Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Informal Influenza.
Wiktionary
- n. Influenza.
- n. informal Common cold.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an acute febrile highly contagious viral disease
Etymologies
- Abbreviation of influenza. (Wiktionary)
- Short for influenza. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
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“Wondering what the state of the flu is there, ie, restaurants, stores open/closed?, people out on the streets, beaches, life as usual, etc.”
“Modern medicine has made such huge strides against infectious diseases, yesterday's great killers, that, at least for those of us living today in the developed world, death from typhus, smallpox, infantile diarrhea, or a bad bout of the flu is a fairly remote probability, far removed from the radar screens of our daily concerns.”
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“But the fourth week, she was always sick with what she called the flu.”
“Gripe is what they call the flu, I call a normal cold.”
“The influenza virus known as the flu is a serious and contagious respiratory illness that ranges from mild to severe and can be fatal.”
“So now that you got the swine flu, is there any need for you to get the vaccine coming out next month?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘flu’.
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3-Letter Scrabble Words Which Do Not ...
A list of 3-letter words which cannot be formed by adding a letter to a 2-letter word (see Ken Clark's word lists found at http://www.seattlescrab...
ace, act, aff, aft, apo, app, apt, auk, ava, ave, avo, azo and 225 more...
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Headlines & Newsmakers
frugality, environment, extinction, bible, killer, jazz, cloning, dead, god, moon, global warming, bailout and 340 more...
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3-letter Scrabble Words
aah, aal, aas, aba, abo, abs, aby, ace, act, add, ado, ads and 995 more...
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3 Letter Words
A list of English words that are three letters long.
ace, act, ade, ado, add, ads, age, ago, ail, air, aim, all and 397 more...
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Baby Got Back-Formations
"A new word created by removing an affix from an already existing word, as vacuum clean from vacuum cleaner, or by removing what is mistakenly thought to be an affix, as pea from the earlier Englis...
resurrect, enthuse, couth, donate, emote, greed, isolate, manipulate, orate, prequel, spectate, upholster and 94 more...
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The braggadocio recipe
A selection of English* words ending with a vowel (except "y", "ea", ie", "ee", "oo", "ea", "ou") that is REALLY pronounced.
My favorite English words, by the way.
The good twin of The ...braggadocio, recipe, encyclopedia, solo, gnu, flu, maybe, apocope, mini, arrhythmia, folio, stereo and 197 more...
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savage215's Words
pipe, yankee, knickerbocker, tennis, plasma, magma, volcano, car, truck, television, tv, word and 445 more...
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autodidact, hollographic, neurotheology, pensive, grapple, nondual, integral, phantasmagoria, burnished, capacious, ginger, astral and 120 more...
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Luis Guillermo's KiwiEnglish class
New Vocabulary
Rain, Rainy, Sun, Sunny, cloud, cloudy, forbidden, priest, brochure, old, young, flu and 2 more...
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Choppers
Words that have been cut down from their original glory, ie. apocopes, but are still 'understandable' in the chopped form. eg. doc for doctor. Most of them are horribilisms, I know :-( Let's keep t...
doc, rep, van, bus, fridge, pub, flu, hon, santa, diff, blog, exam and 49 more...
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bush, bough, twig, trunk, thron, oak, bud, pine, petal, mamal, claw, worm and 36 more...
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OM3 Lesson 33
elderly, actually, smell, leftovers, throw together, stew, garbage, truck, garbage man, garbage can, nail, nail scissors and 21 more...
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Triple Homonyms
mete, meat, meet, prize, prise, pries, seas, sees, seize, laze, lays, leis and 48 more...
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