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Diarrhea, 90 percent of which is caused by food and water contaminated by excrement, kills a child every fifteen seconds. That's more than AIDS, malaria, or measles, combined. Human feces are an impressive weapon of mass destruction.
Rose George

Meaning of "feces" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF FECES

feces  [ˈfiːsiːz] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FECES

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Feces is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES FECES MEAN IN ENGLISH?

feces

Feces

Feces, or faeces, also known as excrement, is waste product from an animal's digestive tract expelled through the anus or cloaca during a process called defecation.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH FECES


asceses
əˈsiːsiːz
cyeses
saɪˈiːsiːz
eisegeses
ˌaɪsəˈdʒiːsiːz
epicleses
ˌepɪˈkliːsiːz
exegeses
ˌɛksɪˈdʒiːsiːz
faeces
ˈfiːsiːz
hyperkineses
ˌhaɪpəkɪˈniːsiːz
hystereses
ˌhɪstəˈriːsiːz
iontophoreses
aɪˌɒntəʊfəˈriːsiːz
leucopoieses
ˌluːkəʊpɔɪˈiːsiːz
leukopoieses
ˌluːkəʊpɔɪˈiːsiːz
lymphopoieses
ˌlɪmfəʊpɔɪˈiːsiːz
onomatopoieses
ˌɒnəˌmætəpɔɪˈiːsiːz
paratheses
ˌpærəˈθiːsiːz
pareses
pəˈriːsiːz
psychokineses
ˌsaɪkəʊkɪˈniːsiːz
scoleces
skəʊˈliːsiːz
theses
ˈθiːsiːz
thoracenteses
ˌθɔːrəsɛnˈtiːsiːz
thoracocenteses
ˌθɔːrəkəʊsɛnˈtiːsiːz

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FECES

fec.
fecal
Fechner
fecht
fechter
fecial
fecit
feck
feckin
fecking
feckless
fecklessly
fecklessness
feckly
fecula
feculae
feculence
feculency
feculent
fecund

WORDS THAT END LIKE FECES

advances
braces
circumstances
consequences
emergency services
finances
financial services
Forces
go to pieces
house prices
human resources
human-resources
indices
pick up the pieces
pieces
races
resources
services
the services
under the circumstances

Synonyms and antonyms of feces in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «FECES»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «feces» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of feces

Translation of «feces» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FECES

Find out the translation of feces to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of feces from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «feces» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

粪便
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

heces
570 millions of speakers

English

feces
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मल
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

البراز
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

фекалии
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

fezes
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

মল
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

fèces
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Najis
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Kot
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

대변
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Feces
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

phân
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மலம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

विष्ठा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

dışkı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

feci
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

kał
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

фекалії
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

fecale
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

περιττώματα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

ontlasting
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

avföring
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

avføring
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of feces

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FECES»

The term «feces» is quite widely used and occupies the 35.459 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FECES» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «feces» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «feces» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

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

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2 QUOTES WITH «FECES»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word feces.
1
Rose George
Diarrhea, 90 percent of which is caused by food and water contaminated by excrement, kills a child every fifteen seconds. That's more than AIDS, malaria, or measles, combined. Human feces are an impressive weapon of mass destruction.
2
Billy Idol
I'm not trying to hide from my past. I want to roll in it. Like a dog, rolling in feces, I'm rolling in the feces of my greatest hits - that's a bit of a wild way of looking at it, but I am a man, and we do like rolling in our own feces at times.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FECES»

Discover the use of feces in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to feces and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Disgust: Theory and History of a Strong Sensation
Freud himself enriched his great myth of the fate of coprophilic interests above all through his theory of the gift-function of the disgusting matter of “feces.” The handing over of this prized material serves to distinguish those presented with it, and ...
Winfried Menninghaus, 2003
2
The Urine and Feces in Diagnosis
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Otto Hensel, Richard Weil, 2011
3
Vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizae established with Glomus ...
19008 VESICULAR-ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZAE ESTABLISHED WITH GLOMUS FASCICULATUS SPORES ISOLATED FROM THE FECES OF CRICETINE MICE —FREDERICK M. ROTH WELL Microbiologist —COLEMAN HOLT ...
Frederick M. Rothwell, Coleman Holt, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station (Radnor, Pa.), 1978
4
A Million Little Pieces of Feces: The Fake Memoir That's So ...
Late night shots ring out in tranquil Hermosa Beach, California, heralding the mysterious assassination of a nondescript pussycat. Will the trail lead to an enigmatic code hidden in the works of Leonardo Da Vinci?
Python Bonkers, 2006
5
The Laboratory Fish
Feces may also be collected to study the elimination of endogenous and xenobiotic substances from fish (Black et al., 1995; Wood et al., 1 995). Feces may be collected from individuals or pooled from multiple fish, depending on the  ...
Gary Kent Ostrander, 2000
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HUMAN INTESTNL MICROFLORAIN HLTH&DISEASE
... 20—21 mucosal antibodies to, 109 in small intestine, adhesion to epithelium, 61 translocation of, 335 Clostridium sp., 498 amino acid production by, 90 bile acid metabolism by, 191, 194, 195, 201, 202 butyrate formation by, 162 in feces, 10, ...
David J. Hentges, 1983
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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on FRONTIERS of ENVIRONMENT, ENERGY ...
AMOUNT OF FOWL AND LIVESTOCK FECES IN BEIJING AND ITS NUTRIENT CONTENT. Name of Fowl and Livestock Annual Feeding Amount×104 Feces Emission Coefficient Gross Amount of Feces(t) (%)Percent of Feces Gross Amount N ...
Dawei Zheng, 2013
8
Evaluation of in Vitro Methods to Estimate Digestibility of ...
... cows in vitro Method3 MBT-feces MBT-feces MBT-feces MBT-feces MBT-feces MBT-feces MBT-feces MBT-feces MBT-feces MBT-feces MBT-feces MBT-feces MBT-feces MBT-feces MBT-feces MBT-feces MBT-feces MBT-feces MBT-feces ...
Sarah Boucher, 2008
9
Safety of Solar Water Purification Using PET Bottles Coated ...
Organism Major Disease Primary Source Bacteria Salmonella typhi Typhoid fever Human feces Salmonella paratyphi Paratyphoid fever Human feces Other Salmonella sp. Gastroenteritis (salmonellosis) Human/animal feces Shigella ...
Robert Williams, 2009
10
Bioactive Components of Human Milk
3.1.2. Analysis. Neutral milk oligosaccharides (0.5 mg) from milk, urine, and feces were perbenzoylated and analyzed by HPLC as described previously ( Chaturvedi et al. 1997), using human milk oligosaccharides as reference standards for ...
David S. Newburg, 2001

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FECES»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term feces is used in the context of the following news items.
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Siblings jailed after feces-covered children toss needles from …
The two adults arrested Thursday in Bethlehem -- after feces-covered children, ages 2, were seen throwing hypodermic needles onto the ... «lehighvalleylive.com, Jul 15»
2
Man arrested after Oklahoma City police found woman wearing …
Man arrested after Oklahoma City police found woman wearing clothes stained with feces. Police arrested a 70-year-old man on a complaint of ... «NewsOK.com, Jul 15»
3
Feces For Food: Pitcher Plants Feed on Bat Feces - Echo Examiner
Feces For Food: Pitcher Plants Feed on Bat Feces. Science. Jul 10, 2015. 0. Credit: Wired. In Borneo, a large, meat-eating pitcher plant has its very unique way ... «Echo Examiner, Jul 15»
4
Woman Charged With Hitting Cop with Bag of Dog Feces | NECN
A Massachusetts woman appeared in court Wednesday to face charges after she allegedly hit an officer with a bag of dog feces last month. «NECN, Jul 15»
5
Dad wants rental company to fix 'feces-infested' Hanover apartment …
HANOVER, Va. — A CBS 6 viewer from Hanover contacted the station, upset that he still had what he said is feces in his apartment. «wtvr.com, Jul 15»
6
Teen found covered in feces, urine; mother booked on cruelty, drug …
Rose Holland, left and Cathy Fort, were booked on multiple drug possession charges. Holland was also booked on a charge of cruelty to a ... «NOLA.com, Jul 15»
7
Oakland Siblings Fight Over (And With) Dog Feces
One had retrieved the dog feces from the bedroom and was flinging it at the other brother's car. To stop his brother, the other man reportedly ... «Patch.com, Jul 15»
8
Mount Dora salon owner tells deputies man smeared feces on …
A Mount Dora man ended up in police custody on Tuesday after the owner of a local beauty salon complained he was smearing feces on the ... «Orlando Sentinel, Jul 15»
9
No water, no heat, walls coated in feces: A tragic death at a Hamilton …
There was no heat or running water. Toilets and bathtubs were full of human waste. Feces was smeared on walls, floors and furniture. «Hamilton Spectator, Jul 15»
10
Sheriff: Vandals deface church grounds with feces
Besides the feces smeared all over the front and side doors, church members say their pavilion and playground also were targeted, with ... «WBBJ-TV, Jul 15»

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