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Definitions: EMBAY |
EMBAYTransitive verb1. To shut in, or shelter, as in a bay. 2. To bathe; to soothe or lull as by bathing. |
Date "EMBAY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: EMBAY |
| English words defined with "EMBAY": Embayed, Embaying ♦ Imbay. (references) |
| 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 |
embay | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 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) 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) вводить в залив, запирать (bar, crib, fasten, lock, lock in, mew up, pawl, pen, shut in, shut up). (various references) okružiti (band, circularize, compass, encircle, environ, ingulf, surround). (various references) rodear a (beset, enlace, inlace, palisade, skirt). (various references) körfezlere ayırmak, körfeze kapamak. (various references) вводити в затоку. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "EMBAY": embayed, embaying, embayment, embayments, embays. (additional references) | |
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"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). | |
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 4D 42 41 59 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). -- -... .- -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01001101 01000010 01000001 01011001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E M B A Y |
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)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3947363559 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Expressions: Internet 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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