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Bleached

Definitions: Bleached

Bleached

Adjective

1. Having lost freshness or brilliance of color; "sun-bleached deck chairs"; "faded jeans"; "a very pale washed-out blue"; "washy colors".

2. (used of color) artificially produced; not natural; "a bleached blonde".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "bleached" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1374. (references)


Synonyms: Bleached

Synonyms: colored (adj), coloured (adj), dyed (adj), faded (adj), washed-out (adj), washy (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Bleached

English words defined with "bleached": acid-washbleach, bleach out, bleachers, boneCarrigeen, Chinese wax, colored, coloureddecolor, decolorise, decolorize, decolour, decolourise, decolourize, discolorise, discolorize, discolourise, dyedgauze, gauze bandageivorylight breadoff-whitepearl, peroxide blond, peroxide blondeshellacunbleached, uncolored, undyedVisual purplewhite bread. (references)
Specialty definitions using "bleached": BLEACHED MORT, BLEACHER, LARDCOLOR CHECKER, ROVING OR YARN, cotton cleaner, COTTON WASHERdrier operator, DRYING-MACHINE OPERATOR, PACKAGE YARNS, DYER HELPEREXTRACTOR OPERATORgenuine bristol, golden bleached raisinshair blender, HAIR PREPARERIRISH-MOSS GATHERER, ivory board, ivory paperJuajuakier drierlard makermodified starchoven-drier tenderpackage drier, partly bleached pulp, pasted ivory board, pasted ivory paper, pencil and paper, port drierREFLECTANCE METERsemi-bleached pulp, shade-and-quality checker, suction-machine operator, sulfite paper, sulfite wrapping paper, sulphite paper, sulphite wrapping papervacuum-extractor operator. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Bleached" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

German (prefaded).

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Modern Usage: Bleached

DomainUsage

Screenplays

So it leads me to a sacred place, and then a week later it leads you to my bleached bones? (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

Movie/TV Titles

Beached and Bleached (1915)

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

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Commercial Usage: Bleached

DomainTitle

References

  • The 2000 Import and Export Market for Woven, Bleached, Mercerized, Dyed, and Printed Cotton Fabrics in Africa (reference)

  • The 2002 World Forecasts of Woven, Bleached, Mercerized, Dyed, and Printed Cotton Fabrics Export Supplies (reference)

  • The 2003 World Forecasts of Woven, Bleached, Mercerized, Dyed, and Printed Cotton Fabrics Export Supplies (reference)

  • The World Market for Semibleached or Bleached, Sulfite Chemical Wood Pulp Excluding That of Dissolving Grades: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • The 2000 Import and Export Market for Woven, Bleached, Mercerized, Dyed, and Printed Cotton Fabrics in Africa [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference)

  • Tormentil and Bleached Bones (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

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

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Image Slideshow: Bleached

Photos:
Bleached

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Photo Album: Bleached

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The bleached skull of a steer on the dry sun-baked earth of the South Dakota Badlands.Credit: Library of Congress.

H.C. Richardson, Ozark farmer, with goat skin which has been bleached and washed. He sells these in town, three dollars. Oregon County, Missouri.Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Use in Literature: Bleached

TitleAuthorQuote

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

She dried her bleached and bloated hands.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Bleached

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Brazil

Imports of Bleached Softwood and Newsprint have been increasing by as much as 15 percent per year due to very low import duties, or at times no duties at all. (references)

Costa Rica

The most promising sub-sectors for paper and paperboard are: uncoated bleached and unbleached Kraft paper and paperboard; uncoated paper and paperboard for writing; and newsprint paper. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Bleached

"Bleached" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "Bleached" is used about 150 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)50%7538,535
Lexical Verb (past participle)28%4252,864
Lexical Verb (past tense)20%3063,341
Noun (proper)2%3202,518
                    Total100.00%150N/A

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

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Expression: Bleached

Expressions using "bleached": be bleached bleached cotton fabric bleached yarn golden bleached raisins partly bleached pulp. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "bleached": bleached-blonde, bleached-blue, bleached-bone, bleached-haired, bleached-khaki, bleached-looking, bleached-out.

Ending with "bleached": sun-bleached.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Bleached

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

  bleached hair

54

  bleached

28

  bleached hair picture

18

  bleached blonde

14

  bleached guy hair

9

  bleached coloring hair

5

  bleached jean

4

  bleached flour

4

  bleached hair man

3

  bleached blonde hair

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Bleached

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

Chinese 

  

漂白 (Blanch, Bleach, Bleaching, Whiten, Whitened, Whitening). (various references)

   

Danish

  

halvbleget cellulose (partly bleached pulp, semi-bleached pulp), delvis bleget masse (partly bleached pulp, semi-bleached pulp). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

gebleekt. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

vajaavalkaistu massa (partly bleached pulp, semi-bleached pulp), puolivalkaistu massa (partly bleached pulp, semi-bleached pulp), keltainen rusina (golden bleached raisins). (various references)

   

French

  

blanchi (blaze). (various references)

   

German

  

gebleicht (prefaded), bleichte (blanched), ausgebleicht. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ξεθωριασμένοσ (discolored, discoloured, faded, off white, washed out, washy). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

kelantangan (loudness, volume). (various references)

   

Italian

  

pasta di cellulosa semibianchita (partly bleached pulp, semi-bleached pulp). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

'木綿 (bleached cotton cloth), 'し木綿 (bleached cotton cloth), 'し (bleached cotton, bleaching), ' (bleached cotton, bleaching). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

さらしもめ" (bleached cotton cloth), さらし (bleached cotton, bleaching). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

표백하". (various references)

   

Manx

  

giallit (fulled, promised, whitened). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eachedblay

   

Portuguese

  

branqueado. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

отбеливать отбеленный. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

blanqueado (bleaching). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

blekt (peroxided). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Bleached

Derivations

Words ending with "bleached": overbleached, unbleached. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Bleached" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bilichild, Blache, bleache, Bleahu, bleaked, Bleasham, Bletchedon. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Bleached"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "bleached" (pronounced blē"kht)
4-l ē" kh tleached.
3-ē" kh tbeached, breached, impeached, preached, reached, screeched.

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

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Anagrams: Bleached

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-c-d-e-e-h-l"

-1 letter: beached, belaced, belched, debacle, leached.

-2 letters: bached, beadle, behead, beheld, bleach, cabled, chelae, healed, leched.

-3 letters: abele, ached, baled, beach, bedel, beech, belch, blade, bleed, cable, celeb, chela, clade, decal, eched, haled, laced, leach, leech.

-4 letters: abed, able, aced, ache, alec, alee, bach, bade, bald, bale, bead, blae, blah, bled, cade, cede, chad, clad.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-c-d-e-e-h-l"
 

+1 letter: bechalked.

 

+2 letters: bellyached, detachable, unbleached.

 

+3 letters: rhabdocoele.

 

+4 letters: breechloader, decipherable, overbleached, rhabdocoeles.

 

+5 letters: breechloaders, dischargeable, nondetachable.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Bleached


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

42 6C 65 61 63 68 65 64

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 01101100 01100101 01100001 01100011 01101000 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#108 &#101 &#97 &#99 &#104 &#101 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 006C 0065 0061 0063 0068 0065 0064

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

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

3678716769747170

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Quotations: Fiction
9. Quotations: Non-fiction
10. Usage Frequency
11. Expressions
12. Expressions: Internet
13. Translations: Modern
14. Derivations
15. Rhymes
16. Anagrams
17. Orthography
18. Bibliography


  

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