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| Domain | Definition |
Slang in 1811 | BLOSS or BLOWEN. The pretended wife of a bully, or shoplifter. Cant. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: BLOSS |
| Specialty definitions using "BLOSS": BLOWEN. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "BLOSS" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Swedish (draft, drag, draught, flare, pull, smoke, torch, whiff). |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Wo kann denn ein Blinder bloss leben, den die Bienen standig verfolgen?. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| The following table summarizes the usage of "BLOSS" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Bloss | Last name | 1,000 | 14,405 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
bloss | 7 |
bloss dillard | 7 |
bloss dillard.com | 5 |
bloss rechtsanwaelte.de | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "BLOSS": blossom, blossomed, blossoming, blossoms, blossomy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: slobs. | |
| Words within the letters "b-l-o-s-s" | |
-1 letter: boss, lobs, loss, slob, sobs, sols. | |
-2 letters: bos, lob, sob, sol, sos. | |
-3 letters: bo, lo, os, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-l-o-s-s" | |
+2 letters: blossom, blouses, bolases, bolsons, boluses, bossily, bowless, bugloss, jobless, oblasts, sublots, subsoil, symbols. | |
+3 letters: absolves, biolyses, biolysis, blesboks, blossoms, blossomy, blotless, blousons, bobsleds, bodiless, boldness, bolshies, bolsters, boneless, bootless, borstals, bristols, browless, busloads, kolbasis, kolbassi, lobsters, noblesse, obelises, obelisks, obelisms, outbless, possible, possibly, sabulose, sabulous, slobbers, slobbish, slyboots, solubles, strobils, subcools, subgoals, subplots, subsoils, subsolar, tombless. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 4C 4F 53 53 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .-.. --- ... ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01001100 01001111 01010011 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B L O S S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 004C 004F 0053 0053 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3646495353 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Photo Album | 5. Names: Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Derivations 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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