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Definitions: LEGGE |
LEGGETransitive verb1. To lighten; to allay. 2. To lay. |
Date "LEGGE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Crosswords: LEGGE |
| Non-English Usage: "LEGGE" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Italian (act, constitution, law, rule, statute), Norwegian (lay, lay down, place, put, put down). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | La Mano spietata della legge (1973) Un Omicidio perfetto a termine di legge (1971) La Legge dei gangsters (1969) Al di lĂ della legge (1967) La Legge della Mafia (1966) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Migliorare il disegno di legge di riforma sanitaria nella discussione al Senato : convegno nazionale repubblicano.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Legge 382, Decreto 616 : convegno degli amministratori repubblicani delle Marche, Senigallia ...Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | No all'abrogazione della Legge Reale e del finanziamento dei partiti : per un paese piu' organizzato e piu' Europeo.Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Legge 626 calls for a set of rules and norms for organizations that regulate the prevention of injury and the responsibilities of employers. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "LEGGE" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 95.92% of the time. "LEGGE" is used about 49 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 (proper) | 95.92% | 47 | 49,740 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 2.04% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 2.04% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 49 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "LEGGE" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Legge | Last name | 1,000 | 13,732 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "LEGGE": Legge-bourke. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "LEGGE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Italian | IRS (all'accertamento e all'esenzione delle imposte dirette nonché responsabile del-l'applicazione delle disposiz.di legge in materia fiscale., Internal Revenue Service(Dipartimento delle Imposte)Denominazione di una sezione del Ministero del Tesoro degli Stati Uniti, preposto alla determinazione). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | eggelay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "LEGGE": legged. (additional references) | |
Words containing "LEGGE": bootlegged, bootlegger, bootleggers, bowlegged, doglegged. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-g-g-l" | |
-1 letter: glee, gleg. | |
-2 letters: eel, egg, gee, gel, lee, leg. | |
-3 letters: el. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-g-g-l" | |
+1 letter: legged. | |
+2 letters: eggless, leggier, neglige. | |
+3 letters: doggerel, eggshell, geologer, gingeley, gleeking, gleeting, glegness, leggiero, leggiest, negligee, negliges, rejuggle. | |
+4 letters: beclogged, bedraggle, beflagged, bowlegged, doggerels, doglegged, eggshells, elegising, elegizing, gelignite, genealogy, geologers, geologies, geologize, gingeleys, gingelies, greenling, legginess, negligees, negligent, rejuggled, rejuggles. | |
+5 letters: bedraggled, bedraggles, bootlegged, bootlegger, daggerlike, delegating, gelignites, gemologies, geologized, geologizes, gingellies, glegnesses, greenlings, juggleries, leaguering, leveraging, lighterage, loggerhead, neglecting, negligence, negligible, regelating, relegating, repledging. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 45 47 47 45 |
| 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 01000111 01000111 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L E G G E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0045 0047 0047 0045 |
| 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)4639414139 |
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