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Definition: VOLANTE |
VOLANTENoun1. A cumbrous two-wheeled pleasure carriage used in Cuba. |
Date "VOLANTE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1843. (references) |
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Health | Small floating spots, flitting flies, entoptically observed on viewing a bright uniform field, such as the sky, and seen to flit away with attempted fixation. (references) |
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Crosswords: VOLANTE |
| Non-English Usage: "VOLANTE" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Italian (flight, flying, movable, steering wheel, steering-wheel, wheel), Latin (birds, fly), Portuguese (flying, flywheel, helm, joystick, rudder, shuttlecock, steering wheel, volant), Spanish (balance, balance wheel, bird, flier, flying, flywheel, handbill, handlebars, handout, helm, joystick, rudder, shuttle, shuttlecock, steering-wheel, volant, wheel). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Los Reyes del volante (1965) Il Disco volante (1964) Los Ángeles del volante (1957) O Volante Fantasma (1956) Pepito as del volante (1956) | |
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| "VOLANTE" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "VOLANTE" is used about 2 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 (singular) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "VOLANTE" 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 |
| Volante | Last name | 130 | 59,308 |
| 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. |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "VOLANTE" (pronounced vōlÄ"ntā) |
| 4 | -Ä" n t ā | andante, picante. |
| 3 | -n t ā | Conte. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-l-n-o-t-v" | |
-1 letter: etalon, levant, tolane, volant. | |
-2 letters: alone, anole, atone, laevo, laten, leant, lento, lovat, navel, notal, novae, novel, oaten, ovate, talon, tolan, tonal, valet, venal, volta, volte. | |
-3 letters: aeon, aloe, alto, ante, elan, enol, etna, lane, late, lave, lean, leno, lent, leva, levo, loan, lone, lota, love, nave, neat, noel, nota, note, nova, olea. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-l-n-o-t-v" | |
+1 letter: covalent. | |
+2 letters: antinovel, elevation, inviolate, overplant. | |
+3 letters: antinovels, conventual, covalently, covenantal, devotional, elevations, eluviation, evaluation, levigation, levitation, malevolent, monovalent, novaculite, overmantel, overplants, polyvalent, revelation, ventilator. | |
+4 letters: alleviation, conventuals, countervail, devaluation, devotionals, dovetailing, eluviations, enteroviral, evaluations, inoculative, inventorial, inviolately, involucrate, levigations, levitations, nonrelative, nonrelevant, nonvolatile, normatively, novaculites, observantly, overinflate, overmantels, overplanted, oversalting, overtalking, revaluation, revelations, valediction, ventilation, ventilators, ventilatory, voluntaries. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)56 4F 4C 41 4E 54 45 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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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)01010110 01001111 01001100 01000001 01001110 01010100 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)V O L A N T E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0056 004F 004C 0041 004E 0054 0045 |
| 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)56494635485439 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Names: Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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