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Definition: NICKLE |
NICKLENoun1. The European woodpecker, or yaffle; -- called also nicker pecker. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Computing | Nickle /ni'kl/ n. [from `nickel', common name for the U.S. 5-cent coin] A nybble + 1; 5 bits. Reported among developers for Mattel's GI 1600 (the Intellivision games processor), a chip with 16-bit-wide RAM but 10-bit-wide ROM. See also deckle, and nybble for names of other bit units. Source: Jargon File. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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Books | |
Consumer Goods | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | The Woodin nickle.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Migratory agricultural worker has his supper (a nickle pie and a glass of milk) at the railroad crossing at Camden, North Carolina.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The Nickle Plate Railroad depot in Decatur, Indiana.Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| "NICKLE" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "NICKLE" is used about 6 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) | 50% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (singular) | 50% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "NICKLE" 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 |
| Nickle | Last name | 1,000 | 14,223 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
thrifty nickle | 376 |
little nickle | 195 |
creek nickle | 133 |
nickle back | 119 |
nickle | 103 |
ads nickle | 50 |
buffalo nickle | 46 |
big nickle | 45 |
creek lyrics nickle | 33 |
dollar million nickle | 23 |
indian head nickle | 21 |
nickle nifty | 19 |
nickle v | 18 |
giant nickle | 18 |
1913 nickle | 16 |
nickle plating | 14 |
adds nickle | 14 |
nickle.com thrifty | 14 |
nickle pensacola thrifty | 13 |
nickle rare | 12 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "NICKLE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Danish | nikkelhydrid (nickle hydride), nikkelcyanid (Ni(CN)2, nickle cyanide). (various references) | ||||||||||
Dutch | nikkelhydride (nickle hydride), nikkelcyanide (Ni(CN)2, nickle cyanide). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | Ni(CN)2 (Ni(CN)2, nickle cyanide), hydrure de nickel (nickle hydride), cyanure de nickel (Ni(CN)2, nickle cyanide). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | vernickelte (nickle plated), vernickelt (nickle plates). (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | Ni(CN)2 (Ni(CN)2, nickle cyanide), κυανιούχο νικέλιο (Ni(CN)2, nickle cyanide), υδρίδιο του νικελίου (nickle hydride). (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | Ni(CN)2 (Ni(CN)2, nickle cyanide), idruro di nichelio (nickle hydride), cianuro di nichelio (Ni(CN)2, nickle cyanide). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | icklenay Ni(CN)2 (Ni(CN)2, nickle cyanide), hidruro de níquel (nickle hydride), cianuro de níquel (Ni(CN)2, nickle cyanide). (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "NICKLE": nickled, nickles. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "NICKLE" (pronounced ni"kul) |
| 5 | n i" k u l | nickel, Nicol. |
| 4 | -i" k u l | brickle, fickle, Mickle, pickle, sickle, stickle, tickle, trickle. |
| 3 | -k u l | acoustical, aeronautical, agrochemical, allegorical, alphabetical, analytical, anarchical, anatomical, ankle, anthropological, antithetical, apolitical, archaeological, archeological, article, astrological, astronautical, astronomical, asymmetrical, atypical, autobiographical, barnacle, biblical, bicycle, bifocal, biochemical, biographical, biological, biomedical, biotechnological, botanical, buckle, cackle, categorical, cervical, chemical, Chronicle, chronological, chuckle, circle, classical, clavicle, clerical, clinical, comical, commonsensical, conical, coracle, cortical, crackle, critical, cubicle, cuticle, cycle, cyclical, cylindrical, cynical, debacle, dermatological, diabolical, diacritical, dialectical, domical, ducal, ecclesiastical, ecological, economical, ecumenical, egotistical, electrical, electrochemical, electromechanical, elliptical, empirical, encircle, encyclical, epidemiological, epochal, equivocal, eschatological, ethical, ethnical, etymological, evangelical, fanatical, farcical, fecal, fiscal, focal, follicle, freckle, galenical, geographical, geological, geometrical, geophysical, geopolitical, gonococcal, grackle, grammatical, granduncle, graphical, gynecological, hackle, heckle, helical, heretical, heterocercal, hierarchical, historical, honeysuckle, Huckle, hypercritical, hypocritical, hypothetical, hysterical, icicle, identical, ideological, illogical, immunological, impractical, inimical, ironical, jackal, knuckle, lackadaisical, lexical, liturgical, local, logical, logistical, lyrical, magical, maniacal, mathematical, matriarchal, mechanical, medical, meikle, metallurgical, metaphorical, metaphysical, meteorological, methodical, methodological, metrical, miracle, monocle, morphological, motorcycle, muckle, musical, mystical, mythical, mythological, nautical, neoclassical, neurological, nonelectrical, nonpolitical, nonsensical, nonsurgical, nontechnical, numerical, obstacle, ontological, optical, Oracle, oratorical, ornithological, paradoxical, particle, pathological, patriarchal, pedagogical, periodical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, pharmacological, philosophical, phonological, photochemical, physical, physiological, pinnacle, polemical, political, pontifical, popsicle, practical, preclinical, problematical, prototypical, psychical, psychological, pumpernickel, puritanical, quizzical, rabbinical, radical, radiological, ramshackle, rankle, rascal, receptacle, reciprocal, recycle, rhetorical, ruckle, runkle, sabbatical, satirical, semiclassical, semicylindrical, semitropical, serological, shackle, shekel, skeptical, sociological, Sokol, sparkle, speckle, spectacle, spherical, sprinkle, statistical, stereotypical, strategical, suckle, surgical, symmetrical, tabernacle, tackle, tactical, technical, technological, teleological, tentacle, testicle, theatrical, theological, theoretical, tinkle, topical, toxicological, tricycle, tropical, twinkle, typical, typographical, tyrannical, umbilical, uncle, uncritical, uneconomical, unequivocal, unethical, unicycle, unshackle, untypical, vehicle, vertical, viatical, virological, vocal, whimsical, Winkle, wrinkle, zoological. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: nickel. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-i-k-l-n" | |
-1 letter: cline, clink, inkle, liken. | |
-2 letters: ceil, cine, kiln, kine, lice, lick, lien, like, line, link, neck, nice, nick. | |
-3 letters: cel, elk, ice, ick, ilk, ink, ken, kin, lei, lek, lie, lin, nil. | |
-4 letters: el, en, in, li, ne. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-i-k-l-n" | |
+1 letter: clinked, clinker, crinkle, nickels, nickled, nickles. | |
+2 letters: cleeking, clerking, clinkers, clunkier, crinkled, crinkles, flecking, heckling, iceblink, keckling, necklike, neckline, nickeled, nickelic, unlicked. | |
+3 letters: clinkered, clunkiest, crinklier, freckling, iceblinks, interlock, knucklier, lackering, lackeying, luckiness, necklines, nickeling, nickelled, relocking, slickness, speckling, truckline, unluckier. | |
+4 letters: bechalking, becloaking, beflecking, blackening, bucklering, candlewick, canvaslike, clinkering, crinkliest, fickleness, flickering, interlocks, knuckliest, leukopenic, linebacker, littleneck, nickelling, pincerlike, pluckiness, retackling, sickliness, silkscreen, skeletonic, slackening, trancelike, trucklines, unluckiest. | |
+5 letters: backslidden, blackenings, cakewalking, candlestick, candlewicks, cartoonlike, chimneylike, cinderblock, cupronickel, deadlocking, flyspecking, forelocking, glucokinase, interlocked, kinematical, kinetically, linebackers, linebacking, littlenecks, luckinesses, machinelike, nickelodeon, prickliness, racewalking, shellacking, sickeningly, silkscreens, singlestick, slickenside, slicknesses, spinachlike, stickhandle, telekinetic, trickledown, unchildlike, unluckiness. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 49 43 4B 4C 45 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, 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)01001110 01001001 01000011 01001011 01001100 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N I C K L E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0049 0043 004B 004C 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)484337454639 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Images: Photo Album 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Names: Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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