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Definition: LEAT |
LEATNoun1. An artificial water trench, esp. one to or from a mill. |
Note: Leat \Leat\, noun. [Compare to Lead to conduct.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Food & Agriculture | A conduit for conducting water. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. A mill stream used by small mines for power generation. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The most famous examples are Drake's Leat, constructed on the instructions of Sir Francis Drake to conduct water from Dartmoor to Plymouth, and the Devonport Leat constructed in the late 18th century to carry water to the explanding naval dockyard at Devonport, now a part of Plymouth.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word is cognate with let in the sense of "allow to pass" (as in "passing water").
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Leat."
Crosswords: LEAT |
| Non-English Usage: "LEAT" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Irish (with you), Romanian (recruit), Scottish (by you, in your possession, with you). |
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| "LEAT" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "LEAT" is used about 17 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) | 100% | 17 | 85,106 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "LEAT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
French | canal d'amenée (lead). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | fejőkehely (leat cup). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eatlay tabhairt (bringing : a' tabhairt leat e, taking). (various references) máng dẫn nước ra cối xay. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "LEAT": leather, leatherback, leatherbacks, leathered, leatherette, leatherettes, leathering, leatherleaf, leatherleaves, leatherlike, leathern, leatherneck, leathernecks, leathers, leatherwood, leatherwoods, leathery. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "LEAT": bleat, cleat, compleat, outbleat, pleat. (additional references) | |
Words containing "LEAT": aculeate, aleatoric, aleatory, binucleate, binucleated, bleated, bleater, bleaters, bleating, bleats, cleated, cleating, cleats, enucleate, enucleated, enucleates, enucleating, enucleation, enucleations, galeate, galeated, linoleate, linoleates, maleate, maleates, mononucleate, mononucleated, multinucleate, multinucleated, nonnucleated, nucleate, nucleated, nucleates, nucleating, nucleation, nucleations, nucleator, nucleators, oleate, oleates, outbleated, outbleating, outbleats, pileate, pileated, pleated, pleater, pleaters, pleating, pleatless, pleats, uninucleate. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words ending with "eat": Pleat, teat. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: late, tael, tale, teal, tela. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-l-t" | |
-1 letter: ale, alt, ate, eat, eta, lat, lea, let, tae, tea, tel. | |
-2 letters: ae, al, at, el, et, la, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-l-t" | |
+1 letter: aglet, alate, alert, alter, artel, blate, bleat, cleat, dealt, delta, eclat, elate, exalt, fetal, lated, laten, later, latex, lathe, latke, latte, leant, leapt, least, lepta, lutea, metal, palet, petal, plate, pleat, ratel, setal, slate, stale, steal, stela, table, taels, taler, tales, teals, telae, telia, tepal, tesla, valet. | |
+2 letters: ablate, ablest, acetal, acetyl, aglets, aiglet, alated, alates, albeit, albite, alerts, alters, althea, amulet, anklet, antler, aplite, armlet, artels, atelic, auklet, ballet, battle, bleats, boatel, cablet, callet, camlet, cantle, caplet, cartel, castle, cattle, cental, chalet, claret, cleats, daleth, dartle, delate, deltas, dental, desalt, detail, dilate, eaglet, eclats, elated, elater, elates, eluant, eluate, elytra, entail, estral, etalon, exalts, falter, fealty, featly, festal, fetial, foetal, folate, gallet, gelant, gelate, gelati, gelato, halest, halite, halted, halter, hamlet, hantle, haslet, health, hyetal, labret, lament, lamest, lanate, lancet, lappet, lasted, laster, lateen, lately, latens, latent, latest, lathed, lather, lathes, latkes, latten, latter, lattes, laxest, lealty, learnt, leasts, legate, legato, lethal, levant, ligate, loathe, lobate, locate, lunate, luteal, luxate, lyrate, lysate, lyttae, malate, mallet, malted, mantel, mantle, meatal, mental, metals, muleta, neatly, oblate, oleate, osteal, palate, palest, palets, pallet, palter, pastel, pelota, petals, placet, planet, plated, platen, plater, plates, pleats, ratels, rattle, realty, rectal, relate, rental, retail, retial, retral, sallet, salted, salter, saltie, salute, samlet, septal, shelta, slated, slater, slates, slatey, solate, stable, staled, staler, stales, staple, steals, stelae, stelai, stelar, stella, tabled, tables, tablet, tackle, tailed, tailer, taille, talced, talent, talers, talked, talker, talkie, taller, tamale, tamely, tangle, tassel, tattle, teasel, teazel, teazle, tectal, telega, telial, tenail, tepals, tergal, teslas, thaler, thecal, thenal, tineal, tolane, tramel, travel, valets, varlet, velate, vestal, wallet, wattle, wealth, zealot. | |
+3 letters: abettal, ablated, ablates, abluent, abluted, acetals, acetyls, acolyte, actable, acutely, acylate, adeptly, adulate, aiglets, ailment, albites, alerted, alerter, alertly, aliment, alkanet, aloetic, altered, alterer, althaea, altheas, alunite, amplest, amulets, anethol, anklets, annulet, anolyte, antlers, antlike, apetaly, aplenty, aplites, apostle, apteral, armlets, article, artless, astilbe, atelier, athlete, atingle, atlases, auklets, auldest, baldest, ballets, ballute, bastile, batlike, battled, battler, battles, beastly, belated, beleapt, beltway, benthal, bestial, bimetal, bitable, blanket, blasted, blaster, blastie, blather, blatted, blatter, bleated, bleater, bloated, bloater, boatels, brattle, bullate, cablets, calcite, callets, calmest, calotte, calumet, camlets, cantles, capelet, caplets, cartels, castled, castles, catlike, celesta, centals, central, chaetal, chalets, chaplet, chattel, chelate, cholate, ciliate, citable, citadel, clarets, clatter, clavate, cleated, climate, collate, crestal, daleths, dartled, dartles, datable, datedly, dealate, deathly, default, deflate, delated, delates, delator, deltaic, dentals, desalts, details, dextral, dialect, dilated, dilater, dilates, eaglets, earthly, eatable, ectypal, edictal, egalite, elastic, elastin, elaters, elating, elation, elative, elegant, elevate, eluants, eluates, emulate, entails, enteral, enthral, epaulet, estival, estrual, etalons, eternal, ethanol, ethical, exactly, exalted, exalter, explant, falcate, falsest, falters, fateful, fatless, fatlike, faulted, fellate, fetials, filiate, flasket, flatbed, flatlet, flatted, flatten, flatter, fleapit, floated, floatel, floater, flotage, folates, foliate, galatea, galeate, gallate, galleta, gallets, gantlet, gelants, gelated, gelates, gelatin, gelatos, gellant, genital, gestalt, getable, glaiket, gloated, gloater, globate, gluteal, greatly, halbert, halites, haltere, halters, hamlets, hantles, haplite, harslet, haslets, hatable, hatchel, hateful, hatless, hatlike, healths, healthy, heeltap, heliast, hellcat, hematal, hyalite, inflate, irately, isolate, kantele, keitloa, labiate, labrets, laciest, lactase, lactate, lacteal, lactean, lactone, lactose, laities, lakiest, lambent, lambert, laments, lamster, lanated, lancets, languet, lankest, lantern, lappets, largest, lasters, latched, latches, latchet, lateens, latency, latened, latents, laterad, lateral, latests, latexes, lathers, lathery, lathier, latices, latrine, lattens, lattice, layette, lazaret, laziest, leaflet, leanest, leather, legated, legatee, legates, legator, legatos, lemmata, leotard, lethals, lethean, levants, levator, librate, ligated, ligates, limbate, lineate, liquate, literal, loathed, loather, loathes, lobated, located, locater, locates, lomenta, lunated, luxated, luxates, lyrated, lysates, malates, maleate, mallets, maltase, malteds, maltier, maltose, mantels, mantled, mantles, mantlet, marlite, martlet, matelot, matless, meatily, meltage, metaled, metical, muletas, mutable, nailset, neutral, notable, oatlike, oatmeal, oblates, oleates, omental, outleap, ovately, ovulate, oxalate, palates, paletot, palette, paliest, pallets, palmate, palpate, palters, pantile, partlet, pastels, patella, peartly, pelotas, peltast, peltate, penalty, persalt, petaled, petrale, peytral, pileate, placate, placets, placket, plaited, plaiter, planate, planets, planted, planter, plaster, platane, plateau, platens, platers, platier, platies, platted, platter, playlet, pleated, pleater, plectra, plicate, plumate, polecat, polenta, potable, prattle, prelate, prolate, psalter, pteryla, pulsate, quetzal, ratable, rathole, ratlike, ratline, rattled, rattler, rattles, realest, realist, reality, reallot, realter, realtor, recital, redtail, reflate, refloat, refutal, related, relater, relates, relator, reliant, rentals, replant, replate, reslate, retable, retails, retinal, retrial, salient, sallets, saltern, salters, saltest, saltier, salties, saltine, saltire, saluted, saluter, salutes, samlets, satchel, scarlet, sealant, segetal, sheltas, skatole, slainte, slanted, slaters, slather, slatier, slatted, solated, solates, solvate, spatzle, stabile, stabled, stabler, stables, staddle, stalely, stalest, stalked, stalker, stalled, stammel, stapled, stapler, staples, starlet, startle, stately, stealer, stealth, stellar, stellas, sternal, stylate, sublate, sulcate, sulfate, tableau, tablets, tackled, tackler, tackles, tactile, tadpole, taglike, tailers, tailles, takable, talcked, talcose, talents, taliped, talipes, talkers, talkier, talkies, tallage, tallest, tallied, tallier, tallies, taloned, taluses, tamable, tamales, tangelo, tangled, tangler, tangles, tapetal, taphole, tartlet, tassels, tattled, tattler, tattles, taxable, taxless, teabowl, tealike, tearful, tearily, teasels, teazels, teazled, teazles, tegular, telamon, telegas, teleman, teleran, templar, tenable, tenably, tenails, tequila, tertial, tetanal, textual, thalers, thermal, tillage, timbale, toenail, tolanes, tollage, toluate, torulae, totable, totaled, trachle, trailed, trailer, tramell, tramels, trammel, trample, travels, trawled, trawler, trawley, treacle, treacly, treadle, trehala, trenail, triable, tunable, tutelar, twaddle, twangle, twattle, typable, ululate, upleapt, uralite, valeted, vallate, valuate, valvate, varlets, vaulted, vaulter, vegetal, ventail, ventral, vestals, vestral, vilayet, violate, volante, voltage, volvate, votable, vulgate, vulvate, wallets, waltzed, waltzer, waltzes, warstle, wastrel, wattled, wattles, wavelet, wealths, wealthy, wetland, wrastle, zealots. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 45 41 54 |
| 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)01001100 01000101 01000001 01010100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L E A T |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0045 0041 0054 |
| 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)46393554 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Rhymes 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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