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BEVELLED

Definitions: BEVELLED

BEVELLED

1. Of Bevel

Adjective

1. Replaced by two planes inclining equally upon the adjacent planes, as an edge; having its edges replaced by sloping planes, as a cube or other solid.

2. Formed to a bevel angle; sloping; as, the beveled edge of a table.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "BEVELLED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references)

 

Crosswords: BEVELLED

English words defined with "BEVELLED": miter joint, mitre joint. (references)
Specialty definitions using "BEVELLED": articulating walesside graft. (references)

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Usage Frequency: BEVELLED

"BEVELLED" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 78.26% of the time. "BEVELLED" is used about 23 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
Adjective (general or positive)78.26%1882,615
Lexical Verb (past tense)13.04%3202,518
Lexical Verb (past participle)8.7%2245,945
                    Total100.00%23N/A

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BEVELLED

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

bevelled glass

11

bevelled table

10

bevelled coffee table

9

bevelled glass uk

5

bevelled glass london

5

bevelled

4

bevelled mirror

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: BEVELLED

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

Chinese 

  

二面对切 (Beveled). (various references)

   

Danish

  

affaset kant. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

met afgeschuinde kant, afgeschuind. (various references)

   

French

  

biseaute, biseauté (beveled), bord adouci, bord abattu. (various references)

   

German

  

schrägte ab (beveled). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

με λειασμένα άκρα. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

rézsútos (beveled, inclined, oblique, skew, thwart, transverse). (various references)

   

Italian

  

bugnato (ashlar, studded), smussato a spigogolo vivo, smussato (blunt, dull, obtuse). (various references)

   

Manx

  

bevyllit. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

evelledbay

   

Portuguese

  

biselado, com bordo rebatido, chanfrado (cogged, jagged, splay), adj. (swollen). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

sesgado (aslant, biased, skew, slanted, slanting), cortado al sesgo, con canto matado. (various references)

   

Thai

  

ซึ่งมีผิวหรือขอบเอียง (beveled). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

şevli (bevel, sloping, splay). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

скошений (canting, sloping, squint). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "BEVELLED"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "BEVELLED" (pronounced be"vuld)
5-e" v u l dbedeviled, disheveled, leveled, levelled, reveled.
4-v u l dmarveled, raveled, rivaled, shoveled, shriveled, traveled, travelled, unraveled, unrivaled.
3-u l daddled, ambled, angled, annulled, assembled, babbled, backpedaled, baffled, barreled, battled, bedraggled, befuddled, belittled, bespectacled, bicycled, boggled, bottled, bridled, bristled, bubbled, buckled, bundled, bungled, cabled, canceled, cancelled, channeled, chiseled, chortled, chronicled, chuckled, circled, cobbled, coddled, commingled, corbelled, counseled, coupled, crackled, credentialed, crippled, crumbled, crumpled, cuddled, cycled, dabbled, dangled, dazzled, dialed, dibbled, dimpled, disabled, disassembled, disgruntled, dismantled, doubled, dribbled, dueled, dwindled, embattled, embezzled, emerald, empaneled, enabled, enameled, encircled, enfeebled, entangled, entitled, equaled, fabled, fiddled, fizzled, flanneled, fondled, frazzled, freckled, fueled, fuelled, fumbled, funneled, gambled, garbled, giggled, gobbled, grappled, grizzled, grumbled, haggled, handled, hassled, heckled, Herald, hobbled, huddled, humbled, hustled, idled, impaneled, imperiled, initialed, intermingled, jangled, jostled, juggled, jumbled, kindled, knuckled, labeled, labelled, ladled, libeled, mangled, manhandled, marbled, marshaled, marshalled, mingled, mishandled, mislabeled, modeled, mottled, muddled, muffled, mumbled, muscled, muzzled, needled, nestled, nettled, newfangled, nibbled, ogled, paddled, paneled, parceled, pedaled, pedalled, peddled, penciled, peopled, pickled, principled, pummeled, puzzled, quadrupled, quarreled, quintupled, rambled, rankled, rattled, reassembled, recycled, redoubled, refueled, rekindled, remodeled, resembled, resettled, reshuffled, riddled, rifled, rippled, ruffled, rumbled, rumpled, saddled, sampled, scaffold, scrambled, scribbled, scuffled, scuttled, settled, shackled, shuffled, shuttled, signaled, signalled, singled, sizzled, smuggled, snarled, spangled, sparkled, speckled, spiraled, sprinkled, squabbled, squirreled, stapled, startled, stenciled, stifled, straddled, straggled, strangled, struggled, stumbled, subtitled, swindled, tabled, tackled, tangled, tasseled, tattled, throttled, tickled, tinkled, titled, toggled, toppled, totaled, totalled, trampled, trebled, trembled, trickled, tripled, troubled, trundled, tumbled, tussled, unbridled, unlabeled, unprincipled, unruffled, unsettled, unshackled, untrammeled, untroubled, waffled, wangled, whistled, whittled, widdled, wobbled, wrangled, wrestled, wrinkled.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: BEVELLED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-d-e-e-e-l-l-v"

-1 letter: beveled, leveled.

-2 letters: bedell, belled, leveed.

-3 letters: bedel, belle, bevel, bleed, delve, devel, levee, level.

-4 letters: bell, bled, dele, dell, veld.

-5 letters: bed, bee, bel, deb, dee, del, dev, eel, eld, ell, eve, led, lee, lev, vee.

 Words containing the letters "b-d-e-e-e-l-l-v"
 

+2 letters: bedevilled.

 

+3 letters: bedrivelled, deliverable, developable.

 

+5 letters: undeliverable.

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

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Alternative Orthography: BEVELLED


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

42 45 56 45 4C 4C 45 44

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 01010110 01000101 01001100 01001100 01000101 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#69 &#86 &#69 &#76 &#76 &#69 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0045 0056 0045 004C 004C 0045 0044

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

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

3639563946463938

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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