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Definition: EMBROIDERIES |
EMBROIDERIESPlural1. Of Embroidery |
Date "EMBROIDERIES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1601. (references) |
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 | One of the embroideries made by Mr. Gaetano Simone, Italian FSA (Farm Security Administration) client. Made a number of years ago during his spare time while unemployed. Westville, Connecticut.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Appliqued embroideries for sale on street in front of ten cent store. Saturday afternoon. Siler City, North Carolina.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "EMBROIDERIES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "EMBROIDERIES" is used about 18 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 (plural) | 100% | 18 | 82,615 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "EMBROIDERIES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Arabic | وشى تطريز. (various references) | ||||||||||
Chinese | 刺绣 (Embroidery). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | broderie (embroidery). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Stickereien. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | embroideriesay broderier. (various references) | ||||||||||
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"EMBROIDERIES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: embroideress. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "EMBROIDERIES" (pronounced embroy"derēz) |
| 4 | -d er ē z | boundaries, quandaries. |
| 3 | -er ē z | accessories, advisories, anniversaries, armories, arteries, bakeries, batteries, breweries, burglaries, calories, calvaries, canneries, centuries, deliveries, diaries, directories, discoveries, distilleries, documentaries, draperies, eateries, factories, fisheries, forgeries, galleries, groceries, hatcheries, hickories, histories, injuries, inquiries, lotteries, luxuries, machineries, memories, microbreweries, miseries, mysteries, nurseries, ovaries, penitentiaries, recoveries, refineries, refractories, reveries, robberies, rosaries, salaries, sceneries, summaries, surgeries, treasuries, vagaries, victories, wineries. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-e-e-e-i-i-m-o-r-r-s" | |
-2 letters: broideries, embroiders, reembodies. | |
-3 letters: embodiers, emborders, embroider. | |
-4 letters: boiserie, breeders, broiders, bromides, disrober, embodier, embodies, emborder, emeroids, imbodies, miserere, misorder, rebodies, rebreeds, remedies, resorbed. | |
-5 letters: bedsore, beerier, bemired, bemires, berimed, berimes, berried, berries, berseem, birders, birdies, biremes, borders, borides, breeder, broider, bromide, bromids, derbies, derries, desirer, disrobe, dormers, emeries, emerods, emeroid, emersed, midribs, misdoer, oreides, rebored, rebores, rebreed, redeems, redries, reedier, remised, remorid, remorse, reredos, resider, ribiers, seedier, serried, sobered, soberer. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 4D 42 52 4F 49 44 45 52 49 45 53 |
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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 01001101 01000010 01010010 01001111 01001001 01000100 01000101 01010010 01001001 01000101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E M B R O I D E R I E S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 004D 0042 0052 004F 0049 0044 0045 0052 0049 0045 0053 |
| 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)394736524943383952433953 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Images: Slideshow 4. Images: Photo Album | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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