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Definition: BLACK-FACED |
BLACK-FACEDAdjective1. Having a black, dark, or gloomy face or aspect. |
Date "BLACK-FACED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1593. (references) |
Crosswords: BLACK-FACED |
| English words defined with "BLACK-FACED": central chimpanzee, Coaita ♦ Pan troglodytes troglodytes. (references) |
| "BLACK-FACED" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "BLACK-FACED" is used about 7 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 7 | 133,076 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "BLACK-FACED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 黑面对. (various references) | ||||||||||
Dutch | larvenamarant (black-faced firefinch, masked-firefinch). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | pterocles decoratus (black-faced sandgrouse), ganga face noire (black-faced sandgrouse), amarante masqué (black-faced firefinch). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Schmuckflughuhn (black-faced sandgrouse, pterocles decoratus), pterocles decoratus (black-faced sandgrouse, pterocles decoratus), Larvenamarant (black-faced firefinch, masked-firefinch). (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | pterocles decoratus (black-faced sandgrouse, pterocles decoratus), μελανοπρόσωπη περιστερόκοτα (black-faced sandgrouse, pterocles decoratus). (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | pterocles decoratus (black-faced sandgrouse, pterocles decoratus), grandule faccianera (black-faced sandgrouse, pterocles decoratus), amaranto mascherato (black-faced firefinch, masked-firefinch). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | '雀 (black-faced bunting). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | あおじ (black-faced bunting, blue cloth or ground, celadon porcelain). (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | 까맣 면하". (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ack-facedblay peito-de-fogo (black-faced firefinch, masked-firefinch). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-c-d-e-f-k-l" | |
-1 letter: blackface. | |
-3 letters: blacked, cackled, clacked, fadable, flacked. | |
-4 letters: alcade, baccae, backed, balked, cabled, cackle, caecal, calked, fabled, facade, faecal, flaked, lacked. | |
-5 letters: aback, akela, alack, baaed, bacca, baked, baled, black, blade, bleak, cabal, cable, caeca, caked, cecal, clack, clade, decaf, decal, fable, faced, faked, fecal, flack, flake, fleck, laced, laked. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 4C 41 43 4B 2D 46 41 43 45 44 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01001100 01000001 01000011 01001011 00101101 01000110 01000001 01000011 01000101 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B L A C K - F A C E D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 004C 0041 0043 004B 002D 0046 0041 0043 0045 0044 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3646353745154035373938 |
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