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GLOBE-SHAPED

Definition: GLOBE-SHAPED

GLOBE-SHAPED

Adjective

1. Shaped like a globe.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "GLOBE-SHAPED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1891. (references)

 

Crosswords: GLOBE-SHAPED

English words defined with "GLOBE-SHAPED": cow lilyLophophora williamsiimescal, mezcalNuphar advenapeyoteSeparating funnel, spatterdockyellow pond lily. (references)
Specialty definitions using "GLOBE-SHAPED": cabbage turnip. (references)

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Usage Frequency: GLOBE-SHAPED

"GLOBE-SHAPED" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "GLOBE-SHAPED" is used about 2 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Anagrams: GLOBE-SHAPED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-e-g-h-l-o-p-s"

-3 letters: albedoes, asphodel, galoshed, shedable, sheepdog.

-4 letters: albedos, apogees, beadles, beagles, beglads, beheads, beholds, beleaps, bodegas, deposal, elapsed, elodeas, ephebos, galoped, galoshe, lapdogs, leashed, pedalos, pelages, phoebes, plashed, pleased, pledges, sepaled, shoaled, splodge.

-5 letters: abeles, abodes, adobes, aholds, albedo, aldose, alephs, apogee, asleep, aslope, badges, bagels, bashed, beadle, beagle, bedels, beglad, behead, beheld, behold.

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

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Alternative Orthography: GLOBE-SHAPED


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

47 4C 4F 42 45 2D 53 48 41 50 45 44

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000111 01001100 01001111 01000010 01000101 00101101 01010011 01001000 01000001 01010000 01000101 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

G L O B E - S H A P E D

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 004C 004F 0042 0045 002D 0053 0048 0041 0050 0045 0044

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

414649363915534235503938

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