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CREUX

Definition: CREUX

CREUX

Noun

1. Used in English only in the expression en creux. Thus, engraving en creux is engraving in intaglio, or by sinking or hollowing out the design.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

"CREUX" is a common misspelling or typo for: cruel, cruet, crux.

Crosswords: CREUX

Non-English Usage: "CREUX" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (cave, cavity, emptiness, gaunt, hole, hollow, pit, sunken, trough, vain).

Modern Usage: CREUX

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Isidora au creux des Andes (1994)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Commercial Usage: CREUX

Domain	Title
Books	Au creux des apparences : pour une éthique de l'esthétique (reference) Au creux du Nil (reference) Dessert au Creux de l'Assiette (reference) Discours contre les iconoclastes : discussion et réfutation des bavardages ignares, athées et tout à fait creux de l'irreligieux Mamonp2s contre l'incarnation de Dieu le verbe notre sauveur (reference) Itinéraire d'un rebelle : au creux du val (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Frequency of Internet Keywords: CREUX

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
arbre creux	3
creux valerie	2
creux du van	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Anagrams: CREUX

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-r-u-x"
	-1 letter: crux, cure, ecru.
	-2 letters: cue, cur, ecu, rec, rex, rue.
	-3 letters: er, ex, re, xu.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-r-u-x"
	+1 letter: cruxes.
	+2 letters: excuser.
	+3 letters: excluder, excursus, excusers, executer, executor, morceaux, precieux.
	+4 letters: exchequer, excluders, excurrent, excursion, excursive, executers, executors, executory, executrix, uxoricide.
	+5 letters: circumflex, coexecutor, commixture, contexture, crucifixes, curtalaxes, exchequers, excruciate, excursions, excursuses, excusatory, exuberance, luxuriance, microluxes, neurotoxic, uxoricides.
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Alternative Orthography: CREUX

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

43 52 45 55 58

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

⁼

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)

01000011 01010010 01000101 01010101 01011000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#82 &#69 &#85 &#88

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0052 0045 0055 0058

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

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

3752395558

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial

5. Expressions: Internet
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography

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