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Definitions: AIGUILLE |
AIGUILLENoun1. An instrument for boring holes, used in blasting. 2. A needle-shaped peak. |
Etymology: Aiguille \Ai`guille"\, noun. [French expression, needle. See Aglet.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Impossibility | Phrase: the grapes are sour; non possumus; non nostrum tantas componere lites; look for a needle in a haystack, chercher une aiguille dans une botte de foin; il a le mer _ boire. |
Inutility | Phrase: actum ne agas; chercher une aiguille dans une botte de foin; tanto buon che val niente. |
Sharpness | Crag, crest, arete, cone peak, sugar loaf, pike, aiguille; spire, pyramid, steeple. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: AIGUILLE |
| Non-English Usage: "AIGUILLE" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (hand, indicator, needle, pointer, spire). |
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Movie/TV Titles | De fil en aiguille (1960) L' Aiguille rouge (1951) | |
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| "AIGUILLE" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "AIGUILLE" is used about 6 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 (proper) | 100% | 6 | 143,867 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "AIGUILLE": chercher une aiguille dans une botte de foin. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "AIGUILLE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | majë (alp, apex, cusp, height, nab, naze, Neb, needle, nib, peak, Pike, pinnacle, point, projection, Spike, spire, summit, tine, tip, tiptop, top, topping, vertex, woof), gjilpqrë. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | كتلة صخرية. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | тънък свредел, тънка сонда, остър скалист връх, игла (needle, pin, prick, pricker, quill, spine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | aiguille. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | aiguilleay cume aguçado de montanha. (various references) vârf de stâncã, colţ (angle, cliff, corner, Fang, nest, nook, quoin, spot, stump, tooth, tusk). (various references) горный пик, игла (needle, quill, spine). (various references) strm vrh, igla (needle). (various references) barrena (auger, bore, borebit, borer, dibber, dibble, dibbler, drill, drill bit, drill rig, gimlet, increment borer, increment corer, planting stick, spin, widger). (various references) шпиляста вершина. (various references) núi đá đỉnh nhọn, mỏm đá nhọn. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "AIGUILLE": aiguilles, aiguillette, aiguillettes. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-i-l-l-u" | |
-1 letter: ligulae. | |
-2 letters: gillie, ligula, ligule, ullage. | |
-3 letters: agile, glial, guile, ileal, ilial, legal. | |
-4 letters: ague, egal, gale, gall, gill, glia, glue, gull, iglu, ilea, ilia, leal, lieu, luge. | |
-5 letters: age, ail, ale, all, eau, ell, gae, gal, gel, gie, gul, ill, lag, lea, leg, lei, leu, lie, lug. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-i-l-l-u" | |
+1 letter: aiguilles. | |
+2 letters: seguidilla. | |
+3 letters: aiguillette, seguidillas. | |
+4 letters: aiguillettes. | |
+5 letters: antiguerrilla, bougainvillea, gallimaufries, multiregional, revictualling, unideological. | |
| 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 49 47 55 49 4C 4C 45 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- .. --. ..- .. .-.. .-.. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01001001 01000111 01010101 01001001 01001100 01001100 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A I G U I L L E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0049 0047 0055 0049 004C 004C 0045 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3543415543464639 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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