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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Balai Donner trois tours de balai par la cheminée (French). To be a witch. Literally, to run your brush three times up the chimney. According to an ancient superstition, all witches had to pass their brooms on which they rode three times up the chimney between one Sabbath and the following. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: BALAI |
| Non-English Usage: "BALAI" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Esperanto (sweep), French (broom, brush, mop, sweep), Indonesian (house, office, public building, public hall). |
| 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 |
balai tanjung | 10 |
balai lukis negara seni | 8 |
balai | 6 |
balai kerja latihan | 5 |
balai tanjong | 3 |
balai tg | 2 |
balai polis | 2 |
balai lukis seni | 2 |
balai rong seri | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: labia. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-i-l" | |
-1 letter: alba, baal, bail. | |
-2 letters: aal, aba, ail, ala, alb, baa, bal, lab, lib. | |
-3 letters: aa, ab, ai, al, ba, bi, la, li. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-i-l" | |
+1 letter: abelia, abulia, baalim, biaxal, labial. | |
+2 letters: abaxial, abaxile, abelian, abelias, abigail, aboulia, abulias, albinal, albizia, amiable, amiably, baalism, barilla, basilar, basinal, biaxial, cambial, fabliau, galabia, kalimba, labials, labiate, mailbag. | |
+3 letters: abapical, abbatial, abigails, ablating, ablation, ablative, aboulias, agitable, albizias, albizzia, alliable, amicable, amicably, anabolic, arbalist, arbitral, baalisms, bacillar, bailable, bailsman, balisaur, balladic, ballista, balsamic, banality, banalize, bangtail, barbital, barillas, baronial, basaltic, basidial, basilary, basilica, battalia, biannual, bicaudal, bifacial, bilabial, bimanual, binaural, biracial, biradial, brachial, braciola, brantail, cabalism, cabalist, cabrilla, cannibal, fabliaux, gainable, galabias, galabieh, galabiya, habitual, hairball, inarable, jailbait, kalimbas, kielbasa, labially, labiated, labiates, mailable, mailbags, radiable, raisable, sailable, sailboat, satiable, satiably, subaxial, tailback, variable, variably. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 41 4C 41 49 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .- .-.. .- .. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01000001 01001100 01000001 01001001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B A L A I |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0041 004C 0041 0049 |
| 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)3635463543 |
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