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BLIN

Definitions: BLIN

BLIN

Intransitive & transitive verb

1. To stop; to cease; to desist.

Noun

1. Cessation; end.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "BLIN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)


Crosswords: BLIN

Specialty definitions using "BLIN": therapist for blin. (references)
Non-English Usage: "BLIN" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Welsh (arduous, irritable, peevish, tired, weary).

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Commercial Usage: BLIN

DomainTitle

Books

  • D'une génération à l'autre : fenêtre ouverte sur l'histoire : chronologie familiale de Jean Blin et de Véronique Storez (reference)

  • Roger Blin (reference)

  • Roger Blin and Twentieth-Century Playwrights (reference)

  • Roger Blin, souvenirs et propos (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Expression: BLIN

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "BLIN": Blin-stoyle.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BLIN

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  blin

11

  blin 182

9

  blin bling

4

  blin college

3

  blin jurgen

3

  blin eye third

2

  blin window

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations: BLIN

Derivations

Words beginning with "BLIN": blind, blindage, blindages, blinded, blinder, blinders, blindest, blindfish, blindfishes, blindfold, blindfolded, blindfolding, blindfolds, blinding, blindingly, blindly, blindness, blindnesses, blinds, blindside, blindsided, blindsides, blindsiding, blindworm, blindworms, blini, blinis, blink, blinkard, blinkards, blinked, blinker, blinkered, blinkering, blinkers, blinking, blinks, blintz, blintze, blintzes. (additional references)

Words ending with "BLIN": goblin, hobgoblin. (additional references)

Words containing "BLIN": ablings, ablins, aiblins, ambling, antigambling, assembling, babbling, babblings, bedabbling, bejumbling, bobbling, brabbling, brambling, bubbling, bumbling, bumblingly, bumblings, burbling, cabling, cobbling, colorblind, colorblindness, colorblindnesses, crumbliness, crumblinesses, crumbling, crumblings, cymbling, cymblings, dabbling, dabblings, descrambling, dibbling, disabling, disassembling, dissembling, doubling, drabbling, dribbling, drumbling, enabling, enfeebling, ennobling, fabling, fribbling, fumbling, fumblingly, gabbling, gabling, gambling, garbling. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: BLIN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-i-l-n"

-1 letter: bin, lib, lin, nib, nil.

-2 letters: bi, in, li.

 Words containing the letters "b-i-l-n"
 

+1 letter: binal, blain, blind, blini, blink.

 

+2 letters: ablins, albino, baling, berlin, billon, bindle, blains, blinds, blinis, blinks, blintz, bluing, byline, globin, goblin, lubing, milneb, nibble, nimble, nimbly, nubile.

 

+3 letters: abelian, ablings, aiblins, albinal, albinic, albinos, albumin, ambling, bailing, bairnly, balding, balking, balling, basinal, bawling, beeline, belling, belting, belying, berline, berlins, bilging, bilking, billing, billion, billons, biltong, bindles, binocle, biplane, birling, bivinyl, bizonal, blaming, blaring, blawing, blazing, blinded, blinder, blindly, blinked, blinker, blintze, blowing, bluefin, blueing, bluings, bluming, boiling, bolling, bolting, bonnily, botulin, bowline, bowling, brindle, bugling, bulging, bulking, bulling, bullion, burling, butling, bylined, byliner, bylines, byrling, cabling, coalbin, fabling, finable, gabling, globing, globins, goblins, hobnail, ignoble, ignobly, inbuilt, inkblot, lambing, lambkin, lesbian, limbing, linable, linkboy, lobbing, lobefin, milnebs, minable, minilab, nibbled, nibbler, nibbles, niblick, niblike, nimbler, nobbily, nombril, pinball, sibling, subline, tabling, tubulin, unbuild, unbuilt.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: BLIN


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 4C 49 4E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-...    .-..    ..    -.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01001100 01001001 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#76 &#73 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 004C 0049 004E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

36464348

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Expressions
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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