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Definition: MOLY |
MOLYNoun1. A kind of garlic (Allium Moly) with large yellow flowers; -- called also golden garlic. 2. A fabulous herb of occult power, having a black root and white blossoms, said by Homer to have been given by Hermes to Ulysses to counteract the spells of Circe. |
Date "MOLY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1634. (references) |
Etymology: Moly \Mo"ly\, noun. [Latin expression, from the Greek]. (Websters 1913) |
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Literature | Moly Wild garlic, called sorcerer's garlic. There are many sorts, all of which flower in May, except "the sweet moly of Montpelier," which blossoms in September. The most noted are "the great moly of Homer," the Indian moly, the moly of Hungary, serpent's moly, the yellow moly, Spanish purple moly, Spanish silver-capped moly, and Dioscorides's moly. Pope describes it and its effects in one of his odes, and Milton refers to it in his Comus. (Greek, molu.) "That moly That Hermes once to wise Ulysses gave." Milton: Comus, 655-6. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Crosswords: MOLY |
| Non-English Usage: "MOLY" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Hungarian (moth, tinea). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Holy Moly (1992) | |
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| "MOLY" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "MOLY" is used about 8 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 |
| Adverb (general) | 75% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (proper) | 25% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 8 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "MOLY": Allium Moly. Additional references. | |
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| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
moly | 27 | chrome moly welding | 3 |
liqui moly | 17 | moly oil | 3 |
lubro moly | 12 | chrome moly steel | 3 |
holy moly | 10 | moly white | 3 |
chrome moly tubing | 10 | lube moly | 3 |
moly coated bullet | 5 | liqui logo moly | 3 |
allium moly | 5 | miguel moly | 3 |
moly sims | 5 | moly resin | 3 |
chrome moly | 4 | 60 moly | 2 |
moly grease | 4 | coat moly | 2 |
bish moly | 4 | dry moly | 2 |
moly coating | 3 | flogging moly | 2 |
bullet coating moly | 3 | dee moly | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "MOLY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Manx | unnish feie. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | olymay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "MOLY": molybdate, molybdates, molybdenite, molybdenites, molybdenum, molybdenums, molybdic. (additional references) | |
Words containing "MOLY": hemolymph, hemolymphs, hemolyses, hemolysin, hemolysins, hemolysis, hemolytic, hemolyze, hemolyzed, hemolyzes, hemolyzing, homolyses, homolysis, homolytic, nonhemolytic, plasmolyses, plasmolysis, plasmolytic, plasmolyze, plasmolyzed, plasmolyzes, plasmolyzing, spasmolytic, spasmolytics. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "MOLY" (pronounced mō"lē) |
| 4 | m ō" l ē | guacamole. |
| 3 | -ō" l ē | goalie, holy, lowly, ravioli, slowly, unholy, wholly. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "l-m-o-y" | |
-1 letter: mol, yom. | |
-2 letters: lo, mo, my, om, oy, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "l-m-o-y" | |
+1 letter: cymol, loamy, moldy, molly. | |
+2 letters: bloomy, comely, comply, cymols, emboly, employ, formyl, gloomy, homely, homily, lemony, melody, mooley, mostly, motley, mouldy, symbol, thymol. | |
+3 letters: alimony, allonym, almonry, amyloid, amylose, anomaly, benomyl, buxomly, chromyl, doomily, employe, employs, foamily, formyls, majorly, mayoral, maypole, modally, moistly, mollify, monthly, moodily, mooleys, moonily, morally, motleys, mousily, movably, myeloid, myeloma, myology, polymer, polyoma, roomily, smokily, soymilk, symbols, thymols, womanly. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 4F 4C 59 |
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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)01001101 01001111 01001100 01011001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M O L Y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 004F 004C 0059 |
| 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)47494659 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Manx | fockleyr, geyrid, meenaghey, keeayllaght, baght | Manninish, Manninagh, Gaelgagh, Yn Ghaelg |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | Sostynagh, Sostnagh, Baarlagh |
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