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Definition: BIRCHES |
BIRCHESPlural1. Of Birch |
Date "BIRCHES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1808. (references) |
Synonym: BIRCHESSynonym: Birch trees. (additional references) |
Crosswords: BIRCHES |
| English words defined with "BIRCHES": Betula, birch leaf miner ♦ Fenusa pusilla ♦ genus Betula, genus Polyporus ♦ Polyporus. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Fall landscape, Siberian birches near Sinii Utyos, Russia.Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540. |  | Through the birches, Harbor Beach.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The Three birches, Pointe aux Barques.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Stonover birches, Lenox, Mass.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Rocks and birches, Berkshire Hills, Mass.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The Birches at Oak Birch Inn, Alton Bay, Lake Winnipesaukee, N.H.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Black birches, Zoo park [National Zoological Park], Washington, D.C.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Schools. Hotchkiss School, birches against light.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Tuxedo Park Golf Club. Birches and clubhouse, vertical.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Dr. A.S. Barnes, "Ker-Feal", residence in Chester Springs, Pennsylvania. House through birches.Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| "BIRCHES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "BIRCHES" is used about 56 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 75% | 42 | 52,864 |
| Noun (proper) | 25% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Total | 100.00% | 56 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "BIRCHES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | æ¡¦æ ‘ (Birch). (various references) | ||||
German | Birken. (various references) | ||||
Korean | 박달나무 (Birch). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | irchesbay | ||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Betula spp.. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"BIRCHES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Barchuk, Berche, Berchem, Bichai, Bichat, biche, Biches, binchois, biochem, birche, Birchens, birchirs, Birchley, Birke, birses, bitchs, Borcham, brinhaus, burches, Kirche. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-e-h-i-r-s" | |
-1 letter: riches, scribe. | |
-2 letters: bices, biers, birch, birse, bries, cires, cribs, cries, heirs, herbs, hires, ribes, rices, shier, shire. | |
-3 letters: bice, bier, bise, brie, bris, chis, cire, crib, cris, heir, herb, hers, hies, hire, ices, ichs, ires, rebs, recs, reis, resh, ribs, rice, rich, rise, shri, sice, sire. | |
-4 letters: bis, chi, cis, ers, her, hes. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-e-h-i-r-s" | |
+1 letter: besmirch, brioches, britches. | |
+2 letters: bedchairs, chemisorb, cherubims. | |
+3 letters: besmirched, besmirches, biospheric, bitcheries, botcheries, brachiates, branchiest, breechings, butcheries, chemisorbs, herbicides, seborrheic, superbitch. | |
+4 letters: bescorching, besmirching, bichromates, birthplaces, branchlines, bronchioles, chemisorbed, cherishable, chifforobes, copublisher, hackberries. | |
+5 letters: bewitcheries, biochemistry, birdwatchers, bleacherites, brackishness, bronchitises, buccaneerish, bunchberries, chamberlains, chambermaids, charbroilers, chemisorbing, chinaberries, chokeberries, copublishers, debaucheries, hebephrenics, superbitches. | |
| 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 52 43 48 45 53 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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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 01001001 01010010 01000011 01001000 01000101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B I R C H E S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0049 0052 0043 0048 0045 0053 |
| 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)36435237423953 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Usage Frequency 7. Translations: Modern 8. Translations: Ancient | 9. Derivations 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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