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PRONUNCIATION OF ASBESTOUS

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ASBESTOUS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Asbestous is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES ASBESTOUS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of asbestous in the English dictionary

The definition of asbestous in the dictionary is having the look, structure or qualities of asbestos.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ASBESTOUS


Adrastus
əˈdræstəs
asbestus
æsˈbestəs
Augustus
ɔːˈɡʌstəs
caestus
ˈsestəs
cestus
ˈsɛstəs
cistus
ˈsɪstəs
costus
ˈkɒstəs
Faustus
ˈfaʊstəs
Hephaestus
hɪˈfiːstəs
heterocystous
ˌhɛtərəʊˈsɪstəs
physoclistous
ˌfaɪsəʊˈklɪstəs
schistous
ˈʃɪstəs
Theophrastus
ˌθɪəˈfræstəs
Trismegistus
ˌtrɪsmɪˈdʒɪstəs
tungstous
ˈtʌŋstəs
xystos
ˈzɪstəs
xystus
ˈzɪstəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ASBESTOUS

asarabacca
asarum
ASB
Asben
asbestic
asbestiform
asbestine
asbestos
asbestos mat
asbestosis
asbestus
ASBO
asbomania
Ascanius
ASCAP
ascared
ascariasis
ascarid
ascaris
ascaunt

WORDS THAT END LIKE ASBESTOUS

adenomatous
atheromatous
atramentous
calamitous
circuitous
duplicitous
eczematous
edematous
erythematous
filamentous
fortuitous
granulomatous
gratuitous
ligamentous
momentous
precipitous
rhizomatous
riotous
serendipitous
ubiquitous

Synonyms and antonyms of asbestous in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «asbestous» into 25 languages

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asbestous
1,325 millions of speakers

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asbestous
570 millions of speakers

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asbestous
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

asbestous
380 millions of speakers
ar

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asbestous
280 millions of speakers

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asbestous
278 millions of speakers

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asbestous
270 millions of speakers

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asbestous
260 millions of speakers

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asbestous
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Asbestos
190 millions of speakers

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asbestous
180 millions of speakers

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asbestous
130 millions of speakers

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asbestous
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Asbes
85 millions of speakers
vi

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asbestous
80 millions of speakers

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asbestous
75 millions of speakers

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अभेद्य
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

asbestous
70 millions of speakers

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asbestous
65 millions of speakers

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asbestous
50 millions of speakers

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asbestous
40 millions of speakers

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asbestous
30 millions of speakers
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asbestous
15 millions of speakers
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asbestous
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

asbestous
10 millions of speakers
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asbestous
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of asbestous

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ASBESTOUS»

The term «asbestous» is normally little used and occupies the 143.363 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ASBESTOUS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about asbestous

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ASBESTOUS»

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Treatise on Mineralogy: Or, The Natural History of the ...
ActinoKle includes the green varieties, frequently in acicular crystals, and has been subdivided into common, glassy, asbestous, and granular Actino- Hte. The varieties of the first subspecies are almost all paratomous Augite-spar, and have  ...
Friedrich Mohs, 1825
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Treatise on mineralogy, or The natural history of the ...
Actinolite includes the green varieties, frequently in acicular crystals, and has been subdivided into common, glassy, asbestous, and granular Actinolite. The varieties of the first subspecies are almost all paratomous Augite-spar, and have  ...
Friedrich Mohs, 1825
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A system of mineralogy
Asbestous Tremolite might be confounded w'tb: Amianthus ; but the following distinctive characters will enable us to discriminate them with facility : — The fracture of amianthus is parallel and curved fibrous, but that of asbestous tremolite is ...
Robert Jameson, 1816
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Manual of Mineralogy Containing an Account of Simple ...
First. Kind. Asbestous. Tremolite. •- Asbestartiger Tremolith, Werner. External Characters. — Most common colour greyish- white; sometimes also yellowish- white, greenish-white, rarely reddish- white, and pale violet-blue. Occurs massive  ...
Robert Jameson, 1821
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Encyclopaedia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, ...
13. Specie9. Actynolite. This is divided into three species j I. asbestous, 2. common, and 3. glassy. Subspecies 1. Asbestous Actynolite. Amianthinite, Kirw. i. 164. and Metalliform Asbestoid, ibid. 167. La Ruyonnante Asbestiforme, Brocli. i. 504.
6
Proceedings of Workshop on Asbestos, Definitions and ...
Jameson [36,37] translated Werner's terminology into English as asbestous, prismatic, and fibrous,11 respectively for asbestartiger, strahliger, and fasriger. The comparison of the appropriate portion of Werner's and Jameson's classification ...
C. C. Gravatt, Philip D. LaFleur, Kurt F. J. Heinrich, 1978
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The Edinburgh encyclopaedia
Actvnolite, Jameson. — Strahlstein, Werner. This subspecies is divided into three kinds, viz. As- bestous Actynolite, Common Actynolite, and Glassy Actynolite. First Kind. — Asbestous Actynolite, Jameson. — Asbestartiger Strahlstein, Werner.
Sir David Brewster, 1832
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The Edinburgh encyclopædia conducted by David Brewster, with ...
Acttnolite, Jameson. — Strahlstein, Werner. This subspecies is divided into three kinds, viz. As- bestous Actynolite, Common Actynolite, and Glassy Actynolite. First Kind. — Asbestous Actynolite, Jameson. — Asbestartiger Strahlstein, Werner.
David Brewster, 1832
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System of Mineralogy
bedded in pitchstone-porphyry, between Zwicltau and Planitz "2 Third Subspecies. Actynolite Strahlstein, Werner. THIS subspecies is divided into three kinds, viz. Asbestous Actynolite, Common Actynolite, and Glassy Actynolite. First ' KM.
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A Dictionary of Chemistry on the Basis of Mr Nicholson's ... ...
There if' U . are three varieties of this mineral: the crystallized, the asbestous, and the glassy. 1st, crystallized actinolite. Colour leek green, and green of darker shades. It crystallizes in long oblique hexahedral prisms with irregular terminations.
Andrew Ure, 1821

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ASBESTOUS»

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So is asbestous. Chemically asbestous is a very inert material. You are right, so far the statistical evidence is that toner it is not particularly ... «Slashdot, Jul 07»

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