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REGLET

Definitions: REGLET

REGLET

Noun

1. A strip of wood or metal of the height of a quadrat, used for regulating the space between pages in a chase, and also for spacing out title-pages and other open matter. It is graded to different sizes, and designated by the name of the type that it matches; as, nonpareil reglet, pica reglet, and the like.

2. A flat, narrow molding, used chiefly to separate the parts or members of compartments or panels from one another, or doubled, turned, and interlaced so as to form knots, frets, or other ornaments. See Illust. (12) of Column.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

Specialty Definitions: REGLET

DomainDefinitions

Publishing & Graphic Arts

A thin wooden strip used for spacing between units of type matter. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Synonyms within Context: REGLET

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Printing

Boldface, capitals, caps., catchword; composing-frame, composing room, composing rule, composing stand, composing stick; italics, justification, linotype, live matter, logotype; lower case, upper case; make-up, matrix, matter, monotype, point system: -/, -/,, point, etc.; press room, press work; reglet, roman; running head, running title; scale, serif, shank, sheet work, shoulder, signature, slug, underlay.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: REGLET

English words defined with "REGLET": Riglet. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: REGLET

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

fry reglet

68

reglet

7

frye reglet

3

corporation fry reglet

3

frey reglet

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

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Modern Translations: REGLET

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

Bulgarian 

  

реглет. (various references)

   

French

  

réglette. (various references)

   

Manx

  

reillag. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

egletray

   

Romanian

  

dreptar (jointing rule, straight edge). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

enterlin, dar pervaz. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: REGLET

Derivations

Words beginning with "REGLET": reglets. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "REGLET"

Words rhyming with "REGLET" (pronounced 'Reg"let'): Armlet, Ballet, Batlet, Beamlet, Bendlet, Birdlet, Bloodlet, Booklet, Bracelet, Bractlet, Branchlet, Brooklet, Budlet, Bullet, Camlet, Cantlet, Chainlet, Chamlet, Cloudlet, Corselet, Corslet, Couplet, Croslet, Cross-crosslet, Crownlet, Cutlet, Doublet, Dovelet, Droplet, Earlet, Eyelet, Finlet, Flamelet, Fortlet, Frislet, Frondlet, frontlet, Giblet, Goblet, Goglet, Goslet, Grindlet, gullet, Gurlet, Hamlet, Haslet, Heartlet, Herblet, Hooklet, Inlet. (additional references)

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Anagrams: REGLET

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-g-l-r-t"

-1 letter: egret, gleet, greet, leger, relet.

-2 letters: eger, gelt, glee, gree, leer, leet, reel, rete, teel, tele, tree.

-3 letters: eel, ere, erg, gee, gel, get, lee, leg, let, ree, reg, ret, tee, teg, tel.

-4 letters: el, er, et, re.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-g-l-r-t"
 

+1 letter: gentler, reglets, wergelt.

 

+2 letters: eglatere, gleetier, greenlet, legerity, regelate, regental, regulate, relegate, telegram, wergelts.

 

+3 letters: delegator, delighter, eglateres, entangler, genteeler, glistered, glittered, greenbelt, greenlets, lengthier, lettering, lightener, lightered, lorgnette, neglecter, peltering, rectangle, refulgent, regelated, regelates, regretful, regulated, regulates, relegated, relegates, relenting, reletting, relighted, remelting, retelling, sortilege, streeling, telegrams, telegraph, telfering, tigerlike, treillage, weltering.

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

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Alternative Orthography: REGLET


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

52 45 47 4C 45 54

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)

01010010 01000101 01000111 01001100 01000101 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#69 &#71 &#76 &#69 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0045 0047 004C 0045 0054

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

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

523941463954

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INDEX

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


  

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