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Definition: Lachesis |
LachesisNoun1. The Fate who determines the length of the thread of life; identified with Roman Decuma. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Lachesis" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Literature | Lachesis [Lak'-e-sis ]. The Fate who spins life's thread, working into the woof the sundry events destined to occur. Clotho held the distaff, and Atropos cut off the thread when life was to be ended. (Greek, klótho, to draw thread from a distaff; Lachesis from lagchano, to assign by lot; and Atropos = inflexible.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Crosswords: Lachesis |
| English words defined with "Lachesis": Decuma. (references) |
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| "Lachesis" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "Lachesis" is used about 5 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) | 80% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (proper) | 20% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "Lachesis": Lachesis mutus. Additional references. | |
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| 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 |
lachesis | 41 |
lachesis mutus | 10 |
atropos clotho lachesis | 6 |
lachesis muta | 4 |
homeopathy lachesis | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "lachesis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Pig Latin | achesislay.(various references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-h-i-l-s-s" | |
-1 letter: chaises, chisels, clashes, sheilas. | |
-2 letters: aisles, cashes, chaise, chases, chasse, chelas, chiels, chiles, chisel, hassel, hassle, heliac, laches, laichs, lashes, lassie, liches, saices, scales, selahs, shales, sheals, sheila, shiels, slices. | |
-3 letters: aches, aisle, alecs, ashes, cases, ceils, chase, chela, chess, chias, chiel, chile, clash, class, hails, hales, heals, heils, ileac, isles, laces, laich, laics, lases, leach, leash, saice, sails, sales, salic, scale, seals, selah, shale, sheal, sheas, shiel, shies, sials, sices, sisal, slash, slice. | |
-4 letters: aces, ache, ails, alec, ales, asci, case, cash, ceil, cels, cess, chia, chis, each, elhi, haes, hail, hale, heal, heil, hies, hila, hiss, ices, ichs, ilea, isle, lace, lacs, laic, lase, lash, lass, leas, lech, leis, less, lice, lich, lies, sacs, sail, sale, sals, sash, seal, seas, secs, seis, sels, shea, shes, sial, sice, sics. | |
-5 letters: ace, ail, ais, ale, als, ash, ass, cel, chi, cis, els, ess, hae, has, hes, hic, hie, his, ice, ich, lac, las, lea, lei, lie, lis, sac, sae, sal, sea, sec, sei, sel, sha, she, sic, sis. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-h-i-l-s-s" | |
+1 letter: challises. | |
+2 letters: alchemists, calipashes, coalfishes, selachians. | |
+3 letters: blackfishes, cholestasis, chrysalides, chrysalises, ethicalness, marshalcies, mischannels, schmalziest, thalassemic. | |
+4 letters: accomplishes, athleticisms, calisthenics, candlefishes, catholicoses, clannishness, hallucinoses, lecithinases, physicalness, psychedelias, schmaltziest, searchlights, shellackings, spaceflights, stickhandles, switchblades, thalassemics. | |
+5 letters: accomplishers, archeologists, eschatologies, ethicalnesses, physicalities, scholasticate, stickhandlers, superphysical, whimsicalness. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 61 63 68 65 73 69 73 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-.. .- -.-. .... . ... .. ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01100001 01100011 01101000 01100101 01110011 01101001 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L a c h e s i s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0061 0063 0068 0065 0073 0069 0073 |
| 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)4667697471857585 |
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