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Definitions: Bleached |
BleachedAdjective1. Having lost freshness or brilliance of color; "sun-bleached deck chairs"; "faded jeans"; "a very pale washed-out blue"; "washy colors". 2. (used of color) artificially produced; not natural; "a bleached blonde". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bleached" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1374. (references) |
Synonyms: BleachedSynonyms: colored (adj), coloured (adj), dyed (adj), faded (adj), washed-out (adj), washy (adj). (additional references) |
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Screenplays | So it leads me to a sacred place, and then a week later it leads you to my bleached bones? (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Beached and Bleached (1915) | |
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![]() | The bleached skull of a steer on the dry sun-baked earth of the South Dakota Badlands.Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | H.C. Richardson, Ozark farmer, with goat skin which has been bleached and washed. He sells these in town, three dollars. Oregon County, Missouri.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | She dried her bleached and bloated hands. |
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Economic History | Brazil | Imports of Bleached Softwood and Newsprint have been increasing by as much as 15 percent per year due to very low import duties, or at times no duties at all. (references) |
Costa Rica | The most promising sub-sectors for paper and paperboard are: uncoated bleached and unbleached Kraft paper and paperboard; uncoated paper and paperboard for writing; and newsprint paper. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Bleached" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "Bleached" is used about 150 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) | 50% | 75 | 38,535 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 28% | 42 | 52,864 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 20% | 30 | 63,341 |
| Noun (proper) | 2% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 150 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "bleached": be bleached ♦ bleached cotton fabric ♦ bleached yarn ♦ golden bleached raisins ♦ partly bleached pulp. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "bleached": bleached-blonde, bleached-blue, bleached-bone, bleached-haired, bleached-khaki, bleached-looking, bleached-out. | |
Ending with "bleached": sun-bleached. | |
| 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 |
bleached hair | 54 |
bleached | 28 |
bleached hair picture | 18 |
bleached blonde | 14 |
bleached guy hair | 9 |
bleached coloring hair | 5 |
bleached jean | 4 |
bleached flour | 4 |
bleached hair man | 3 |
bleached blonde hair | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "bleached"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 漂白 (Blanch, Bleach, Bleaching, Whiten, Whitened, Whitening). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | halvbleget cellulose (partly bleached pulp, semi-bleached pulp), delvis bleget masse (partly bleached pulp, semi-bleached pulp). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | gebleekt. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | vajaavalkaistu massa (partly bleached pulp, semi-bleached pulp), puolivalkaistu massa (partly bleached pulp, semi-bleached pulp), keltainen rusina (golden bleached raisins). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | blanchi (blaze). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | gebleicht (prefaded), bleichte (blanched), ausgebleicht. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ξεθωριασμένοσ (discolored, discoloured, faded, off white, washed out, washy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | kelantangan (loudness, volume). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | pasta di cellulosa semibianchita (partly bleached pulp, semi-bleached pulp). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | '木綿 (bleached cotton cloth), 'し木綿 (bleached cotton cloth), 'し (bleached cotton, bleaching), ' (bleached cotton, bleaching). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | さらしもめ" (bleached cotton cloth), さらし (bleached cotton, bleaching). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 표백하". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | giallit (fulled, promised, whitened). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eachedblay branqueado. (various references) отбеливать отбеленный. (various references) blanqueado (bleaching). (various references) blekt (peroxided). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words ending with "bleached": overbleached, unbleached. (additional references) | |
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"Bleached" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bilichild, Blache, bleache, Bleahu, bleaked, Bleasham, Bletchedon. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "bleached" (pronounced blē"kht) |
| 4 | -l ē" kh t | leached. |
| 3 | -ē" kh t | beached, breached, impeached, preached, reached, screeched. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-d-e-e-h-l" | |
-1 letter: beached, belaced, belched, debacle, leached. | |
-2 letters: bached, beadle, behead, beheld, bleach, cabled, chelae, healed, leched. | |
-3 letters: abele, ached, baled, beach, bedel, beech, belch, blade, bleed, cable, celeb, chela, clade, decal, eched, haled, laced, leach, leech. | |
-4 letters: abed, able, aced, ache, alec, alee, bach, bade, bald, bale, bead, blae, blah, bled, cade, cede, chad, clad. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-d-e-e-h-l" | |
+1 letter: bechalked. | |
+2 letters: bellyached, detachable, unbleached. | |
+3 letters: rhabdocoele. | |
+4 letters: breechloader, decipherable, overbleached, rhabdocoeles. | |
+5 letters: breechloaders, dischargeable, nondetachable. | |
| 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 6C 65 61 63 68 65 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .-.. . .- -.-. .... . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01101100 01100101 01100001 01100011 01101000 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B l e a c h e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 006C 0065 0061 0063 0068 0065 0064 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3678716769747170 |
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