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Advil

Definition: Advil

Advil

Noun

1. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medicine (trade names Advil and Motrin and Nuprin) used to relieve the pain of arthritis and as an analgesic and antipyretic.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 



Synonyms: Advil

Synonyms: ibuprofen (n), isobutylphenyl propionic acid (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Advil

English words defined with "Advil": ibuprofen, isobutylphenyl propionic acidMotrinNuprin. (references)

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Modern Usage: Advil

DomainUsage

Screenplays

You know, what I could really use here is a cup holder and some Advil. (Galaxy Quest; writing credit: David Howard)

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

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Expressions: Advil

Expressions using "Advil": Advil Cold & Sinus Caplets [OTC] Children's Advil Oral Suspension [OTC]. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Advil

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

advil

415

advil cold and sinus

24

advil western open

22

advil side effects

20

advil overdose

13

advil coupon

11

advil child

11

advil pregnancy

11

advil migraine

9

advil gel liqui

8

advil ingredient

8

advil dog

7

advil allergy sinus

5

advil alcohol

5

advil sinus

4

advil alternative

4

advil dosage

3

advil pregnant

3

advil allergy

3

advil tylenol

3
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Misspellings: Advil

Misspellings

"Advil" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Adji, Adval, advi, Advin, Arduil, Asvall, Avdel, Avdell, Darvill, Davill, Davoll, Fadhil, Fadzil, Radvils. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Advil

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: valid.

Words within the letters "a-d-i-l-v"

-1 letter: avid, dial, diva, laid, vail, vial.

-2 letters: aid, ail, dal, lad, lav, lid, via.

-3 letters: ad, ai, al, id, la, li.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-i-l-v"
 

+1 letter: avidly, vailed, vialed.

 

+2 letters: anviled, availed, caviled, datival, devisal, diluvia, glaived, invalid, ovoidal, rivaled, valgoid, validly, vapidly, vedalia, vialled.

 

+3 letters: anvilled, bivalved, cavilled, datively, deprival, devisals, dilative, diluvial, diluvian, disvalue, divalent, dividual, dovetail, drivable, evadible, gravidly, invalids, khedival, lavished, medieval, nonvalid, overlaid, ovicidal, oviducal, rivalled, validate, validity, vandalic, variedly, vedalias, villadom, vindaloo, violated, voidable.

 

+4 letters: adverbial, advisable, advisably, advisedly, avoidable, avoidably, bloviated, daredevil, deleaving, deprivals, derivable, devaluing, devisable, disavowal, disvalued, disvalues, dividable, dovetails, driveable, eluviated, flavonoid, gavelkind, invalided, invalidly, javelined, khedivial, larvicide, laudative, levigated, levitated, mediaeval, medievals, misvalued, overplaid, oviductal, prevailed, reavailed, salivated, travailed, unrivaled, validated, validates, valorised, valorized, vandalise, vandalism, vandalize, velarized, veridical, victualed, videoland, villadoms, vindaloos, viricidal, virucidal, vitalised, vitalized, vocalised, vocalized.

 

+5 letters: adaptively, additively, adenoviral, adhesively, adjectival, adoptively, adverbials, alleviated, cavaliered, clavichord, cultivated, daredevils, deceivable, decemviral, devitalize, devocalize, devotional, disavowals, disvaluing, divisional, dovetailed, evidential, flavonoids, galivanted, galvanised, galvanized, gavelkinds, illuviated, individual, invalidate, invaliding, invalidism, invalidity, larvicidal, larvicides, lixiviated, mediaevals, medievally, outcaviled, outrivaled, overlading, overplaids, pavilioned, quadrivial, revalidate, unrivalled, vacillated, validating, validation, validities, vandalised, vandalises, vandalisms, vandalized, vandalizes, vaudeville, ventilated, verbalized, vernalized, victualled, videolands, vindicable, visualised, visualized, vulcanised, vulcanized, vulgarised, vulgarized.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Advil


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

41 64 76 69 6C

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01000001 01100100 01110110 01101001 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#100 &#118 &#105 &#108

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0064 0076 0069 006C

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

3570887578

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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