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Definition: BISSON |
BISSONAdjective1. Purblind; blinding. |
Date "BISSON" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1601. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Literature | Bisson or Bisen [blind] is the Anglo-Saxon bisen. Shakespeare (Hamlet, ii. 2) speaks of bisson rheum (blinding tears), and in Coriolanus, ii. 1, "What harm can your bisson conspectuities glean out of this character?" Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table summarizes the usage of "BISSON" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Bisson | Last name | 3,000 | 4,293 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| 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 |
yannick bisson | 86 |
bisson | 30 |
bisson catherine | 11 |
bisson chris | 11 |
bisson mufflers | 8 |
terry bisson | 7 |
edouard bisson | 4 |
bisson nicole | 4 |
bisson gilles | 4 |
bisson inc roger | 3 |
bisson picture yannick | 3 |
bisson muffler | 3 |
bisson stephane | 2 |
bisson oil | 2 |
bisson brian | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Words rhyming with "BISSON" (pronounced 'Bis"son'): Advowson, Antimason, Arson, Bason, Bison, Boson, Caisson, Chanson, Diapason, Disdiapason, Dobson, Elison, Encrimson, Foison, Foyson, Geason, godson, grandson, Great-grandson, grison, hyson, Impoison, keelson, Kelson, Nupson, Outreason, Overseason, Parson, Plasson, Pocoson, Ramson, reason, Samson, Semidiapason, Sponson, Stemson, stepson, Sternson, Telson, treason, Tridiapason, Unpoison, Unseason, Urson, Waveson, Whitson, Whoreson. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: bisons. | |
| Words within the letters "b-i-n-o-s-s" | |
-1 letter: bison, snibs, snobs. | |
-2 letters: bins, bios, boss, ions, nibs, nobs, obis, sibs, sins, snib, snob, sobs, sons. | |
-3 letters: bin, bio, bis, bos, ins, ion, nib, nob, nos, obi, ons, sib, sin, sis, sob, son, sos. | |
-4 letters: bi, bo, in, is, no, on, os, si, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-i-n-o-s-s" | |
+1 letter: basions, bonsais, bossing, gibsons. | |
+2 letters: antiboss, bastions, benisons, boniness, boxiness, ebonises, snobbish, snobbism, subjoins, subsonic, symbions. | |
+3 letters: abrasions, banjoists, bedsonias, biosensor, birdsongs, bombesins, bongoists, bonspiels, bossiness, botanises, botanists, embossing, fishbones, nabobisms, obsessing, obsession, obsidians, omnibuses, searobins, shinbones, snobbiest, snobbisms, snowbirds, songbirds, steinboks, subtonics, symbionts, wishbones. | |
+4 letters: abscission, anabolisms, antibioses, antibiosis, arabinoses, bassoonist, bespousing, biocenoses, biocenosis, biogeneses, biogenesis, biosensors, bisections, bloodiness, blossoming, boatswains, bonefishes, boninesses, boringness, bowstrings, boxinesses, boyishness, brimstones, broodiness, byssinoses, byssinosis, conscribes, firstborns, insolubles, isobutanes, misbuttons, morbidness, obeisances, obsessions, obtrusions, omnibusses, ostensible, ostensibly, sanbenitos, signboards, snobberies, snobbishly, spoonbills, springboks, stillborns, sublations, submersion, submission, subregions, subsection, subsoiling, substation, subversion, wobbliness. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 49 53 53 4F 4E |
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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 01010011 01010011 01001111 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B I S S O N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0049 0053 0053 004F 004E |
| 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)364353534948 |
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