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- [pahy-kuh]
- /ˈpaɪ kə/
- /ˈpaɪkə/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [pahy-kuh]
- /ˈpaɪ kə/
Definitions of pica word
- noun pica an abnormal appetite or craving for substances that are not fit to eat, as chalk or clay, common in malnutrition, pregnancy, etc. 1
- noun pica size of typeface 1
- noun pica medical: eating disorder 1
- noun pica a printer's unit of measurement, equal to 12 points or 0.166 ins 0
- noun pica (formerly) a size of printer's type equal to 12 point 0
- noun pica a typewriter type size having 10 characters to the inch 0
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Origin of pica
First appearance:
before 1580 One of the 35% oldest English words
1580-90; apparently < Medieval Latin pīca pie4, on the model of brevier and canon1, other type sizes
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Parts of speech for Pica
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
pica popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 82% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
pica usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for pica
noun pica
- agate — Agate is a very hard stone which is used to make jewellery.
- bingeing — a period or bout, usually brief, of excessive indulgence, as in eating, drinking alcoholic beverages, etc.; spree.
- boldface — (of type) having this weight
- bulimarexia — bulimia (sense 2)
- bulimia — Bulimia or bulimia nervosa is an illness in which a person has a very great fear of becoming fat, and so they make themselves vomit after eating.
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