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GRIFF

Definitions: GRIFF

GRIFF

Noun

1. An arrangement of parallel bars for lifting the hooked wires which raise the warp threads in a loom for weaving figured goods.

2. Grasp; reach.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Specialty Definitions: GRIFF

DomainDefinitions

Industry

Each cord is suspended from a wire ("hook") that is bent at the bottom to hold the cord and bent at the top is order to hook around the blades or bars of the --, the lifting mechanism. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Crosswords: GRIFF

Specialty definitions using "GRIFF": Jacquard neck-cordneck cord. (references)
Non-English Usage: "GRIFF" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

German (butt, chord, clasp, clutch, feel, fingering, grab, grasp, grasping, grip, gripe, haft, handle, head, hilt, hold, knob, snatch, taking hold, talon, tongs, touching), Hungarian (heel).

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Modern Usage: GRIFF

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Griff just called me Grandpa for his health? (Back to the Future Part II; writing credit: Ronnie Cramer)

Oh and Marty, be careful around that Griff character, he's got a few short circuits. (Back to the Future Part II; writing credit: Ronnie Cramer)

The answer's no, Griff. (Back to the Future Part II; writing credit: Ronnie Cramer)

Movie/TV Titles

Griff (1973)

Tatort - Nichts mehr im Griff (2001)

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

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Commercial Usage: GRIFF

DomainTitle

Books

  • Das Ministerium fèur Staatssicherheit der ehemaligen DDR als Ideologiepolizei : zur Bedeutung einer Heilslehre als Mittel zum Griff auf das Bewusstsein fèur das Totalitarismusmodell (reference)

  • Griff Gets a Hand (reference)

  • Griff Makes a Date and Other Stories (The Kids of Degrassi Street) (reference)

  • Mut zur Utopie : d. Zukunft in d. Griff bekommen (reference)

  • Stress im Griff : negativen Stress dosieren, positiven bewusst suchen (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Usage Frequency: GRIFF

"GRIFF" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 82.14% of the time. "GRIFF" is used about 28 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)82.14%2372,767
Lexical Verb (base form)10.71%3202,518
Noun (singular)7.14%2245,945
                    Total100.00%28N/A

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: GRIFF

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

griff

26

professor griff

8

griff ray

6

griff rhys jones

4

hotel griff

4

dean griff

4

griff picture williams

4

griff jones mel rhys smith

3

d griff vol

3

d end griff week

3

d griff jour s

3

compagnie d griff rienne

3

avion billet d griff

3

d es griff vacances

3

griff thunder

3

ganter griff

2

griff land

2

d griff jours s s

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

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Modern Translations: GRIFF

Language Translations for "GRIFF"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

hage (chin). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

messenraam. (various references)

   

French

  

griffe (griffe), couteau. (various references)

   

German

  

Messerkasten. (various references)

   

Italian

  

griffa (chuck jaw, dog, fork, icing). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

iffgray

   

Portuguese

  

garra (Chela, clamshell, claw, clutch, fingernail, grab, grapple, grip, nail, nipper, paw, pawl, prong, talon). (various references)

   

Thai

  

แร้ง. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

Haber (announcement, communication, datum, Gen, griffin, info, information, item, knowledge, message, news, report, tidings, word), Bilgi (acquaintance, cognizance, conveyance, data, dope, Gen, gleanings, griffin, info, information, inside dope, instructions, intelligence, know how, knowledge, learning, line, lore, notice, report, savvy, word). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: GRIFF

Derivations

Words beginning with "GRIFF": griffe, griffes, griffin, griffins, griffon, griffons, griffs. (additional references)

Words ending with "GRIFF": hippogriff. (additional references)

Words containing "GRIFF": hippogriffs. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "GRIFF"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "GRIFF" (pronounced gri"f)
3-r i" friff.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: GRIFF

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "f-f-g-i-r"

-1 letter: frig, riff.

-2 letters: fig, fir, iff, rif, rig.

-3 letters: if.

 Words containing the letters "f-f-g-i-r"
 

+1 letter: griffe, griffs.

 

+2 letters: giraffe, griffes, griffin, griffon, reffing, riffing, ruffing.

 

+3 letters: affright, firefang, fogfruit, frogfish, giraffes, graffiti, graffito, griffins, griffons, gruffier, gruffily, gruffing, gruffish, offering, raffling, riffling, ruffling.

 

+4 letters: affirming, affording, affraying, affrights, buffering, coffering, differing, febrifuge, firefangs, firefight, fogfruits, frightful, fungiform, giraffish, goffering, gruffiest, niffering, offerings, offspring, rebuffing, sgraffiti, sgraffito, shroffing, suffering, tariffing.

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

SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

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Alternative Orthography: GRIFF


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

47 52 49 46 46

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

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 01010010 01001001 01000110 01000110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#82 &#73 &#70 &#70

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0052 0049 0046 0046

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

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

4152434040

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Rhymes
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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Deens, danisht, danishte, ‏لغة الدانمركية, ‏نوع كعك, ‏دانماركي, датски език, датски, Daniko, 丹麦语, dánský, dánština, danskur, danskt, tanskalainen, danois, Deensk, dänisch, δανικόσ, δανόσ, עו'ת שמרים, " י, dán, danska, Danmhairgis, danese, 덴마크, Danvargish, Danvargagh, danes, dinamarquês, danez, датский, danski, danski jezik, danés, dansk, danimarkalı, danimarka dili, датський, датська мова, tiếng Đan-mạch, for Danish;
Nederlands, Hollands, holandez, ‏هولندي, ‏اللغة الهولندية, холандски, немски език, холандски език, холандците, немски, Olandes, 菏蘭語 , 荷兰语, holandský, nizozemský, hollandsk, hollendskt, hollantilainen, néerlandais, Nederlânsk, holländisch, ολλανδικόσ, ολλανδόσ, holandisht, "ול "י, holland, hollenskur, Ollainnis, olandese, 네덜란", Belanda, Ollanish, Germaanish, Tatimana, nederlandsk, ulandes, hulandes, holandês, neerlandés, olandez, nemţesc, limba olandezã, german, голландский, holanđanin, u škripcu, holandski, holandés, bakratongo, holländsk, ชาวเนเธอร์แลน"์, เกี่ยวกับเนเธอร์แลน"์, รรยา, alman, eş, flemenkçe, holandaca, hollanda, karı, hollandalı, hollandalılara özgü olan, Hollandali, hollanda'ya ait, голландська мова, голландський, ngôn ngữ khó hiểu, "b xã", for Dutch;
Franse taal, Frans, franceze, francez, frëngjisht, frëng, frëngjishte, ‏فرنسي, ‏اللغة الفرنسية, ‏الشعب الفرنسي, gall, френски език, френски, Pranses, 法國 , 法文 , 法語 , 法语, francouzština, francouzský, franskur, franskt, ranskalainen, français, Frânsk, französisch, γάλλοσ, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, צרפתי, צרפתית, francia, Fraincis, francese, フレコン化 , フランス" , 仏文 , 仏 , ふつぶ", フレンチ , フランセ , ふつ, "랑스, Perancis, Ny Frangee, Mooinjey ny Frank, frances, franses, francês, francezii, francezã, franţuzesc, franţuzeşte, французский, Falani, francuski jezik, francuski, francuzi, francés, sí-Fulentji, fransk, franska, fransızca, Fransiz, fransızca ile ilgili, fransız, fransa ile ilgili, французька мова, французький, Ffrengig, isiFulentshi, for French;
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Portugees, portugez, portugalisht, ‏اللغة البرتغالية, ‏البرتغالية, ‏البرتغالي, португалски език, португалски, португалец, Potuges, 葡萄牙语, 葡萄牙人 , 葡萄牙語 , portugalský, portugiser, portugisiskt, portugalilainen, portugais, Portugeesk, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portugál, Portaingéilis, portoghese, ポルトガル語 , ポルトガル", 포르투갈, Portiugish, Portiugagh, portugues, Portugalczyk, português, portughez, португальский, portugalski jezik, portugalski, portugalac, portugués, Mreno, si-Putúkezi, portugis, portekiz, Portekízlí, portekizli, portekizce, португальська мова, португальський, португалець, người B"-đ o-nha tiếng B"-đ o-nha, for Portuguese;
Tailandes, 泰國 , 泰文 , 泰国, 泰 , thailænder, Thailander, Thai, Thais, thailendskt, thaimaalainen, Thaïlandais, thailändisch, Thailänder, Ταϊλανδός· Ταϊλανδέζος, tailandese, 泰語 , たい", 타이 말, tailandês, tailandés, thailändare, ที่เกี่ยวกับประเทศไทย, าษาไทย, เกี่ยวกับคนไทย, คนไทย, Taylandlı, Tayland Dili, Tayland, Tai Dili, Та"ць, Тайська Мова, Тайський, for Thai;
Turks, turk, ‏تركي أحد أبناء تركيا, ‏اللغة التركية, Turcu, турски, турски език, Turko, 土耳其, 土耳其語 , tureètina, turecký, turkist, turkkilainen, turque, turc, Turksk, türkisch, τούρκικοσ, טורקי, török, Yn Turkish, Turkagh, turcesc, турецкий, turski jezik, turski, turco, turkisk, türk, türkçe, турецька мова, турецький, tiếng Thổ nhĩ kỳ, for Turkish;