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Definition: Treadmill |
TreadmillNoun1. An exercise device consisting of an endless belt on which a person can walk or jog without changing place. 2. A mill that is powered by men or animals walking on a circular belt or climbing steps. 3. A job involving drudgery and confinement. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "treadmill" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1762. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | A mill worked by an animal (as a horse or dog) trading an endless belt and used also on a stock farm or ranch to exercise a bull. Source: European Union. (references) |
Medicine | A motor driven horizontal belt used for imposing consistent levels of dynamic work on subjects walking or running in a fixed position. Source: European Union. (references) |
Public Administration | Apparatus used to produce rotation, in which the weight of men or animals climbing steps on or around the periphery of a cylinder or wheel caused it to turn. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: TreadmillSynonyms: salt mine (n), treadwheel (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: treadwheel (public administration, building & civil engineering). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Scourge | Treadmill, crank, galleys. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Treadmill |
| English words defined with "treadmill": treadmill test. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "treadmill": EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGIST ♦ Ixion ♦ MANAGER, HEALTH CLUB ♦ stress technicia, STRESS TEST TECHNICIAN. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Lucid on Treadmill in Russian Mir Space Station. Credit: NASA. |  | Bluford on Treadmill. Credit: NASA. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Charles Caleb Colton | To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Lady of the Ladle | Carroll, Lewis | And he had scaled that wondrous stair That soars from earth to upper air, Where rich and poor alike must climb, And walk the treadmill for a time |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The patient exercises either on a treadmill machine or bicycle while connected to the ECG machine. (references) | |
Measurements of physical function quantified by means such as treadmill testing or motion-sensing devices. (references) | ||
A stress test (also called a treadmill test or exercise ECG) is used to record the heartbeat during exercise. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Treadmill" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Treadmill" is used about 81 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% | 81 | 36,835 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "treadmill": treadmill test. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "treadmill": promo-treadmill. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
treadmill | 5,000 | trimline treadmill | 56 |
proform treadmill | 408 | cheap treadmill | 54 |
treadmill review | 212 | landice treadmill | 53 |
used treadmill | 194 | treadmill comparison | 52 |
true treadmill | 193 | reebok treadmill | 51 |
weslo treadmill | 142 | sears treadmill | 50 |
image treadmill | 123 | treadmill doctor | 50 |
treadmill rating | 113 | consumer report treadmill | 49 |
nordic track treadmill | 113 | life fitness treadmill | 49 |
pro form treadmill | 107 | trotter treadmill | 46 |
key treadmill | 101 | best treadmill | 46 |
manual treadmill | 100 | treadmill part | 45 |
smooth treadmill | 99 | treadmill workouts | 45 |
exercise treadmill | 87 | treadmill mat | 43 |
discount treadmill | 83 | healthrider treadmill | 43 |
precor treadmill | 79 | spirit treadmill | 43 |
lifestyler treadmill | 70 | pacemaster treadmill | 42 |
treadmill for sale | 69 | treadmill repair | 41 |
vitamaster treadmill | 60 | commercial treadmill | 41 |
dog treadmill | 57 | folding treadmill | 39 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "treadmill"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | punë rutine (hackwork). (various references) | |
Arabic | طاحون الدوس, جهاز تدويس, روتين متعب. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | неблагодарна работа (donkey work, drudgery, hackwork), монотонна работа, механизъм задвижван с ходене. (various references) | |
Chinese | 踏车. (various references) | |
Danish | traedemoelle, traedemølle, løbeband, løbebånd. (various references) | |
Dutch | tredrad (treadwheel), tredmolen, transportband (band conveyor, belt conveyor, belt type conveyor, continuous system, conveyer, conveyor, conveyor belt, horizontal conveyor, moving way, moving-band conveyor, moving-belt conveyor), loopbrug (cat walk, connecting bridge, flying bridge, fore and aft bridge, gangway, monkey bridge, passage, passage way). (various references) | |
Farsi | چرخ عصارخانه , کارپرزحمت (Toil). (various references) | |
Finnish | juoksumatto. (various references) | |
French | trépigneuse, tapis roulant (travolator), roue a tympan (treadwheel), manège. (various references) | |
German | Tretmühle (treadwheel). (various references) | |
Greek | κυλιόμενος τάπητας, ποδόμυλοσ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מכשיר "יש", ש'ר" מעיפת. (various references) | |
Hungarian | taposómalom. (various references) | |
Italian | treadmill, rullo trasportatore, routine (round, routine, rut), pedana mobile. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 踏車 , 踏み車 , ループ線 (air conditioner, fee charged for hotel room, loop line, magnifying glass, room, room cooler, rooming, roommate, room-service, Roumania, ruler, rural). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ルー ランナー , ふみぐるま. (various references) | |
Korean | """방아. (various references) | |
Manx | mwyllin coshey. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eadmilltray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | tarefa monótona e árdua, tapete rolante (carousel, conveyor, moving pavement, moving sidewalk, moving walkway, pedestrian conveyor, speedwalk, travelator), tambor posto em rotação por uma pessoa. (various references) | |
Russian | топчак (mill). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pokretna traka za trčanje, ergometar, dirinčenje (grind). (various references) | |
Spanish | rueda de molino (millwheel), rueda de andar, noria (noria), cinta rodante. (various references) | |
Swedish | trampkvarn, rullband (hoop), grottekvarn. (various references) | |
Turkish | tekdüze iş, monoton iş, ayak değirmeni. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | тупчак, одноманітна механічна праця. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "treadmill": treadmills. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "treadmill" (pronounced tre"dmi'l) |
| 4 | -d m i' l | windmill. |
| 3 | -m i' l | sawmill. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-l-l-m-r-t" | |
-2 letters: dallier, dialler, dilater, literal, maltier, marlite, rallied, readmit, redtail, tallied, tallier, trailed, tramell, trilled. | |
-3 letters: admire, airted, allied, ariled, armlet, dartle, derail, dermal, detail, dialer, dilate, dreamt, imaret, ladler, laired, lilted, mailed, mailer, malled, mallei, mallet, malted, marled, marted, medial, medlar, milder, milled, miller, millet, milted, milter, mitral, mitred, railed, ramtil, redial. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-l-l-m-r-t" | |
+1 letter: treadmills. | |
+2 letters: drillmaster. | |
+3 letters: drillmasters, multilayered. | |
+4 letters: detrimentally, diametrically, intradermally, multibarreled. | |
+5 letters: circumvallated, democratically, dermatological. | |
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