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Definitions: Lentil |
LentilNoun1. Round flat seed of the lentil plant. 2. The fruit or seed of a lentil plant. 3. Widely cultivated Eurasian annual herb grown for its edible flattened seeds that are cooked like peas and also ground into meal and for its leafy stalks that are used as fodder. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "lentil" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1870. (references) |
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Dream Interpretation | If you dream of lentils, it denotes quarrels and unhealthy surroundings. For a young woman, this dream portends dissatisfaction with her lover, but parental advice will cause her to accept the inevitable. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Food & Agriculture | A leguminous plant, Lens culinaris, yielding edible biconvex seeds. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. A minor rock-stratigraphic unit of limited geographic extent, being a subdivision of a formation and similar in rank to a member, and thinning out in all directions; a geographically restricted member that terminates on all sides within a formation. CF:tongue b. A lens-shaped body of rock, enclosed by strata of different material; ageologic lens. See also:lenticule; lenticle. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Lentils are lens-shaped pulses that have a short cooking time and a distinctive earthy flavor. Whole dried lentils are usually brown in color and frequently used to prepare an inexpensive, yet nutritious soup all over Europe and to a lesser degree North America.
In India, lentils are mostly found in split (Dal) form. Stripped of their outer skin, split lentils are usually bright orange in color. The thick, spicy stew prepared from lentil and other Dals is also known as Dal.
The optical lens is so named after the lentil (German: Linse), whose shape it resembles.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Lentil."
Synonym: LentilSynonym: lentil plant (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Lentil |
| English words defined with "lentil": lentil plant, Lentil shell, lentil soup ♦ Phacoid. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "lentil": lenticule, lentil ore ♦ Rhizobium leguminosarum. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "lentil": Aphakia ♦ Phacochere, Phacoid, Phacolite, Phacops, Phakoscope. (references) |
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Tongue Twisters | Lily ladles little Letty's lentil soup. (references; author: unknown) | |
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| "Lentil" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 78.26% of the time. "Lentil" is used about 23 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) | 78.26% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 13.04% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (proper) | 8.7% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 23 | N/A |
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Expressions using "lentil": lentil dish ♦ lentil plant ♦ Lentil shell ♦ lentil soup ♦ lentil vetch. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "lentil": lentil-shaped. | |
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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. |
| Language | Translations for "lentil"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | thjerrëz (eyeglass). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | نبات العدس, عدس (lentils). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | леща (amplifier, lens, optic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 扁豆 (haricot). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | èoèka (lens). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | linse (lens, lense, lenticle, lenticular body). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | linze. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | lento. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | منجو, مرجمک , دانه عدس . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | linssit. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | lentille (gate leaf, lens, lense, lenticle, lenticular body, lentil vetch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Linse (bull's eye, button, glass, lens, lense, lenticle, lenticular body, stud). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κοινή φακή, φακές (lentils), φακή (lentils). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ע"ש" (eyeball, freckle, lens). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | lencse (glass, lens, meniscus, naevus). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | lenticchia. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | pishyr lughag. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | linse (lens). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Papago | lanjeki. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | entillay lentilha (lentor). (various references) linte (measles). (various references) чечевица. (various references) sočivo (lens). (various references) lenteja (disc, gate leaf). (various references) lins (lens, meniscus, ocular). (various references) mercimek. (various references) сочевиця. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Ervum lens, lens, Lens culinaris, Lens esculenta, lens, lentis. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "lentil": lentils. (additional references) | |
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"Lentil" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bentil, entel, klontal, lehti, lenci, lenntil, Lental, Lenteild, lentel, lenteo, Lentia, lentic, lentile, Lentin, lentle, lenttil, Lentulov, leti, Letoul, linshalm, lintl, lintol, litil, Litill, lyttyll, pentil, sentul. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "lentil" (pronounced le"ntul) |
| 5 | -e" n t u l | accidental, coincidental, compartmental, continental, dental, detrimental, developmental, elemental, environmental, experimental, fundamental, gentle, incidental, incremental, instrumental, intercontinental, intergovernmental, judgmental, mental, monumental, nongovernmental, occidental, oriental, ornamental, parental, regimental, rental, sentimental, supplemental, temperamental, transcendental, transcontinental, unsentimental. |
| 4 | -n t u l | Cantle, consonantal, disgruntle, dismantle, frontal, governmental, horizontal, infantile, lintel, mantel, mantle, periodontal, prefrontal, quintal, Wintle. |
| 3 | -t u l | acquittal, anecdotal, artiodactyl, battle, beetle, belittle, betel, bicoastal, bottle, brattle, Bristol, brittle, brutal, butyl, capital, Capitol, cattle, chattel, chortle, coastal, committal, congenital, crustal, crystal, digital, distal, ductile, embattle, entitle, extramarital, fatal, fertile, fetal, fractal, futile, genital, glottal, hospital, hostel, hostile, hurtle, immortal, immotile, infertile, kettle, Kittel, Kittle, little, marital, metal, mettle, mortal, motile, Myrtle, Natal, neonatal, nettle, noncommittal, nonfatal, nonvolatile, occipital, orbital, parietal, pedestal, petal, Pistil, pistol, pivotal, portal, postal, postnatal, Pottle, prattle, premarital, prenatal, projectile, rattle, rebuttal, recital, rectal, resettle, scuttle, settle, shuttle, skeletal, skittle, societal, spittle, startle, subtitle, subtle, tactile, tattle, throttle, title, tittle, tootle, total, transmittal, turtle, unsettle, unsubtle, varietal, vegetal, versatile, vestal, vital, vittle, volatile, Whittle. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: lintel. | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-l-l-n-t" | |
-1 letter: elint, inlet. | |
-2 letters: lent, lien, lilt, line, lint, lite, nill, nite, tell, tile, till, tine. | |
-3 letters: ell, ill, lei, let, lie, lin, lit, net, nil, nit, tel, ten, tie, til, tin. | |
-4 letters: el, en, et, in, it, li, ne, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-l-l-n-t" | |
+1 letter: gillnet, lentils, lintels, telling. | |
+2 letters: allanite, beltline, bulletin, cliental, flatline, gillnets, glutelin, lenticel, libelant, lintless, luteolin, niellist, plotline, silently, stillmen, tefillin, tenaille, tinselly, untilled, vitellin. | |
+3 letters: allanites, allegiant, allethrin, beltlines, billeting, bulleting, bulletins, candlelit, clientele, colleting, ebullient, emollient, extolling, fellating, fellation, filleting, flatlined, flatliner, flatlines, flintlike, galleting, genitally, glutelins, installed, installer, instilled, instiller, intellect, intercell, intertill, landsleit, lengthily, leniently, lenticels, lenticule, libelants, libellant, lineality, linoleate, loneliest, luteolins, meltingly, metalling, millstone, multilane, multiline, niellists, nullities, pelleting, plantlike, plentiful, plotlines, pointelle, pollinate, reinstall, reliantly, retelling, saliently, stillness, tailplane, tellingly, tellurian, tenailles, tillering, tillerman, tillermen, tinselled, towelling, violently, vitelline, vitellins. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 65 6E 74 69 6C |
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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 01100101 01101110 01110100 01101001 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L e n t i l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0065 006E 0074 0069 006C |
| 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)467180867578 |
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