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Definition: Healthier |
HealthierAdjective1. Improved in health or physical condition. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "healthier" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1817. (references) |
Synonym: HealthierSynonym: fitter (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Healthier |
| Etymologies containing "healthier": healthy. (references) |
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Screenplays | She's delusional, fears God, etc. She wants to kill her self, but then she realizes that teen suicide is out this year, and homicide is a much healthier therapeutic expression. (Scream; writing credit: Kevin Williamson) People today are healthier and drinking less. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) | |
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 | Daily Fluoride Tablets for Healthier Smiles.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | You should use IPANA for cleaner teeth for healthier gums.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Balance Food and Activity Today... : ...Be Healthier Tomorrow.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Make healthier foods your choice.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Power is healthier after an emeute, as a man is after a rubbing. |
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Health | When you start hemodialysis, you must make many changes in your life. Watching the foods you eat will make you healthier. (references) | |
Through the Campaign for Healthier Babies, the March of Dimes funds programs of research, community services, education, and advocacy. (references) | ||
Healthier cholesterol levels can be achieved by watching fats in your diet and regular aerobic exercise such as walking, running, swimming, or bike riding. (references) | ||
Business | Many experts expect that, once GM-food can be found in the supermarket shelves standing next to GM-free foodstuffs, consumer resistance to GM-food will diminish, simply because the GM-food will most likely be cheaper and possibly also healthier and tastier. (references) | |
Based on figures published in May 2000, the U.S. hosted 48,492,000 international visitors in 1999 (4.5% over 1998). This continual growth, starting in 1995, was mainly due to healthier economies in many worldwide regions combined with attractive U.S. tourism services. (references) | ||
Economic History | India | Bayer (Germany) and Zydus Candila Health Care (Ahmedabad, India) have called off their joint venture Bayer Zydus Healthier Care. (references) |
Netherlands | In the Netherlands, a decreasing consumption of alcoholic drinks, a healthier life-style and lower prices have contributed to a steady increase in fruit juice consumption. (references) | |
Argentina | There is growing demand for foods that are easier to prepare, healthier, and cheaper, and the aggressive expansion of private label lines offer great opportunities for U.S. exporters. (references) | |
Human Rights | Costa Rica | Physical plant improvements completed in October at San Sebastian have contributed to a safer and healthier environment with more modern medical and educational facilities. (references) |
Political Economy | ROMANIA | Labor organizations continue to press for healthier, safer working conditions. (references) |
Trade | China | The second tier banks are generally healthier in terms of asset quality and profitability and have much lower non-performing loan ratios than the big four. (references) |
Worker Rights | Romania | Some labor organizations lobby for healthier, safer, working conditions on behalf of their members. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | You have made our social fabric stronger, our families healthier and safer, our people more prosperous. |
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| "Healthier" is generally used as an adjective (comparative) -- approximately 98.97% of the time. "Healthier" is used about 387 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 (comparative) | 98.97% | 383 | 14,369 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.03% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 387 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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Beginning with "healthier": healthier-looking. | |
| 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 "healthier"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | "较健康. (various references) | ||||
German | gesu.nder. (various references) | ||||
Korean | " 건재한. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ealthierhay | ||||
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Words ending with "healthier": unhealthier. (additional references) | |
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"Healthier" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: haltier, healtheir, healthers, heathites. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "healthier" (pronounced he"lthēer) |
| 5 | -e" l th ē er | wealthier. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-h-h-i-l-r-t" | |
-1 letter: heathier. | |
-2 letters: atelier, haltere, heather, lathier, leather. | |
-3 letters: aether, either, elater, hailer, halite, halter, healer, health, hearth, heater, hereat, hither, lather, lither, reheat, relate, retail, retial, retile, tailer, thaler. | |
-4 letters: aerie, airth, alert, alter, arete, ariel, artel, earth, eater, elate, elite, ether, haler, hater, heart, heath, hilar, irate, ither, laith, laree, later, lathe, lathi, lethe, liter, lithe, litre, ratel, rathe, relet, relit, retia, retie, taler, telae, telia, terai, their, there, thirl, three, tiler, trail, trial. | |
-5 letters: airt, alee, alit, aril, earl, eath, elhi, haet, hail, hair, hale, halt, hare, harl, hart, hate, hath, heal, hear, heat, heel, heil, heir, here, herl, heth, hila, hilt, hire, ilea, lair, lari, late, lath, lati, lear, leer, leet, lehr, liar, lier, lira, lire, lite, rail, rale, rate, rath, real, reel, rete, rhea, rial, riel, rile, rite, tael, tahr, tail, tale, tali, tare, teal, tear, teel, tela, tele, thae, thee, thir, tier, tile, tire, tirl, tree. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-h-h-i-l-r-t" | |
+2 letters: therewithal, unhealthier, wherewithal. | |
+3 letters: featherlight, lighthearted, thermohaline, wherewithals. | |
+4 letters: heterothallic. | |
+5 letters: dichloroethane, heterothallism, lightheartedly, phenylthiourea, thermochemical, trihalomethane. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 65 61 6C 74 68 69 65 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... . .- .-.. - .... .. . .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01100101 01100001 01101100 01110100 01101000 01101001 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H e a l t h i e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0065 0061 006C 0074 0068 0069 0065 0072 |
| 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)427167788674757184 |
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