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MAMMET

Definition: MAMMET

MAMMET

Noun

1. An idol; a puppet; a doll.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "MAMMET" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references)

Note: Mammet \Mam"met\, noun. [See Mawmet.]. (Websters 1913)



Specialty Definitions: MAMMET

DomainDefinitions

Literature

Mammet A puppet, a favourite, an idol. A corruption of Mahomet. Mahometanism being the most prominent form of false religion with which Christendom was acquainted before the Reformation, it became a generic word to designate any false faith; even idolatry is called mammetry. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Synonyms within Context: MAMMET

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Representation

Figure, figure head; puppet, doll, figurine, aglet, manikin, lay-figure, model, mammet, marionette, fantoccini, waxwork, bust; statue, statuette.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: MAMMET

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

david mammet

5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations: MAMMET

Derivations

Words beginning with "MAMMET": mammets. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "MAMMET"

Words rhyming with "MAMMET" (pronounced 'Mam"met'): Emmet, fewmet, Fumette, grommet, Kismet, Maumet, Mawmet, Plummet, Unhelmet. (additional references)

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Anagrams: MAMMET

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-m-m-m-t"

-2 letters: mate, meat, meta, tame, team.

-3 letters: ate, eat, eta, mae, mat, mem, met, tae, tam, tea.

-4 letters: ae, am, at, em, et, ma, me, mm, ta.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-m-m-m-t"
 

+1 letter: mammate, mammets.

 

+4 letters: embalmment, mammitides, metamerism.

 

+5 letters: commandment, commemorate, embalmments, immanentism, mammillated, metamerisms.

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

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Alternative Orthography: MAMMET


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

4D 41 4D 4D 45 54

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)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01000001 01001101 01001101 01000101 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#65 &#77 &#77 &#69 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0041 004D 004D 0045 0054

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

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

473547473954

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Derivations
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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