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"ESL" is a common misspelling or typo for: sill. |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | ESL Expert Systems Ltd. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
ESL | English | Ethiopian Shipping Lines | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: ESL |
| Specialty definitions using "ESL": ESLPDPRO, Expert Systems Ltd. ♦ Prolog-2 ♦ TLAs. (references) |
| Domain | Title | ||
Books |
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Theater & Movies | |||
Music |
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High Tech |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | In the past, while many of the inquiries were from older students interested in pursuing ESL, four-year or graduate programs in the United States, the majority of interest this year was registered by parents looking to place their elementary, middle or high school-aged children in private American schools. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "ESL" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 68.42% of the time. "ESL" is used about 19 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 (singular) | 68.42% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 10.53% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (common) | 10.53% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 5.26% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (proper) | 5.26% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 19 | 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
esl | 1,912 | esl teacher | 38 |
daves esl cafe | 703 | esl teaching job | 33 |
esl federal credit union | 213 | esl writing | 32 |
esl lesson plan | 196 | esl reading | 32 |
esl job | 173 | esl resource | 32 |
esl program | 138 | esl course | 30 |
daves esl | 124 | esl curriculum | 30 |
teaching esl | 122 | esl interactive practice | 29 |
esl game | 90 | esl lab | 29 |
esl activity | 74 | esl certification | 28 |
esl lesson | 72 | esl song | 27 |
esl cafe | 67 | esl investment | 27 |
esl lab.com | 62 | esl beverly hills | 25 |
esl org | 60 | center esl sports | 25 |
esl school | 59 | esl toronto | 25 |
esl class | 57 | esl conversation | 24 |
esl quiz | 53 | esl assessment | 23 |
esl worksheets | 45 | teach esl | 23 |
esl grammar | 43 | esl material | 23 |
esl credit union | 42 | esl web site | 22 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Derivations | |
Words containing "ESL": beslaved, beslime, beslimed, beslimes, besliming, clothesline, clotheslined, clotheslines, clotheslining, coleslaw, coleslaws, muesli, mueslis, nanotesla, nanoteslas, preslaughter, presleep, preslice, presliced, preslices, preslicing, reslate, reslated, reslates, reslating, riesling, rieslings, roseslug, roseslugs, salesladies, saleslady, sideslip, sideslipped, sideslipping, sideslips, tesla, teslas. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: els, sel. | |
| Words within the letters "e-l-s" | |
-1 letter: el, es. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-l-s" | |
+1 letter: ales, bels, cels, dels, eels, elds, elks, ells, elms, else, gels, isle, lase, leas, lees, legs, leis, leks, lens, less, lest, lets, leys, lies, lose, lues, lyes, lyse, mels, oles, sale, seal, seel, self, sell, sels, sled, slew, sloe, slue, sole, tels. | |
+2 letters: ables, aisle, alecs, alefs, almes, aloes, arles, axels, axles, bales, bells, belts, biles, blase, blebs, bless, blest, blets, blues, boles, ceils, cells, celts, clefs, clews, close, clues, coles, dales, deals, deils, deles, delfs, delis, dells, delts, doles, duels, dulse, earls, easel, elans, elves, enols, evils, false, feels, fells, felts, files, fleas, flees, flesh, flews, fleys, flies, floes, flues, fuels, fusel, gales, gelds, gelts, gleds, glees, glens, gleys, glues, gules, hales, heals, heels, heils, hells, helms, helos, helps, herls, holes, hosel, idles, ileus, isled, isles, islet, istle, jells, joles, kales, keels, kelps, koels, laces, lades, lakes, lames, lanes, lapse, lares, lased, laser, lases, laves, lazes, leads, leafs, leaks, leans, leaps, lears, lease, leash, least, leeks, leers, leets, lefts, leges, lehrs, lends, lenes, lenis, lenos, lense, leuds, lewis, lexes, lexis, liens, liers, lieus, likes, limes, lines, lisle, lives, lobes, lodes, loess, loges, loose, lopes, lores, losel, loser, loses, louse, loves, lowes, lowse, loxes, lubes, luces, ludes, luges, lunes, lures, lutes, luxes, lweis, lyase, lyres, lysed, lyses, males, meals, melds, mells, melts, merls, mewls, miles, moles, mules, noels, ogles, oleos, orles, ousel, pales, peals, peels, peles, pelfs, pelts, piles, pleas, plebs, plews, plies, poles, pules, pulse, rales, reals, reels, riels, riles, roles, rules, sable, salep, sales, salve, scale, seals, seels, seely, selah, selfs, selle, sells, selva, sepal, seral, setal, shale, sheal, shelf, shell, sheol, shiel, shlep, sidle, silex, skelm, skelp, slake, slate, slave, sleds, sleek, sleep, sleet, slept, slews, slice, slide, slier, slime, slipe, sloes, slope, slued, slues, slyer, slype, smell, smelt, smile, snell, socle, soled, solei, soles, solve, sorel, spale, speel, speil, spell, spelt, spiel, spile, stale, steal, steel, stela, stele, stile, stole, style, swale, swell, taels, tales, teals, teels, teles, tells, telos, tesla, tiles, toles, tules, vales, valse, veals, veils, velds, voles, wales, weals, welds, wells, welsh, welts, wiles, wyles, yelks, yells, yelps, ylems, yules, zeals. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 53 4C |
| 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)01000101 01010011 01001100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E S L |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0053 004C |
| 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)395346 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Abbreviations 8. Acronyms | 9. Derivations 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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