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Definition: BLACKBALLED |
BLACKBALLEDImperative & past participle1. Of Blackball |
Date "BLACKBALLED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1891. (references) |
Crosswords: BLACKBALLED |
| Specialty definitions using "BLACKBALLED": GLYNN. (references) |
| "BLACKBALLED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 90.00% of the time. "BLACKBALLED" is used about 10 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 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 90% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (proper) | 10% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 10 | N/A |
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 |
blackballed | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "BLACKBALLED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
German | boykottierte (boycotted). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ackballedblay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-b-c-d-e-k-l-l-l" | |
-2 letters: blackball, blacklead. | |
-3 letters: caballed, callable. | |
-4 letters: alcalde, ballade, blacked, labella. | |
-5 letters: alcade, backed, balked, ballad, balled, cabbed, cabled, calked, called, dabble, lacked, lalled. | |
| 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 4C 41 43 4B 42 41 4C 4C 45 44 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .-.. .- -.-. -.- -... .- .-.. .-.. . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01001100 01000001 01000011 01001011 01000010 01000001 01001100 01001100 01000101 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B L A C K B A L L E D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 004C 0041 0043 004B 0042 0041 004C 004C 0045 0044 |
| 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)3646353745363546463938 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage Frequency 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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