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BAVIN

Definitions: BAVIN

BAVIN

Noun

1. Impure limestone.

2. A fagot of brushwood, or other light combustible matter, for kindling fires; refuse of brushwood.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "BAVIN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

"BAVIN" is a common misspelling or typo for: Bain, Basin, Begin, Bovine, Brain, Braving.

Synonyms within Context: BAVIN

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Fuel

Coal, wallsend, anthracite, culm, coke, carbon, charcoal, bituminous coal, tar shale; turf, peat, firewood, bobbing, faggot, log; cinder. (products of combustion); ingle, tinder, touchwood; sulphur, brimstone; incense; port-fire; fire-barrel, fireball, brand; amadou, bavin; blind coal, glance coal; German tinder, pyrotechnic sponge, punk, smudge; solid fueled rocket.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Usage Frequency: BAVIN

"BAVIN" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "BAVIN" is used about 2 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 (proper)100%2245,945

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

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Modern Translations: BAVIN

Language Translations for "BAVIN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Manx

  

speilt (chip, chipping, lacerated, lath). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

avinbay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "BAVIN"

Words rhyming with "BAVIN" (pronounced 'Bav"in'): BRUIN, Cavin, Cholophaein, Cicutoxin, Colin, Covin, Cumin, Fortin, fraxin, gamin, Glairin, Haemaphaein, haematoidin, Hemaphaein, Hematein, hematoidin, Invertin, Lardacein, Levin, Linoxin, Mydatoxin, Myeloidin, Neo-Latin, Oleoresin, Papain, Phthalin, Picrotoxin, Platin, Plevin, Pyin, resin, robin, Rugin, satin, Scheelin, serin, Sewin, Smutchin, spavin, Tapayaxin, Teguexin, Telerythin, Tokin, Tophin, Typhotoxin, Urechitoxin, Venin, Vincetoxin, Whiskin, Xyloidin, Zein. (additional references)

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Anagrams: BAVIN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-i-n-v"

-1 letter: bani, vain, vina.

-2 letters: ain, ani, ban, bin, nab, nib, van, via.

-3 letters: ab, ai, an, ba, bi, in, na.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-i-n-v"
 

+2 letters: braving, vibrant.

 

+3 letters: behaving, bivalent, bravoing, enviable, enviably, inviable, inviably, unviable, vibrance, vibrancy, vibrants.

 

+4 letters: absolving, beavering, bereaving, biconcave, bivalents, boliviano, navigable, navigably, nonviable, obviating, obviation, ovalbumin, ribavirin, riverbank, unlivable, vibrances, vibrantly, vibrating, vibration.

 

+5 letters: ambivalent, bloviating, bloviation, bolivianos, incubative, inevitable, inevitably, insolvable, insolvably, invaluable, invaluably, invariable, invariably, investable, inviolable, inviolably, obviations, outbraving, ovalbumins, overbaking, ribavirins, riboflavin, riverbanks, subclavian, unenviable, vibrancies, vibraphone, vibrations, vindicable.

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

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Alternative Orthography: BAVIN


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

42 41 56 49 4E

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 01000001 01010110 01001001 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#65 &#86 &#73 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0041 0056 0049 004E

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

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

3635564348

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage Frequency
3. Translations: Modern
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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