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mastication

mas·ti·cate
M m

Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [mas-ti-keyt]
    • /ˈmæs tɪˌkeɪt/
    • /ˌmæs.tikˈei.ʃən/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [mas-ti-keyt]
    • /ˈmæs tɪˌkeɪt/

Definitions of mastication word

  • noun mastication The process of chewing. 1
  • noun mastication (physiology) The process of chewing. 0
  • noun mastication The process of crushing as though chewed. 0
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Origin of mastication

First appearance:

before 1640
One of the 44% oldest English words
1640-50; < Late Latin masticātus, past participle of masticāre to chew. See mastic, -ate1

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Parts of speech for Mastication

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
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mastication popularity

A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 66% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
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Synonyms for mastication

noun mastication

  • bite — If you bite something, you use your teeth to cut into it, for example in order to eat it or break it. If an animal or person bites you, they use their teeth to hurt or injure you.
  • deglutition — the act of swallowing
  • fletcherism — the practice of chewing food until it is reduced to a finely divided, liquefied mass: advocated by Horace Fletcher, 1849–1919, U.S. nutritionist.
  • rumination — to chew the cud, as a ruminant.
  • chewing — Present participle of chew.
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  • aristotle's lantern

    a complex arrangement of muscles and calcareous teeth and plates forming an eversible organ in most echinoids, functioning in mastication.

  • masticate

    Chew (food).

  • mouth

    Anatomy, Zoology. the opening through which an animal or human takes in food. the cavity containing the structures used in mastication. the structures enclosing or being within this cavity, considered as a whole.

  • tooth

    (in most vertebrates) one of the hard bodies or processes usually attached in a row to each jaw, serving for the prehension and mastication of food, as weapons of attack or defense, etc., and in mammals typically composed chiefly of dentin surrounding a sensitive pulp and covered on the crown with enamel.

  • trigeminal

    of or relating to the trigeminal nerve.
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