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LEAM

Definitions: LEAM

LEAM

Noun

1. A cord or strap for leading a dog.

Noun & intransitive verb

1. See Leme.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

Abbreviations & Acronyms: LEAM

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.

EntrySourceExpressionField

LEAM

EnglishLunar Ejecta and MicrometeoritesN/A

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Crosswords: LEAM

English words defined with "LEAM": Leamer, Lymhound. (references)
Etymologies containing "LEAM": Lyam. (references)
Non-English Usage: "LEAM" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Scottish (by me, emph.pron.; with me, in my, with me).

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Usage Frequency: LEAM

"LEAM" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "LEAM" is used about 6 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)66.67%4175,879
Noun (singular)33.33%2245,945
                    Total100.00%6N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: LEAM

Language Translations for "LEAM"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Scottish

  

truagh (I pity, miserable, unhappy : is truagh leam, wretched), toigh (agreeable, I like, loved : is toigh leam, pleasant, see phrase), oil (educate, grief : is oil leam, it is an offence to me, pain, rear, vexation), nà r (disgraceful : is nà r leam, I account it shameful), docha (dearer, I would, preferable, preferred : is docha leam), b' à ill (etc., I would that, in phrases: b' à ill leam). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: LEAM

Derivations

Words ending with "LEAM": agleam, fleam, gleam. (additional references)

Words containing "LEAM": fleams, gleamed, gleamer, gleamers, gleamier, gleamiest, gleaming, gleams, gleamy. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: LEAM

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: alme, lame, male, meal.

Words within the letters "a-e-l-m"

-1 letter: ale, elm, lam, lea, mae, mel.

-2 letters: ae, al, am, el, em, la, ma, me.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-l-m"
 

+1 letter: almeh, almes, amble, amole, ample, blame, camel, email, flame, fleam, gleam, hemal, lamed, lamer, lames, leman, lemma, macle, maile, males, maple, meals, mealy, medal, metal, realm, ulema.

 

+2 letters: aflame, agleam, almehs, almner, almuce, almude, ambled, ambler, ambles, amoles, ampler, ampule, amulet, armlet, becalm, bedlam, beldam, blamed, blamer, blames, calmed, calmer, camels, camlet, damsel, dermal, emails, embalm, empale, enamel, female, flambe, flamed, flamen, flamer, flames, fleams, gamble, gamely, gleams, gleamy, haemal, hamlet, hiemal, impale, lambed, lamber, lambie, lamedh, lameds, lamely, lament, lamest, lamiae, lammed, lamped, lawmen, laymen, legman, lemans, lemmas, loamed, mackle, macled, macles, macule, maglev, mailed, mailer, mailes, malate, malfed, malgre, malice, maline, malled, mallee, mallei, mallet, malted, mangel, mangle, mantel, mantle, maples, marble, marcel, marled, marvel, mauled, mauler, mealie, meanly, measle, measly, meatal, medals, medial, medlar, menial, mensal, mental, mescal, mesial, metals, mezcal, milage, morale, muleta, namely, palmed, palmer, ramble, realms, remail, samiel, samlet, sample, tamale, tamely, tramel, ulemas, wadmel, wamble.

 

+3 letters: ailment, aimless, alameda, alamode, alarmed, albumen, alchemy, alembic, aliment, almemar, almners, almoner, almsmen, almuces, almudes, alumine, alumnae, amblers, amiable, amplest, ampoule, ampules, amulets, amylase, amylene, amylose, armhole, armless, armlets, armlike, balmier, beamily, becalms, bedlamp, bedlams, beldame, beldams, bellman, bimetal, blamers, bramble, calmest, calomel, calumet, camelia, cameral, camlets, caramel, cembali, cembalo, ceramal, claimed, claimer, clamber, clammed, clammer, clamped, clamper, climate, damosel, damozel, damsels, decimal, declaim, dilemma, earldom, emailed, embalms, emblaze, emerald, empaled, empaler, empales, empanel, emplace, emplane, emulate, enamels, enflame, example, exclaim, exempla, females, femoral, flagmen, flambee, flambes, flamens, flamers, flamier, flammed, gambled, gambler, gambles, gambrel, gamelan, geminal, gleamed, gleamer, gleeman, glomera, gomeral, gremial, hamlets, hematal, hemiola, humeral, hymenal, imblaze, impaled, impaler, impales, impanel, impearl, implead, inflame, lambent, lambers, lambert, lambier, lambies, lamedhs, lamella, laments, laminae, lampers, lamprey, lamster, landmen, leadman, leadmen, lehayim, lemmata, lempira, lensman, leucoma, leukoma, limbate, limeade, lineman, loamier, lomenta, lumenal, mackled, mackles, maculae, maculed, macules, maglevs, mailers, mailmen, makable, malaise, malates, maleate, malefic, malices, malines, mallees, mallets, malleus, malmier, malmsey, maltase, malteds, maltier, maltose, manacle, mandrel, mangels, mangled, mangler, mangles, manhole, manille, maniple, manless, manlier, manlike, mantels, mantled, mantles, mantlet, maplike, marbled, marbler, marbles, marcels, marlier, marline, marlite, martlet, marvels, matelot, matless, maulers, maxwell, maypole, mazedly, mealier, mealies, measled, measles, meatily, medaled, medials, medical, medlars, medulla, medusal, melamed, melange, melanic, melanin, melisma, melodia, meltage, menials, mesally, mescals, metaled, metical, mezcals, miauled, micella, milages, mileage, millage, minable, mineral, miracle, misdeal, mislead, mixable, morales, morulae, moulage, movable, muletas, mutable, mycelia, myeloma, namable, numeral, oatmeal, omental, palmate, palmers, palmier, plumage, plumate, premeal, psalmed, rambled, rambler, rambles, ramilie, rampole, realism, reclaim, reclame, remails, removal, samiels, samlets, sampled, sampler, samples, seismal, seminal, serumal, shamble, slammed, slammer, smaller, stammel, tamable, tamales, telamon, teleman, templar, thermal, timbale, tramell, tramels, trammel, trample, velamen, wadmels, wambled, wambles, wameful.

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

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Alternative Orthography: LEAM


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

4C 45 41 4D

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)

01001100 01000101 01000001 01001101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#69 &#65 &#77

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0045 0041 004D

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

46393547

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage Frequency
4. Translations: Modern
5. Abbreviations
6. Acronyms
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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