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EMBAY

Definitions: EMBAY

EMBAY

Transitive verb

1. To shut in, or shelter, as in a bay.

2. To bathe; to soothe or lull as by bathing.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "EMBAY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)

Synonyms within Context: EMBAY

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Circumscription

Enfold, bury, encase, incase, pack up, enshrine, inclasp; wrap up; (invest); embay, embosom.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: EMBAY

English words defined with "EMBAY": Embayed, EmbayingImbay. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: EMBAY

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

embay

7
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: EMBAY

Language Translations for "EMBAY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

strehoj (accommodate, billet, Canton, cover, Harbor, harbour, haven, home, host, house, Lodge, quarter, refuge, resettle, shelter), fus në liman. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏رصع (beset, inlay, insert, intersperse, recess, set, stud, trim). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

образувам заливи, затварям като в залив, подслонявам кораб в залив. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ετοιμάζω για μάχη. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

öbölben lehorgonyoz. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

embayay

   

Portuguese

  

encerrar (accomodate, chamber, close, closet, coffin, contain, encapsulate, encase, enclose, finish, girdle, hoop, imply, impound, incase, inclose, lock, lock in, mure, shut, shut in, shut up, terminate, wind up), preparado para combate, prender (apprehend, arrest, attract, bind, bond, cage, capture, clip, confine, coop, cop, detain, drop behind, fasten, gaol, get fast, gift shop, grapple, handsel, hoop, immobilize, incarceration, jail, jug, kennel, knit, lag, linkage, lock in, mewl, nab, pin, prison, quod, run in, secure, seize, shut, snaffle bit, take, take up, to apprehend, to arrest, to hang-up, to lodge, to seize), fechar chave (lock, lock in). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

adãposti un vas într-un golf, închide (bar, block, bolt, cage, chest, clap up, clasp, clench, close, closet, comprise, confine, contain, crib, darken, enclose, fasten, furl, girdle, half-shut, heal, hem, impound, imprison, include, lock, occlude, seal, shut, shut down, shut in, shut the works down, stopper), împinge un vas într-un golf. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

вводить в залив, запирать (bar, crib, fasten, lock, lock in, mew up, pawl, pen, shut in, shut up). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

okružiti (band, circularize, compass, encircle, environ, ingulf, surround). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

rodear a (beset, enlace, inlace, palisade, skirt). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

körfezlere ayırmak, körfeze kapamak. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

вводити в затоку. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: EMBAY

Derivations

Words beginning with "EMBAY": embayed, embaying, embayment, embayments, embays. (additional references)


Misspellings

"EMBAY" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: akbay, Eaba, Egba, emay, Emb, embasy, embe, embesy, Embez, embla, Embo, Embra, Embu, emmbasy, enboy, Endaby, Hemba, imba, M'ba, Mbiyu, mebay, Membray, Nemba, Pemba. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: EMBAY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: beamy, maybe.

Words within the letters "a-b-e-m-y"

-1 letter: abye, beam, bema, mabe.

-2 letters: aby, aye, bam, bay, bey, bye, mae, may, yam, yea.

-3 letters: ab, ae, am, ay, ba, be, by, em, ma, me, my, ya, ye.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-e-m-y"
 

+1 letter: ambery, baymen, byname, embays, maybes.

 

+2 letters: beamily, bynames, embassy, embayed, eyebeam.

 

+3 letters: amenably, assembly, bogeyman, cymbaler, embaying, eyebeams, lambency, mangabey, mealybug, megabyte, moneybag, moveably, sunbeamy.

 

+4 letters: ambrotype, amebocyte, barometry, beamishly, blasphemy, boogeyman, cymbalers, embayment, embracery, embryonal, estimably, lambently, mangabeys, maybushes, mealybugs, megabytes, memorably, miserably, molybdate, moneybags, removably, semblably.

 

+5 letters: ambrotypes, amebocytes, amoebocyte, bathymetry, blamefully, embayments, emblazonry, employable, impeccably, lamentably, lumberyard, manageably, measurably, metastably, molybdates, myeloblast, presumably, reassembly, remarkably, terminably.

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

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Alternative Orthography: EMBAY


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

45 4D 42 41 59

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)

01000101 01001101 01000010 01000001 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#77 &#66 &#65 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 004D 0042 0041 0059

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

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

3947363559

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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