LAMES

Definition: LAMES

LAMES

Noun plural

1. Small steel plates combined together so as to slide one upon the other and form a piece of armor.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "LAMES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1611. (references)

Etymology: Lames \Lames\ (l[.a]mz), plural noun. [French expression lame thin plate, from Latin expression lamina.]. (Websters 1913)

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
LAMES	English	Laser Micro Emission Spectroscopy	N/A
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Crosswords: LAMES

Non-English Usage: "LAMES" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

French (lath).

Domain	Usage
Lyrics	Lames hide your wallets ("Ugly"; performing artist: Bubba Sparxxx)
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Domain	Title
Books	L, dites lames (reference) La hache de pierre : carrières et échanges de lames polies pendant le Néolithique (5400-2100 av. J.-C.) (reference) Lames de schiste (reference) Le Tissage sur métiers de 4 � 16 lames : art, technique et pratique (reference) Michel Gérard : les lames levées, douze pièces forgées d'un cube, papiers ouvrés : [exposition � la] Galerie Jeanne Bucher, [Paris, du 12 novembre au 12 décembre 1981] (reference) (more book examples)
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"LAMES" is generally used as a lexical verb (-s form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "LAMES" is used about 6 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 Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-s form)	100%	6	143,867

Language		Translations for "LAMES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		变跛 (Lamed, Laming). (various references)

Korean		� �름발이가 된다. (various references)

Pig Latin		ameslay.(various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "LAMES": lamest. (additional references)
	Words ending with "LAMES": blames, enflames, flames, inflames, reclames. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"LAMES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: almeh, almes, Ellames, iames, Lakme, lamaus, lamaz, lamea, lamec, Lamel, Lamen, lamens, lameo, lamers, lamet, lamey, lamme, lammis, lampes, lamus, larme, lawes, laxes, Leamas, leems, lemes, lemus, Lexmeks, limec, lims, Llanes, lmds, lms, lomes, lsme, lumex, lumis, Lumleys, Lummis, oames, vames. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: almes, males, meals.
	Words within the letters "a-e-l-m-s"
	-1 letter: ales, alme, alms, elms, lame, lams, lase, leas, maes, male, meal, mels, mesa, sale, same, seal, seam, slam.
	-2 letters: ale, als, elm, els, ems, lam, las, lea, mae, mas, mel, sae, sal, sea, sel.
	-3 letters: ae, al, am, as, el, em, es, la, ma, me.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-l-m-s"
	+1 letter: almehs, ambles, amoles, blames, camels, damsel, emails, flames, fleams, gleams, lameds, lamest, lemans, lemmas, macles, mailes, maples, measle, measly, medals, mensal, mescal, mesial, metals, realms, samiel, samlet, sample, ulemas.
	+2 letters: aimless, almners, almsmen, almuces, almudes, amblers, amplest, ampules, amulets, amylase, amylose, armless, armlets, becalms, bedlams, beldams, blamers, calmest, camlets, damosel, damsels, embalms, empales, enamels, females, flambes, flamens, flamers, gambles, hamlets, impales, lambers, lambies, lamedhs, laments, lampers, lamster, lensman, mackles, macules, maglevs, mailers, malaise, malates, malices, malines, mallees, mallets, malleus, malmsey, maltase, malteds, maltose, mangels, mangles, manless, mantels, mantles, marbles, marcels, marvels, matless, maulers, mealies, measled, measles, medials, medlars, medusal, melisma, menials, mesally, mescals, mezcals, milages, misdeal, mislead, morales, muletas, palmers, psalmed, rambles, realism, remails, samiels, samlets, sampled, sampler, samples, seismal, seminal, serumal, shamble, slammed, slammer, smaller, stammel, tamales, tramels, wadmels, wambles.
	+3 letters: abelmosk, ailments, alamedas, alamodes, albumens, albumose, alembics, alienism, aliments, allelism, almagest, almemars, almoners, alumines, amplexus, ampoules, amusable, amusedly, amylases, amylenes, amyloses, armholes, assemble, assembly, bailsmen, balmiest, balsamed, beamless, bedlamps, beldames, bimensal, bimetals, blastema, bluesman, brambles, calmness, calomels, calumets, camelias, camisole, caramels, cembalos, ceramals, claimers, clambers, clammers, clampers, clansmen, clematis, climates, climaxes, dalesman, dalesmen, damosels, damozels, decimals, declaims, demersal, dilemmas, dismaler, dolmades, earldoms, emblazes, emeralds, empalers, empanels, emplaces, emplanes, emulates, enflames, ensample, episomal, examples, exclaims, fameless, families, fishmeal, flamiest, flamines, foamless, gamblers, gambrels, gamelans, gelsemia, gladsome, glassmen, gleamers, gomerals, gremials, hamulose, harmless, helmsman, hemiolas, humerals, idealism, imblazes, impalers, impanels, impearls, impleads, inflames, lamasery, lambaste, lamberts, lambiest, lamellas, lameness, laminose, lamister, lampases, lampreys, lamsters, landsmen, larksome, leadsman, leadsmen, legalism, lehayims, lempiras, leucomas, leukomas, limeades, linesman, loamiest, loamless, mailless, maladies, malaises, maleates, maleness, malmiest, malmseys, malposed, maltases, maltiest, maltoses, maltster, manacles, mandrels, maneless, manglers, manholes, manilles, maniples, manliest, mantlets, marblers, marliest, marlines, marlites, martlets, maskable, masklike, massedly, massless, masterly, mastless, mastlike, mateless, matelots, mausolea, maxwells, mayflies, maypoles, mealiest, mealless, measlier, meatless, medalist, medicals, medullas, megalops, melanges, melanics, melanins, melanism, melanist, melanous, melismas, melodias, meltages, meniscal, mensural, mesially, mesnalty, mesoglea, metalise, metalist, meticals, miladies, mileages, millages, minerals, miracles, misalter, misdeals, misdealt, mislabel, mislayer, misleads, mislearn, misplace, misplead, missable, misvalue, molasses, moralise, moulages, movables, muscadel, muscatel, musicale, myelomas, nameless, neoplasm, numerals, oatmeals, palmiest, pleonasm, plumages, ramblers, ramilies, ramosely, rampoles, ramulose, realisms, reclaims, reclames, removals, resample, salaamed, saleroom, salesman, salesmen, samplers, scleroma, scramble, seamanly, seamless, seamlike, selamlik, selfsame, semibald, semigala, semolina, shamable, shambled, shambles, shameful, sheqalim, simulate, slalomed, slammers, smallage, smallest, smaltine, smaltite, smilaxes, smokable, somedeal, stammels, staumrel, steamily, summable, talesman, talesmen, taleysim, tameless, templars, thermals, timbales, tramells, tramless, trammels, tramples, wailsome, wamefuls.
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