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Definitions: Madras |
MadrasNoun1. A state in southeastern India on the Bay of Bengal (south of Andhra Pradesh); formerly Madras. 2. A city in Tamil Nadu on the Bay of Bengal; formerly Madras. 3. A light patterned cotton cloth. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Madras" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1776. (references) |
Note: Madras \Ma*dras"\, noun. [So named after Madras, city and presidency of India.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Industry | A fabric made of fine cotton, hand-loomed and imported from the Madras section of India. If the cloth is other than natural in color, it has been dyed with bleeding vegetable dyes. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Madras is a lightweight cotton fabric with patterened texture, used primarily for summer clothing -- pants, shorts, dresses and jackets.
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The Hollywood actor River Phoenix was born in Madras.External links
Madras, Oregon
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| 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. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
MADRAS | English | Modular approach to definition of RACE subscribers premises network | Computing |
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Synonyms: MadrasSynonyms: Chennai (n), Tamil Nadu (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Madras |
| English words defined with "Madras": Chennai ♦ Masoola boat ♦ Savara ♦ Tamil Nadu. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Madras": 97741 ♦ Apostles, where buried ♦ Chennappa ♦ Madras System of Education. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Madras" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Danish (mattress), French (Madras), Swedish (Madras). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Madras Mail (1936) Goodbye to Madras (1991) No: 20 Madras Mail (1990) Madras Vathiyar (1984) Hello Madras Girl (1983) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Juniper forest between Madras and Shaniko.Credit: Unknown. |  | Small pool in Willow Creek west of the Madras.Credit: Ron Halvorson. |
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Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | Thus it appears that the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well. |
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Economic History | India | Later in the century, the East India Company opened permanent trading stations at Madras, Bombay, and Calcutta, each under the protection of native rulers. (references) |
India | Other major cities--Mumbai, formerly Bombay (15 million); Calcutta (12 million); Chennai, formerly Madras (6 million); Bangalore (5 million); Hyderabad (5 million); Ahmedabad (3.7 million). (references) | |
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| "Madras" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 94.51% of the time. "Madras" is used about 91 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) | 94.51% | 86 | 35,638 |
| Noun (singular) | 5.49% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 91 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Madras" 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 |
| Madras | Last name | 100 | 70,510 |
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| Country | Name |
| India | Madras Cements Limited |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Madras, OR (city, FIPS 45250) 2. Madras , India |
Expression using "Madras": Madras ox. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "Madras": madras-based, madras-checked. | |
Containing "Madras": Bangalore-madras-hong. | |
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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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
madras india | 1,297 |
madras | 317 |
madras university | 282 |
madras or | 110 |
madras result university | 75 |
madras oregon | 66 |
iit madras | 45 |
hotel madras | 28 |
madras pioneer | 24 |
madras christian college | 19 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "Madras"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 马都拉斯. (various references) | |
Czech | Indické Mìsto (Delhi). (various references) | |
Danish | madras (mattress). (various references) | |
Dutch | Madrashennep (Benares hemp, Bombay hemp, Calcutta hemp, Indian hemp, Julburpur jute, Madras hemp, Sunn hemp), Sunnhennep (Benares hemp, Bombay hemp, Calcutta hemp, Indian hemp, Julburpur jute, Madras hemp, Sunn hemp), Julburpurjute (Benares hemp, Bombay hemp, Calcutta hemp, Indian hemp, Julburpur jute, Madras hemp, Sunn hemp), indische hennep (Benares hemp, Bombay hemp, Calcutta hemp, Indian hemp, Julburpur jute, Madras hemp, Sunn hemp), Calcuttahennep (Benares hemp, Bombay hemp, Calcutta hemp, Indian hemp, Julburpur jute, Madras hemp, Sunn hemp), Bombayhennep (Benares hemp, Bombay hemp, Calcutta hemp, Indian hemp, Julburpur jute, Madras hemp, Sunn hemp), Benareshennep (Benares hemp, Bombay hemp, Calcutta hemp, Indian hemp, Julburpur jute, Madras hemp, Sunn hemp). (various references) | |
French | Madras. (various references) | |
German | Madras. (various references) | |
Greek | μαντράς. (various references) | |
Hungarian | Madrász. (various references) | |
Italian | madras. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | マトリックス力学 (enthusiasm, enthusiast, madeleine, mademoiselle, madonna, Madras check, Madrid, madrigal, mania, maniac, manicure, manierisme, manifesto, Manila, manipulate, manipulation, manipulator, Manitoba, manners, mannish, mannish look, manual, manual manipulator, manufacture, manuscript, matrix dynamics, minutia, muddler, mutton, sailor). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | マドラス . (various references) | |
Korean | 마"래스. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | adrasmay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | tecido de Madrasta. (various references) | |
Russian | мадрас. (various references) | |
Spanish | madrás. (various references) | |
Swedish | Madras. (various references) | |
Turkish | Çubuklu Pamuklu Kumaş. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Madras": madrases. (additional references) | |
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"Madras" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: adars, ambras, Amedroz, Madar, maderas, madiran, madr, madrasa, madrasah, madrasahs, madrass, madre, Madrick, Madriz, madros, madurai, Madurese, mafrash, magrar, mandra, mandrax, Mandresh, Maras, Marash, Maraz, Mardas, markazi, marrams, matra, matris, mazdas, medar, Medard, Mehras, midrash, midray, midrias, midrush, Mitraas, Murdac, Nadfas. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "Madras" (pronounced ma"drus) |
| 4 | -d r u s | ambassadress, hydrous, polyandrous, wondrous. |
| 3 | -r u s | actress, ambidextrous, arris, Brontosaurus, buttress, chorus, Cirrus, citrus, congress, Cypress, Cyprus, cytomegalovirus, desirous, dextrous, disastrous, embarrass, estrous, estrus, ferrous, fibrous, fortress, hantavirus, headmistress, heiress, hubris, huntress, idolatrous, Iris, ludicrous, lustrous, maquiladoras, mattress, mistress, monstrous, Morris, nitrous, nonferrous, ogress, porous, puris, retrovirus, seamstress, sorus, stegosaurus, temptress, terrace, thesaurus, Tyrannosaurus, virus, waitress, walrus. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: damars, dramas. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-m-r-s" | |
-1 letter: damar, drama, drams, maars. | |
-2 letters: amas, arms, dams, dram, maar, mads, mars, rads, rams, sard. | |
-3 letters: aas, ads, ama, arm, ars, dam, mad, mar, mas, rad, ram, ras, sad. | |
-4 letters: aa, ad, am, ar, as, ma. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-d-m-r-s" | |
+1 letter: aramids, armadas, dammars, dharmas, mansard, marauds, mazards, smaragd. | |
+2 letters: admirals, armbands, armloads, barmaids, damagers, daymares, diagrams, dioramas, drachmas, faradism, grandams, grandmas, jemadars, madeiras, madrases, madronas, mallards, mansards, manwards, matadors, mazzards, misaward, monardas, roadmaps, smaragde, smaragds, yardarms. | |
+3 letters: admeasure, ampersand, cardamoms, cardamons, cardamums, daydreams, decagrams, dekagrams, demeraras, draftsman, dragomans, dramatics, dramatise, dramatist, faradisms, farmhands, farmlands, farmstead, farmyards, grandames, granddams, guardsman, landmarks, madrigals, mandarins, mandators, mandrakes, mansarded, marauders, maravedis, marinades, marshaled, marshland, mascaraed, massacred, misawards, mridangas, paradigms, redamages, smaragdes, tamarinds, tradesman, tramroads, zamindars. | |
+4 letters: admeasured, admeasures, adumbrates, ambassador, ambuscader, ampersands, anadromous, andromedas, armadillos, audiograms, bandmaster, candygrams, carbamides, cladograms, dairymaids, demarcates, diaphragms, docudramas, dramatised, dramatises, dramatists, dramatizes, dramaturgs, dreamlands, farmsteads, gradualism, hamadryads, headmaster, headstream, imparadise, loadmaster, marmalades, marshalled, marshlands, masquerade, melodramas, misawarded, monodramas, mridangams, paramedics, radicalism, radiograms, readymades, salamander, smaragdine, smaragdite, trademarks, yardmaster, zamindaris. | |
+5 letters: acrylamides, admeasuring, admiralties, admirations, ambassadors, ambuscaders, animadverts, bandmasters, barramundas, barramundis, calamanders, camelopards, caramelised, cardiograms, catadromous, daydreamers, disarmament, dramatising, dramaturges, draughtsman, embarrassed, gradualisms, grandmaster, hamadryades, hammerheads, headmasters, headstreams, imparadised, imparadises, laundromats, loadmasters, madrigalist, maidenhairs, maidservant, mainlanders, makereadies, mandarinism, mandataries, mandatories, mandragoras, masqueraded, masquerader, masquerades, masturbated, matchboards, meadowlarks, microfarads, misawarding, montagnards, mortadellas, panjandrums, psychodrama, radicalisms, salamanders, smaragdites, tarmacadams, transdermal, traumatised, vanguardism, yardmasters. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 61 64 72 61 73 |
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| Semaphore (1791, 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)01001101 01100001 01100100 01110010 01100001 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M a d r a s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0061 0064 0072 0061 0073 |
| 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)476770846785 |
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