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Definition: PENTICE |
PENTICENoun1. A penthouse. |
Etymology: Pentice \Pen"tice\, noun. [French expression appentis penthouse. See Append.]. (Websters 1913) |
"PENTICE" is a common misspelling or typo for: entice, pentacle, prentice. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Mining | A. A rock pillar left, or a heavy timber bulkhead placed, in the bottom of a two-or-more-compartment-deep shaft through which to sink it further. A small, auxilliary steam or air hoist, dumping apparatus, and pocket or bin are installed above the pentice; through an opening in it, sinking by short lifts is carried on while the shaft is in use above the pentice. Practiced in the Michigan copper country b. A cover, protection, or roof over a sinking shaft. The cover contains a trapdoor through which the rope and bowk pass. See also:Galloway stag c. In shaft sinking, a solid rock pillar left in the bottom of the shaft for overhead protection of miners while the shaft is being extended bysinking. (references) |
Public Administration | A projecting hood over a window or door or wall to protect it from rain. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: PENTICE |
| Etymologies containing "PENTICE": Pendice. (references) |
| 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 |
hall pentice | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "PENTICE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Dutch | luifel (penthouse, porch, porch roof, shed, umbrella roof). (various references) | ||||
French | auvent (penthouse). (various references) | ||||
German | Vordach (canopy, penthouse, porch). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | enticepay | ||||
| Words rhyming with "PENTICE" (pronounced 'Pen"tice'): Brattice, Brettice, INJUSTICE, Justice, malpractice, Mispractice, Practice, Prentice, Unjustice. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-i-n-p-t" | |
-1 letter: entice, incept, pecten, pectin. | |
-2 letters: inept, niece, pence, piece. | |
-3 letters: cent, cepe, cete, cine, cite, epic, etic, neep, nice, nite, peen, pein, pent, pice, pine, pint, teen, tine. | |
-4 letters: cee, cep, ice, nee, net, nip, nit, pec, pee, pen, pet, pic, pie, pin, pit, tee, ten, tic, tie, tin, tip. | |
-5 letters: en, et, in, it. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-i-n-p-t" | |
+1 letter: incepted, patience, pectines, phenetic, prentice, terpenic. | |
+2 letters: centipede, deception, epicenter, excepting, exception, excipient, expecting, impotence, inceptive, inspected, intercept, patencies, patiences, pectinate, penitence, phenacite, phenetics, phrenetic, potencies, prenticed, prentices, prescient, princelet, reception, recipient, reinspect, splenetic. | |
+3 letters: apprentice, centipedes, conceptive, deceptions, emancipate, epenthetic, epicenters, epicentral, epigenetic, exceptions, excerpting, excerption, excipients, impatience, impotences, inceptives, incomplete, inspective, intercepts, interspace, nonreceipt, pangenetic, penitences, percentile, perception, percipient, perfecting, perfection, pernickety, pertinence, pertinency, pestilence, phenacetin, phenacites, plasticene, precenting, prelecting, prelection, princelets, putrescine, receipting, receptions, recipients, reinspects, respecting, sceptering, splenetics, telephonic. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 45 4E 54 49 43 45 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. . -. - .. -.-. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01000101 01001110 01010100 01001001 01000011 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P E N T I C E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0045 004E 0054 0049 0043 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)50394854433739 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Expressions: Internet 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Rhymes 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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