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Definition: RED ANT |
RED ANT1. (Zo["o]l.) (a) A very small ant (Myrmica molesta) which often infests houses. (b) A larger reddish ant (Formica sanquinea), native of Europe and America. It is one of the slave-making species. |
Crosswords: RED ANT |
| English words defined with "RED ANT": Monomorium pharaonis ♦ pharaoh ant, pharaoh's ant. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | A red ant ran into the shell, into the soft skin inside the shell, and suddenly head and legs snapped in, and the armored tail clamped in sideways. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| 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 |
red ant | 171 |
red ant bite | 31 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "RED ANT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Arabic | النمل الأحمر. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Chamorro | odot agaga'. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | stor roed skovmyre (wood ant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | rode bosmier (wood ant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | punamuurahainen (wood ant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | fourmi rouge. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | rote Waldameise (wood ant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | ερυθρό μυρμήγκι (wood ant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | grande formica rossa dei boschi (wood ant), formica rossa (wood ant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Manx | sniengan ruy. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Maya | chak-siinik. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Papago | wepegi totoni. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | edray antay hormiga rojonegra (wood ant). (various references) vanlig stackmyra (wood ant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Formica rufa. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: ardent, ranted. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-n-r-t" | |
-1 letter: anted, antre, dater, denar, derat, rated, redan, tared, trade, tread, trend. | |
-2 letters: ante, dare, darn, dart, date, dean, dear, dent, drat, earn, etna, nard, near, neat, nerd, rand, rant, rate, read, rend, rent, tare, tarn, tear, tend, tern, trad. | |
-3 letters: and, ane, ant, are, art, ate, den, ear, eat, end, era, ern, eta, nae, net, rad, ran, rat, red, ret, tad, tae, tan, tar, tea, ted, ten. | |
-4 letters: ad, ae, an, ar, at, de, ed, en, er, et, na, ne, re, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-n-r-t" | |
+1 letter: antired, bartend, daunter, detrain, dextran, dragnet, granted, natured, stander, trained, tranced, unrated, untread, verdant. | |
+2 letters: adherent, antherid, antlered, ardently, arointed, aroynted, attender, attorned, bantered, bartends, breadnut, cantered, cartoned, crenated, daintier, danewort, darndest, daunters, decanter, denature, dentural, derating, detainer, detrains, dextrans, dicentra, dipteran, dragnets, dragonet, gradient, grandest, indurate, narrated, nattered, neatherd, nitrated, nonrated, ordinate, parented, pedantry, pronated, randiest, rationed, ratooned, rattened, recanted, redating, retained, ruinated, standers, strained, stranded, strander, teardown, transude, treading, truanted, turbaned, uncrated, underact, underate, undereat, undertax, undreamt, unparted, unthread, untraced, untreads, urinated. | |
+3 letters: adherents, adornment, adsorbent, adventure, advertent, adverting, affronted, andradite, anhydrite, antherids, arytenoid, astringed, attainder, attenders, bartended, bartender, breadnuts, bystander, carinated, cartooned, coronated, creodonta, curtained, daneworts, darndests, darnedest, davenport, debarment, decanters, declarant, denatured, denatures, denervate, denigrate, deodorant, departing, deratting, detainers, detonator, detrained, dicentras, dipterans, draftsmen, dragonets, dynamiter, enervated, engrafted, entrained, entranced, entrapped, entreated, estranged, garmented, generated, godparent, gradients, gratineed, greatened, handwrite, handwrote, hardiment, heartened, heartland, herniated, indurated, indurates, inearthed, infarcted, infracted, ingrafted, instarred, integrand, interlaid, interlard, intreated, irredenta, irridenta, margented, marinated, mordanted, neatherds, notarized, numerated, ordinates, outearned, outlander, outranged, outranked, pantdress, partnered, patterned, pertained, predating, predation, printhead, rattooned, redacting, redaction, reductant, redundant, reenacted, regardant, regranted, renatured, renovated, repainted, replanted, resinated, resonated, retardant, retarding, retrained, ruminated, sauntered, seastrand, sedentary, smartened, sternward, stranders, strangled, tailender, tardiness, tarnished, teardowns, threadfin, threading, tornadoes, tradesman, tradesmen, tragedian, transcend, transduce, transited, transuded, transudes, trapanned, treadling, trepanned, trepidant, truncated, turbanned, unaltered, uncharted, uncreated, underacts, undercoat, undereats, underpart, underrate, undertake, unearthed, unrelated, unthreads, untrained, untreated, venerated, verdantly, warranted. | |
+4 letters: abridgment, achondrite, adherently, administer, adornments, adroitness, adsorbents, adulterant, adulterine, adventured, adventurer, adventures, advertence, advertency, alternated, amendatory, ancestored, andradites, anhydrites, animadvert, anteverted, antheridia, antimodern, antitrades, arytenoids, attainders, banditries, bandmaster, banistered, bankrupted, bartenders, bartending, bladdernut, brominated, bystanders, carbonated, carotenoid, centigrade, contracted, contrasted, coordinate, credential, crenelated, crenulated, criminated, cybernated, davenports, deaerating, deaeration, debarments, declarants, decorating, decoration, degenerate, delineator, denaturant, denaturing, denervated, denervates, denigrated, denigrates, denigrator, deodorants, department, depressant, depurating, deracinate, derailment, derivation, dermatogen, derogating, derogation, designator, detonators, detracting, detraction, detraining, dewatering, dextranase, disbarment, discarnate, discrepant, disenthral, dishearten, dispersant, distrained, distrainer, downstater, downstream, draftiness, drivetrain, dynamiters, earthbound, endearment, endometria, enraptured, enthralled, entodermal, enumerated, enwreathed, eradiating, exonerated, fatherland, federating, federation, flatlander, foredating, forestland, fornicated, fractioned, fragmented, fraudulent, germinated, goaltender, godparents, granulated, guaranteed, guarantied, handwrites, hardiments, headhunter, headstrong, heartlands, hibernated, hinterland, inbreathed, incarnated, incurvated, indurative, inebriated, infuriated, ingathered, innervated, inordinate, integrands, integrated, interacted, interfaced, intergrade, interlaced, interlards, intermodal, internodal, interplead, intertidal, inthralled, intradoses, irredentas, irridentas, itinerated, laundrette, marginated, mastermind, merchanted, mistrained, moderating, moderation, motherland, narcotized, octahedron, ordainment, orientated, originated, ornamented, outlanders, outlearned, outreading, parenthood, pathfinder, patronised, patronized, pedantries, pedestrian, penetrated, pentahedra, perennated, personated, predations, preenacted, pretrained, printheads, protonated, prudential, pteranodon, quadrantes, reaccented, readapting, readopting, reanimated, reanointed, reattained, redactions, redbaiting, redrafting, reductants, refastened, reinflated, reinstated, reobtained, restrained, retardants, retreading, roundtable, rudimental, sandlotter, seastrands, sternwards, stewarding, straitened, strandline, strangered, subtrahend, tailenders, tawdriness, terminated, threadfins, threatened, timberland, tragedians, transacted, transcends, transduced, transducer, transduces, transected, transfixed, transfused, translated, transmuted, transpired, transposed, transudate, trapnested, turbinated, tyrannised, tyrannized, ultradense, uncarpeted, underacted, undercoats, undereaten, underneath, underpants, underparts, underrated, underrates, underreact, understand, understate, undertaken, undertaker, undertakes, undertaxed, undertaxes, underwater, unfathered, unparented, unreadiest, unsteadier, unstrained, unstrapped, unthreaded, untraveled, untreading, unwreathed, wanderlust. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 45 44      41 4E 54 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01000101 01000100 00100000 01000001 01001110 01010100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R E D   A N T |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0045 0044      0041 004E 0054 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5239382354854 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Slideshow | 5. Quotations: Fiction 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Translations: Ancient | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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