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Definition: BINOCLE |
BINOCLENoun1. A dioptric telescope, fitted with two tubes joining, so as to enable a person to view an object with both eyes at once; a double-barreled field glass or an opera glass. |
Etymology: Binocle \Bin"o*cle\, noun. [French expression binocle; Latin bini two at time oculus eye.]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: BINOCLE |
| Non-English Usage: "BINOCLE" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Dutch (binoculars). |
| 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 |
binocle | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "BINOCLE": binocles. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "BINOCLE" (pronounced 'Bin"o*cle'): Adminicle, Ancle, Appendicle, Arbuscle, Auricle, Bernacle, Bernicle, bicycle, Binnacle, Bittacle, Calicle, Canticle, Carbuncle, Cardiacle, Caulicle, Charbocle, Cicatricle, Clavicle, Conceptacle, Conventicle, Coracle, Cornicle, Covercle, Cubicle, Curricle, Cuticle, Demicircle, Denticle, Diverticle, Encircle, Epicycle, Fernticle, follicle, funicle, furuncle, granduncle, hemicycle, Hibernacle, icicle, Immanacle, Incircle, Incle, Interclavicle, Isicle, Mascle, monocle, Monticle, Muscle, Nucle, Obstacle. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-e-i-l-n-o" | |
-1 letter: cineol, enolic. | |
-2 letters: cibol, cline, clone, coble, colin, eloin, nicol, noble, obeli, oleic, olein. | |
-3 letters: bice, bile, bine, blin, bloc, boil, bole, bone, ceil, cine, cion, clon, coil, coin, cole, cone, coni, ebon, enol, icon, leno, lice, lien, line, lino, lion, lobe, loci, loin, lone, nice, noel, noil, once. | |
-4 letters: bel, ben, bin, bio. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-e-i-l-n-o" | |
+1 letter: binocles, bioclean, coinable. | |
+2 letters: balconied, balconies, cobaltine, colubrine, columbine, corbeling. | |
+3 letters: actionable, becloaking, beclogging, beclothing, beclouding, beclowning, becomingly, bronchiole, clobbering, cobaltines, cognizable, columbines, combinable, corbelings, corbelling, insociable, noticeable, noticeably, unsociable. | |
+4 letters: beclamoring, bisectional, bronchioles, celebration, cinderblock, cognoscible, conceivable, conceivably, condensible, conductible, confirmable, confiscable, connectible, consignable, containable, convertible, convertibly, hornblendic, incoercible, obsolescing, subcolonies. | |
+5 letters: biotechnical, bluestocking, celebrations, cinderblocks, communicable, conscionable, considerable, considerably, contemptible, contemptibly, contractible, convertibles, discountable, elucubration, forcibleness, geobotanical, incommutable, incomparable, incompatible, incomputable, inconsolable, inconsumable, incorporable, incorrigible, microbalance, nonbacterial, noncelebrity, paleobotanic, recognizable, recognizably, reconcilable, ribonuclease, sanctionable, sociableness, unbecomingly, unnoticeable. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 49 4E 4F 43 4C 45 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .. -. --- -.-. .-.. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01001001 01001110 01001111 01000011 01001100 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B I N O C L E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0049 004E 004F 0043 004C 0045 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)36434849374639 |
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