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PATTIES

Definition: PATTIES

PATTIES

Plural

1. Of Patty

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "PATTIES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references)



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Crosswords: PATTIES

English words defined with "PATTIES": bitok, BoucheesPattypan, patty-pan, porcupine ball, porcupinessausage meat. (references)

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Modern Usage: PATTIES

DomainUsage

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.

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Use in Literature: PATTIES

TitleAuthorQuote

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.

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Non-Fiction Usage: PATTIES

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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.

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Usage Frequency: PATTIES

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (plural)84.62%11106,044
Noun (proper)15.38%2245,945
                    Total100.00%13N/A

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

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Modern Translations: PATTIES

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

Chinese 

  

å°é¦…饼 (Patty). (various references)

   

German

  

Pastetchen (patty). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

attiespay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: PATTIES

Derivations

Words ending with "PATTIES": chapatties. (additional references)


Misspellings

"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).

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Rhyming with "PATTIES"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "PATTIES" (pronounced pa"tēz)
4-a" t ē zfatties.
3-t ē zabilities, 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.

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Anagrams: PATTIES

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.

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

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Alternative Orthography: PATTIES


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

50 41 54 54 49 45 53

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 01010100 01010100 01001001 01000101 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#65 &#84 &#84 &#73 &#69 &#83

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)

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

50355454433953

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INDEX

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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