ENTASIS

  

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ENTASIS

Definitions: ENTASIS

ENTASIS

Noun

1. Same as Entasia.

2. A slight convex swelling of the shaft of a column.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Entasis \En"ta*sis\, noun. [New Latin expression, from the Greek expression stretching; from in to extend.]. (Websters 1913)

 

Crosswords: ENTASIS

English words defined with "ENTASIS": Diminishing rule. (references)
Etymologies containing "ENTASIS": Entasia, Entastic, Entonic. (references)

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Usage Frequency: ENTASIS

"ENTASIS" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "ENTASIS" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%5157,705

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: ENTASIS

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

entasis

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: ENTASIS

Language Translations for "ENTASIS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Japanese Kanji 

  

エンジン発動機 (angel, angel baby, angelfish, embassy, emblem, emboss, embroidery, empathy, emperor, emphasis, emphasize, empire, Empire Day, Empire State Building, empress, emptiomania, empty, empty nest, empty nest syndrome, end, end curler, end line, end user, -endian, ending, endive, endless, endless tape, endorphin, engine, engine stop, engineering plastics, enhancement, enter, enterprise, entertainer, entertainment, entitled, entity, entrance, entropy, entry, envelope, hit-and-run, two-base entitlement). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

エンタシス . (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

entasisay

   

Thai

  

ส่วนที่นูนขึ้นมาเล็กน้อยของเสาโรมัน. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "ENTASIS"

Words rhyming with "ENTASIS" (pronounced 'En"ta*sis'): Abiogenesis, Absis, Actinomycosis, Adenosclerosis, Adipolysis, AEsthesis, Agamogenesis, Agenesis, Agennesis, Albuminosis, Amanuensis, Amaurosis, Amitosis, Ampelopsis, Amphiarthrosis, Amphigenesis, Amylogenesis, Amylolysis, Anabasis, Anacoenosis, Anacrusis, Anadiplosis, Anaesthesis, Anagnorisis, Anamnesis, Anamorphosis, Anapophysis, Anastomosis, Anemosis, Angioneurosis, Ankylostomiasis, Antanaclasis, Anthesis, Anthracosis, Anthropomorphosis, Antimetathesis, Antiperistasis, Antiphrasis, Antiptosis, Antipyresis, Antisepsis, Antithesis, Aparithmesis, Aphaeresis, Apheresis, Aphesis, Apodosis, Aponeurosis, Apophasis, Apophysis. (additional references)

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Anagrams: ENTASIS

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: nasties, sestina, tansies, tisanes.

Words within the letters "a-e-i-n-s-s-t"

-1 letter: anises, assent, insets, saints, sanest, sanies, sansei, satins, siesta, stains, stanes, steins, tassie, tenias, tineas, tisane.

-2 letters: anise, antes, antis, asset, easts, entia, etnas, inset, nates, neats, neist, nests, nites, sains, saint, sanes, sasin, sates, satin, satis, seats, sensa, senti, sines, sites, snits, stain, stane, stein, sties, tains, tasse, tenia, tinea, tines.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-i-n-s-s-t"
 

+1 letter: anthesis, antsiest, artiness, astonies, basinets, bassinet, cineasts, destains, eastings, elastins, entasias, etesians, giantess, insanest, instates, isatines, mantises, matiness, nailsets, nastiest, retsinas, salients, saltines, sandiest, sanities, sanitise, satinets, scanties, seatings, sestinas, sextains, shanties, sheitans, sinuates, snakiest, stainers, stanines, steapsin, stearins, sthenias, teniases, teniasis, titaness.

 

+2 letters: absinthes, agonistes, alienists, amnesties, andesites, anisettes, antipress, antisense, arsenites, assenting, asserting, assertion, astatines, asthenias, asthenics, asthenies, astringes, banisters, basseting, bassinets, battiness, beastings, botanises, canisters, canoeists, cattiness, cessation, cineastes, distances, dynasties, essential, estancias, faintness, fantasies, fantasise, fattiness, ganisters, hastiness, inaptness, incessant, insensate, insheaths, insolates, instances, insulates, inswathes, irateness, manifests, meatiness, melanists, misagents, misatones, nastiness, nattiness, panelists, pastiness, pinasters, pristanes, resinates, resistant, restrains, saltiness, sanitates, sanitised, sanitises, sanitizes, saponites, scantiest, scenarist, seatrains, sedations, semantics, senoritas, sensating, sensation, slangiest, slantwise, smaltines, snaggiest, snappiest, snarkiest, snarliest, snazziest, sneakiest, sonicates, staginess, staidness, stainless, stannites, steadings, stealings, steapsins, stearines, strainers, straitens, supinates, sustained, sustainer, swankiest, tacitness, tackiness, taeniases, taeniasis, taintless, talkiness, tardiness, tarnishes, tasseling, tastiness, tattiness, tawniness, tetanises, thespians, uneasiest, vesicants.

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

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Alternative Orthography: ENTASIS


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

45 4E 54 41 53 49 53

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)

01000101 01001110 01010100 01000001 01010011 01001001 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#78 &#84 &#65 &#83 &#73 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 004E 0054 0041 0053 0049 0053

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

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

39485435534353

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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