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Definition: Brill |
BrillNoun1. European food fish. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "brill" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1872. (references) |
Note: Brill \Brill\, noun. [Compare to Corn. brilli mackerel, from brith streaked, speckled.]. (references) |
Synonym: BrillSynonym: Scophthalmus rhombus (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Brill |
| English words defined with "brill": Birt ♦ Prill. (references) |
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 | [Isidor C. Brill, M.D.]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Those present include (seated, front row): Sigmund Freud, Granville S. Hall and Carl Jung; (standing, back row): Abraham A. Brill, Ernest Jones and Sándor Ferenczi. Credit: NAVY. |
 | New York Sunday Journal--32 pages for 3 cents--Uncle Sam's fatal folly ... / Brill. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Philadelphia Sunday Press--Special features for December 1st, 1895 / Brill. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Lighting effects 1" by Vi Xs Commentary: "Slight camera movement caused some brill blue lighting effects." |
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| "Brill" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 65.85% of the time. "Brill" is used about 82 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 65.85% | 54 | 46,184 |
| Noun (proper) | 25.61% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Noun (common) | 7.32% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Unclassified Items | 1.22% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 82 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "brill" 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 |
| Brill | Last name | 3,000 | 4,427 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
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| Netherlands | Koninklijke Brill N.V. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "brill"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | البريل سمك. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | вид калкан. (various references) | |
Danish | slethvarre, slethvar. (various references) | |
Dutch | snoever, kaan (chons, cretons), griet (rhombus). (various references) | |
Finnish | silokampela. (various references) | |
French | barbue. (various references) | |
German | glattbutt (brett, brit, kite, pearl). (various references) | |
Greek | καλκάνι (dab, turbot), πισί, πησί. (various references) | |
Hungarian | sima rombuszhal. (various references) | |
Italian | soaso, rombo liscio. (various references) | |
Manx | breet. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | illbray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | rodovalho (turbot), pegadeira. (various references) | |
Russian | камбала-ромб. (various references) | |
Spanish | rodaballo (halibut, turbot). (various references) | |
Swedish | slätvar. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | камбала (fluke, plaice). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Rhombus laevis, Rhombus laevis rondelet, Rhombus vulgaris, Scophthalmus rhombus, Scophthalmus rhombus (Linnaeus,1758), turbot lisse, VE barbue. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "brill": brilliance, brilliances, brilliancies, brilliancy, brilliant, brilliantine, brilliantines, brilliantly, brilliants, brills. (additional references) | |
Words containing "brill": cabrilla, cabrillas, defibrillate, defibrillated, defibrillates, defibrillating, defibrillation, defibrillations, defibrillator, defibrillators, fibrilla, fibrillae, fibrillar, fibrillate, fibrillated, fibrillates, fibrillating, fibrillation, fibrillations, microfibrillar, myofibrillar, neurofibrillary, unbrilliant. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "brill" (pronounced bri"l) |
| 3 | -r i" l | drill, frill, grill, grille, krill, prill, rill, shrill, thrill, trill. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-i-l-l-r" | |
-1 letter: bill, birl, rill. | |
-2 letters: ill, lib, rib. | |
-3 letters: bi, li. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-i-l-l-r" | |
+1 letter: biller, brills, rebill. | |
+2 letters: barilla, billers, braille, bullier, burlily, libeler, liberal, prebill, rebills. | |
+3 letters: bacillar, ballsier, barillas, bellbird, billeter, billiard, birdcall, blearily, blurrily, brailled, brailles, bridally, brimfull, brollies, bullring, cabrilla, fibrilla, fireball, gerbille, hairball, hornbill, libelers, libeller, liberals, limberly, lubrical, millibar, morbilli, overbill, prebills, rebilled, reliable, reliably, ribaldly, tribally, trilobal. | |
+4 letters: bacillary, ballerina, belittler, bellbirds, beryllium, bifilarly, bilateral, billboard, billeters, billiards, billowier, birdcalls, brailling, braillist, bridewell, brilliant, brittlely, bullrings, cabrillas, corbeille, crossbill, drillable, fiberfill, fibrefill, fibrillae, fibrillar, filtrable, fireballs, gerbilles, hairballs, hornbills, illiberal, isallobar, ivorybill, libellers, liberally, millibars, overbills, prebilled, razorbill, rebelling, rebellion, rebilling, reliables, rubellite, stillborn. | |
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