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Date "OEIL" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1910. (references) |
"OEIL" is a common misspelling or typo for: ceil, oil, oily, veil. |
Crosswords: OEIL |
| Specialty definitions using "OEIL": griotte marble. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "OEIL" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (eye). |
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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | OEil A l'oeil. On credit, for nothing. Corruption of the Italian a uffo (gratis). In the French translation of Don Quixote is this passage:- "Ma femme, disait Sancho Panca, ne m'a jamais dit oui que quand il fallait dire non. Or elles sont toutes de meme ... Elles sont toutes bonnes ä pendre ... passe cela, elles ne valent pas ceque pai daus l'oeil." Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Movie/TV Titles | Bon oeil À bon pied (1972) Mon oeil (1971) L' Oeil bleu (1968) Oeil pour oeil (1957) L' Oeil du maître (1957) | |
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Expression using "OEIL": oeil de boeuf. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "OEIL": OEil-de-boeuf, OEil-de-perdrix. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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. |
| Language | Translations for "OEIL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Dutch | oeil-de-boeuf (bull's eye, oeil de boeuf). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | oeil-de-boeuf (oeil de boeuf). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Ochsenauge (bullion, bull's eye, Indo-Pacific tarpon, oeil de boeuf), Rundfenster (bull's eye, oeil de boeuf), Radfenster (bull's eye, oeil de boeuf). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | oeilay cá»a sổ tròn (oeil-de-boeuf), cá»a sổ hình bầu dục (oeil-de-boeuf). (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "OEIL": oeillade, oeillades. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-l-o" | |
-1 letter: lei, lie, oil, ole. | |
-2 letters: el, li, lo, oe. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-l-o" | |
+1 letter: eloin, helio, looie, louie, obeli, oiled, oiler, oldie, oleic, olein, olive, oriel, reoil, solei, teloi, toile, voile. | |
+2 letters: blooie, boiled, boiler, boleti, bolide, cineol, citole, coiled, coiler, colies, collie, coolie, dildoe, diploe, dipole, docile, doiled, doolie, eidola, eloign, eloins, emboli, enolic, entoil, eolian, eolith, epilog, etoile, filose, flooie, foible, foiled, folkie, goalie, helios, holier, holies, hoolie, indole, insole, iolite, isohel, keloid, legion, lesion, loggie, logier, loiter, lomein, looies, lories, louies, meloid, mobile, moiled, moiler, molies, moline, mollie, motile, neroli, niello, obelia, oblige, ocelli, oilers, oilier, oilmen, oldies, olefin, oleine, oleins, olives, online, oolite, oriels, oriole, outlie, pilose, pinole, piolet, poleis, police, polies, polite, reboil, recoil, reoils, roiled, siloed, soiled, toiled, toiler, toiles, toilet, violet, voiles, woolie. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4F 45 49 4C |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, 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)01001111 01000101 01001001 01001100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)O E I L |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004F 0045 0049 004C |
| 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)49394346 |
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