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Definition: Kleenex |
KleenexNoun1. (trademark) a piece of soft absorbent paper (usually two or more thin layers) used as a disposable handkerchief. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Crosswords: Kleenex |
| Non-English Usage: "Kleenex" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (tissue), Spanish (kleenex). |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The material from which Kleenex is made was originally called "Cellucotton," and was designed by Kimberly-Clark during World War I. It came to be used in gas mask filters during the war, as a replacement for cotton, which was in high demand for use as a surgical dressing.
Kimberly-Clark created the first facial tissue in 1924, and later introduced paper towels, and paper napkins. These facial tissues were originally marketed as a cleaning tissue for such usages as removing cold cream. Later they were marketed as a disposable paper tissue. In the 1930s, the Kimberly-Clark Corporation received a large amount of letters from customers suggesting its use for colds and hay fever. Kleenex were first advertised for use as a handkerchief replacement in 1926; this was to become the product's dominant use. Early advertising recommended using disposable Kleenex instead of a handkerchief with the slogan "Don't Carry A Cold In Your Pocket".
Kleenex is now manufactured in 19 countries, and sold in 150 countries.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Kleenex."
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Diane Sawyer | Right, because I asked for a Kleenex and it was the only thing you had in house at this fine establishment, as I recall. |
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| "Kleenex" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.45% of the time. "Kleenex" is used about 22 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 (singular) | 95.45% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 4.55% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 22 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "Kleenex": kleenex-vagabond. | |
Ending with "Kleenex": multi-kleenex. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
kleenex | 110 |
kleenex tissue | 10 |
kleenex product | 5 |
kleenex traveler | 5 |
kleenex box | 4 |
kleenex holder | 4 |
kleenex cottonelle | 4 |
kleenex box cover | 4 |
kleenex junior | 3 |
kleenex coupon | 3 |
kleenex girl wonder | 3 |
flower kleenex | 3 |
flower kleenex make | 3 |
history kleenex | 3 |
kleenex facial tissue | 2 |
kleenex nose | 2 |
kleenex tempo | 2 |
kleenex man steel woman | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "Kleenex"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | klineks. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 薄紙 (tissue). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | دستمال کاغذی (Towel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | tempo (clip, pace, paper handkerchief, rate, speed, tempo, time). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | papírzsebkendő (paper handkerchief, tissue), papír-törlőrongy. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | fazzoletto di carta (tissue, tissue handkerchief). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eenexklay бумажный носовой платок. (various references) papirna maramica. (various references) kleenex, pañuelo de papel (tissue). (various references) pappersnäsduk, ansiktsservett. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Kleenex" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eleonex, Kenix, klenex, Klenke. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-e-k-l-n-x" | |
-2 letters: kneel. | |
-3 letters: keel, keen, knee, leek, leke. | |
-4 letters: eel, eke, elk, ken, kex, lee, lek, lex, nee. | |
-5 letters: el, en, ex, ne. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-e-k-l-n-x" | |
+4 letters: exoskeleton. | |
+5 letters: exoskeletons. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4B 6C 65 65 6E 65 78 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.- .-.. . . -. . -..- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001011 01101100 01100101 01100101 01101110 01100101 01111000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)K l e e n e x |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004B 006C 0065 0065 006E 0065 0078 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)45787171807190 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Albanian | fjalor, qartësi, përcaktim, saktësi, transmetim, transferim | shqip, 阿"巴尼亚语, 阿爾巴尼亞人 , albaner, albán, albanese, албанский, albanski, albanac, albanés, alban |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | kinez, 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , Chinesisch, kínai, cinese, китайский, китаец, kineski jezik, kineski, chino, kinesisk |
German | wörterbuch, Übersetzung | gjerman, 德语, 德國 , 德文 , 德語 , deutsch, Deutsche, német, tedesco, немецкий, germanski, alemán, tysk |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | 匈牙利语, 匈牙利語 , Ungar, magyar, ungherese, венгр, венгерский, mađarski jezik, mađarski, mađar, húngaro, ungrare |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | 意大利 , 意大利語 , 意大利语, italienisch, olasz, italiano, итальянский язык, итальянец, итальянский, italijan, italijanski jezik, italijanski, italiensk, italienska, italienare |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | 俄語 , 俄文 , 俄语, Russe, russisch, orosz, russo, русский, ruski jezik, ruski, ruso, ryss |
Serbo-Croatian | leksikon, rečnik, definicija, tumačenje | 塞"维亚-克罗地亚语, 塞爾維亞克羅地亞語 , serbokroatisch, srpsko-hrvatski jezik, srpsko-hrvatski, serbokroatiska, serbokroatisk |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | spanjoll, 西班牙語 , 西班牙文 , 西班牙语, spanisch, spanyol, spagnolo, испанский, španski, španski jezik, español, spanska språk, spansk |
Swedish | ordbok, lexikon, definition, översättning | suedez, 瑞典語 , 瑞典语, schwedisch, svéd, svedese, шведский, švedski jezik, švedski, sueco, svensk |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | anglezët, anglez, gjuhë zngleze, anglishte, anglisht, 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , englisch, angol, inglese, английский, engleski, englez, engleski jezik, inglés, engelsk |
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