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BY-PRODUCTS

"BY-PRODUCTS" is a plural of: by-product.

Date "BY-PRODUCTS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references)


Specialty Definition: BY-PRODUCTS

DomainDefinition

Chemical Industry

Substances which are formed during a chemical reaction and which remain at the end of the reaction or process. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Synonym: BY-PRODUCTS

Synonym: Waste products. (additional references)

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Crosswords: BY-PRODUCTS

English words defined with "BY-PRODUCTS": black diseasedistomatosisliver rotsheep rot. (references)
Specialty definitions using "BY-PRODUCTS": Coccidioidin, coupling agentHazardous Waste, Hydrofluorocarbonslean gas, low BTU gas, low calorific gas, low calorific value gasPerfluorocarbonsSolar Fuel TechnologyTrickling FilterUnvented Heater. (references)

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Commercial Usage: BY-PRODUCTS

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References

  • The World Market for Essential Oils Including Concretes, Absolutes, Resinoids, Concentrates, and Terpenic By-Products of Essential Oils: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Effect of coagulation and ozonation on the formation of disinfection by-products : final report (reference)

  • Identification and Occurrence of Ozonation By-Products in Drinking Water (reference)

  • Impacts of Ozonation on the Formation of Chlorination and Chloramination By-Products (reference)

  • Mutagenic activity and chlorinated by-products in disinfected waters (reference)

  • Chlorinated Drinking-Water: Chlorination By-Products; Some Other Halogenated Compounds; Cobalt & Cobalt Compounds (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Image Slideshow: BY-PRODUCTS

Illustrations:
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Historic Usage: BY-PRODUCTS

AuthorDateQuotation

Treaty of Versailles

1919

As far as concerns the mines which are being worked, the transfer of the ownership to the French State will apply to all the accessories and subsidiaries of the said mines, in particular to their plant and equipment both on and below the surface to their extracting machinery, their plants for transforming coal into electric power, coke and by-products, their workshops means of communication, electric lines, plant for catching and distributing water, land, buildings such as offices, managers, employees, and workmen's dwellings, schools, hospitals and dispensaries, their stocks and supplies of every description, their archives and plans, and in general everything which those who own or exploit the mines possess or enjoy for the purpose of exploiting the mines and their accessories and subsidiaries. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: BY-PRODUCTS

TitleAuthorQuote

Young Zaphod Plays It Safe

Douglas Adams

exclaimed both of Zaphod's heads in chorus. "So safe that you have to build a zarking fortress ship to take the by-products to the nearest black hole and tip them in!

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: BY-PRODUCTS

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

These mutations can be created by DNA-damaging carcinogens such as cigarette by-products and radiation. (references)

Sometimes, metabolic processes go awry and by-products such as tangles and plaques build up inside and outside of cells and prevent them from working efficiently. (references)

Smart shoppers learn to read food labels with care, looking not only for milk and lactose among the contents but also for such words as whey, curds, milk by-products, dry milk solids, and nonfat dry milk powder. (references)

Business

Incineration by-products, mostly fly ash and bottom ash, have themselves, raised serious environmental problems. (references)

It should be noted that grain and their by-products are mostly handled in areas of the port outside the terminals. (references)

There are also a few factories in northern Sweden, where pulp mills provide valuable by-products as well as a market for process chemicals. (references)

Economic History

Korea

Imports of animal by-products increased steadily over the past several years. (references)

Botswana

Botswana's cattle population is about 2.5 million; (d) cattle by-products from the BMC. (references)

Spain

U.S. agricultural exports were dominated by oilseeds, grains and grain by-products, and forestry products. (references)

Trade

Haiti

Also excluded are certain watches and watch parts, petroleum and its by-products, prepared or canned tuna, sugar, molasses, syrup, beef, spirits, and footwear. (references)

Georgia

The Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations issues licenses for imports of the following items: plant protection chemicals, wild animals, birds, fish, certain kinds of plants and seeds, and industrial by-products. (references)

Argentina

A. The National Service of Agricultural Food Health and Quality (Servicio Nacional de Sanidad y Calidad Agroalimentaria - SENASA) handles fresh, chilled, or frozen products and by-products of animal, plant, and seafood origin. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: BY-PRODUCTS

"BY-PRODUCTS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "BY-PRODUCTS" is used about 81 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (plural)100%8136,835

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: BY-PRODUCTS

Language Translations for "BY-PRODUCTS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

biprodukter. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

bijprodukten. (various references)

   

French

  

sous-produits (carcase byproducts). (various references)

   

German

  

Nebenprodukte (byproducts). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

υποπροϊόντα (carcase byproducts). (various references)

   

Italian

  

sottoprodotti. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

y-productsbay

   

Portuguese

  

subprodutos (carcase byproducts). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

subproductos. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: BY-PRODUCTS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: byproducts.

Words within the letters "b-c-d-o-p-r-s-t-u-y"

-1 letter: byproduct.

-2 letters: products.

-3 letters: cryptos, custody, product.

-4 letters: corpus, courts, coypus, croups, croupy, crusty, crypto, crypts, curtsy, cyprus, doubts, dropsy, durocs, outcry, robust, sporty, sprout, sprucy, stoury, stroud, stupor, sturdy, turbos.

-5 letters: borts, borty, bousy, bouts, brosy, buoys, burds, burps, burst, busty, corby, cords, corps, coups, court, coypu, crops, croup, cruds, crust, crypt, curbs, curds.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Quotations: Historic
7. Quotations: Fiction
8. Quotations: Non-fiction
9. Usage Frequency
10. Translations: Modern
11. Anagrams
12. Bibliography


  

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