Physique

  

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Physique

Definitions: Physique

Physique

Noun

1. Constitution of the human body.

2. Alternative names for the body of a human being; "Leonardo studied the human body"; "he has a strong physique"; "the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak".

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

Date "physique" was first used: 1826. (references)

Etymology: Physique \Phy*sique"\, noun. [French expression See Physic.]. (Websters 1913)


Abbreviations & Acronyms: Physique

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.
EntrySourceExpressionField
PHEFrenchPhysique des hautes énergiesN/A

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

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Synonyms: Physique

Synonyms: anatomy (n), bod (n), body-build (n), build (n), chassis (n), figure (n), flesh (n), form (n), frame (n), habitus (n), human body (n), material body (n), physical body (n), shape (n), soma (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Physique

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

Animality

Flesh, flesh and blood; physique; strength .

Strength

Stoutness; Adjective: lustihood, stamina, nerve, muscle, sinew, thews and sinews, physique; pith, pithiness; virtility, vitality.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Physique

English words defined with "physique": asthenicbody type, builtdumpinesslankinessrawbonedsomatotype, squattiness, stackedwell-stacked. (references)
Specialty definitions using "physique": ANGLICIZED WORDSSomatotypes, SweetheartWEIGHT GUESSER. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Physique" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (bodily, material, natural philosophy, physical, physics, physique).

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Modern Usage: Physique

DomainUsage

Lyrics

With my sexual physique Jah know me well built (Mr. Boombastic; performing artist: Shaggy)

The one with the physique, (Can't Hang; performing artist: Xscape)

Movie/TV Titles

Our Girls and Their Physique (1920)

Sculpture physique (1988)

Le Physique et le figuré (1981)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Physique

DomainTitle

References

  • Societe Genevoise d'Instruments de Physique SA - SIP: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Posing!: The Art of Hardcore Physique Display (reference)

  • Pumping Up!: Super Shaping the Feminine Physique (reference)

  • Shirtless!: The Hollywood Male Physique (reference)

  • Supercut: Nutrition for the Ultimate Physique (reference)

  • The Complete Reprint of Physique Pictorial: 1951-1990 (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Physique

Computer Images:
Physique

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Photo Album: Physique

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

P. CXVI. 392. Trachypterus arcticus, (Brunnich), Nilsson. From Day, "Fishes of Great Britain and Ireland." 393. Stylephorus chordatus, Shaw. From Blainville, " Journal de Physique," Vol. LXXXVII. 394. Stylephorus chordatus, Shaw. From Shaw, "Transactions of the Linnaean Society of London," Vol. I.Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection.

Promote excercise to strengthen the quality of the physique of the people.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Physique

SubjectTopicQuote

Trade

Chad

Import taxes are comprised of (1) the TVA, a value-added tax, (2) IRPP (Impots sur le Revenu du Personne Physique) 4 percent and (3) a 2 percent information or statistical tax (taxe d'information). (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Physique

"Physique" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Physique" is used about 164 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)100%16424,408

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Physique

CountryName
Switzerland

Societe Genevoise d'Instruments de Physique SA - SIP

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expression: Physique

Expression using "physique": of poor physique. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Physique

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

  womens physique world

197

  physique pictorial

12

  physique

158

  physique hair product

12

  male physique

119

  male physique photography

11

  committee national physique

60

  conditionnement physique

11

  entraineur paris physique

50

  physique preparation

10

  physique vintage

36

  male nude physique

10

  physique show

32

  436 physique science

9

  female physique

31

  muscle physique

9

  physique préparateur

30

  physique woman

8

  en physique préparateur salle

29

  416 physique science

8

  534 physique

26

  male physique vintage

8

  physique male gallery

23

  physique shampoo

8

  male physique model

23

  physique science

8

  physique woman world

23

  acceleration physique

7

  physique photography

21

  exercice physique

7

  physique womens

17

  physique quantique

7

  physique transformation

17

  physique world

7

  male photo physique

16

  et moderne ondes optique physique physique

6

  physique show.com

15

  physique.com refer

6

  physique model

13

  magma physique

6

  female links physique

13

  art physique

6
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Physique

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

Arabic 

  

‏بنية الجسم (constitution). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

фигура (effigy, face card, figure, form, man, person, piece, tracery), телосложение (figure, frame, habit, make), организъм (being, constitution, nature, organism). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

體質 , 体质. (various references)

   

Czech

  

tìlesná konstituce, stavba tìla (build). (various references)

   

Danish

  

legemsbygningsindex (index of physique), konstitutionstyper (types of physique). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

هیکل (Person, Statue), هیلت (Astronomy, Attitude, Commission, Configuration, Corps, Hue, Panel, Staff), ترکیب (Admixture, Blend, Composition, Compound, Confection, Feature, Form, Mixture, Structure, Syntax, Zygosis), سازمان بدن , ساختمان بدن . (various references)

   

Finnish

  

ruumiinrakenne (constitution). (various references)

   

French

  

physique (natural philosophy, physical, physics). (various references)

   

German

  

körperbau (anatomy, build). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

σωματική διάπλαση (conformation, external conformation). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מבנה גוף (constitution). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

testalkat (affect, body build, build, disposition, habit, set-up, shape), fizikum. (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

bentuk badan. (various references)

   

Italian

  

costituzione fisica, corporatura (build, frame). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

躯幹 (body, torso, trunk), 骨骼 (frame, framework, skeletal structure), 骨相 (phrenology), 骨柄 (appearance, build), 骨格 (build, frame), 造り (make up, structure), 恰幅 (bodily build), 体躯 (constitution, stature, the body), 体格 (constitution), 体位 (physical standard, posture). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

たいかく (accusative case, constitution, diagonal, tall building, the cabinet), たいい (abdication, captain, physical standard, posture, schema), たいく (constitution, stature, the body), くかん (bitter suffering, body, coldest time of the year, section, torso, trunk), つくり (make up, make-up, sliced raw fish, structure, the right half of a character when the left half is its radical), かっぷく (bodily build, disembowelment, harakiri), こつがら (appearance, build), こっそう (phrenology), こっかく (build, frame, framework, skeletal structure). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

체격. (various references)

   

Manx

  

jannoo kirpey, corp (body, corpse, hull, solid, trunk of tree). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ysiquephay

   

Portuguese

  

fisioterapia (physical therapy, physiotherapy), físico (bodily, physical, physicist), configuração do corpo, compleição física. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

fizic (appearance, bodily, body, concrete, corporeal, figure, outer, personal, physical). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

физические данные, телосложение (constitution, frame, habit), конституция (constitution, make, organic law). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

stas (build, inches, stature). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

físico (material, physical, physicist). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

kroppsbyggnad (frame), kroppsbeskaffenhet. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

vücut yapısı (anatomy, body build, build, figure), bünye (constitution, contexture, fabric, habit of body, organization, quality, structure, texture). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

фізичні дані, зовнішність (exterior, externality, front, guise, mien, outside, outward, person, seeming, semblance, surface), будова тіла (constitution). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

dạng người (anthropoid), cơ thể vóc người. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Physique

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

physicus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Physique

Derivations

Words beginning with "physique": physiques. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Physique" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: filioque, phistiki, phsyique, physalus, Physarum, physiique, physike, physog. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Physique

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-h-i-p-q-s-u-y"

-2 letters: equips, piques.

-3 letters: equip, hypes, pique, pushy, queys, quips, yipes.

-4 letters: espy, hies, hips, hues, hype, hyps, pehs, phis, pies, pish, push, pyes, quey, quip, ship, sipe, spue, supe, syph, yipe, yips, yups.

-5 letters: hep, hes, hey, hie, hip, his, hue, hup, hyp, peh, pes, phi, pie, pis, piu, psi, pus, pye, sei, she.

 Words containing the letters "e-h-i-p-q-s-u-y"
 

+1 letter: physiques.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Physique


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 68 79 73 69 71 75 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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Bibliographic Items: "physique"


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Amazon.com BOOKS: Search for: "physique"

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Public Service or Web Sites Triggered by: Physique