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Definition: Tannic |
TannicAdjective1. Derived from, or resembling, tan or tannin. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tannic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1939. (references) |
Crosswords: Tannic |
| English words defined with "tannic": Catechin ♦ Mimotannic, Morintannic ♦ Quercitannic ♦ tan, Tannate, tannic acid. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "tannic": Caffetannic ♦ Gallotannic ♦ Hennotannic ♦ Mimotannic, Morintannic ♦ Quercitannic. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Add sulphur and tannic acid. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Tannic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tannic" is used about 15 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) | 100% | 15 | 90,616 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "tannic": tannic acid. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "tannic": ratanhia-tannic. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
tannic acid | 52 |
tannic | 28 |
tannic 12 | 7 |
acid supplier tannic | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "tannic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Bulgarian | танинов (gallic). (various references) | |
Chinese | 鞣质. (various references) | |
Danish | garvesyre (tannic acid, tannin), gallusgarvesyre (gallotannin, tannic acid), gallotannin (gallotannin, tannic acid). (various references) | |
Dutch | tanninezuur (gallotannin, tannic acid), looizuur (gallotannin, tannic acid, tannin), galnoot looizuur (gallotannin, tannic acid). (various references) | |
Finnish | parkkihappo (tannic acid, tannin), gallushappo (gallotannin, tannic acid). (various references) | |
French | gallotannin (tannic acid), gallo-tanin (tannic acid), acide tannique (tannic acid). (various references) | |
German | Gerb. (various references) | |
Greek | γαλλοδεψικόν οξύ ή ταννίνη (gallotannin, tannic acid), ταννικό οξύ (tannic acid), δεψικό οξύ (tannic acid). (various references) | |
Italian | tannino di galla (gallotannin, tannic acid), gallo-tannini (gallotannin, tannic acid), acido tannico (tannic acid), acidi tannici (gallotannin, tannic acid). (various references) | |
Manx | tannagh. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | annictay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | galhotanino (gallotannin, tannic acid), galho tanino (gallotannin, tannic acid), ácido tânico (tannic acid). (various references) | |
Romanian | taninos. (various references) | |
Russian | танинный. (various references) | |
Spanish | tánico. (various references) | |
Swedish | garv-. (various references) | |
Turkish | tanenli. (various references) | |
Ukranian | дубильний. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "tannic": stannic. (additional references) | |
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"Tannic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Annick, ataensic, fannich, ganic, kaunic, nannick, tanac, tanak, tandic, tani, tanic, tanid, tanis, tanish, tannex, Tanni, tannir, tannis, tannit, tantic, tarnic, teknik, tennil, trannie, Tzanne. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "tannic" (pronounced 'Tan"nic'): Aganglionic, Allemannic, Ammonic, Atechnic, Bothnian, Bothnic, Britannic, Caffetannic, Carnic, Cornic, Demonic, Evernic, Funic, Gallotannic, Hennotannic, Holethnic, Hymnic, Komenic, Metastannic, Mimotannic, Mischnic, Mishnic, Morintannic, Oxyphenic, Paleotechnic, Phenic, Pinic, Polytechnic, Punic, Quercitannic, runic, splanchnic, Stannic, Strychnic, Stryphnic, Styphnic, Sulphostannic, Trisplanchnic, tunic, Usnic. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: incant. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-i-n-n-t" | |
-1 letter: actin, antic. | |
-2 letters: anti, cain, cant, tain. | |
-3 letters: act, ain, ait, ani, ant, can, cat, inn, nan, nit, tan, tic, tin. | |
-4 letters: ai, an, at, in, it, na, ta, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-i-n-n-t" | |
+1 letter: actinon, ancient, cantina, canting, contain, incants, stannic. | |
+2 letters: actinian, actinons, ancients, caninity, canniest, canonist, cantinas, chanting, conation, contains, continua, countian, enacting, inaction, incanted, incitant, indicant, insectan, instance, instancy, mannitic, sanction, scanting, sonantic, trancing, tyrannic, uncinate. | |
+3 letters: accenting, actinians, ancienter, anciently, ancientry, anticking, anticline, anticling, anticodon, antigenic, antiknock, antimycin, antinomic, antonymic, cannister, canonists, cantering, cantilena, cantoning, carnation, carnitine, cartoning, chaunting, chthonian, clinquant, clintonia, cognation, cognizant, conations, confidant, constrain, contagion, contained, container, continual, countians, crenation, culminant, decanting, enunciate, inactions, incanting, incarnate, incaution, incessant, incitants, incognita, indicants, injectant, inoculant, instanced, instances, interclan, mendicant, nectarine, nicotiana, nictating, nonacting, nonaction, nonaddict, nonatomic, noncoital, nonimpact, onanistic, recanting, runcinate, sanctions, scantling, snatching, stanching, stanchion, tenancies, transonic, uncertain, uncoating, uncrating, untacking. | |
+4 letters: abstinence, accounting, adjunction, anamnestic, ancientest, anilinctus, annalistic, annunciate, anteceding, anticaking, anticancer, anticipant, anticlinal, anticlines, anticodons, antiknocks, antimycins, auctioning, cachinnate, calcitonin, caninities, cannisters, canonicity, cantilenas, canulating, captaining, captioning, carnations, carnitines, cartooning, catenating, catenation, catnapping, cautioning, centennial, chastening, clinquants, clintonias, codominant, coenacting, cognations, concertina, confidante, confidants, conflating, conflation, congenital, constrains, constraint, contacting, contagions, containers, containing, continuant, continuate, contrarian, coronating, coronation, creatinine, crenations, cunctation, curtaining, descanting, discanting, disenchant, distancing, enchanting, entrancing, enunciated, enunciates, enunciator, fantoccini, functional, gentamicin, incarnated, incarnates, incautions, incidental, incinerate, incitation, incogitant, incognitas, inconstant, incubating, incubation, indicating, indication, inductance, infarction, infracting, infraction, injectants, inoculants, insouciant, instancies, instancing, intactness, intendance, interchain, interocean, intoxicant, intragenic, invocating, invocation, itinerancy, junctional, mendicants, naphthenic, nectarines, nicotianas, nonactions, nonaddicts, nonaquatic, nonascetic, noncabinet, noncapital, nonelastic, nonethical, nonplastic, nontypical, nucleating, nucleation, nunciature, outdancing, pancreatin, pangenetic, pentatonic, phenacetin, plainchant, planktonic, punctation, reenacting, renunciate, sanctimony, sanctioned, scantiness, scantlings, sonicating, sonication, stanchions, staunching, tangencies, technician, transgenic, transience, transiency, transsonic, truncating, truncation, tyrannical, uncanniest, uncreating, unlatching, unpedantic, unromantic, unstacking, unteaching. | |
+5 letters: abstinences, accountings, acquainting, actinomycin, adjunctions, anacreontic, ancestoring, ancientness, ancientries, annunciated, annunciates, annunciator, anthocyanin, anticipants, anticyclone, antinuclear, antinucleon, antiscience, astringency, benefaction, bicentenary, cachinnated, cachinnates, calcination, calcitonins, cancelation, cantharidin, carbonating, carbonation, cartoonings, catenations, cementation, centenarian, centenaries, centennials, centimorgan, clandestine, coattending, codominants, cognitional, combination, commination, communicant, complainant, concertinas, concomitant, condimental, conditional, condonation, confidantes, conflations, confutation, congelation, conjugating, conjugation, conjunctiva, conjuration, connotation, connotative, consolation, constancies, constrained, constraints, containable, containment, contaminant, contaminate, continental, continually, continuance, continuants, continuator, contracting, contraction, contraption, contrarians, contrasting, contrivance, conurbation, convocation, coronations, covenanting, creatinines, crenelation, crenulation, criminating, crimination, culminating, culmination, cunctations, cybernation, decantation, declination, disenchants, enchainment, enucleating, enucleation, enunciating, enunciation, enunciators, fascinating, fascination, fecundating, fecundation, fornicating, fornication, fractioning, franticness, fucoxanthin, functionary, geanticline, gentamicins, hyacinthine, inappetence, inauthentic, incalescent, incantation, incantatory, incarnating, incarnation, incessantly, incidentals, incinerated, incinerates, incinerator, incitations, inclination, incognizant, incompliant, inconsonant, inconstancy, incremental, incriminate, incubations, inculcating, inculcation, inculpating, inculpation, incurvating, incurvation, indications, inductances, inexactness, infanticide, infarctions, infractions, inhabitancy, inheritance, inoculating, inoculation, instinctual, intendances, interactant, interacting, interaction, interagency, interbranch, intercensal, interchains, interchange, interfacing, interlacing, intolerance, intoxicants, intrinsical, invocations, laciniation, lancinating, lieutenancy, linecasting, machinating, machination, magnificent, maintenance, malfunction, manneristic, merchanting, narcotizing, necromantic, nictitating, nonanalytic, nonanatomic, nonaromatic, nonartistic, nonascetics, nonathletic, noncabinets, noncapitals, noncreative, noncritical, nondiabetic, nondidactic, nondogmatic, nondramatic, nonemphatic, nonmagnetic, nonmetallic, nonmetrical, nonmystical, nonoperatic, nonplastics, nonreactive, nonteaching, nontropical, nucleations, nunciatures, nuncupative, pancreatins, pectination, pentazocine, phenacetins, phonetician, plainchants, preenacting, punctations, punctuating, punctuation, reaccenting, recantation, recombinant, reincarnate, renunciates, sanctifying, sanctioning, scintillant, significant, sonications, stagnancies, stanchioned, syncopating, syncopation, syndicating, syndication, technicians, transacting, transaction, transducing, transecting, transection, transiences, transuranic, truncations, tyrannicide, unaffecting, unauthentic, uncaptioned, uncertainly, uncertainty, unchristian, uncinematic, uncurtained, underacting, unification, uninucleate, untechnical, vacationing, vaccinating, vaccination, vindicating, vindication, wainscoting. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 61 6E 6E 69 63 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- .- -. -. .. -.-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01100001 01101110 01101110 01101001 01100011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T a n n i c |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0061 006E 006E 0069 0063 |
| 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)546780807569 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Quotations: Fiction 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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