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Definition: GRAVELLED |
GRAVELLED1. Of Gravel |
Date "GRAVELLED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Literature | Gravelled I'm regularly gravelled. Non-plussed, like a ship run aground and unable to move. "When you were gravelled for lack of matter." -Shakespeare: As You Like It, iv. 1. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | A Shaded gravelled terrace, screened by orange trees, with chaise lounges, settees and tables, at Pavilion Colombe, Mrs. Edith Wharton's villa, St. Brice-sous-Forêt, France. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "GRAVELLED" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 95.24% of the time. "GRAVELLED" is used about 42 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 95.24% | 40 | 54,274 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 2.38% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 2.38% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 42 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "GRAVELLED": be gravelled. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "GRAVELLED": once-gravelled. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
gravelled | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "GRAVELLED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | "石渣 (Gravelling). (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | 자갈을 까". (various references) | ||||||||||
Norwegian | gruslagt. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | avelledgray cevap verememek (be gravelled), apışıp kalmak (be baffled, be gravelled, be nonplused, straddle), afallamak (be amazed, be astonished, be gravelled, startle). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-g-l-l-r-v" | |
-1 letter: gavelled, graveled, ravelled. | |
-2 letters: alleged, alleger, gaveled, greaved, lagered, raveled, regaled. | |
-3 letters: agreed, allege, argled, dealer, delver, dragee, evader, galere, galled, geared, gelder, gelled, glared, graved, gravel, greave, ladler, laveer, leader, leaved, leaver, ledger, reaved, redleg, regale, regave, reveal, vealed, vealer, verged. | |
-4 letters: aglee, agree, alder, allee, argle, deave, delve, devel, drave, eager, eagle. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-g-l-l-r-v" | |
+4 letters: overpedalling. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 52 41 56 45 4C 4C 45 44 |
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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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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. .-. .- ...- . .-.. .-.. . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01010010 01000001 01010110 01000101 01001100 01001100 01000101 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G R A V E L L E D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0052 0041 0056 0045 004C 004C 0045 0044 |
| 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)415235563946463938 |
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