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Definition: DRUSE |
DRUSENoun1. One of a people and religious sect dwelling chiefly in the Lebanon mountains of Syria. 2. A cavity in a rock, having its interior surface studded with crystals and sometimes filled with water; a geode. |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | A. An irregular cavity or opening in a vein or rock, having its interior surface or walls lined (encrusted) with small projecting crystals usually of the same minerals as those of the enclosing rock, and sometimes filled with water; e.g., a small solution cavity, a steam hole in lava, or a lithophysa in volcanic glass. CF:geode; miarolitic cavity; vug b. A mineral surface covered with small projecting crystals; specif. the crust or coating of crystals lining a druse in a rock, such as sparry calcite filling pore spaces in a limestone. Etymol: German. Adj: drus e.g., a small solution cavity, a steam hole in lava, or a lithophysa in volcanic glass. CF:geode; miarolitic cavity; vug. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: DRUSE |
| Non-English Usage: "DRUSE" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. German (druse, geode). |
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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 |
druse | 6 |
druse religion | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "DRUSE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | الدرزي واحد الدروز. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | друза. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 晶族. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | gangholte (bug hole, vugh). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | druze, druse, géode, cavite. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Druse (geode). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | drúza, kristályfészek. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | drusa, cavita rivestita di cristalli. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | "루즈파. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | usedray drusa. (various references) друза. (various references) druz (druze). (various references) druso (druze), drusa. (various references) dürzi (druze), billurcuklarla kaplı oyuk. (various references) друза. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "DRUSE": druses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "DRUSE" (pronounced druw"z) |
| 3 | -r uw" z | accrues, brews, bruise, crews, cruise, Cruse, Roose, ruse, screws. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: dures. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: dues, dure, reds, rude, rued, rues, ruse, sued, suer, surd, sure, urds, used, user. | |
-2 letters: due, eds, ers, red, res, rue, ser, sue, urd, use. | |
-3 letters: de, ed, er, es, re, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-r-s-u" | |
+1 letter: crudes, cursed, demurs, douser, drupes, druses, dupers, duress, duster, nursed, perdus, prudes, pursed, redubs, reused, roused, rudest, rushed, rusted, soured, sudser, sunder, surfed, surged, udders, uredos. | |
+2 letters: adjures, aroused, assured, asunder, bedrugs, bruised, brushed, budders, budgers, burdens, burdies, burseed, bursted, coursed, crudest, cruised, crusade, crushed, crusted, curdles, danseur, dasyure, daubers, desugar, detours, devours, dourest, dousers, drogues, drudges, dubbers, duckers, duelers, duffers, duikers, dumpers, dunkers, durries, duskier, dusters, dustier, eluders, endures, enduros, ensured, gerunds, gourdes, groused, grudges, guiders, hurdies, hurdles, insured, judders, judgers, lauders, lustred, mudders, murders, nudgers, ordures, perdues, perused, predusk, pursued, recused, redbuds, redbugs, redouts, reduces, refunds, refused, remudas, rescued, residua, residue, resound, restudy, resumed, rosebud, rousted, rudders, ruddles, rudesby, rundles, rustled, scoured, secured, seducer, shudder, slurped, slurred, sounder, sourced, spruced, spudder, spurned, spurred, spurted, squared, squired, strudel, studier, subduer, sudsers, sudsier, sugared, sunders, supered, sutured, trudges, trussed, trusted, undoers, undress, undrest, updries, ureides, ushered, usurped. | |
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