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Definition: PATTIES |
PATTIESPlural1. Of Patty |
Date "PATTIES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references) |
Crosswords: PATTIES |
| English words defined with "PATTIES": bitok, Bouchees ♦ Pattypan, patty-pan, porcupine ball, porcupines ♦ sausage meat. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | We both got two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles and onions, but their buns have sesame seeds. (Coming to America; writing credit: David Sheffield) P mean? It's actually carefully organized paraphrase that stands for: People Order Our Patties. (SpongeBob SquarePants; writing credit: Leonardo Fasoli; Patrizia Fassio) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Hamburger patties splashed and hissed in the grease, and the potatoes bubbled. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Wash meat thermometers in between tests of patties that require further cooking. (references) | |
Wash hands, counters, and utensils with hot soapy water after they touch raw meat. Never place cooked hamburgers or ground beef on the unwashed plate that held raw patties. (references) | ||
Ground beef should be cooked until a thermometer inserted into several parts of the patty, including the thickest part, reads at least 160º F. Persons who cook ground beef without using a thermometer can decrease their risk of illness by not eating ground beef patties that are still pink in the middle. (references) | ||
Travel | Jamaica | Some of the most popular Jamaican dishes are: rice and beans; ackee and salt fish; patties (meat-filled pastries); jerk chicken; curried goat; and mackerel rundown. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "PATTIES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 84.62% of the time. "PATTIES" is used about 13 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 (plural) | 84.62% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Noun (proper) | 15.38% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 13 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "PATTIES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | å°é¦…饼 (Patty). (various references) | ||||
German | Pastetchen (patty). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | attiespay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "PATTIES": chapatties. (additional references) | |
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"PATTIES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: apatites, gattias, optatives, pantites, partitas, Patates, patie, patiens, paties, patiets, patis, patris, Pattes, pattie, Pattis, pattys, petise, pettie, pettys, pittses, plattis, Pottiez, prattish. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "PATTIES" (pronounced pa"tēz) |
| 4 | -a" t ē z | fatties. |
| 3 | -t ē z | abilities, abnormalities, absurdities, activities, affinities, ambiguities, amenities, amnesties, animosities, annuities, Antes, antiquities, anxieties, atrocities, authorities, availabilities, banalities, beauties, booties, bounties, brutalities, calamities, capabilities, capacities, casualties, causalities, cavities, celebrities, certainties, charities, christies, cities, committees, commodities, commonalities, communities, complexities, counties, cruelties, curiosities, deformities, deities, densities, deputies, diabetes, difficulties, disabilities, disability, disparities, ditties, divinities, duties, dynasties, eccentricities, eighties, empties, enmities, entities, entreaties, equities, extremities, facilities, faculties, fatalities, festivities, fidelities, fifties, formalities, forties, frailties, fraternities, generalities, gratuities, hostilities, humanities, humanity, identities, illegalities, immunities, improprieties, impurities, indemnities, indignities, inequalities, inequities, infidelities, infirmities, insecurities, instabilities, intensities, irregularities, lefties, legalities, liabilities, liberties, liquidities, localities, loyalties, majorities, maturities, minorities, modalities, Montes, municipalities, nationalities, necessities, niceties, nineties, novelties, obscenities, oddities, opportunities, panties, parities, parties, peculiarities, penalties, personalities, pieties, possibilities, pretties, principalities, priorities, probabilities, proclivities, propensities, properties, qualities, quantities, rarities, realities, responsibilities, rigidities, royalties, securities, sensibilities, sensitivities, seventies, shanties, similarities, sixties, societies, sororities, sorties, specialities, specialties, subcommittees, subtleties, technicalities, thirties, tonalities, travesties, treaties, twenties, uncertainties, unfamiliarities, universities, utilities, vanities, varieties, velocities, verities, vigilantes, vulnerabilities, warranties, zlotys. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-p-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: aptest, pastie, pattie, petsai, pietas. | |
-2 letters: paise, paste, pates, peats, petit, petti, pieta, piste, pitas, sepia, septa, spait, spate, spite, state, stipe, tapes, tapis, taste, tates, teats, tepas, testa. | |
-3 letters: aits, apes, apse, ates, east, eats, etas, pase, past, pate, pats, peas, peat, pest, pets, pias, pies, pita, pits, sate, sati, seat, sept, seta, sett, sipe, site, spae, spat, spit, stat, step, stet, tape, taps, tate, tats, teas, teat, tepa, test, tets, ties, tips, tits. | |
-4 letters: ais, ait, ape, apt, asp, ate, att, eat, eta, its, pas, pat, pea, pes, pet, pia, pie, pis, pit, psi, sae, sap, sat, sea, sei, set, sip, sit, spa, tae, tap, tas, tat, tea, tet, tie, tip, tis, tit. | |
-5 letters: ae, ai, as, at, es, et, is, it, pa, pe, pi, si, ta, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-p-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: apatites, pastiest, patients, peatiest, platiest. | |
+2 letters: antitypes, appetites, aptitudes, epistatic, hepatitis, optatives, paintiest, paltriest, pantheist, pastelist, patchiest, patinates, patooties, pittances, privatest, spaghetti, stipulate, therapist, thiotepas, tinplates, tipstaves, trapezist, triptanes. | |
+3 letters: antiseptic, apostatise, apostatize, asphaltite, autotypies, baptistery, battleship, captivates, chapatties, constipate, crepitates, expatiates, extirpates, impetrates, inpatients, paillettes, palmitates, palpitates, pantheists, pantsuited, pastelists, pastellist, patientest, paupiettes, pediatrist, pegmatites, petticoats, pistillate, plaintexts, platitudes, poinsettia, potentials, pretasting, psittacine, separatist, spaghettis, spattering, spectating, stipulated, stipulates, striptease, taperstick, tapestried, tapestries, therapists, trapezists, tympanites. | |
+4 letters: anticipates, antileptons, antipathies, antiseptics, antistrophe, apostatised, apostatises, apostatized, apostatizes, asphaltites, baptistries, battleships, capacitates, capitulates, captivities, cataleptics, constipated, constipates, decapitates, deputations, expatriates, extirpators, graptolites, hepatitides, hyperstatic, hypostatize, impartments, inaptitudes, interplants, kinetoplast, metaplastic, osteopathic, outpatients, pacesetting, palatinates, pantheistic, paresthetic, parotitises, parturients, pastellists, paternalist, paternities, patriciates, patternings, pediatrists, peristaltic, philatelist, picketboats, pituitaries, poinsettias, potentiates, potentillas, propitiates, psittacines, psittacoses, repatriates, reputations, separatists, spaghettini, spessartite, splattering, spontaneity, steatopygia, steatopygic, stephanotis, stripteaser, stripteases, suprematist, sympathetic, tapersticks, tapestrying, telepathies, temptations, tetraploids, tetrasporic, thiopentals, trapnesting, triceratops, tripletails, triplicates, tryptamines, typecasting, vituperates. | |
+5 letters: acceptations, adaptivities, antinepotism, antipyretics, antistrophes, appointments, attorneyship, autotrophies, baptisteries, bespattering, crepitations, decapitators, decrepitates, deportations, distemperate, earsplitting, ectoparasite, expatiations, expatriatism, expectations, exportations, extirpations, hairsplitter, hypostatized, hypostatizes, impetrations, inspectorate, interpolates, kinetoplasts, nuptialities, octapeptides, operationist, optimalities, osteopathies, osteoplastic, pancreatitis, partialities, participates, particulates, partitioners, paternalists, pectinations, penetrations, pentlandites, peripatetics, permutations, pestilential, philatelists, plasticities, pontificates, portraitures, postaccident, postliterate, potabilities, potentiators, precipitants, precipitates, predestinate, preliterates, premeditates, presentation, presentative, proletariats, protestation, repartitions, repristinate, separatistic, sextuplicate, sophisticate, spaghettinis, spasticities, spatialities, spectatorial, spessartites, steatopygias, stripteasers, stupefaction, superpatriot, superstation, suprematists, sympathetics, telegraphist, therapeutics, topicalities, transpontine, trepanations, trepidations, triphosphate, typicalities, vituperators. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 41 54 54 49 45 53 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in 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)01010000 01000001 01010100 01010100 01001001 01000101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P A T T I E S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0041 0054 0054 0049 0045 0053 |
| 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)50355454433953 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Images: Slideshow | 5. Quotations: Fiction 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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