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Definition: HYDRAS |
HYDRASPlural1. Of Hydra |
Date "HYDRAS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Fear | A dagger of the mind ; expertus metuit; " fain would I climb but that I fear to fall"; " fear is the parent of cruelty "; " Gorgons and hydras and chimeras dire "; omnia tuta timens; " our fears do make us traitors " |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: HYDRAS |
| English words defined with "HYDRAS": class Hydrozoa, Cnidaria, Coelenterata ♦ genus Hydra ♦ Hydrina, Hydrozoa ♦ phylum Cnidaria, phylum Coelenterata ♦ Zoochlorella. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "HYDRAS": HYDRA. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | We think we hear hydras talking. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "HYDRAS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "HYDRAS" 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
hydras | 8 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "HYDRAS": hydrase, hydrases. (additional references) | |
Words containing "HYDRAS": carbohydrase, carbohydrases. (additional references) | |
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"HYDRAS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ghedras, Ghidrah, hedra, Hybrasil, hydca, hydda, hydr, hydrau, hydrax, hydric, hydrops, hydros, hydrus, hyrdra, hytril, Shudras. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "HYDRAS" (pronounced hī"druz) |
| 3 | -r u z | angoras, buras, cobras, contras, eras, extras, genres, menorahs, operas, orchestras, Sierras, zebras. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-h-r-s-y" | |
-1 letter: dashy, drays, hards, hardy, hydra, shady, shard, yards. | |
-2 letters: ashy, dahs, dash, days, dray, drys, hard, hays, rads, rash, rays, ryas, sard, shad, shay, yard. | |
-3 letters: ads, ars, ash, ays, dah, day, dry, had, has, hay, rad, rah, ras, ray, rya, sad, say, sha, shy, yah, yar. | |
-4 letters: ad, ah, ar, as, ay, ha. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-h-r-s-y" | |
+1 letter: hydrase. | |
+2 letters: halyards, hayrides, haywards, hydrants, hydrases, hydrates, rhapsody, shipyard. | |
+3 letters: anhydrous, birthdays, chrysalid, dyarchies, dysphoria, haulyards, husbandry, hydracids, hydragogs, hydranths, hydrators, hydrolase, hyracoids, shadberry, shipyards. | |
+4 letters: anhydrides, anhydrites, chrysalids, dehydrates, disharmony, dithyrambs, dwarfishly, dysarthria, dysphorias, hamadryads, holidayers, hybridomas, hydrangeas, hydrations, hydraulics, hydrazides, hydrazines, hydrolases, hydrospace, hydrozoans, pachyderms, rehydrates, schoolyard, switchyard. | |
+5 letters: chardonnays, chrysalides, churchyards, dehydrators, discography, dysarthrias, dysrhythmia, hamadryades, handyperson, hazardously, hydrocracks, hydrogenase, hydrolysate, hydromedusa, hydrophanes, hydroplanes, hydrospaces, hydrostatic, hydroxylase, hypermedias, pachysandra, psychodrama, schoolyards, switchyards. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 59 44 52 41 53 |
| 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 01011001 01000100 01010010 01000001 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H Y D R A S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0059 0044 0052 0041 0053 |
| 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)425938523553 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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