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Definition: CEIL |
CEILTransitive verb1. To line or finish a surface, as of a wall, with plaster, stucco, thin boards, or the like. 2. To overlay or cover the inner side of the roof of; to furnish with a ceiling; as, to ceil a room. |
Crosswords: CEIL |
| English words defined with "CEIL": Ceiled, Ceiling boards. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "CEIL" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Scottish (conceal, hide). |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Expression using "CEIL": ceil prices. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
ceil chapman | 6 |
ceil | 3 |
sp ceil lmp5 | 3 |
sp ceil 007b | 3 |
ceil delaney | 2 |
arc ceil en l | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "CEIL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | Mbuloj (be submerged, bespread, blanket, cap, cloak, clothe, cover, cover in, cover over, cover up for, curtain, defray, disguise, dissimulate, enshroud, entwine, envelop, enwrap, heap, incase, mantle, overcast, overspread, paint out, roof, screen, sheathe, sheet, smother, suffuse, tuck up, wrap). (various references) | |
Arabic | سقف (ceiling, covering, overheads, roof, roofing, thatch), جعل له سقفا. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | Облицовам Стени На Стая, Достигам Пределна Точка. (various references) | |
Czech | Opatřit Stropem. (various references) | |
French | Plafonner. (various references) | |
Hungarian | Mennyezetet Épít Valamire. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eilcay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | forrar um teto. (various references) | |
Romanian | construi un tavan, tencui (daub, Grout, parget, render, slush, whitewash), atinge plafonul de zbor. (various references) | |
Russian | покрывать (bespread, coat, coates, cover, deck, defray, mantle, overlay, overspread, sheet, top). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | staviti plafon, obložiti plafon. (various references) | |
Spanish | tener techo, hacer un plan de techo, hacer techo, fortificar techo. (various references) | |
Swedish | förse med innertak. (various references) | |
Turkish | tavan yapmak, tavan çekmek. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | стеля (ceiling, roof), штукатурити (daub, parget, plaster, stucco), опоряджати стелю, покривати (buck, clothe, coat, cope, cover, cover with, dab, lay over, mantle, strew, suffuse), перекривати (bestride, bridge, imbricate, lap over, oppilate, overlap, overlay, overspan, shut, span), досягати граничної висоти. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "CEIL": ceiled, ceiler, ceilers, ceiling, ceilinged, ceilings, ceilometer, ceilometers, ceils. (additional references) | |
Words containing "CEIL": subceiling, subceilings. (additional references) | |
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"CEIL" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cael, caeli, cail, cea, ceal, cealf, cealt, ceci, Ceel, cegi, cei, ceif, Ceila, Ceili, cein, ceir, ceit, cel, celi, celic, Celik, Celio, Celiz, Cemil, cenil, Ceol, Cepilux, cerl, cewl, cey, ceyl, cheil, cicil, cie, ciel, Cielo, ciev, ciii, cil, cile, cili, cleel, Creil, cril, Crill, Csil, ecal, ecel, eci, Eciv, ecl, keil, Keill, oeil, Sceli, seil, sheil. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words ending with "eil": Deil. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: lice. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-i-l" | |
-1 letter: cel, ice, lei, lie. | |
-2 letters: el, li. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-i-l" | |
+1 letter: ceils, celli, chiel, chile, clime, cline, ileac, melic, oleic, relic, slice, telic. | |
+2 letters: aculei, aecial, atelic, beylic, ceiled, ceiler, celiac, chicle, chield, chiels, childe, chiles, chisel, cicale, cicely, cilice, cineol, circle, citole, cleric, clerid, clevis, cliche, client, climes, clines, clique, clypei, coiled, coiler, colies, collie, coolie, decile, delict, deltic, docile, eclair, elicit, enolic, epical, exilic, facile, fecial, fickle, heliac, icicle, inlace, lacier, lectin, lentic, leucin, lexica, lichee, lichen, liches, licked, licker, luckie, luetic, malice, micell, mickle, nicely, nickel, nickle, nuclei, ocelli, pelvic, pencil, pickle, plaice, plicae, police, recoil, relics, relict, sickle, sliced, slicer, slices, sluice, splice, stelic, tickle. | |
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