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Definitions: Abductor |
AbductorNoun1. Someone who unlawfully seizes and detains a victim (usually for ransom). 2. A muscle that draws a part away from the median line. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "abductor" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1844. (references) |
Etymology: Abductor \Ab*duc"tor\, noun. [New Latin]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Medicine | A muscle that draws a part away from the median line. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: AbductorSynonyms: abductor muscle (n), kidnapper (n), snatcher (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Thief | Spoiler, depredator, pillager, marauder; harpy, shark, land shark, falcon, mosstrooper, bushranger, Bedouin, brigand, freebooter, bandit, thug, dacoit; pirate, corsair, viking, Paul Jones, buccaneer, buccanier; piqueerer, pickeerer; rover, ranger, privateer, filibuster; rapparee, wrecker, picaroon; smuggler, poacher; abductor, badger, bunko man, cattle thief, chor, contrabandist, crook, hawk, holdup man, hold-up, jackleg, kidnaper, rustler, cattle rustler, sandbagger, sea king, skin, sneak thief, spieler, strong-arm man. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Abductor |
| English words defined with "abductor": abductor muscle ♦ musculus abductor digiti minimi manus, musculus abductor digiti minimi pedis, musculus abductor hallucis, musculus abductor pollicis. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "abductor": De Quervain's disease, De Quervain's stenosing tenosynovitis, de Quervain's tenosynovitis, DeQuervain's disease. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Abductor" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (abductor), Romanian (abducent), Spanish (abducent, abducing, abductor, adductor). |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Botox may relieve the symptoms of both adductor and abductor spasmodic dysphonia. (references) | |
Vocal tremor is characterized by quavering because of adductor and abductor oscillations of the vocal folds. (references) | ||
Predominantly abductor spasmodic dysphonia is a condition characterized by forceful, involuntary separation of the vocal folds. (references) | ||
Worker Rights | Lebanon | The law does not specifically prohibit trafficking in persons; however, the Penal Code stipulates that "any person who deprives another of freedom either by abduction or any other means shall be sentenced to temporary hard labor." If forced prostitution or forced rendering of sexual services occurs as a result of the abduction, the Penal Code stipulates that the abductor be sentenced to at least 1 year in prison. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Abductor" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Abductor" is used about 13 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% | 13 | 97,576 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "abductor": abductor muscle ♦ musculus abductor digiti minimi manus ♦ musculus abductor digiti minimi pedis ♦ musculus abductor hallucis ♦ musculus abductor pollicis. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
abductor | 50 |
abductor muscle | 12 |
abductor house | 8 |
abductor hip | 7 |
abductor tv | 5 |
abductor child | 4 |
abductor gary roberts | 4 |
abductor exercise | 3 |
abductor thigh | 3 |
abductor adductor | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "abductor"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaan | afvoerder. (various references) | |
Albanian | rrëmbyes (extortionate, grabber, ravishing, reaver, reiver). (various references) | |
Arabic | مختطف. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | мускул отвеждач, абдуктор, похитител (kidnapper, ravisher, undoer). (various references) | |
Chinese | 誘拐者 , 诱拐者. (various references) | |
Czech | únosce (abducent, captor, kidnapper). (various references) | |
Danish | abduktor, udadfører. (various references) | |
Dutch | abductor, ontvoerder. (various references) | |
Esperanto | abduktoro, homrabanto. (various references) | |
Finnish | naisenryöstäjä, ihmisryöstäjä. (various references) | |
French | abducteur (abducent), ravisseur. (various references) | |
German | Entführer (hijacker, hijackers, kidnapper, kidnappers, skyjacker). (various references) | |
Greek | απαγωγόσ μυσ (abducent muscle), απαγωγόσ (abducent), απαγωγός, απαγωγέασ (kidnapper), απαγωγεύσ μυσ, απαγωγεύσ (kidnapper), απαγωγεύς. (various references) | |
Hebrew | חוטף (kidnapper, snatcher). (various references) | |
Hungarian | távolító izom, nõrabló, nőragadó, nőrabló (ravisher), leányszöktető, gyermekrabló (kidnapper). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pengalap, penculik (kidnapper). (various references) | |
Italian | rapitore (kidnapper), abduttore (abducent). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 誘拐犯人 (a kidnapper, an abductor). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ゆうかいは"に" (a kidnapper, an abductor). (various references) | |
Korean | 괴". (various references) | |
Manx | leeideilagh ersooyl. (various references) | |
Norwegian | kidnapper, bortfører. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | abductoray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | raptor (kidnapper), abdutor. (various references) | |
Romanian | muşchi abductor, hoţ (burglar, cracksman, housebreaker, knave, larcener, picaroon, pilferer, prig, purloiner, reaver, robber, thief). (various references) | |
Russian | абдуктор. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | otmičar (hi-jacker, kidnapper), odmicač. (various references) | |
Spanish | secuestrador (hijacker, kidnaper, kidnapper), abductor (abducent, abducing, adductor), raptor (kidnapper, reaver, reiver). (various references) | |
Swedish | kidnappare (kidnapper), kvinnorövare. (various references) | |
Turkish | kaçıran kimse. (various references) | |
Ukranian | видкрадач, абдуктор. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người cuỗm đi, người bắt cóc. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | abactor. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "abductor": abductores, abductors. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "abductor" (pronounced abdu"kter or ubdu"kter) |
| 5 | -d u" k t er | conductor, inductor, semiconductor. |
| 4 | -u" k t er | constructor, instructor. |
| 3 | -k t er | actor, benefactor, character, chiropractor, collector, compactor, connecter, connector, constrictor, contractor, defector, detector, detractor, director, doctor, erector, factor, Hector, injector, inspector, lector, malefactor, nectar, objector, predictor, Proctor, projector, prospector, protector, reactor, rector, refractor, sector, Specter, spectre, stricter, subcontractor, superconductor, tractor, vector, Victor. |
| 5 | -d u" k t er | conductor, inductor, semiconductor. |
| 4 | -u" k t er | constructor, instructor. |
| 3 | -k t er | actor, benefactor, character, chiropractor, collector, compactor, connecter, connector, constrictor, contractor, defector, detector, detractor, director, doctor, erector, factor, Hector, injector, inspector, lector, malefactor, nectar, objector, predictor, Proctor, projector, prospector, protector, reactor, rector, refractor, sector, Specter, spectre, stricter, subcontractor, superconductor, tractor, vector, Victor. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-d-o-r-t-u" | |
-2 letters: abduct, rubato, tabour, turaco. | |
-3 letters: abort, about, actor, board, boart, bract, broad, carbo, carob, cobra, court, dobra, doubt, doura, ducat, duroc, octad, tabor, tardo, taroc, turbo. | |
-4 letters: abut, arco, auto, bard, baud, boar, boat, bora, bort, bota, bout, brad, brat, brut, bura, burd, carb, card, cart, coat, coda, cord, crab, crud, curb, curd, curt, darb, dart, dato, daub, daut, doat, dour, drab, drat, drub, duct, dura, duro, orad, orca, rato, road, rota, rout, tabu, taco, taro, toad, tora, torc, tour, trad, trod, tuba, turd. | |
-5 letters: abo, act, ado, arb, arc, art, bad, bar, bat, boa, bod, bot, bra, bro, bud, bur, but, cab, cad, car, cat, cob, cod, cor, cot, cub, cud, cur, cut, dab, doc, dor, dot, dub, duo, oar, oat, oca, ora, orb, orc, ort, oud, our, out, rad, rat, rob, roc, rod, rot, rub, rut, tab, tad, tao, tar, tau, tod, tor, tub, udo, urb, urd, uta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-d-o-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: abductors. | |
+2 letters: abductores, subcordate. | |
+3 letters: counterbade. | |
+4 letters: turbocharged. | |
+5 letters: subcontracted. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 62 64 75 63 74 6F 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -... -.. ..- -.-. - --- .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100010 01100100 01110101 01100011 01110100 01101111 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A b d u c t o r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0062 0064 0075 0063 0074 006F 0072 |
| 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)3568708769868184 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Translations: Ancient 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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