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RED ANT

Definition: RED ANT

RED ANT

1. (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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 



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Crosswords: RED ANT

English words defined with "RED ANT": Monomorium pharaonispharaoh ant, pharaoh's ant. (references)

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Commercial Usage: RED ANT

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Books

  • The Little Red Ant and the Great Big Crumb (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Use in Literature: RED ANT

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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.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: RED ANT

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

red ant

171

red ant bite

31
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: RED ANT

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

   

Spanish

  

hormiga rojonegra (wood ant). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

vanlig stackmyra (wood ant). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: RED ANT

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Formica rufa. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: RED ANT

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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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: RED ANT


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

52 45 44      41 4E 54

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010010 01000101 01000100 00100000 01000001 01001110 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#69 &#68 &#32 &#65 &#78 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0045 0044      0041 004E 0054

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5239382354854

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INDEX

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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