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GLEEN

Definition: GLEEN

GLEEN

Intransitive verb

1. To glisten; to gleam.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Note: Gleen \Gleen\, intransitive verb. [Compare to Glance, Glint.]. (references)

 

Crosswords: GLEEN

Etymologies containing "GLEEN": Glance. (references)

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Name Usage Frequency: GLEEN

The following table summarizes the usage of "GLEEN" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
GleenLast name20035,728
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Expressions: GLEEN

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

gleen

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Rhyming with "GLEEN"

Words ending with "een": fleen, Skreen, Streen, Ween, Wheen. (additional references)

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Anagrams: GLEEN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-g-l-n"

-1 letter: gene, glee, glen.

-2 letters: eel, eng, gee, gel, gen, lee, leg, nee.

-3 letters: el, en, ne.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-g-l-n"
 

+1 letter: gentle, legend, legmen, lungee.

 

+2 letters: angeled, deleing, elegant, englobe, enlarge, erelong, eugenol, euglena, evangel, feeling, fenagle, fleeing, general, genteel, gentile, gentled, gentler, gentles, gleaned, gleaner, gleeman, gleemen, greenly, heeling, keeling, leering, legends, lineage, lozenge, lungees, melange, neglect, neglige, peeling, reeling, seeling.

 

+3 letters: algerine, alienage, allergen, beetling, belonged, bemingle, beveling, bleeding, bleeping, cleeking, creeling, danegeld, deleting, develing, electing, elegance, elegancy, eloigned, eloigner, elongate, engilded, engirdle, englobed, englobes, engulfed, enlarged, enlarger, enlarges, ensilage, entangle, eugenols, euglenas, evangels, feelings, fenagled, fenagles, fleecing, fleering, fleeting, fuglemen, galenite, gasolene, gelatine, generals, gentiles, gentlest, gingeley, gleaners, gleeking, gleeting, glegness, glenlike, goldener, greenfly, greenlet, heelings, inveigle, jeweling, kneeling, leeching, legatine, legendry, lengthen, leveeing, leveling, levering, liegeman, liegemen, lineages, lingered, lingerer, lingerie, lozenges, melanges, needling, neglects, negligee, negliges, peelings, polygene, reedling, regental, reguline, replunge, reveling, seedling, sleeking, sleeping, sleeting, sleeving, speeling, steeling, telegony, telexing, ungentle, vengeful, wedeling, weeklong, wheeling.

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

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Alternative Orthography: GLEEN


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

47 4C 45 45 4E

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)

01000111 01001100 01000101 01000101 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

G L E E N

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 004C 0045 0045 004E

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

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

4146393948

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