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LULLED

Definition: LULLED

LULLED

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Lull

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "LULLED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)


Crosswords: LULLED

English words defined with "LULLED": calm down, Consopitelull. (references)
Specialty definitions using "LULLED": LollardsPolyerates. (references)
Etymologies containing "LULLED": Nepenthe. (references)

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Modern Usage: LULLED

DomainUsage

Screenplays

How do you know you're not just as filthy and sent by him to nick the ring by being filthy when you have lulled us with your filthy eastern ways? (Help!; writing credit: Marc Behm; Charles Wood)

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

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Commercial Usage: LULLED

DomainTitle

Music

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

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Familiar Quotations: LULLED

AuthorQuotation

Alexander Pope

Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!

Bill Gates

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: LULLED

TitleAuthorQuote

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

With such reminiscences I repeopled the woods and lulled myself asleep.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Speeches: LULLED

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

John F. Kennedy

1961-1963We are not lulled by the momentary calm of the sea or the somewhat clearer skies above.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: LULLED

"LULLED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 81.43% of the time. "LULLED" is used about 70 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
Lexical Verb (past participle)81.43%5744,859
Lexical Verb (past tense)17.14%12101,599
Adjective (general or positive)1.43%1339,140
                    Total100.00%70N/A

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: LULLED

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

lulled

8
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: LULLED

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

Chinese 

  

变安静 (lulling). (various references)

   

French

  

bercées, bercée, bercé, berçai, berçâmes, berça. (various references)

   

German

  

lullte ein. (various references)

   

Manx

  

kiunit (becalmed, calmed, pacified, quelled, stilled, tranquillized). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ulledlay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: LULLED

Misspellings

"LULLED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: lbuklod, Lelley, Lillet, Lledo, lolley, lollped, lule, Lulea, lulic, Lylsland, nulled. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "LULLED"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "LULLED" (pronounced lu"ld)
3-u" l dculled, dulled, hulled, mulled.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: LULLED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-l-l-l-u"

-2 letters: dell, duel, dull, leud, lude, lull.

-3 letters: del, due, eld, ell, led, leu.

-4 letters: de, ed, el.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-l-l-l-u"
 

+2 letters: ladleful.

 

+3 letters: celluloid, dolefully, fulfilled, ladlefuls, laurelled, lullabied.

 

+4 letters: celluloids, dolefuller, dullsville, illaudable, pellucidly, pullulated, unlevelled.

 

+5 letters: cloudlessly, dolefullest, dullsvilles, multicelled, unfulfilled.

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

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Alternative Orthography: LULLED


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

4C 55 4C 4C 45 44

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 01010101 01001100 01001100 01000101 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#85 &#76 &#76 &#69 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0055 004C 004C 0045 0044

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

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

465546463938

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Familiar
6. Quotations: Fiction
7. Quotations: Speeches
8. Usage Frequency
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Derivations
12. Rhymes
13. Anagrams
14. Orthography
15. Bibliography


  

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