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Definition: EPHIALTES |
EPHIALTESNoun1. The nightmare. |
Date "EPHIALTES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Etymology: Ephialtes \Eph`i*al"tes\, noun. [New Latin expression, from the Greek expression, literally, one who leaps upon.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Hindrance | Encumbrance, incumbrance; clog, skid, shoe, spoke; drag, drag chain, drag weight; stay, stop; preventive, prophylactic; load, burden, fardel, onus, millstone round one's neck, impedimenta; dead weight; lumber, pack; nightmare, Ephialtes, incubus, old man of the sea; remora. |
Pain | Nightmare, ephialtes, incubus. |
Physical Pain | Spasm, cramp; nightmare, ephialtes; crick, stitch; thrill, convulsion, throe; throb. (agitation); pang; colic; kink. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: EPHIALTES |
| Specialty definitions using "EPHIALTES": Otos. (references) |
| "EPHIALTES" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 63.16% of the time. "EPHIALTES" 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 (proper) | 63.16% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Noun (plural) | 36.84% | 7 | 133,076 |
| 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 |
ephialtes | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Words rhyming with "EPHIALTES" (pronounced 'Eph`i*al"tes'): Aetites, Antes, Ascites, Atlantes, Barytes, Bootes, Cerastes, Certes, Chaetetes, Clidastes, Cortes, Cyphonautes, Dalmanites, Dermestes, Ecclesiastes, Favosites, Gasteromycetes, Gerontes, Halysites, Hymenomycetes, Lates, Microlestes, Mycetes, Myxomycetes, Myzontes, Nates, Nemertes, Nummulites, Optimates, Orbitolites, Penates, Pentremites, Porites, Primates, Procrustes, Pterocletes, Quirites, Rudistes, Saccharomycetes, Sarcoptes, Schizomycetes, Sorites, Troglodytes, Tympanites, Vadantes, Vagantes, Venantes. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-h-i-l-p-s-t" | |
-1 letter: haplites, heeltaps. | |
-2 letters: aplites, epistle, halites, haplite, heeltap, heliast, paliest, pelites, pileate, platies, sheltie, talipes. | |
-3 letters: alephs, aplite, asleep, elapse, elates, elites, espial, etapes, halest, halite, haslet, lathes, lathis, latish, lethes, lipase, listee, palest, palets, palish, pastel, pastie, pastil, pelite, peseta, pestle, petals, petsai, phials, pietas, plaits, plates, please, pleats, saithe, saltie, septal. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-h-i-l-p-s-t" | |
+1 letter: enthalpies, legateship, shapeliest, sphalerite. | |
+2 letters: legateships, philatelies, sphalerites, telepathies. | |
+3 letters: alphabetizes, encephalitis, epitheliomas, hyperrealist, laureateship, myelopathies, phylacteries, preestablish, telegraphies, telegraphist. | |
+4 letters: allelopathies, alphabetizers, autocephalies, elephantiases, elephantiasis, laureateships, phalansteries, phenomenalist, phentolamines, rehospitalize, spaghettilike, telegraphists. | |
+5 letters: cephalometries, encephalitides, ephemeralities, epithelializes, hepatomegalies, hypercatalexis, hyperrealistic, hypersexuality, hyperstimulate, petrochemicals, phenomenalists, preestablished, preestablishes, rehospitalized, rehospitalizes, steeplechasing. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 50 48 49 41 4C 54 45 53 |
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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 01010000 01001000 01001001 01000001 01001100 01010100 01000101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E P H I A L T E S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0050 0048 0049 0041 004C 0054 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)395042433546543953 |
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