What does flu mean?
Definitions for flu
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Princeton's WordNet
influenza, flu, grippenoun
an acute febrile highly contagious viral disease
Wiktionary
flunoun
Influenza.
flunoun
Common cold.
Etymology: A shortening of influenza.
ChatGPT
flu
The flu, or influenza, is a highly contagious viral infection of the respiratory tract that primarily affects the nose, throat, and lungs. It typically presents with sudden onset of symptoms like fever, chills, muscle aches, headache, fatigue, sore throat, and cough. The illness can range from mild to severe, potentially causing complications such as pneumonia, heart problems, or death in people with weakened immune systems or other underlying conditions. It spreads primarily through respiratory droplets from coughing or sneezing, or by touching a surface contaminated by the virus and then touching the mouth or nose.
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Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'flu' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4168
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of flu in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of flu in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of flu in a Sentence
The scientific evidence is clear that the routine annual influenza vaccination of health care providers can reduce influenza-related illness and its potentially serious consequences among the providers and their patients, there is also evidence to suggest that when hospital workers get vaccinated, community flu rates decline.
Prices for all egg sizes in all regions across the country are up due to the avian flu and a reduction of the national flock size, which has led to a shortage of eggs.
We can't all just shut ourselves and stay home. The economy has to move forward, and again, a rational reaction to this would recognize the fact that the vast majority of people that get coronavirus will survive without much worse symptoms than a cold or a normal flu.
I can’t control the baby formula issues and other issues of avian flu but what I can do is help put cash back into the pockets of Maine people and that’s what we did.
We need to continue funding the research to create a better influenza vaccine, going forward, flu is going to continue to appear around the world and make annual epidemics that cause incredible amounts of illness, social and economic disruption, so we clearly need a better influenza vaccine.
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- griepAfrikaans
- أنفلونزا, إنفلونزاArabic
- qripAzerbaijani
- грыпBelarusian
- инфлуе́нца, грипBulgarian
- ইনফ্লুয়েঞ্জাBengali
- ཚད་རིམས།Tibetan Standard
- chřipkaCzech
- influenzaDanish
- GrippeGerman
- γρίπηGreek
- gripoEsperanto
- gripeSpanish
- grippEstonian
- انفلوانزا, آنفلوآنزاPersian
- influenssaFinnish
- grippeFrench
- cnatan mòrScottish Gaelic
- שפעתHebrew
- इनफ़्लुएंज़ाHindi
- influenzaHungarian
- գրիպArmenian
- influenzaIndonesian
- inflúensa, flensaIcelandic
- influenzaItalian
- 流行性感冒, ウイルス性の風邪, 風邪Japanese
- გრიპი, ინფლუენციაGeorgian
- тұмауKazakh
- គ្រុនផ្ដាសាយ, ជំងឺគ្រុនផ្ដាសាយKhmer
- ಇನ್ಫ್ಲುಯೆನ್ಜKannada
- 인플루엔자Korean
- грипп, тумооKyrgyz
- influentiaLatin
- GrippLuxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- ໄຂ້ຫວັດໃຫຍ່Lao
- gripasLithuanian
- gripaLatvian
- грипMacedonian
- ഇൻഫ്ലുവെൻസMalayalam
- ханиад, томууMongolian
- influenzaMalay
- တုတ်ကွေးရောဂါBurmese
- griepDutch
- tahoniigááhNavajo, Navaho
- grypaPolish
- gripePortuguese
- gripăRomanian
- грипп, инфлюэ́нцаRussian
- grip, инфлуенца, influenca, грипSerbo-Croatian
- chrípkaSlovak
- gripaSlovene
- gripAlbanian
- flunsa, influensaSwedish
- இன்ஃபுளுவென்சாTamil
- ఫ్లూTelugu
- гриппTajik
- ไข้หวัดใหญ่Thai
- gripTurkmen
- trangkasoTagalog
- gripTurkish
- гриппTatar
- грипUkrainian
- grippUzbek
- bệnh cúm, cúmVietnamese
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