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GRIZEL

Specialty Definition: GRIZEL

DomainDefinition

Literature

Grizel or ~~~Grissel.
Grissel. Octavia, wife of Marc Antony and sister of Augustus Caesar, is called the "patient Grizel" of Roman story. (See Grisilda.)
"For patience she will prove a second Grissel."
Shakespeare: Taming of the Shrew, ii. I. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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"GRIZEL" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "gray", "battle".


Usage Frequency: GRIZEL

"GRIZEL" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "GRIZEL" is used about 4 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)100%4175,879

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

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Derived & Related Names: GRIZEL

"GRIZEL" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "gray", "battle".
 
The following table summarizes names related to "GRIZEL."
NameGenderLanguageRelated Name
GriseldaFemaleEnglishN/A
ZeldaFemaleEnglishGriselda
ZeldaFemaleJewishGriselda
GrizelFemaleScottishGriselda
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: GRIZEL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-g-i-l-r-z"

-1 letter: liger.

-2 letters: girl, lier, lire, riel, rile.

-3 letters: erg, gel, gie, ire, leg, lei, lez, lie, reg, rei, rig, zig.

-4 letters: el, er, li, re.

 Words containing the letters "e-g-i-l-r-z"
 

+1 letter: glazier, grizzle.

 

+2 letters: glaziers, glaziery, glitzier, grizzled, grizzler, grizzles.

 

+3 letters: eulogizer, glamorize, grizzlers, grizzlier, grizzlies, legalizer, prologize, realizing, reglazing, vulgarize.

 

+4 letters: allegorize, apologizer, blitzkrieg, burglarize, creolizing, eulogizers, freezingly, galvanizer, generalize, glamorized, glamorizer, glamorizes, glamourize, glazieries, grizzliest, laterizing, legalizers, mongrelize, plagiarize, prologized, prologizes, prologuize, regularize, velarizing, vulgarized, vulgarizer, vulgarizes.

 

+5 letters: allegorized, allegorizer, allegorizes, apologizers, blitzkriegs, burglarized, burglarizes, cartelizing, deglamorize, fertilizing, galvanizers, generalized, generalizer, generalizes, glamorizers, glamourized, glamourizes, homologizer, legitimizer, linearizing, marbleizing, marginalize, mongrelized, mongrelizes, organizable, plagiarized, plagiarizer, plagiarizes, prologuized, prologuizes, pulverizing, reanalyzing, regionalize, regularized, regularizes, reutilizing, serializing, singularize, sterilizing, theologizer, verbalizing, vernalizing, vulgarizers.

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

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Alternative Orthography: GRIZEL


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

47 52 49 5A 45 4C

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 01010010 01001001 01011010 01000101 01001100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#82 &#73 &#90 &#69 &#76

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0052 0049 005A 0045 004C

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

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

415243603946

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage Frequency
3. Names: Derived from
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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