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HABILE

Definition: HABILE

HABILE

Adjective

1. Fit; qualified; also, apt.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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, HableInhabile. (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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Modern Usage: HABILE

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Le Retour de la main habile (2002)

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

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Commercial Usage: HABILE

DomainTitle

Music

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

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Modern Translations: HABILE

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.

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Rhyming with "HABILE"

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)

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Anagrams: HABILE

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.

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

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Alternative Orthography: HABILE


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

48 41 42 49 4C 45

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)

01001000 01000001 01000010 01001001 01001100 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#65 &#66 &#73 &#76 &#69

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)

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

423536434639

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INDEX

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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