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Definition: Abattoir |
AbattoirNoun1. A building where animals are butchered. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "abattoir" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references) |
Etymology: Abattoir \A`bat`toir"\ ([.a]`b[.a]t`tw[aum]r"), noun; plural Abattoirs (-tw[aum]rz"). [French expression, from abattre to beat down. See Abate.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Food & Agriculture | Place where the killing of animals for human consumption takes place. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: AbattoirSynonyms: butchery (n), shambles (n), slaughterhouse (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Killing | Slaughtering; phthisozoics; sport, sporting; the chase, venery; hunting, coursing, shooting, fishing; pig-sticking; sportsman, huntsman, fisherman; hunter, Nimrod; slaughterhouse, meat packing plant, shambles, abattoir. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Abattoir |
| English words defined with "abattoir": Abattoirs. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "abattoir": SUPERVISOR, ABATTOIR. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Abattoir" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Afrikaan (abattoir, slaughterhouse), Dutch (abattoir, slaughterhouse), French (abattoir, slaughter house, slaughterhouse). |
| Domain | Title |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Abattoir workers, meat inspectors, animal handlers, veterinarians, and laboratorians. (references) | |
Inhalation is often responsible for a significant percentage of cases in abattoir employees. (references) | ||
Veterinarians, horse and donkey caretakers, abattoir workers, workers in laboratories where the organism is being handled or in areas where equines may be infected. (references) | ||
Economic History | Chad | In 1999-2000, the government privatized the N'djamena abattoir; three banks: BTCD (now SGTB), BDT and BIAT; and the state sugar company, SONASUT (now CST). In the energy sector, a management agreement was signed for Vivendi (formerly Generale des Eaux) for a period of two years beginning in September 2000. Similar arrangements for foreign management of state-owned properties have been made with the Meridien Group and the Accor Group to manage the Chari Hotel and the Novotel, respectively. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
John Hartmann | Nothing specific. I'm just saying, it's quite obvious we're all in the conveyer belt to the corporate abattoir. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Abattoir" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.41% of the time. "Abattoir" is used about 63 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) | 98.41% | 62 | 42,755 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.59% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 63 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
abattoir | 59 |
abattoir equipment | 4 |
abattoir picture | 3 |
abattoir cell splinter | 3 |
abattoir lyrics | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "abattoir"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaan | abattoir (slaughterhouse). (various references) | |
Albanian | thertore (butchery, sacrificial, shambles, slaughterhouse). (various references) | |
Arabic | مسلخ‘ مجزر. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | скотобойна (slaughterhouse), кланица (butchery, shambles, slaughterhouse). (various references) | |
Chinese | 场 (Abattoirs). (various references) | |
Czech | jatky (butchery, shambles, slaughterhouse). (various references) | |
Danish | slagteri (meat plant, slaughterhouse, slaughter-house). (various references) | |
Dutch | slachthuis (meat plant, slaughterhouse, slaughter-house). (various references) | |
Esperanto | buĉejo (slaughterhouse). (various references) | |
Farsi | کشتارگاه (Shambles, Slaughterhouse). (various references) | |
Finnish | teurastamo (butcher's chop, butchery, meat plant, slaughterhouse, slaughter-house). (various references) | |
French | abattoir, boucherie. (various references) | |
Frisian | slachterij (butcher shop). (various references) | |
German | Schlachthof (meat plant, slaughter house, slaughterhouse, slaughter-house), Schlachthaus (slaughter house, slaughterhouse). (various references) | |
Greek | σφαγείο (carcase, carcass, meat plant, shambles, slaughter house, slaughterhouse, slaughter-house). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מטבחים (slaughterhouse), בית מטבחים (slaughterhouse). (various references) | |
Hungarian | vágóhíd (butchery, shambles, slaughter house, slaughterhouse). (various references) | |
Italian | mattatoio (meat plant, shambles, slaughter house, slaughterhouse, slaughter-house), macello (butchery, massacre, meat plant, shambles, slaughter, slaughterhouse, slaughter-house). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 畜殺 , 殺 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | とさつじょう, ちくさつば. (various references) | |
Manx | thie buitchoorys (shambles, slaughter house). (various references) | |
Papiamen | abatuar. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | abattoiray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | matadouro (butcher's shop, meat plant, shamble, shambles, slaughterhouse, slaughter-house). (various references) | |
Romanian | abator (butchery, shambles, slaughter house), zalhana (shamble). (various references) | |
Russian | бойня (butchery, killings, massacre, shambles, slaughterhouse). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | klanica (butchery, shambles, slaughterhouse). (various references) | |
Spanish | matadero (meat plant, shambles, slaughterhouse, slaughter-house, slaughterhouses), matadero de reses. (various references) | |
Sranan | srakt'oso, srakti-oso. (various references) | |
Swedish | slakthus (shambles, slaughterhouse), slakteri (meat plant, slaughterhouse, slaughter-house). (various references) | |
Turkish | mezbaha (butchery, packing house, shambles, slaughter house, slaughterhouse), kesimevi. (various references) | |
Ukranian | різниця (butchery, difference, odds, otherness), бойня (butchery, holocaust, shambles, slaughterhouse). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | lò sát sinh, lò mổ (slaughter-house). (various references) | |
Welsh | lladd-dy (slaughterhouse). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "abattoir": abattoirs. (additional references) | |
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"Abattoir" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abatoir, abattior, abbatoir, abbattoir, abitibi, abottoir. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-i-o-r-t-t" | |
-1 letter: airboat. | |
-2 letters: abator, rabato. | |
-3 letters: abort, aorta, atria, attar, biota, boart, britt, orbit, ottar, rabat, ratio, riata, tabor, tarot, tatar, tiara, trait. | |
-4 letters: abri, airt, aria, bait, batt, bitt, boar, boat, bora, bort, bota, bott, brat, brio, brit, iota, obia, obit, raia, rato, riot, rota, roti, taro, tart, tiro, toit, tora, tori, tort, trio, trot. | |
-5 letters: aba, abo, air, ait, arb, art, att, baa, bar, bat, bio, bit, boa, bot, bra, bro, oar, oat, obi, ora, orb, ort, rat, ria, rib, rob, rot, tab, tao, tar, tat, tit, tor, tot. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-i-o-r-t-t" | |
+1 letter: abattoirs. | |
+2 letters: arbitrator, trabeation. | |
+3 letters: abstraction, arbitration, arbitrators, trabeations. | |
+4 letters: abstractions, antiabortion, arbitrations, bacteriostat, masturbation, microhabitat. | |
+5 letters: abortifacient, abstractional, arbitrational, attributional, bacteriostats, bacterization, brutalization, contrabandist, contrabassist, masturbations, microhabitats, pentobarbital, rehabilitator, subsaturation. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 62 61 74 74 6F 69 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -... .- - - --- .. .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100010 01100001 01110100 01110100 01101111 01101001 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A b a t t o i r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0062 0061 0074 0074 006F 0069 0072 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3568678686817584 |
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