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Definition: Armhole |
ArmholeNoun1. A hole through which you put your arm and where a sleeve can be attached. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "armhole" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1866. (references) |
Note: Armhole \Arm"hole`\, noun. [Arm hole.]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: Armhole |
| English words defined with "armhole": arm ♦ dolman sleeve ♦ raglan sleeve ♦ Scye, sleeve. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "armhole": ARMHOLE BASTER, JUMPBASTING, ARMHOLE FELLER, HANDSTITCHING MACHINE, ARMHOLE-SEW-AND-TRIM OPERATOR, LOCKSTITCH ♦ COAT JOINER, LOCKSTITCH ♦ SLEEVE SETTER, LOCKSTITCH, SLEEVE SETTER, OVERLOCK. (references) |
| "Armhole" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Armhole" is used about 26 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% | 26 | 68,323 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
adjustment armhole bust low | 2 |
armhole gap pattern | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "armhole"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | vrimë e mëngës. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | ръкавна извивка. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Armloch. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | άνοιγμα μασχάλης. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | imboccatura della manica. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 袖付け , 袖付 , 袖刳り (sleeve-hole). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | そでぐり (sleeve-hole), そでつけ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | towl aghlish, seih. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | armholeay axila (armpit, axil, axilla), abertura da manga, sovaco (armpit), cava (cave, cavity, ditch, hole, pit). (various references) пройма (arm-hole). (various references) otvor za rukav. (various references) sisa (dart). (various references) пройма. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "armhole": armholes. (additional references) | |
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"Armhole" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Airyholme, Amshold, Arambol, archol, arhalien, Eryholme, Ramphele, Sarehole. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-h-l-m-o-r" | |
-1 letter: morale. | |
-2 letters: almeh, amole, haler, haole, harem, hemal, herma, homer, horal, lamer, mahoe, mohel, molar, morae, moral, morel, realm. | |
-3 letters: aero, ahem, alme, aloe, earl, haem, hale, halm, halo, hame, hare, harl, harm, heal, hear, helm, helo, herl, herm, hero, hoar, hoer, hole, holm, home, hora, lame, lear, lehr, loam, lore, male, mare. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-h-l-m-o-r" | |
+1 letter: armholes. | |
+3 letters: chloramine, exothermal, geothermal, hammerlock, homocercal, hypodermal, isothermal, lachrymose, largemouth, methylator, motherland, nonthermal, pheromonal, phlebogram, thimerosal. | |
+4 letters: allelomorph, bachelordom, blameworthy, chloramines, hammerlocks, heartsomely, homonuclear, hypothermal, largemouths, melanophore, methylators, motherlands, phlebograms, smallholder, thimerosals. | |
+5 letters: accomplisher, agrochemical, allelomorphs, bachelordoms, blabbermouth, cephalometry, chlorenchyma, elasmobranch, exothermally, flamethrower, formaldehyde, geothermally, hemerocallis, hemorrhoidal, heroicomical, holidaymaker, hydrothermal, isothermally, lachrymosely, longshoreman, malnourished, melanophores, metaphorical, microcephaly, morphallaxes, neurohumoral, rheumatology, rhombohedral, schoolmaster, smallholders, stenothermal, thermohaline, thermolabile, thermostable, yellowhammer. | |
| 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)41 72 6D 68 6F 6C 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- .-. -- .... --- .-.. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01110010 01101101 01101000 01101111 01101100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A r m h o l e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0072 006D 0068 006F 006C 0065 |
| 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)35847974817871 |
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