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Definition: HABILE |
HABILEAdjective1. Fit; qualified; also, apt. |
Etymology: Habile \Hab"ile\, adjective. [French expression habile, from Latin expression habilis. See Able, Habit.]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: HABILE |
| English words defined with "HABILE": Hable. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "HABILE": Habiliment, Hable ♦ Inhabile. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "HABILE" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (able, adroit, bright, clever, cunning, deft, dexterous, neat, nimble, proficient, shrewd, skilful, skilled, skillful, smart). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Le Retour de la main habile (2002) | |
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| Language | Translations for "HABILE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i shkathët (adroit, agile, artful, brisk, catlike, clever, cunning, deft, dexterous, dextrous, facile, feat, knacky, light-handed, lightsome, lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, loose-limbed, lubricous, natty, neat, neat-handed, nimble, quick-witted, ready, resourceful, shifty, skilful, skillful, slick, smart, spry, supple, swift-handed, tactical, vivacious). (various references) | |
Czech | zruèný (adroit, dexterous, handy, knacky). (various references) | |
Hungarian | ügyes (able, adept, adroit, artful, clean, clever, crafted, cunning, dab, daedalian, deft, dexterous, dextrous, dodge, expeditious, expenditious, facile, feat, good, handy, ingenious, masterly, natty, nimble-fingered, politic, proficient, ready worker, skilful, skillful, skilly, slick, to know how many beans make five, versatile). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | abilehay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | hábil (able, adroit, artful, canny, capable, cattish, circumspective, clever, cunning, deft, dexterous, diplomatic, ingenious, knacky, light-handed, neat, neat-handed, practitioner, skilful, skilled, skillful), cota de malha sem mangas. (various references) | |
Russian | искусный (adroit, artful, daedal, deft, delicate, hackish, handy, ingenious, neat, neat-handed, proficient, skilful, skilled, underwater, well-made, workmanlike). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | vešt (able, accomplished, adept, adroit, artful, clever, cunning, daedal, deft, dexterous, handy, knacky, knowing, proficient, sciential, skilled, skillful, slick, subtle, tall), spretan (adroit, deft, dexterous, handy, neat-handed, nimble, skilled, wieldy). (various references) | |
Swedish | bobar. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Words rhyming with "HABILE" (pronounced 'Hab"ile'): Agile, Anile, Attractile, Axile, Bevile, Contractile, Debile, Distractile, Docile, Erectile, Exsertile, Facile, Flabile, flexile, Fluxile, fragile, Illabile, indocile, Inhabile, Intractile, Irretractile, Protractile, retractile, sterile, strobile, Tetraxile, tractile, Whetile, Whitile. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-h-i-l" | |
-2 letters: able, bail, bale, bile, blae, blah, elhi, hail, hale, heal, heil, hila, ilea. | |
-3 letters: ail, alb, ale, bah, bal, bel, hae, hie, lab, lea, lei, lib, lie. | |
-4 letters: ab, ae, ah, ai, al, ba, be, bi, eh, el, ha, he, hi, la, li. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-h-i-l" | |
+1 letter: hidable, hirable. | |
+2 letters: billhead, bleakish, fishable, galabieh, hibernal, hireable, philabeg, tithable. | |
+3 letters: abolished, abolisher, abolishes, amphibole, basophile, beamishly, bearishly, biathlete, billheads, bleaching, breathily, eightball, establish, galabiehs, habitable, herbalist, heritable, hobnailed, philabegs, sablefish, shiftable, shippable, thinkable, weighable. | |
+4 letters: abolishers, achievable, alphabetic, amphiboles, basophiles, battleship, bechalking, behavioral, biathletes, bioethical, birthplace, blandished, blandisher, blandishes, blathering, branchline, charitable, deshabille, dishabille, eightballs, habiliment, habilitate, herbalists, herbicidal, highballed, hospitable, kohlrabies, machinable, perishable, punishable, relishable, sheathbill, shrinkable, stablished, stablishes, switchable. | |
+5 letters: abolishable, abolishment, ailurophobe, alphabeting, alphabetize, amphibolies, amphibolite, backlighted, battleships, bellyaching, bibliotheca, biochemical, birthplaces, blackfishes, blandishers, blasphemies, blaspheming, bleacherite, branchlines, chamberlain, charbroiled, charbroiler, cherishable, deshabilles, dishabilles, established, establisher, establishes, exhaustible, fashionable, habiliments, habilitated, habilitates, hibernacula, impeachable, inhabitable, inheritable, machineable, nailbrushes, perishables, publishable, reestablish, sablefishes, sheathbills, switchblade, tarnishable, unthinkable, whistleable. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 41 42 49 4C 45 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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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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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... .- -... .. .-.. . |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01000001 01000010 01001001 01001100 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H A B I L E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0041 0042 0049 004C 0045 |
| 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)423536434639 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Rhymes 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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