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Definition: Aby |
AbyVerb1. Make amends for; "expiate one's sins". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "aby" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
Synonyms: AbySynonyms: abye (v), atone (v), expiate (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Excitability | Tolerate, suffer, stand, bide; abide, aby; bear with, put up with, take up with, abide with; acquiesce; submit; (yield); submit with a good grace; resign oneself to, reconcile oneself to; brook, digest, eat, swallow, pocket, stomach. |
Feeling | Bear, suffer, support, sustain, endure, thole, aby; abide; (be composed); experience; (meet with); taste, prove; labor under, smart under; bear the brunt of, brave, stand. |
Permanence | Verb: let alone, let be, let it be; persist, remain, stay, tarry, rest; stet; hold, hold on; last, endure, bide, abide, aby, dwell, maintain, keep; stand, stand still, stand fast; subsist, live, outlive, survive; hold one's ground, keep one's ground, hold one's footing, keep one's footing; hold good. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Aby |
| English words defined with "aby": Abegge, Abought, Aby Moritz Warburg, Aby Warburg. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "aby": CAVANILLESIA PLATANIFOLIA. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "aby": Abegge. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Aby" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Czech (as, in order that, in order to, so as, so that, that), Polish (for, in order to, per, to). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Aby kwitlo zycie (1961) Umarlem aby zyc (1984) Aby bylo jasno (1979) | |
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| "Aby" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 88.89% of the time. "Aby" is used about 9 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 (proper) | 88.89% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Unclassified Items | 11.11% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 9 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "aby": Aby Moritz Warburg ♦ Aby Warburg. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "aby": ba-aby. | |
| 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 |
aby | 40 |
aby e | 32 |
aby kingdom united | 13 |
aby kamal | 8 |
aby name | 7 |
aby bassett cradle crib crib crib crib set | 6 |
aby dear | 4 |
aby rosen | 3 |
aby warburg | 3 |
aby sex | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "aby"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Pig Latin | abyay.(various references) | |
Russian | искупать (abye, atone, atone for, atoned, expiate). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "aby": abye, abyes, abying, abys, abysm, abysmal, abysmally, abysms, abyss, abyssal, abysses. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "aby": baby, crybaby, gaby, grandbaby, hushaby, lullaby, mangaby, rockaby, sassaby, wallaby. (additional references) | |
Words containing "aby": babyhood, babyhoods, babying, babyish, babysat, babysit, babysits, babysitter, babysitters, babysitting, gigabyte, gigabytes, hypabyssal, hypabyssally, labyrinth, labyrinthian, labyrinthine, labyrinthodont, labyrinthodonts, labyrinths, lullabying, megabyte, megabytes, rockabye, rockabyes, terabyte, terabytes, yottabyte, yottabytes, zettabyte, zettabytes. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: bay. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-y" | |
-1 letter: ab, ay, ba, by, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-y" | |
+1 letter: ably, abye, abys, baby, bays, bray, gaby. | |
+2 letters: abbey, abyes, abysm, abyss, ambry, baddy, badly, baffy, baggy, baldy, balky, bally, balmy, bandy, banty, barky, barmy, barny, barye, bassy, batty, bawdy, bawty, bayed, bayou, beady, beaky, beamy, belay, bialy, boyar, boyla, braky, braxy, brays, bunya, bylaw, byway, cabby, dauby, embay, gabby, lamby, maybe, tabby, yerba. | |
+3 letters: abbacy, abbeys, abying, abysms, ambary, ambery, bailey, bakery, baldly, ballsy, banyan, barely, barfly, barley, barony, baryes, baryon, baryta, baryte, basely, basify, bassly, batboy, baulky, bawdry, bayamo, bayard, baying, bayman, baymen, bayous, beachy, beauty, belady, belays, benday, betray, bewray, bialys, bigamy, binary, blabby, blasty, bleary, botany, boyard, boyars, boylas, braggy, brainy, brandy, branny, brashy, brassy, bratty, brawly, brawny, brayed, brayer, bready, briary, bunyas, byelaw, bylaws, byname, bypass, bypast, bypath, byplay, byroad, bytalk, byways, byzant, carboy, crabby, cymbal, daubry, daybed, drably, dyable, embays, eyebar, flabby, grabby, kabaya, marbly, maybes, nearby, redbay, scabby, shabby, stably, suably, subway, swabby, tymbal, usably, viably, wabbly, wambly, yabber, yerbas. | |
+4 letters: abbotcy, abeyant, abhenry, ability, abysmal, abyssal, abysses, affably, amboyna, amiably, anybody, attaboy, audibly, babying, babyish, babysat, babysit, baggily, baileys, bairnly, balcony, balkily, balmily, baloney, banally, banyans, barleys, baryons, barytas, barytes, barytic, basally, bashlyk, batboys, bathyal, battery, bawdily, bayamos, bayards, bayonet, baywood, beadily, beamily, beanery, beastly, beatify, beeyard, beggary, belayed, beltway, bendays, betrays, beweary, bewrays, bikeway, bilayer, biliary, biparty, blackly, blandly, blankly, blarney, bleakly, bluejay, bobstay, bogyman, boyards, brambly, branchy, brashly, bravely, bravery, brayers, braying, breathy, broadly, buoyage, buoyant, bursary, butyral, buyable, buyback, byelaws, bynames, bypaths, byplays, byroads, bytalks, byzants, callboy, capably, carboys, crybaby, curably, cymbals, daubery, daybeds, daybook, dryable, durably, dyeable, embassy, embayed, equably, eyeable, eyeball, eyebars, eyebeam, flyable, flyboat, forebay, goombay, hautboy, hushaby, jaybird, kabayas, ladybug, library, lovably, lullaby, mangaby, maybush, movably, mutably, notably, pageboy, payable, payably, payback, paystub, playboy, pliably, rabbity, rabidly, ratably, redbays, rockaby, rosebay, sabayon, salably, sassaby, sayable, sickbay, sizably, soybean, squabby, standby, subways, syllabi, tallboy, taxably, tenably, tunably, turbary, tymbals, typable, typebar, useably, vocably, wallaby, waybill, yabbers. | |
+5 letters: abasedly, abeyance, abeyancy, abhenrys, abjectly, aborally, abruptly, absently, absurdly, acerbity, adorably, amboynas, amenably, amicably, antibody, arguably, assembly, avowably, babyhood, babysits, backstay, backyard, badgerly, balladry, ballyhoo, ballyrag, baloneys, banality, banditry, bandying, bankerly, barberry, barnyard, barratry, barrenly, barretry, baryonic, barytone, bashlyks, basicity, basilary, basketry, bastardy, bayadeer, bayadere, bayberry, bayonets, baywoods, beachboy, bearably, beautify, beeyards, beggarly, belaying, beltways, bendayed, bendways, bestiary, betrayal, betrayed, betrayer, bewrayed, bewrayer, biacetyl, biasedly, biddably, bikeways, bilayers, billycan, binately, bioassay, birthday, biyearly, blackboy, blackfly, bladdery, blamably, blarneys, blatancy, blazonry, blearily, bluejays, boatyard, bobstays, bogeyman, boneyard, boogyman, boundary, boyarism, brainily, brassily, brawnily, brazenly, breviary, bridally, brutally, bryozoan, buccally, buckayro, bullyrag, buoyages, buoyance, buoyancy, burglary, butylate, butyrals, butyrate, buybacks, bypassed, bypasses, cableway, callboys, capybara, carbamyl, carbaryl, carbonyl, carboxyl, carboyed, celibacy, chambray, claybank, corybant, crabbily, culpably, cymbaler, cymbalom, cymbidia, dahabiya, damnably, daybooks, daybreak, deniably, diablery, embaying, enviably, eurybath, eyeballs, eyebeams, fallibly, feasibly, flabbily, flyboats, forebays, galabiya, gigabyte, globally, goombays, grayback, gullably, gunnybag, hagberry, hautboys, inviably, issuably, jaybirds, keyboard, kielbasy, kissably, labially, lability, ladybird, ladybugs, lambency, laudably, layabout, lobately, loveably, maccaboy, maccoboy, mangabey, mealybug, megabyte, moneybag, moveably, myoblast, nabobery, obduracy, obeyable, obituary, oblately, oblatory, operably, pageboys, palpably, paperboy, passably, passerby, payables, paybacks, paystubs, pitiably, placably, playable, playback, playbill, playbook, playboys, portably, probably, provably, quotably, rabbitry, rabidity, rateably, readably, reliably, ribaldly, ribaldry, rockabye, rosebays, rubaiyat, sabayons, saleably, salvably, satiably, scabbily, scalably, scrabbly, shabbily, sickbays, sizeably, slabbery, sociably, sortably, soybeans, standbys, subphyla, subwayed, suitably, sunbeamy, swayable, swayback, sybarite, syllabic, syllable, syllabub, syllabus, tabbying, tabooley, tallboys, tangibly, teaberry, terabyte, tribally, tuneably, typeable, typebars, unstably, urbanely, urbanity, valuably, variably, verbally, vibrancy, violably, waxberry, waybills, yabbered, yardbird, yearbook, ytterbia. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 62 79 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -... -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100010 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A b y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0062 0079 |
| 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)356891 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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