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Definition: COLLINE |
COLLINENoun1. A small hill or mount. |
Date "COLLINE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1910. (references) |
Etymology: Colline \Col"line\, noun. [French expression colline, from the Latin expression collis hill.]. (Websters 1913) |
"COLLINE" is a common misspelling or typo for: Colleen, Collide, Collie, Collin, Collins. |
Crosswords: COLLINE |
| Non-English Usage: "COLLINE" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (Hill, hillock, hogback, tor, tussock). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Le Garçon sur la colline (1995) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| "COLLINE" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "COLLINE" is used about 3 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 (proper) | 66.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (singular) | 33.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3 | 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 |
colline | 29 |
la colline | 17 |
ciné colline de la parc | 8 |
colline salernitane | 5 |
cine colline de la parc | 5 |
la colline restaurant | 3 |
colline cucina ecommerce eshop monferrato negozi piemonte turismo vino | 2 |
cin colline de la parc | 2 |
la colline washington dc | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "COLLINE": collinear, collinearities, collinearity. (additional references) | |
Words containing "COLLINE": noncollinear. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "COLLINE" (pronounced 'Col"line'): Acauline, Bowline, Buntline, Cauline, Choline, Clothesline, Contline, Fringilline, Gantline, Girtline, headline, Lobeline, Lurchline, Moline, Pauline, Perivitelline, Praline, Ralline, Ramline, Rombowline, streamline, tapeline, towline, Tumpline, Vitelline. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-i-l-l-n-o" | |
-1 letter: cineol, collie, enolic, niello, ocelli. | |
-2 letters: celli, cello, cline, clone, colin, eloin, nicol, oleic, olein. | |
-3 letters: ceil, cell, cine, cion, clon, coil, coin, cole, cone, coni, enol, icon, leno, lice, lien, line, lino, lion, loci, loin, lone, nice, nill, noel, noil, once. | |
-4 letters: cel, col, con, ell, eon, ice, ill, ion, lei, lie, lin. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-i-l-l-n-o" | |
+1 letter: nucleoli. | |
+2 letters: allogenic, celloidin, collegian, colleting, collinear, collinses, coralline, covelline, decillion, halocline. | |
+3 letters: allogeneic, cannelloni, celloidins, centillion, citronella, collecting, collection, collegians, compelling, corallines, corbelling, cordelling, covellines, decillions, enological, haloclines, inscrolled, interlocal, nonallelic, nonlexical. | |
+4 letters: carillonned, centillions, citronellal, citronellas, citronellol, clothesline, collections, colonelcies, colonialize, congenially, cordilleran, counselling, cupellation, cycloolefin, decollating, decollation, demonically, enscrolling, escalloping, hedonically, lamellicorn, lichenology, logicalness, melancholia, melancholic, millisecond, neocolonial, nonallergic, nonclerical, nonmetallic, nucleophile, oneirically, overcalling, penological, precolonial, punchinello, sectionally, tonetically, undecillion, unlocalized, violoncelli, violoncello. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 4F 4C 4C 49 4E 45 |
| 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)01000011 01001111 01001100 01001100 01001001 01001110 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C O L L I N E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 004F 004C 004C 0049 004E 0045 |
| 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)37494646434839 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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