Armhole

  

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Armhole

Definition: Armhole

Armhole

Noun

1. 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": armdolman sleeveraglan sleeveScye, sleeve. (references)
Specialty definitions using "armhole": ARMHOLE BASTER, JUMPBASTING, ARMHOLE FELLER, HANDSTITCHING MACHINE, ARMHOLE-SEW-AND-TRIM OPERATOR, LOCKSTITCHCOAT JOINER, LOCKSTITCHSLEEVE SETTER, LOCKSTITCH, SLEEVE SETTER, OVERLOCK. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Armhole

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%2668,323

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Armhole

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

adjustment armhole bust low

2

armhole gap pattern

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Armhole

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

   

Portuguese

  

axila (armpit, axil, axilla), abertura da manga, sovaco (armpit), cava (cave, cavity, ditch, hole, pit). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

пройма (arm-hole). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

otvor za rukav. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

sisa (dart). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

пройма. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Armhole

Derivations

Words beginning with "armhole": armholes. (additional references)


Misspellings

"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).

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Anagrams: Armhole

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.

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Alternative Orthography: Armhole


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 72 6D 68 6F 6C 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    .-.    --    ....    ---    .-..    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01110010 01101101 01101000 01101111 01101100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#114 &#109 &#104 &#111 &#108 &#101

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)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

35847974817871

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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