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Definition: By-blow |
By-blowNoun1. The illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "by-blow" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references) |
Synonyms: By-blowSynonyms: bastard (n), illegitimate (n), illegitimate child (n), love child (n), whoreson (n). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: blister (industry), blow (personal care & hotels, physicsmetallurgybuilding & civil engineering, transportationindustryindustry, meteorology & standards), Blow-by (mechanical engineering, transportation), blowing (building & civil engineering, transportationindustry), blowing up (general, sports & leisure), blow-up (public administration, food & agriculturegeneral, sports & leisurebuilding & civil engineering, engineering & technologyfine arts, sports & leisurefine arts, publishing & graphic artsindustry, meteorology & standards), delamination (industry), enlargement (fine arts, publishing & graphic arts), projection print, throw (personal care & hotels, physics), to blow (chemical industry, engineering & technology). |
| "By-blow" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "By-blow" is used about 5 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 (singular) | 100% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "by-blow": blow-by-blow. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "by-blow"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | страничен удар (sidestroke), незаконородено дете, непряк удар. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | "吹. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | בן לא חוקי (illegitimate child). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 巻添え (getting involvedin, getting mixed up in, involvement), 巻き添え (getting involvedin, getting mixed up in, involvement). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | まきぞえ (getting involvedin, getting mixed up in, involvement). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Korean | 에 의하여 부십시". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | y-blowbay непредвиденный случай. (various references) cú đánh v o người không phải l đối thủ chính việc bất ngờ, cơ hội bất ngờ con đẻ hoang. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: blowby, wobbly. | |
| Words within the letters "b-b-l-o-w-y" | |
-1 letter: blowy, lobby. | |
-2 letters: blob, blow, bowl, yowl. | |
-3 letters: bob, bow, boy, lob, low, owl, yob, yow. | |
-4 letters: bo, by, lo, ow, oy, wo, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-b-l-o-w-y" | |
+1 letter: blowbys. | |
+2 letters: lobbygow. | |
+3 letters: lobbygows. | |
| 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 79 2D 62 6C 6F 77 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01111001 00101101 01100010 01101100 01101111 01110111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B y - b l o w |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0079 002D 0062 006C 006F 0077 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)36911568788189 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage Frequency 4. Expressions | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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