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Definitions: Ablate |
AblateVerb1. Wear away through erosion or vaporization. 2. Remove an organ or bodily structure by surgery. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Aerospace | To carry away; specifically, to carry away heat generated by aerodynamic heating, from a vital part, by arranging for its absorption in a nonvital part, which may melt or vaporize, then fall away taking the heat with it. See heat shield, ablation. (references) |
Health | In surgery, is to remove. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Ablate |
| English words defined with "ablate": ablative. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ablate": Catheter Ablation ♦ Electrocoagulation. (references) |
| "Ablate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Ablate" is used about 4 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 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 75% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4 | 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 |
ablate | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ablate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 腐蚀 (ablated, Corrode, Corroded, Corroding, Corrosion, Decadent, Erode, Eroded, Eroding). (various references) | |
Czech | odstranit (clear away, discharge, dismantle, dispose of, do away with, eliminate, get out, remove, supersede, sweep, take away). (various references) | |
Greek | αφαιρώ (abstract, deduct, defrost, delete, detract, dismount, dispossess, divest, eliminate, remove, remove from, strip, subduct, subtract, take away, write off). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לקטוע (cut off, snatch), לכרות (cut down, hew, lop, resect). (various references) | |
Italian | asportare (remove, take away). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ablateay.(various references) | |
Russian | удалять (amputate, ask out, delete, dephosphorize, dislodge, extract, kill, remove, strip off, weed away, weed out, weeded). (various references) | |
Spanish | extirpar (cut out, eradicate, excise, extirpate, remove, root out, take out, wipe out). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ablate": ablated, ablates. (additional references) | |
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"Ablate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abale, Abblitt, abilite, ablade, ablage, ablie, ablige, ablute, Absa'tze, Alactel, Alastel, alata, Alati, albate, albulate, altae, Alzate, Balante, iblate, pabloite, sblate. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-e-l-t" | |
-1 letter: abate, alate, blate, bleat, tabla, table. | |
-2 letters: abet, able, alae, alba, baal, bale, bate, beat, belt, beta, blae, blat, blet, late, tael, tala, tale, teal, tela. | |
-3 letters: aal, aba, ala, alb, ale, alt, ate, baa, bal, bat, bel, bet, eat, eta, lab, lat, lea, let, tab, tae, tea, tel. | |
-4 letters: aa, ab, ae, al, at, ba, be, el, et, la, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-e-l-t" | |
+1 letter: abettal, ablated, ablates, actable, datable, eatable, hatable, labiate, ratable, tableau, takable, tamable, taxable. | |
+2 letters: abatable, abettals, ablative, ablegate, agitable, alphabet, ambulate, arbalest, atonable, baldpate, basaltes, beatable, betrayal, blastema, boatable, bracteal, cartable, castable, dateable, eatables, glabrate, hateable, heatable, labiated, labiates, lambaste, meatball, rateable, rateably, satiable, statable, tableaus, tableaux, tabulate, takeable, talkable, tameable, tannable, tastable, taxables, tearable, tradable, wastable. | |
+3 letters: ablatives, ablegates, acetabula, adaptable, adoptable, alabaster, alphabets, alterable, alterably, ambulated, ambulates, arbalests, astrolabe, auditable, bacterial, bagatelle, baldpates, ballasted, ballistae, basipetal, beanstalk, betrayals, bilabiate, bilateral, blastemal, blastemas, blastulae, cabaletta, calibrate, cantabile, capablest, catchable, debatable, dilatable, draftable, elaborate, exactable, fatigable, getatable, grantable, habitable, hatchable, lambasted, lambastes, locatable, matchable, meatballs, palatable, plantable, relatable, rotatable, saturable, stableman, stackable, stageable, stainable, stateable, stealable, tablature, tableland, tablemate, tableware, tabulated, tabulates, teachable, teachably, trabecula, traceable, tractable, tradeable, trainable, treatable, twayblade, unactable, uneatable, untamable, watchable, whaleboat. | |
+4 letters: abacterial, aberrantly, ablatively, acceptable, acceptably, acetabular, acetabulum, actionable, adjustable, affectable, alabasters, algebraist, alphabeted, alphabetic, ambivalent, ameloblast, analphabet, arbitrable, astrolabes, attachable, attainable, bagatelles, balustrade, banalities, bardolater, basketball, beanstalks, bequeathal, biparental, blackheart, blackwater, blastemata, blatancies, breathable, cabalettas, calibrated, calibrates, catabolite, catabolize, chalybeate, charitable, chelatable, detachable, detachably, elaborated, elaborates, factorable, fastballer, fathomable, flabellate, habilitate, inflatable, insatiable, isolatable, lamentable, lamentably, marketable, metastable, metastably, mistakable, nontaxable, obtainable, outbalance, paddleboat, patentable, portabella, repeatable, sailboater, stablemate, statutable, tabernacle, tablatures, tablelands, tablemates, tablewares, talebearer, targetable, tenantable, titratable, trabeculae, trabecular, trabeculas, twayblades, unabatedly, unbeatable, unbeatably, watchables, whaleboats. | |
+5 letters: accountable, acetabulums, alabastrine, albatrosses, algebraists, allocatable, alphabeting, alphabetize, ameloblasts, amenability, amortizable, analphabets, antiliberal, arabilities, articulable, attemptable, automatable, bacterially, balletomane, balustraded, balustrades, bardolaters, basipetally, basketballs, battlewagon, bearability, bequeathals, bidialectal, bilaterally, biomaterial, blackhearts, blackwaters, blastematic, breastplate, carboxylate, catabolites, catabolized, catabolizes, chalybeates, collaborate, confabulate, containable, detonatable, elaborately, elaborating, elaboration, elaborative, entablature, erasability, escheatable, extractable, fastballers, flabbergast, habilitated, habilitates, halterbreak, harvestable, implantable, inalterable, inalterably, inflatables, inhabitable, intractable, labiodental, labradorite, leatherback, libertarian, mandibulate, megaloblast, melanoblast, nontaxables, outbalanced, outbalances, paddleboats, paleobotany, perambulate, portabellas, practicable, racquetball, rattlebrain, readability, recalibrate, relocatable, restartable, retractable, retrainable, sailboaters, sandblasted, sandblaster, satirizable, satisfiable, stablemates, sustainable, syllabicate, tabernacled, tabernacles, talebearers, talebearing, tarnishable, trabeculate, trafficable, trailblazer, trailerable, traversable, treasonable, treasonably, treasurable, unadaptable, unadoptable, unalterable, unalterably, unballasted, uncatchable, undauntable, undebatable, undebatably, unelaborate, unmatchable, unpalatable, unteachable, untraceable, unwatchable, warrantable, wearability. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 62 6C 61 74 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -... .-.. .- - . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100010 01101100 01100001 01110100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A b l a t e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0062 006C 0061 0074 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)356878678671 |
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