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Definition: AZURITE |
AZURITENoun1. Blue carbonate of copper; blue malachite. |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | A. A monoclinic mineral, 2[Cu3 (OH)2 (CO3 )2 ]; forms vitreous azure crystals; a supergene mineral in oxidized parts of copper deposits associated with malachite; an ore of copper. Syn:azure spar; chessylite; blue copper; blue copper ore; blue malachite. b. A compact semiprecious stone derived from compact azurite and used as a decorator material.c. A trade name for a sky-blue gem variety of smithsonite. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: AZURITE |
| English words defined with "AZURITE": Chessy copper ♦ Mineral blue, Mountain blue ♦ Verditer. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "AZURITE": blue malachite ♦ cerulene, chessylite, copper-ore germ. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "AZURITE" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (azurite), Portuguese (azurite). |
| "AZURITE" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "AZURITE" 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
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 |
azurite | 39 |
azurite press | 10 |
azurite gem stone | 3 |
azurite mineral | 3 |
azurite malachite | 2 |
azurite picture | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "AZURITE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | اللازورد معدن أزرق. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | azurit, kobberlazur. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | azuriet, koperlazuur. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | azurite. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Azurith, Kupferlasur. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αζουρίτησ, αζουρίτης. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | azzurrite. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | azuriteay azurite. (various references) azurita. (various references) азурит. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "AZURITE": azurites. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "AZURITE": lazurite. (additional references) | |
Words containing "AZURITE": lazurites. (additional references) | |
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"AZURITE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aurit, aurita, azaire, Azeito, azerite, azori, azuire, Bazaruto, lazarite, lazurite, nazarite, Zarate, zurite. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "AZURITE" (pronounced 'Az"u*rite'): Abderite, Acrite, Adiaphorite, Ambrite, Anhydrite, Aphrite, Archimandrite, Artotyrite, Attrite, Bromyrite, Calaverite, Cerargyrite, Chondrite, Condurrite, Cuprite, Danburite, Erythrite, Fiorite, Fulgurite, hypochlorite, Hypocrite, Leucopyrite, Liparite, Madreporite, Mandragorite, Margarite, marguerite, Masorite, Miargyrite, Milleporite, Miswrite, Nazarite, Nazirite, nephrite, Nitrite, Norite, Octahedrite, Outwrite, ozocerite, Perite, Picrite, Pleurite, Porite, Porphyrite, Quirite, rewrite, rite, Scaphocerite, sclerite, Skrite. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-r-t-u-z" | |
-2 letters: aurei, azure, irate, retia, terai, uraei, urate, uteri, zaire. | |
-3 letters: airt, etui, izar, rate, raze, rite, ritz, tare, tear, tier, tire, true, tzar, urea, zeta. | |
-4 letters: air, ait, are, art, ate, ear, eat, eau, era, eta, ire, rat, rei, ret, ria, rue, rut, tae, tar, tau, tea, tie, tui, uta, zit. | |
-5 letters: ae, ai. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-r-t-u-z" | |
+1 letter: azurites, lazurite. | |
+2 letters: authorize, brutalize, cauterize, lazurites, quantizer, quartzite, rheumatiz, ritualize, trapezium, trapezius. | |
+3 letters: authorized, authorizer, authorizes, brutalized, brutalizes, cauterized, cauterizes, naturalize, neutralize, pasteurize, quantizers, quartzites, quizmaster, ritualized, ritualizes, suzerainty, trapeziums, traumatize. | |
+4 letters: antiseizure, authorizers, cauterizing, miniaturize, naturalized, naturalizes, neutralized, neutralizer, neutralizes, outorganize, pasteurized, pasteurizer, pasteurizes, quizmasters, reauthorize, rheumatizes, tetrazolium, tranquilize, trapeziuses, traumatized, traumatizes, unamortized. | |
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