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Definition: Burred |
BurredAdjective1. Having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns etc.; "a horse with a short bristly mane"; "bristly shrubs"; "burred fruits". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: BurredSynonyms: barbed (adj), barbellate (adj), briary (adj), briery (adj), bristled (adj), bristly (adj), burry (adj), prickly (adj), spiny (adj), thorny (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Burred |
| Specialty definitions using "burred": INSPECTOR, SLIDE FASTENERS. (references) |
| "Burred" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Burred" is used about 3 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 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 66.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 33.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "burred"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 颤动小舌. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | sprach undeutlich. (various references) | ||||||||||
Manx | broillit (blunt, blunted, riveted, turned, turned as metal), broillagh (turned, turned as metal). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | urredbay skorrande (harsh). (various references) | ||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Burred" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Barredo, barreed, Beornred, borred, brrod, Burad, Burada, burder, bure, bureo, buret, bureu, burgred, Buriram, burra, Burrard, burre, burren, burrer, burret, burried, burrled. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-e-r-r-u" | |
-1 letter: redub, ruder. | |
-2 letters: bedu, bred, burd, burr, drub, dure, durr, rube, rude, rued, ruer. | |
-3 letters: bed, brr, bud, bur, deb, dub, due, err, reb, red, rub, rue, urb, urd. | |
-4 letters: be, de, ed, er, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-d-e-r-r-u" | |
+1 letter: blurred, bordure, drubber. | |
+2 letters: absurder, arboured, bordures, bourride, burdener, burrowed, drubbers, obtruder, purebred, reburied, rubbered, suborder, truebred, unbarred. | |
+3 letters: blunderer, bordereau, bourrides, burdeners, burladero, disburser, disturber, harboured, obtruders, perturbed, purebreds, rebounder, suborders, underbred, underbrim, upbraider. | |
+4 letters: airbrushed, bemurmured, blunderers, bodysurfer, bordereaux, breadcrumb, breadfruit, budgerigar, burladeros, carbureted, carburised, carburized, cloudberry, disbursers, disturbers, drumbeater, lumberyard, overburden, overburned, perdurable, perdurably, rebounders, reimbursed, renumbered, rubberized, rubricated, superboard, unbarbered, underbrims, underbrush, undershrub, upbraiders. | |
| 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 75 72 72 65 64 |
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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)01000010 01110101 01110010 01110010 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B u r r e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0075 0072 0072 0065 0064 |
| 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)368784847170 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , Chinesisch, Sheenish, Sheenagh, kinesisk |
German | wörterbuch, Übersetzung | 德语, 德國 , 德文 , 德語 , deutsch, Deutsche, Germaanish, Germaanagh, Garmane, Carmane, tysk |
Manx | fockleyr, geyrid, meenaghey, keeayllaght, baght | manx, Manninish, Manninagh, Gaelgagh, Yn Ghaelg, från ön man |
Swedish | ordbok, lexikon, definition, översättning | 瑞典語 , 瑞典语, schwedisch, Soolynish, Soolynagh, svensk |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , englisch, Sostynagh, Sostnagh, Baarlagh, engelsk |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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