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DRAINE

Definition: DRAINE

DRAINE

Noun

1. The missel thrush.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "DRAINE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references)

Etymology: Draine \Draine\, noun. [French expression]. (Websters 1913)

"DRAINE" is a common misspelling or typo for: drain, drained, drainer, drains.


Crosswords: DRAINE

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

French (drains).

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Name Usage Frequency: DRAINE

The following table summarizes the usage of "DRAINE" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
DraineLast name20032,104
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derivations: DRAINE

Derivations

Words beginning with "DRAINE": drained, drainer, drainers. (additional references)

Words containing "DRAINE": undrained. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: DRAINE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: denari, rained.

Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-n-r"

-1 letter: aider, aired, deair, denar, dinar, diner, drain, irade, nadir, ranid, redan, redia.

-2 letters: aide, airn, arid, dare, darn, dean, dear, deni, dine, dire, earn, idea, ired, nard, near, nerd, nide, raid, rain, rand, rani, read, rein, rend, ride, rind.

-3 letters: aid, ain, air, and, ane, ani, are, den, die, din, ear, end, era.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-n-r"
 

+1 letter: aneroid, antired, araneid, brained, cairned, dandier, denarii, deraign, detrain, drained, drainer, gradine, grained, handier, inarmed, invader, nardine, pardine, randier, randies, ravined, reading, sandier, sardine, trained, unaired, uranide.

 

+2 letters: acridine, adhering, aneroids, antherid, araneids, aridness, arointed, arsenide, bearding, bilander, brandied, brandies, breading, candider, crannied, daintier, dairymen, deairing, debonair, denarius, deraigns, derating, detainer, detrains, dicentra, dipteran, dragline, drainage, drainers, dreading, dreaming, endbrain, gardenia, gradient, gradines, hardline, inarched, indurate, infrared, inlander, insnared, invaders, islander, kidnaper, margined, marinade, meridian, midrange, muraenid, nearside, nitrated, ordained, ordainer, ordinate, organdie, panfried, radiance, radiomen, randiest, rationed, readding, readings, readying, redating, regained, reinvade, remained, renailed, rendzina, reordain, retained, riddance, ruinated, sardines, serranid, sprained, strained, treading, unhaired, unpaired, unraised, unrepaid, unvaried, uranides, uredinia, urinated, vineyard, zemindar.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DRAINE


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

44 52 41 49 4E 45

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)

01000100 01010010 01000001 01001001 01001110 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#82 &#65 &#73 &#78 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0052 0041 0049 004E 0045

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

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

385235434839

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Names: Frequency
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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