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GURNET

Definition: GURNET

GURNET

Noun

1. One ofseveral European marine fishes, of the genus Trigla and allied genera, having a large and spiny head, with mailed cheeks. Some of the species are highly esteemed for food. The name is sometimes applied to the American sea robins.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "GURNET" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1598. (references)

"GURNET" is a common misspelling or typo for: burnet, garnet, gerent, gourmet, grunt, gurney.


Crosswords: GURNET

English words defined with "GURNET": GournetRochet. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: GURNET

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

gurnet

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

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Modern Translations: GURNET

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

Bulgarian 

  

тригла (gurnard). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

morgóhal (gurnard). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

urnetgay

   

Portuguese

  

peixe-cabra (Pollard), murmurar (Bicker, brawl, bubble, coo, croon, gossiping, groan, grumble, ha, hum, lip, murmur, mutter, prattler, purl, repine, sough, whisper), bêbado (alcoholic, bacchic, bibber, bloat, boozer, drunk, drunkard, drunken, exhilarated, intoxicated, intoxication, light-headed, pissed, screwed, smashed, tippler, tipsy, toper). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

морской петух (gurnard). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

cnòdan (the gurnet). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: GURNET

Derivations

Words beginning with "GURNET": gurnets. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: GURNET

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: urgent.

Words within the letters "e-g-n-r-t-u"

-1 letter: grunt, tuner.

-2 letters: gent, genu, grue, rent, rune, rung, runt, tern, true, trug, tune, tung, turn, urge.

-3 letters: eng, erg, ern, gen, get, gnu, gun, gut, net, nut, reg, ret, rue, rug, run, rut, teg, ten, tug, tun, urn.

-4 letters: en, er, et, ne, nu, re, un, ut.

 Words containing the letters "e-g-n-r-t-u"
 

+1 letter: gaunter, grunted, grunter, gruntle, grutten, gurnets, trudgen, trueing, turgent.

 

+2 letters: argentum, argument, burgonet, eructing, erupting, geniture, grunters, gruntled, gruntles, intrigue, outrange, refuting, reputing, restrung, retuning, runagate, sturgeon, trudgens, trudgeon, turgency, urgently, uttering.

 

+3 letters: argentums, argumenta, arguments, assurgent, augmenter, augmentor, burgonets, buttering, congruent, curetting, curveting, detouring, detruding, embruting, entourage, extruding, featuring, garniture, gauntries, genitures, gesturing, granulate, granulite, grungiest, guarantee, guttering, hungriest, insurgent, intrigued, intriguer, intrigues, lecturing, lustering, mustering, muttering, naughtier, negritude, neutering, nonurgent, outranged, outranges, permuting, puttering, rebutting, recutting, refulgent, relucting, repugnant, requiting, rerouting, resulting, resurgent, returning, reuniting, roqueting, runagates, russeting, signature, sturgeons, texturing, trudgeons, tuckering, undergirt, uptearing, venturing, vesturing, wuthering, youngster.

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

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Alternative Orthography: GURNET


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

47 55 52 4E 45 54

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 01010101 01010010 01001110 01000101 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#85 &#82 &#78 &#69 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0055 0052 004E 0045 0054

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

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

415552483954

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Non-English Dictionaries with "GURNET"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Bulgarian

речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, преводбългарски, български език, българин, bolgár, болгарский, болгарин

Hungarian

szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordításунгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, magyar, венгр, венгерский

Portuguese

dicionário, definição, traduçãoпортугалски, португалски език, португалец, portugál, português, португальский

Russian

словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещениеруски език, руски, руснак, orosz, русский

Scottish

foclair, abardair, faclair, briathrachanшотландски, skót, escocês, шотландский

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationанглийски език, английски, англичаните, angol, inglês, английский, beurla
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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