Marmite

Definitions: Marmite

Marmite

Noun

1. Soup cooked in a large pot.

2. A large pot especially one with legs used e.g. for cooking soup.

Specialty Definitions: Marmite

Domain	Definitions
Food & Agriculture	Flavouring extract made from fresh brewer's yeast. Source: European Union. (references)
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Specialty Definition: Marmite

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Made from a by-product of the beer brewing process, the yeast extract Marmite is a popular UK sandwich and toast spread similar to Australia's Vegemite.

Introduction

The Marmite Food Extract Company was formed in Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, in 1902.

Marmite is a rich source of the vitamin B complex; vitamin B12 is not naturally found in yeast extract, but is added to Marmite during manufacture.

Advertised variously as "The Growing Up Spread" and "My Mate, Marmite", Marmite tends to be an acquired taste, with no middle ground. It is the food item most commonly missed and imported by British expatriates in other countries. People tend to love it or hate it -- in fact, two websites have been set up where either camp are invited to leave their comments: I love Marmite and I hate Marmite. The snack food Twiglets is flavoured with a substance resembling Marmite.

The spread is packaged in a distinctive bulbous brown glass jar. The shape is meant to resemble a cooking pot, for which the French word is la marmite; the label has a picture of the cooking pot. An occasional surrealist sight on British roads is that of a large tanker lorry (presumably taking yeast to the factory) with the round end of the tank painted to resemble the Marmite jar and label.

Outlets

Marmite is widespread and available in most food stores in the UK, Australia and New Zealand. The variety of Marmite available in Australia and New Zealand is however significantly different in taste to UK Marmite and comes in different packaging, it is manufactured by the company Sanitarium. In the following countries it is at least available in big supermarkets and health food stores: Israel, South Africa,

Elsewhere, Marmite is still quite unknown, and hard to find (June 2003). Hence, we present a list of stores where one could find Marmite, sorted by country.

France

Paris:

Bon-marche, UK food section (Metro. )
Passage Bradley, Indian Allimentations (M. Chateau d'eau, 10e)

Poland

Warsaw: (Warszawa)

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Crosswords: Marmite

English words defined with "marmite": petite marmite. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Marmite" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (pan, pot, saucepan).

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Modern Usage: Marmite

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Marmite. Baths, but not with other people! (The English Patient; writing credit: Anthony Minghella)
Movie/TV Titles	Le Drapeau noir flotte sur la marmite (1971)
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Commercial Usage: Marmite

Domain	Title
Books	Asterix Comment Obelix est Tombe dans la Marmite du Druide Quand Il Etait Petit (reference) Comment Obelix est Tombe dans la Marmite (reference) La marmite (reference) La Marmite libératrice : ou, le Commerce transformé : simple entretien (reference) Prisons : la marmite infernale (reference) (more book examples)
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Usage Frequency: Marmite

"Marmite" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 83.61% of the time. "Marmite" is used about 61 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
Noun (singular)	83.61%	51	47,619
Adjective (general or positive)	14.75%	9	117,287
Noun (proper)	1.64%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	61	N/A

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Expressions: Marmite

Expression using "marmite": petite marmite. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "marmite": marmite-stained.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Marmite

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
marmite	97
la marmite	3
la marmite petite	2
cannibale marmite	2
marmite recipe	2
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Modern Translations: Marmite

Language		Translations for "marmite"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		spisegaer (alimentary yeast, food yeast). (various references)

Dutch		voedingsgist (alimentary yeast, food yeast). (various references)

Finnish		ravintohiiva (alimentary yeast, food yeast), hiivauute (alimentary yeast, food yeast). (various references)

French		levure alimentaire. (various references)

German		Nährhefe (alimentary yeast, food yeast). (various references)

Greek		προζύμι διατροφής (alimentary yeast, food yeast), ζύμη διατροφής (alimentary yeast, food yeast), τροφοζύμη (alimentary yeast, food yeast). (various references)

Italian		lievito alimentare (alimentary yeast, food yeast). (various references)

Pig Latin		armitemay

Portuguese		levedura para alimentação (alimentary yeast, food yeast), levedura alimentar (alimentary yeast, food yeast). (various references)

Spanish		levadura alimenticia (alimentary yeast, food yeast). (various references)

Swedish		jästextrakt (alimentary yeast, food yeast). (various references)

Turkish		toprak tencere, güveç (casserole, crock, hot pot, Olla, pipkin, stew, stewpan). (various references)
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Derivations & Misspellings: Marmite

Derivations
	Words beginning with "marmite": marmites. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Marmite" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Amarjit, armite, Fairmitre, Karmuta, Mamita, margit, marite, maritme, marmide, Marmier, marmit, marmitako, marnit, marxiste, mavromati, Mbarnoti, Melmotte, Merimee, Mermet, mermite, Mirdita, morsite, narcite, Normidtec. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Marmite

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-i-m-m-r-t"
	-1 letter: imaret, maimer, tammie.
	-2 letters: aimer, armet, irate, mamie, mater, merit, mimer, miter, mitre, ramet, ramie, remit, retia, tamer, terai, timer.
	-3 letters: airt, amie, amir, emir, emit, imam, item, maim, mair, mare, mart, mate, meat, meta, mime, mire, mite, rami, rate, ream, rime, rite, tame, tare, team, tear, term, tier, time, tire, tram, trim.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-i-m-m-r-t"
	+1 letter: immature, maritime, marmites, rammiest.
	+2 letters: dreamtime, firmament, immatures, immigrate, metameric, midstream, smarmiest, timberman.
	+3 letters: amateurism, asymmetric, dreamtimes, firmaments, immaterial, immaturely, immigrated, immigrates, immoderate, impairment, impartment, mainstream, manometric, mastermind, maumetries, metamerism, midstreams, millstream, monetarism, multiarmed, rheumatism, spermatium, stammering, trammeling.
	+4 letters: amateurisms, asymmetries, axisymmetry, commiserate, crematorium, disarmament, firmamental, immortalise, immortalize, impairments, impartments, impermanent, magisterium, mainstreams, manometries, masterminds, materialism, maternalism, matrimonies, memorialist, metamerisms, metamorphic, microgamete, millstreams, momentarily, monetarisms, recommittal, rheumatisms, suprematism, symmetrical, tautomerism, termitarium, trammelling.
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