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PILON

Etymology: Pilon \Pi*lon"\, noun. [Spanish expression, sugar loaf.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms within Context: PILON

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Giving

Gift, donation, present, cadeau; fairing; free gift, boon, favor, benefaction, grant, offering, oblation, sacrifice, immolation; lagniappe, pilon.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: PILON

Etymologies containing "PILON": Piloncillo. (references)
Non-English Usage: "PILON" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (drumstick, pestle), Hungarian (pylon), Romanian (bridge, pylon, rammer), Serbo-Croatian (pylon), Turkish (pylon).

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Modern Usage: PILON

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Jean-Guy Pilon (1977)

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

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Commercial Usage: PILON

DomainTitle

Books

  • Du pilon à la gloire : voici enfin les aventures véridiques du Messager boiteux en vingt et trois chapitres de dimensions diverses, mais tous d'un grand intérêt (reference)

  • Editeurs transatlantiques : études sur les éditions de l'Arbre, Lucien Parizeau, Fernand Pilon, Serge Brousseau, Mangin, B.D. Simpson (reference)

  • Le moulin et le pilon : les îles du Cap-Vert (reference)

  • Major fractures of the pilon, the talus, and the calcaneus : current concepts of treatment (reference)

  • Pilon, El Extraordinario Elephanton (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

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

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Name Usage Frequency: PILON

The following table summarizes the usage of "PILON" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
PilonLast name1,00011,980
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: PILON

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

pilon

36

fracture pilon

15

michel pilon

7

action affirmative american blum cato center center connor court day ed equal institute jay justice law o opportunity pilon roger sandra sekulow supreme

7

cafe pilon

6

marine pilon

5

daniel pilon

4

pilon coffee

3

bauru daniele pilon

3

ankle fracture pilon

2

donald pilon

2

pilon richard

2

marteau pilon

2

construction pilon

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: PILON

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "i-l-n-o-p"

-1 letter: lino, lion, loin, noil, pion.

-2 letters: ion, lin, lip, lop, nil, nip, oil, pin, poi, pol.

-3 letters: in, li, lo, no, on, op, pi.

 Words containing the letters "i-l-n-o-p"
 

+1 letter: loping, pinole, poling, pontil, poplin.

 

+2 letters: cipolin, complin, diplont, dolphin, eloping, epsilon, lampion, looping, lopping, louping, nonslip, opaline, phonily, picolin, pignoli, pillion, pinfold, pinhole, pinitol, pinocle, pinoles, plosion, plowing, ploying, polling, polynyi, pontils, pooling, poplins, potline, proline, pulsion, purloin, sloping, topline, upsilon.

 

+3 letters: antipole, anviltop, aphelion, blooping, bonspiel, cipolins, clomping, clopping, complain, compline, complins, coupling, diplonts, dolphins, epsilons, flopping, galoping, glopping, hoppling, lampions, leporine, leptonic, longship, millpond, mopingly, opalines, oppilant, optional, palimony, palinode, palomino, panbroil, pangolin, papillon, paroling, parvolin, pavilion, pavillon, pelorian, pemoline, peopling, phelonia, phenolic, picoline, picolins, pignolia, pignolis, pillions, piloting, pinfolds, pinholes, pinitols, pinochle, pinocles, platonic, pliotron, plodding, plonking, plopping, plosions, plotline, plotting, plotzing, plutonic, policing, polkaing, pollinia, pollinic, polonium, polyenic, ponytail, poppling, posingly, potlines, prolamin, prolines, prowling, psilocin, pulmonic, pulsions, purloins, replicon, siphonal, slipknot, slopping, snoopily, spoiling, spongily, spooling, spoonily, talapoin, terpinol, tholepin, toplines, toppling, unipolar, unpolite, unspoilt, upsilons.

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

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Alternative Orthography: PILON


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

50 49 4C 4F 4E

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)

.--.    ..    .-..    ---    -.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01001001 01001100 01001111 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#73 &#76 &#79 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0049 004C 004F 004E

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

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

5043464948

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INDEX

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


  

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