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GREYCOATS

Specialty Definition: GREYCOATS

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Literature

Greycoats Russian soldiers of the line, who wear grey coats.
"You might think of him thus calm and collected charging his rifle for one more shot at the advancing greycoats." - Besant and Rice: By Celia's Arbour, chap. xiv. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Usage Frequency: GREYCOATS

"GREYCOATS" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 57.14% of the time. "GREYCOATS" is used about 21 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
Noun (proper)57.14%12101,599
Noun (plural)42.86%9117,287
                    Total100.00%21N/A

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

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Anagrams: GREYCOATS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-g-o-r-s-t-y"

-1 letter: category, escargot.

-2 letters: cargoes, coaster, coaters, corsage, garotes, grayest, gyrates, orgeats, sectary, socager, storage.

-3 letters: actors, argosy, argots, cagers, carets, cargos, cartes, caster, castor, caters, coarse, coater, corset, costae, costar, coster, coyest, crates, creasy, ergots, escort, estray, garote, gaster, gators, gayest, graces, grates, greasy, greats, groats, gyrase, gyrate, gyrose, oaters, orates, orgeat, oyster.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-g-o-r-s-t-y"
 

+2 letters: gastrectomy, subcategory.

 

+3 letters: granulocytes.

 

+4 letters: agranulocytes, gesticulatory, proteoglycans, saprogenicity, spectrography.

 

+5 letters: cryptographers, cryptographies, estrogenically, laryngectomees, laryngectomies, megakaryocytes.

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

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Alternative Orthography: GREYCOATS


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

47 52 45 59 43 4F 41 54 53

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)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01000111 01010010 01000101 01011001 01000011 01001111 01000001 01010100 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#82 &#69 &#89 &#67 &#79 &#65 &#84 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0052 0045 0059 0043 004F 0041 0054 0053

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

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

415239593749355453

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INDEX

1. Usage Frequency
2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography


  

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