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PALY

Definitions: PALY

PALY

Adjective

1. Divided into four or more equal parts by perpendicular lines, and of two different tinctures disposed alternately.

2. Pale; wanting color; dim.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "PALY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1591. (references)

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Crosswords: PALY

English words defined with "PALY": Counter-palyVergette. (references)

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Commercial Usage: PALY

DomainTitle

Books

  • Is It You or Is It Me?: Why Couples Paly the Blame Game (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Usage Frequency: PALY

"PALY" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 90.00% of the time. "PALY" is used about 10 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
Adverb (general)90%9117,287
Noun (common)10%1339,140
                    Total100.00%10N/A

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

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Expression: PALY

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "PALY": Counter-paly.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: PALY

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

boy paly

33

paly

33

game paly

17

cold paly

9

com disney house paly

6

media paly

6

free game paly

5

boy.com paly

5

boy com paly

4

disney house paly

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: PALY

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

Albanian

  

i zbehtë (anaemic, anemic, ashy, cadaverous, dim, dingy, ghastly, light, livid, pale, pallid, peaked, wan). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏شاحب (bloodless, colorless, colourless, greyish, haggard, insular, leaden, livid, mealy, pale, palish, pallid, pasty faced, peaky, sallow, sick, sickly, wan). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

бледничък (palish), блед (bloodless, colorless, colourless, dim, faint, lunar, pale, pallid, thin, wan, washy, watery). (various references)

   

French

  

pâle (pale, palish, pallid). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

fakó (colorless, colourless, dim, doughy, flat, lack-lustre, livid, lustreless, mat, Matt, muddy, pale, pallid, rusty, sallow, washed-out, whitey). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

alypay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

palustre (aguish, paludal), palado, sem cor (colorless, colourless, pale, Pall, pallidness, pasty faced, tintless, wan, washy), descorado (pale, pallid, sallow, wan). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

palid (ashen, ashy, colorless, colourless, doughy, etiolated, female, Gray, green, grey, haggard, lightish, lunar, lurid, pale, pallid, sickly, wan, washed out, white), pal (pale, pallid, wan), cam palid (palish). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

бледный (ashy, ashy-gray, chalky, colorless, colourless, feeble, grey, light, lurid, mealy, pale, pallid, sallow, wan, washy, whey-faced, wishy-washy). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

bledunjav (palish, white livered). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

hơi xanh xao. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: PALY

Derivations

Words beginning with "PALY": palynologic, palynological, palynologically, palynologies, palynologist, palynologists, palynology. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: PALY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: play.

Words within the letters "a-l-p-y"

-1 letter: alp, lap, lay, pal, pay, ply, pya, yap.

-2 letters: al, ay, la, pa, ya.

 Words containing the letters "a-l-p-y"
 

+1 letter: amply, apply, aptly, haply, layup, pally, palmy, palsy, patly, phyla, platy, playa, plays, splay, typal.

 

+2 letters: alphyl, byplay, damply, flappy, hyphal, jalopy, layups, packly, palely, paltry, parlay, parley, partly, payola, pearly, phylae, phylar, plaguy, plashy, platys, playas, played, player, psylla, pyrola, raptly, replay, splays.

 

+3 letters: adeptly, airplay, alphyls, amplify, apetaly, aphylly, apishly, aplenty, apology, byplays, calypso, campily, capably, cheaply, claypan, clypeal, cryptal, cypsela, display, ectypal, flypast, flytrap, gunplay, happily, inaptly, jaloppy, lamprey, maypole, misplay, nonplay, nymphal, outplay, paisley, palfrey, palmary, palmyra, panoply, papally, papyral, parlays, parleys, parsley, pawkily, payable, payably, payload, payolas, payroll, peartly, pedlary, penally, penalty, peytral, plaguey, plainly, platypi, playact, playboy, playday, players, playful, playing, playlet, playoff, playpen, plenary, pliably, pliancy, polynya, polyoma, prelacy, propyla, psaltry, psyllas, pteryla, ptyalin, pyralid, pyrolas, rapidly, reapply, replays, sappily, shapely, sharply, slipway, soapily, spangly, sparely, sparkly, splashy, splayed, sprawly, typable, typical, unaptly, vapidly, waspily.

 

+4 letters: abruptly, airplays, allotype, allotypy, alpinely, anaglyph, anyplace, apically, apiology, apoplexy, applying, atypical, calotype, calypsos, calypter, calyptra, claypans, clypeate, culpably, cypselae, dapperly, displays, downplay, dyspneal, empyreal, enthalpy, epically, epicalyx, eucalypt, flypaper, flypasts, flytraps, foreplay, gapingly, gunplays, haploidy, hypogeal, japingly, kalyptra, ladypalm, ladyship, lampreys, lampyrid, lapidary, lapidify, lymphoma, mayapple, maypoles, misapply, misplays, naphthyl, nonplays, olympiad, opaquely, operably, outplays, overplay, paisleys, paleways, palfreys, palimony, pallidly, palmyras, palpably, palsying, paltrily, paralyse, paralyze, parlayed, parleyed, parleyer, parsleys, passably, patchily, patently, patronly, payables, payloads, payrolls, pedately, penality, petalody, peytrals, phylaxis, phyllary, physical, pitiably, placably, placidly, plagiary, plaguily, plastery, platypus, playable, playacts, playback, playbill, playbook, playboys, playdate, playdays, playdown, playgirl, playgoer, playland, playless, playlets, playlike, playlist, playmate, playoffs, playpens, playroom, playsuit, playtime, playwear, pliantly, plurally, polarity, polygala, polygamy, polymath, polynyas, polyomas, polypary, polypnea, polyuria, polyzoan, ponytail, portably, postally, probably, provably, psalmody, psaltery, pterylae, ptyalins, ptyalism, pulpally, pupilary, pygidial, pyralids, pyrexial, repandly, replayed, slipways, snappily, sparkily, sparsely, spillway, spinally, spirally, splaying, spyglass, subphyla, superlay, syncopal, teleplay, tympanal, typeable, unplayed, upwardly, wordplay, xylocarp.

 

+5 letters: allopatry, allotropy, allotypes, allotypic, amblyopia, amblyopic, amphiboly, amplidyne, ampullary, amylopsin, anaglyphs, aphyllies, bipedally, blasphemy, calotypes, calypsoes, calypters, calyptras, capillary, capitally, carpingly, catalepsy, cataplexy, clepsydra, compactly, cyclopean, cytoplasm, diplomacy, displayed, downplays, dysplasia, epochally, eucalypti, eucalypts, exemplary, flippancy, flypapers, foreplays, gyroplane, halfpenny, halophyte, haplessly, haplology, haplotype, homoplasy, horseplay, hypallage, hyperbola, hypnoidal, hypoblast, incapably, interplay, kalyptras, ladypalms, ladyships, lampyrids, laypeople, layperson, lymphatic, lymphomas, mayapples, misplayed, naphthyls, nymphalid, oedipally, olympiads, operantly, optically, optimally, outplayed, overplays, painfully, painterly, palatably, palatally, palmately, palmistry, papillary, paralysed, paralyses, paralysis, paralytic, paralyzed, paralyzer, paralyzes, paramylum, pargyline, parlaying, parleyers, parleying, parlously, parsleyed, partially, passively, patchouly, pathology, patiently, peaceably, peccantly, perorally, petulancy, philately, photoplay, phrasally, phyllodia, physicals, pinnately, piquantly, pivotally, placatory, placidity, planarity, planetary, plangency, plasticky, platyfish, plausibly, playacted, playbacks, playbills, playbooks, playdates, playdowns, playfield, playfully, playgirls, playgoers, playhouse, playlands, playlists, playmaker, playmates, playrooms, playsuits, plaything, playtimes, plurality, polyamide, polyamine, polyandry, polyantha, polyanthi, polygalas, polygamic, polygonal, polygraph, polyhedra, polymaths, polymathy, polyphagy, polyphase, polypneas, polytonal, polyurias, polywater, polyzoans, ponytails, popularly, portrayal, pratingly, prayerful, preachily, primality, primarily, privately, profanely, propylaea, psychical, ptyalisms, pulmonary, pupillary, pycnidial, pyramidal, pyridoxal, quadruply, rampantly, raspingly, redisplay, repayable, replaying, reputably, sapiently, scrappily, slaphappy, sparingly, spatially, specially, specialty, spillways, splashily, splayfeet, splayfoot, superably, swordplay, sympetaly, sympodial, synalepha, telepathy, teleplays, topically, typically, underplay, unhappily, unshapely, untypical, waspishly, wordplays, xylocarps, xylograph.

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

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Alternative Orthography: PALY


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

50 41 4C 59

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)

01010000 01000001 01001100 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#65 &#76 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0041 004C 0059

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

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

50354659

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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