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BEECHES

Definition: BEECHES

BEECHES

Plural

1. Of Beech

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "BEECHES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

 

Specialty Definitions: BEECHES

DomainDefinitions

Mining

Scot. Strips of hardwood fastened to pump rods to save them from wear atthe collars. (references)

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

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Synonyms: BEECHES

Synonyms by domain: beech (food & agriculture, biology & biotechnology), beechtree, common beech, copper beech, European beech.

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Crosswords: BEECHES

English words defined with "BEECHES": Beech drops, beech family, Beechyevergreen beechFagaceae, Fagus, family Fagaceaegenus Fagus, genus NothofagusLoranthus europaeusmistletoeNothofagussouthern beech. (references)

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Modern Usage: BEECHES

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

The Copper Beeches (1921)

Beeches (1993)

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

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Commercial Usage: BEECHES

DomainTitle

Books

  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Speckled Band, the Adventure of the Copper Beeches, the Stock-Broker's Clerk, the Red-Headed League [ABRIDGED] (reference)

    (more book examples)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

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

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Image Slideshow: BEECHES

Illustrations:
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Usage Frequency: BEECHES

"BEECHES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 91.21% of the time. "BEECHES" is used about 91 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 (plural)91.21%8336,350
Noun (proper)8.79%8124,375
                    Total100.00%91N/A

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BEECHES

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

the beeches

56

beeches nude

6

white beeches golf country club

4

beeches ny rome

3

burnham beeches hotel

3

beeches white

3

beeches carshalton england surrey

2

beeches burnham

2

beeches club country white

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

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Modern Translations: BEECHES

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

Chinese 

  

山毛榉 (Beech). (various references)

   

German

  

Buchen (accounting, beaches, book, book up, enter, fix up, make a booking, post, record, register, reserve, to book, to enter, to record). (various references)

   

Italian

  

registrare (accounting, book, check in, enrol, enroll, enter, log, note, record, register, set, take down, tally, to book, to enter, to record, writing). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

너도밤나무 (Beech). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eechesbay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: BEECHES

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Fagus silvatica, Fagus spp., Fagus sylvatica. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Misspellings: BEECHES

Misspellings

"BEECHES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Abeche, Beache, Beachie, Bechet, Bechio, beecher, beechers, Beecke, Berche, Berchem, Beschi, Biches, Bykhov, Obeche. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: BEECHES

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: beseech.

Words within the letters "b-c-e-e-e-h-s"

-1 letter: cheese.

-2 letters: beech, eches, hebes.

-3 letters: bees, cees, eche, hebe.

-4 letters: bee, cee, hes, sec, see, she.

-5 letters: be, eh, es, he, sh.

 Words containing the letters "b-c-e-e-e-h-s"
 

+1 letter: breeches.

 

+2 letters: beechiest, beseeched, beseeches.

 

+3 letters: bedrenches, beseeching, cheekbones, debauchees, seabeaches, unbreeches.

 

+4 letters: escheatable.

 

+5 letters: beseechingly, bewitcheries, bleacherites, cheeseburger, chokeberries, debaucheries, hebephrenics, overbleaches, researchable.

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

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Alternative Orthography: BEECHES


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

42 45 45 43 48 45 53

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 01000101 01000101 01000011 01001000 01000101 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#69 &#69 &#67 &#72 &#69 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0045 0045 0043 0048 0045 0053

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

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

36393937423953

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Usage Frequency
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Translations: Ancient
11. Derivations
12. Anagrams
13. Orthography
14. Bibliography


  

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