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Bleriot

Definition: Bleriot

Bleriot

Noun

1. French aviator who in 1909 made the first flight across the English Channel (1872-1936).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definitions: Bleriot

DomainDefinitions

Biographical Satire

BLERIOT, benefactor of humanity, idol of the tourist, and enemy of navigation. B. discovered a method of crossing the English Channel without being seasick. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914.

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

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Synonym: Bleriot

Synonym: Louis Bleriot (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Bleriot

English words defined with "Bleriot": Louis Bleriot. (references)
Specialty definitions using "Bleriot": BLERIOT. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Bleriot

DomainTitle

Books

  • The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel With Louis Bleriot, July 25, 1909 (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Usage Frequency: Bleriot

"Bleriot" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Bleriot" is used about 4 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)75%3202,518
Noun (proper)25%1339,140
                    Total100.00%4N/A

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

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Expressions: Bleriot

Expression using "Bleriot": Louis Bleriot. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "Bleriot": bleriot-type.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Bleriot

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

  bleriot

16

  bleriot louis

12

  bleriot xi

2

  bleriot ikarus

2
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Anagrams: Bleriot

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-e-i-l-o-r-t"

-1 letter: boiler, boleti, bolter, loiter, reboil, riblet, toiler.

-2 letters: birle, biter, blite, boite, botel, broil, liber, lirot, liter, litre, obeli, oiler, orbit, oriel, relit, reoil, roble, teloi, tiler, toile, tribe, triol.

-3 letters: belt, bier, bile, birl, bite, blet, blot, boil, bole, bolt, bore, bort, brie, brio, brit, lier, lire, lite, lobe, lore, loti, obit.

 Words containing the letters "b-e-i-l-o-r-t"
 

+1 letter: blottier, laborite, libretto, strobile, trilobed.

 

+2 letters: blotchier, briolette, cabriolet, laborites, liberator, librettos, overbuilt, potboiler, strobilae, strobiles, trilobate, trilobite.

 

+3 letters: abortively, boilersuit, bolometric, bolstering, bootlicker, briolettes, cabriolets, clofibrate, importable, liberation, liberators, lobstering, obliterate, orbiculate, potboilers, profitable, rebottling, sailboater, trilobites.

 

+4 letters: amortizable, bibliolater, bioelectric, biomaterial, biometrical, boatbuilder, boilerplate, boilersuits, bootlickers, celebration, clofibrates, convertible, convertibly, corruptible, elaborating, elaboration, elaborative, embroilment, erodibility, forfeitable, hyperbolist, intolerable, intolerably, labradorite, liberations, lobsterings, lobsterlike, meroblastic, microtubule, obliterated, obliterates, obliterator, obstetrical, obtrusively, operability, prelibation, problematic, protrusible, rambouillet, sailboaters, stilbestrol, tribologies, tuberculoid, vibratoless.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Bleriot


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

42 6C 65 72 69 6F 74

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)

01000010 01101100 01100101 01110010 01101001 01101111 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#108 &#101 &#114 &#105 &#111 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 006C 0065 0072 0069 006F 0074

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

36787184758186

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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