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Definition: Rayon |
RayonNoun1. A synthetic silklike fabric. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "rayon" was first used: 1924. (references) |
Etymology: Rayon \Ray"on\, noun. [French expression]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Industry | A textile fibre made of modified cellulose (c. e. cotton lonters or wood pulp). Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Rayon was originally named artificial silk or wood silk, but the name rayon was created in 1924. Unlike nylon, rayon absorbs water, making it more comfortable to wear as a clothing textile.
As well as viscose rayon, there are other types such as anitrocellulose rayon, developed in 1891 but discontinued because of its high flammability, and cuprammonium rayon, developed in 1890, which closely resembles silk.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Rayon."
Synonyms: RayonSynonyms: Silk, Artificial, Synthetic fabrics, Synthetic fibers. (additional references) |
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Lyrics | With your rayon, silk or maybe even denim ("Around the Way Girl"; performing artist: L.L. Cool J) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Rayon X (1995) Le Rayon vert (1986) Rayon 69 (1981) | |
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Business | Middle and low-income consumers demand draperies made from fabrics such as poplin, cotton blends, linen and rayon. (references) | |
Nylon cloth, however, grew the faster in production, followed by acrylic, PFY, polyester staple, cotton and rayon clothes. (references) | ||
The ratio is 4% for NFY cloth, 2.5% - 2.75% for polyester cloth, 2.5% - 2.7% for cotton cloth, 2% - 2.7% for PFY cloth and 2.5% for rayon cloth in weight. (references) | ||
Human Rights | Ukraine | Prosecutors, like the courts, are organized into offices at the rayon (district), oblast (regional), and national levels. (references) |
Mexico | According to PRODH, prison guards beat and kicked Rayon Robles after he denied involvement in the rape, and demanded $3,333 (30,000 pesos) in exchange for his release. (references) | |
Mexico | On February 10, three uniformed municipal policemen detained Alvaro Rayon Robles in Tlanepantla, Mexico State, to question him about his suspected participation in a rape. (references) | |
Political Rights | Ukraine | After the second round of voting, President Kuchma dismissed two oblast governors and six rayon heads in those regions where Kuchma received fewer votes than Communist Party rival Symonenko. (references) |
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| "Rayon" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Rayon" is used about 53 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) | 100% | 53 | 46,657 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Greece | Etma Rayon Manufacturing SA | India | Indian Rayon & Industries Ltd. |
| Japan | Mitsubishi Rayon Co Ltd | Thailand | Thai Rayon Public Company Limited |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "rayon": acetate rayon ♦ cellulose acetate rayon ♦ rayon staple ♦ rayon stocking ♦ rayon yarn ♦ viscose rayon ♦ viscose rayon fiber. Additional references. | |
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| 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 |
rayon | 205 |
poly rayon | 161 |
rayon fabric | 21 |
mitsubishi rayon | 15 |
mexico rayon | 13 |
rayon shirt | 11 |
rayon dress | 10 |
rayon viscose | 9 |
manager rayon | 8 |
ignacio lopez rayon | 8 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "rayon"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | pëlhurë prej fije artificiale, mëndafsh artificial (sharkskin). (various references) | |
Arabic | نسيج رايوني, حرير الرايون. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | изкуствена коприна. (various references) | |
Chinese | 人 丝 (rayons). (various references) | |
Czech | rajón (beat), umìlé hedvábí. (various references) | |
Danish | rayon (artificial silk). (various references) | |
Dutch | rayon (artificial silk). (various references) | |
Farsi | پرتو (Aegis, Beam, Radiance, Ray, Shaft), ابریشم مصنوعی , ریون . (various references) | |
Finnish | raion, tekosilkki (artificial silk). (various references) | |
French | soie artificielle, rayonne. (various references) | |
German | Kunstseide (artificial silk). (various references) | |
Greek | ραιγιόν (artificial silk), τεχνητό μετάξι (artificial silk). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ז"רורית (brightness, crimson cloth, radiance). (various references) | |
Hungarian | rajon, műselyem (near silk). (various references) | |
Indonesian | rayon. (various references) | |
Italian | rayon (artificial silk), raion. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 人 絹糸 , 人絹 (artificial silk). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | じ"ぞうけ"し, じ"け" (artificial silk, civil liberties, human rights). (various references) | |
Korean | 이온 (rayons). (various references) | |
Manx | rayon. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ayonray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | raiom (artificial silk). (various references) | |
Romanian | celofibrã. (various references) | |
Russian | вискоза (viscose), искусственный шелк. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | veštačka svila. (various references) | |
Spanish | rayón (artificial silk, long-nose skate, long-nosed skate). (various references) | |
Swedish | konstsilke (artificial silk). (various references) | |
Thai | ใยสังเคราะห์ชนิ"หนึ่ง, สิ่งทอจากใยสงเคราะห์ rayon. (various references) | |
Turkish | reyon, yapay ipek. (various references) | |
Ukranian | район (area, belt, borough, circuit, circumference, circumscription, neighborhood, neighbourhood, quarter, radius, region, zone), штучний шовк, віскоза (viscose), промінь світла. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tơ nhân tạo (near-silk). (various references) | |
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| French | 1500-Modern | rayon. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "rayon": rayons. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "rayon": crayon. (additional references) | |
Words containing "rayon": crayoned, crayoning, crayonist, crayonists, crayons. (additional references) | |
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"Rayon" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aryon, Aryton, ayon, ayont, cayon, Grayon, layon, rabon, Raboni, rahong, raidon, railn, raion, raiun, Rajov, ramon, ranon, raon, rapon, ravon, Ravony, raxon, raya, Rayak, raydon, rayn, rayo, rayons, razon, rewon, Reydon, Reylon, Reyno, rhytons, riton, ronyon, Royen, royong, runyon, Rydon, ryen, ryn, Ryno, ryo, ryoanji, Ryun, Troyon. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "rayon" (pronounced 'Ray"on'): Agon, baron, Baton, Bion, Breton, Briton, Cambro-Briton, Caxon, Cion, Cyon, Disprison, Dorsimeson, DRAGON, Emprison, Fanon, Flagon, Gryfon, Heron, imprison, IndoBriton, Leon, melon, meson, Misreckon, Odeon, Orion, Outreckon, Overreckon, Padelion, pademelon, paeon, Pantheon, Pheon, Pinon, Portcrayon, Raton, Reimprison, salmon, scion, Semi-Saxon, Stateprison, talon, Underreckon, Unprison, Ventrimeson, Weapon, xenon, Zion. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-n-o-r-y" | |
-1 letter: nary, roan, yarn. | |
-2 letters: any, nay, nor, oar, ora, ran, ray, rya, yar, yon. | |
-3 letters: an, ar, ay, na, no, on, or, oy, ya, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-n-o-r-y" | |
+1 letter: aroynt, barony, baryon, crayon, notary, orangy, rayons, ryokan, zonary. | |
+2 letters: acronym, almonry, annoyer, anorexy, anymore, aroynts, baryons, canonry, carryon, crayons, harmony, masonry, orangey, organdy, paronym, ryokans, tardyon, wayworn. | |
+3 letters: acrimony, acronyms, aerodyne, aeronomy, agrimony, agronomy, annoyers, aroynted, attorney, baryonic, barytone, blazonry, boneyard, boundary, bryozoan, cannonry, carbonyl, carryons, cartoony, caryotin, chronaxy, condylar, contrary, coronary, corybant, crayoned, deaconry, dormancy, dynatron, enactory, falconry, foraying, gyration, honorary, karyotin, matronly, minatory, monandry, monarchy, monetary, mordancy, nabobery, narrowly, natatory, nomarchy, nondairy, nonhardy, nonparty, nonroyal, normalcy, normally, nugatory, octonary, orangery, ordinary, ornately, overmany, paronyms, patronly, pyranoid, pyranose, randomly, sardonyx, sayonara, sovranly, sovranty, stramony, tardyons, unsavory, vanitory, weaponry, yearlong, yeomanry. | |
+4 letters: acronymic, adoringly, aepyornis, aerodynes, androgyne, androgyny, anhydrous, antistory, aroynting, arytenoid, astronomy, attorneys, baronetcy, barytones, boneyards, bryozoans, carbonyls, caryotins, contrasty, corybants, crayoning, crayonist, damnatory, diachrony, dragonfly, dynamotor, dynatrons, embryonal, fancywork, frontally, gyrations, gyrfalcon, gyroplane, honorably, hooraying, hydration, hydrozoan, inharmony, karyotins, layperson, legionary, mandatory, manometry, matrimony, momentary, monastery, monocracy, monolayer, mordantly, myoneural, myrobalan, nonbinary, nongreasy, nonlawyer, normality, operantly, oysterman, parodying, parsimony, patrimony, polyandry, profanely, profanity, pulmonary, pyranoses, pyromancy, pyromania, roaringly, roundelay, sayonaras, secondary, signatory, synkaryon, thyratron, tyrannous, vainglory, visionary, voluntary, workmanly. | |
+5 letters: abnormally, absorbancy, absorbency, admonitory, amendatory, androgynes, anemometry, anisotropy, ankylosaur, anteriorly, antibaryon, arrogantly, arytenoids, asynchrony, atrophying, barleycorn, canorously, carbonylic, cautionary, chardonnay, chiromancy, commandery, commentary, conspiracy, contrarily, cornerways, corybantes, corybantic, countryman, craniology, craniotomy, crayonists, debonairly, dictionary, disharmony, divinatory, downwardly, dynamotors, emblazonry, everywoman, fancyworks, frontality, gastronomy, granophyre, gynandrous, gyrational, gyrfalcons, gyroplanes, honeyeater, honorarily, hormonally, hydrations, hydromancy, hydrophane, hydroplane, hydrozoans, hypertonia, iconolatry, ignorantly, importancy, incubatory, indicatory, inexorably, informally, initiatory, innovatory, inundatory, invitatory, invocatory, ironically, journeyman, lampoonery, laypersons, lectionary, loganberry, matronymic, mineralogy, missionary, monaurally, monetarily, moneymaker, monolayers, myrobalans, narcolepsy, necromancy, neuropathy, nomography, nonlawyers, nonlibrary, notarially, ordinarily, organicity, organology, orientally, originally, oropharynx, outpraying, overlaying, overpaying, oxygenator, pardonably, paronymous, patronymic, pennyroyal, pensionary, perikaryon, personally, personalty, playground, portraying, poultryman, pyranoside, pyromaniac, pyromanias, rationally, ravenously, reasonably, regionally, renography, resonantly, roundelays, rowanberry, sardonyxes, sonography, stationary, stationery, syncarpous, synchronal, syncopator, syndicator, synkaryons, thyratrons, tolerantly, transitory, trigonally, tryptophan, tyrosinase, undulatory, unmorality, untowardly, urbanology, venography, yeomanries. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 61 79 6F 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. .- -.--. --- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100001 01111001 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R a y o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0061 0079 006F 006E |
| 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)5267918180 |
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