Incised

Definitions: Incised

Incised

Adjective

1. Sharply and deeply indented.

2. Cut into with a sharp instrument.

3. Cut or impressed into a surface; "an incised design"; "engraved invitations".

Date "incised" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1883. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Geological	A term used to describe down-cutting (downward erosion) by a stream. Incision deepens and often steepens the stream channel. (references)
Science	Cut deeply, sharply and often irregularly (an intermediate condition between toothed and lobed). (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Incised

Synonyms: engraved (adj), etched (adj), graven (adj), inscribed (adj). (additional references)

Domain	Title
Books	Decorating Ceramics: A Guide to the History, Materials, Equipment, and Techniques of Ornamenting Ceramic Objects With Applied, Incised, and Painted d (reference) Incised Channels: Morphology, Dynamics, and Control (reference) Incised River Channels: Processes, Forms, Engineering, and Management (reference) Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum (reference) Monumental incised slabs in the County of Lincoln (reference) (more book examples)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	White woman patient is being operated on. Her nipple is being incised by the surgeon. The surgeon and an operating room attendant are visible (there may actually be two surgeons). A surgical biopsy is being performed to determine exact nature of solid tumor.Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).
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"Incised" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 62.79% of the time. "Incised" is used about 43 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)	62.79%	27	66,962
Lexical Verb (past participle)	27.91%	12	101,599
Lexical Verb (past tense)	9.3%	4	175,879
Total	100.00%	43	N/A

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Language		Translations for "incised"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏يقطع, ‏منقوش (chasing, engraved, inscribed, variegated). (various references)

Chinese		切 (incise, Incising, sliced, slicing). (various references)

Finnish		viiltohaava (incised wound). (various references)

French		incisé. (various references)

German		schnitt ein (nicked), eingeschnitten (cut in, gashed). (various references)

Hebrew		חרוט (carved, cone, engraved, inscribed). (various references)

Pig Latin		inciseday

Swedish		inristad. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Incised" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: inceased, incesed, incides, inciped, incis, incisel, inciser, incnsed, insise, nicoise. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "incised" (pronounced i'nsī"zd)
4	-s ī" z d	oversized, sized.
3	-ī" z d	advised, apprised, baptized, chastised, comprised, despised, devised, disguised, prized, revised, sensationalized, surmised, surprised, undisguised, unrevised, wised.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: indices.
	Words within the letters "c-d-e-i-i-n-s"
	-1 letter: incise, indies, inside.
	-2 letters: cedis, cines, dices, dines, disci, indie, nides, nisei, scend, since, snide.
	-3 letters: cedi, cine, deni, dens, dice, dies, dine, dins, disc, ends, iced, ices, ides, nice, nide, nidi, nisi, send, sice, side, sine, sned.
	-4 letters: cis, den, die, din, dis, eds, end, ens, ice, ids, ins, sec, sei, sen, sic, sin.
	-5 letters: de, ed, en, es, id, in, is, ne, si.
	Words containing the letters "c-d-e-i-i-n-s"
	+1 letter: decision, sciaenid.
	+2 letters: acridines, actinides, andesitic, coincides, cutinised, cytidines, decisions, dehiscing, diclinies, disinfect, echinoids, incidents, indicates, indictees, indicters, inscribed, medicines, miscoined, reindicts, sciaenids, sinicized.
	+3 letters: anglicised, celloidins, clonidines, decillions, decisional, decisioned, deficients, depictions, describing, deviancies, dicentrics, dieticians, diligences, directions, discepting, discerning, discipline, discretion, disincline, disinfects, disjecting, dissecting, dissection, dissidence, distincter, dyskinetic, eicosanoid, exscinding, fungicides, hedonistic, incidences, indecision, indecisive, indexicals, indigences, indiscreet, interdicts, iridescent, lidocaines, medicinals, midsection, radiancies, reminisced, rescinding, sanctified, scientized, subindices, vindicates.
	+4 letters: acetanilids, antisuicide, candidacies, candidiases, cimetidines, codesigning, considering, decimations, decisioning, dedications, dentifrices, description, desiccating, desiccation, diachronies, diffidences, dilatancies, discernible, discernibly, disciplined, discipliner, disciplines, discontinue, discovering, discretions, disinclined, disinclines, disinfected, disjunctive, dissections, dissidences, distinctest, distinctive, dominickers, eicosanoids, fecundities, incidentals, indecencies, indecisions, indehiscent, indicatives, indictments, insecticide, iridescence, irradiances, jocundities, leucocidins, medications, mendacities, mendicities, midsections, millisecond, misguidance, modernistic, nematicides, nondecision, predictions, prescinding, rancidities, residencies, scrutinised, scrutinized, seminomadic, siliconized, slickenside, stridencies, subdecision, suspicioned, tyrocidines, unsolicited, unspecified, viridescent.
	+5 letters: academicians, acetanilides, appendicitis, benedictions, biomedicines, cannibalised, childishness, codirections, coincidences, commissioned, conditioners, decisiveness, declinations, decommission, deconditions, deficiencies, deifications, deliquescing, derelictions, descriptions, desiccations, dictionaries, disaffecting, disaffection, discerningly, discipliners, disconfirmed, discontinued, discontinues, discrediting, discriminate, diseconomies, disfranchise, disincentive, disinfectant, disinfecting, disinfection, disjunctives, disobedience, distinctness, divergencies, doctrinaires, dominatrices, edifications, educationist, elucidations, enchiridions, endemicities, endocarditis, eradications, expediencies, inadequacies, incandescing, incarnadines, incendiaries, incendiarism, incertitudes, indecisively, indehiscence, indelicacies, indirections, indirectness, indiscipline, indiscreetly, indiscretion, indocilities, infanticides, insecticidal, insecticides, interdictors, iridescences, iridescently, maledictions, masculinised, masculinized, mendicancies, milliseconds, miscaptioned, misconceived, misdirecting, misdirection, miseducating, miseducation, misguidances, misrecording, niacinamides, nondecisions, nondiabetics, periodontics, predications, presidencies, reconditions, redescribing, redirections, rediscussing, reductionism, reductionist, rodenticides, romanticised, scintillated, sexdecillion, sidetracking, slickensides, subdecisions, tyrannicides, unclassified, undecillions, unsocialized, valedictions.
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