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Synonym: Picket FenceSynonym: paling (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Prison | Bolt, deadbolt, bar, lock, police lock, combination lock, padlock, rail, wall, stone wall; paling, palisade; fence, picket fence, barbed wire fence, Cyclone fence, stockade fence, chain-link fence; barrier, barricade. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | ? To get our hopes up? To promise us we was gunna have a big house with a tire swing, vanity, and a picket fence, and then just leave, again? (The War; writing credit: Kathy McWorter) | |
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Books | |
Consumer Goods | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | House with picket fence next to "Lee Bros. Family Groceries".Credit: Library of Congress. |  | African American man standing at tall picket fence in front of house.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | White frame house with white picket fence at Cambridge, New York, with horse and buggy in fron.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | FSA (Farm Security Administration) rehabilitation borrower building a picket fence. Grant County, Illinois.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Picket fence near Faribault, Minnesota.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Galveston, Texas. Picket fence.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Gardens. Garden with white picket fence and white house.Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
picket fence | 509 | picket fence headboards | 12 |
picket fence bed | 53 | picket fence furniture | 12 |
picket fence headboard | 47 | picket fence picture | 9 |
picket fence preview | 43 | picket fence shelf | 7 |
build a picket fence | 28 | picket fence plan | 7 |
white picket fence | 27 | picket fence bunk bed | 6 |
picket fence stencil | 27 | garden picket fence | 6 |
wood picket fence | 26 | picket fence installation | 6 |
picket fence design | 23 | picket fence planter | 4 |
vinyl picket fence | 14 | picket fence tv show | 3 |
corner picket fence | 3 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "picket fence"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | ограда от колове (paling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | indhegning (fence, palisade), hegn (fence, fencing, hedge, hurdle, mesh, paling, paling fence, wattle, wire netting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | omheiningen (fence, fencing, hurdle, paling fence, wattle), omheining (fence, fencing, hurdle, paling, paling fence, wattle), afrastering (grate, grid, grill). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | clôture. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | palisadenzaun (paling, palisade, stockade), palisade (fence, palisade, stockade), Zaun (barrier, fence, palisade, railing), Umzaeunung (fence, fencing, hurdle, paling fence, wattle), Umwehrung (fence, fencing, hurdle, paling fence, wattle), staketenzaun (paling), staket (fence, paling, stake), Gatter (fence, gate, grating, grid, wicket), Einfriedung (enclosure, fence, hedge, stockade, wall). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | περίφραξη (enclosure, paling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | steccato (fence, palings), recinzione (enclosure, inclosure), recinto (enclosure, fence, inclosure, paddock, pale, pen, Pinfold, playpen, precinct, run, yard), chiusura (clam, clamp, closing, closure, end, fastening, lock, shutdown, shutting, zip). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | icketpay encefay vedação (fencing, gasket, gate, hail, packing, rail, railing, windbreak). (various references) частокол (pale, paling, palisade, stockade). (various references) valla (fence, hurdle), cerca (aboard, about, around, by, close, fence, near, nearby, nigh, short). (various references) tahta parmaklık, daraba. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-e-e-e-f-i-k-n-p-t" | |
-4 letters: epicene, necktie. | |
-5 letters: entice, incept, infect, ketene, pecten, pectic, pectin, picket. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 69 63 6B 65 74 46 65 6E 63 65 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01101001 01100011 01101011 01100101 01110100 00100000 01000110 01100101 01101110 01100011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P i c k e t   F e n c e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0069 0063 006B 0065 0074 0046 0065 006E 0063 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)50756977718624071806971 |
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