t | contaminate, decontaminate, denominate, determinate, discriminate, disseminate, dominate, eliminate, emanate, exterminate, germinate, illuminate, incriminate, inseminate, nominate, predominate, renominate, ruminate, terminate. |
| 4 | -u n ā' t | agglutinate, alienate, assassinate, carbonate, chlorinate, concatenate, decaffeinate, detonate, fascinate, halogenate, hydrogenate, hyphenate, impersonate, indoctrinate, insubordinate, isocyanate, italianate, marinate, originate, oxygenate, pollinate, procrastinate, rejuvenate, resonate, subordinate, titanate, urinate. |
| 3 | -n ā' t | designate, donate, hibernate, impregnate, reincarnate, stagnate. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-f-i-l-m-n-t-u" | |
-1 letter: filament. | |
-2 letters: ailment, aliment, alumine, alunite, antiflu, fulmine, inflame, inflate, liftman, liftmen. | |
-3 letters: aimful, alumin, alumni, amulet, auntie, eluant, entail, etamin, famine, famuli, fetial, finale, flamen, flaunt, fluent, futile, inmate, lament, lumina, lunate, lutein, maline, manful, manitu, mantel, mantle, menial, mental, minuet, minute, muleta, mutine, tamein, telium, tenail, tineal, tinful, ultima, unfelt, untame. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-f-i-l-m-n-t-u" | |
+1 letter: fulminated, fulminates. | |
+2 letters: filamentous. | |
+4 letters: malfunctioned, multifilament, reformulating, reformulation, ultrafeminine. | |
+5 letters: emulsification, fundamentalism, fundamentalist, multifilaments, nonfilamentous, preformulating, reformulations, semifunctional. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 75 6C 6D 69 6E 61 74 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. ..- .-.. -- .. -. .- - . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01110101 01101100 01101101 01101001 01101110 01100001 01110100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F u l m i n a t e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0075 006C 006D 0069 006E 0061 0074 0065 |
| 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)408778797580678671 |
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