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Definition: Air-breathing |
Air-breathingAdjective1. Deriving oxygen from the air; "he studied respiration in marine air-breathing vertebrates"; "large air-breathing ichthyosaurs had hydrofoils". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "air-breathing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1871. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Transportation | An aircraft propulsion system which sustains combustion of fuel with atmospheric oxygen. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Air-breathing |
| English words defined with "air-breathing": arachnid, arachnoid ♦ class Reptilia ♦ genus Physa ♦ insect ♦ Lim naea, lungfish ♦ Malacopoda ♦ Opisthopulmonate ♦ Planorbis ♦ Reptilia, river limpet ♦ Silurian, Silurian period. (references) |
| "Air-breathing" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 85.71% of the time. "Air-breathing" is used about 7 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 85.71% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (singular) | 14.29% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 7 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "air-breathing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 空"呼吸. (various references) | ||||||||||
Danish | luftindtagende. (various references) | ||||||||||
Finnish | ilmaa hengittävä. (various references) | ||||||||||
French | aérobie. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | luftabhängig. (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | αερόβιος. (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | atmosferico (atmospheric, sferic), ad aspirazione d'aria. (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | 공기 호흡. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | air-breathingay atmosférico (air, atmospheric, atmospherical, sferic), aerobio (aerob, aerobe, aerobic). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-e-g-h-i-i-n-r-r-t" | |
-3 letters: arbitrage, bargainer, bartering, breathing, harbinger, inhabiter, rebaiting, reinhabit. | |
-4 letters: aberrant, aerating, airthing, berating, berthing, birthing, brainier, brighten, brighter, earthing, grainier, habiting, hearting, herbaria, hetairai, ingather, irrigate, rebating, rehiring, retiring, tabering. | |
-5 letters: abating, airting, anergia, angrier, antbear, antiair, arbiter, arraign, arrange, baiting, bargain, barnier, barrage, barring, bathing, bearing, beating, birring, bringer, brinier, earring, gahnite. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 69 72 2D 62 72 65 61 74 68 69 6E 67 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01101001 01110010 00101101 01100010 01110010 01100101 01100001 01110100 01101000 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A i r - b r e a t h i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0069 0072 002D 0062 0072 0065 0061 0074 0068 0069 006E 0067 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)35758415688471678674758073 |
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