LIAS

Definition: LIAS

LIAS

Noun

1. The lowest of the three divisions of the Jurassic period; a name given in England and Europe to a series of marine limestones underlying the Oolite. See the Chart of Geology.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "LIAS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1859. (references)

Etymology: Lias \Li"as\ (l[imac]"as), noun. [Compare to the French expression lias, from liais sort of limestone, Old French also liois; perhaps of Celtic origin, compare to Armor. liach, leach, stone, Gaelic leac, Welsh llech. Compare to Cromlech.]. (Websters 1913)

Crosswords: LIAS

English words defined with "LIAS": Gyrolepis ♦ Liassic, Lithographic limestone ♦ Trias. (references)

Specialty definitions using "LIAS": guinea bed ♦ marlstone ore ♦ White Lias. (references)

Non-English Usage: "LIAS" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Dutch (Lias), Portuguese (libation), Romanian (lias), Swedish (lias).

Domain	Title
Books	Deuxième Colloque du Centre international d'études du Lias (C.I.E.L.) : Lyon, 27-30 mai 1986 (reference) Die Ammoniten des süddeutschen Lias : e. Bestimmungsbuch für Fossiliensammler u. Geologen (reference) Distribution bathymétrique des Pentacrines du Pacifique occidental : essai de modélisation et d'application aux faunes du lias : problèmes de tectono-eustatisme au cours du rifting téthysien (reference) Les foraminifères (Nodosariidés) du Lias de l'Europe occidentale (reference) L'évolution chez les Ammonitina du Lias moyen (Carixien, Domerien Basal) en Europe occidentale (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"LIAS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 51.72% of the time. "LIAS" is used about 29 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
Noun (plural)	51.72%	15	90,616
Noun (proper)	48.28%	14	93,893
Total	100.00%	29	N/A

The following table summarizes the usage of "LIAS" 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
Lias	Last name	200	40,099
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.

Language		Translations for "LIAS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏المهجس. (various references)

Bulgarian		син варовик, най-долните пластове на юра, лиас. (various references)

Danish		lias. (various references)

Dutch		lias. (various references)

Esperanto		Liaso. (various references)

French		lias (sous-système jurassique), liais. (various references)

German		lias. (various references)

Hungarian		kemény épületmészkõ. (various references)

Italian		lias (sottoperiodo inferiore del giurese). (various references)

Pig Latin		iaslay

Portuguese		intrujão (crook, juggler, mendacity, rogue, shark, sharp, sharper, sklent, swindler, trickster). (various references)

Romanian		liasic, lias. (various references)

Russian		лейас. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		lijas, plavi krečnjak. (various references)

Swedish		lias. (various references)

Turkish		jura döneminden kalma kireçtaşı katmanı. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words ending with "LIAS": abelias, aboulias, abulias, acholias, alias, bacchanalias, basophilias, battalias, camelias, camellias, coprophilias, dahlias, dulias, echolalias, eosinophilias, glias, glossolalias, hemiolias, hemophilias, lobelias, magnolias, materfamilias, melancholias, necrophilias, neophilias, neuroglias, obelias, oligodendroglias, passacaglias, paterfamilias, patresfamilias, pedophilias, pignolias, polychromatophilias, psychedelias, saturnalias, stapelias, syringomyelias, thulias, vedalias, weigelias. (additional references)
	Words containing "LIAS": aliases, chiliasm, chiliasms, chiliast, chiliastic, chiliasts, fascioliases, fascioliasis, galliass, galliasses, heliast, heliasts, materfamiliases, moniliases, moniliasis, palliasse, palliasses, scholiast, scholiastic, scholiasts. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "LIAS" (pronounced 'Li"as'): Abraxas, Deas, Dryas, Dyas, Iliopsoas, Jura-trias, Messias, Mias, NIAS, Nyas, Psoas, Solas, Texas, Trias, Unbias, Whenas, Windas. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: ails, sail, sial.
	Words within the letters "a-i-l-s"
	-1 letter: ail, ais, als, las, lis, sal.
	-2 letters: ai, al, as, is, la, li, si.
	Words containing the letters "a-i-l-s"
	+1 letter: aisle, alias, alifs, alist, anils, arils, axils, bails, basil, dials, fails, glias, hails, jails, kails, laics, lairs, lapis, laris, liars, limas, liras, litas, mails, nails, pails, rails, rials, sails, salic, salmi, sials, silva, sisal, slain, snail, spail, swail, tails, vails, vials, wails.
	+2 letters: aaliis, ablins, abseil, aiolis, aisled, aisles, alcids, algins, alibis, aliens, aligns, alines, aliyas, aliyos, alkies, allies, aloins, alsike, anvils, argils, ariels, assail, assoil, aswirl, avails, basils, bialis, bialys, blains, brails, brasil, califs, caulis, cavils, claims, dalasi, deasil, dismal, distal, drails, dulias, easily, elains, emails, espial, falsie, finals, fiscal, flails, flairs, frails, gaslit, glacis, glairs, grails, halids, ideals, iliads, inlays, instal, island, kalifs, kiblas, ladies, laichs, laighs, lairds, lamias, lanais, lapins, lasing, lassie, lathis, latish, lavish, lazies, liaise, lianas, lianes, liangs, liards, libras, lidars, ligans, ligase, lilacs, limans, limbas, limpas, linacs, lingas, lipase, mailes, maills, mesial, miauls, milpas, miskal, mislay, missal, nasial, oxalis, palais, palish, pastil, phials, pibals, pilafs, pilaus, pilaws, pipals, plaids, plains, plaits, quails, resail, rivals, riyals, sailed, sailer, sailor, salami, salify, salina, saline, saliva, salmis, salpid, saltie, saluki, salvia, samiel, scilla, serail, serial, sheila, sialic, sialid, signal, silage, silane, silica, silvae, silvan, silvas, sisals, smalti, smilax, snails, social, spails, spinal, spiral, spital, stelai, swails, tahsil, tallis, ticals, tilaks, trails, trials, urials, vakils, valise, villas, vinals, violas, visual, vitals, vizsla, walies.
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