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Definition: PRILL |
PRILLIntransitive verb1. To flow. Noun1. The button of metal from an assay. 2. Ore selected for excellence. 3. A nugget of virgin metal. 4. A stream. 5. The brill. |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | In assaying, the bullion bead resulting from cupellation of an auriferousor argentiferous lead button. (references) |
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Crosswords: PRILL |
| Specialty definitions using "PRILL": Chiddy Assay. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "PRILL" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Albanian (April). |
| The following table summarizes the usage of "PRILL" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Prill | Last name | 1,000 | 11,975 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| 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 |
bead prill | 22 |
prill water | 17 |
prill | 4 |
house prill | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "PRILL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | provë (assay, audition, averment, demonstration, evidence, experiment, fact, fitting, flier, probation, prolusion, proof, reasoning, rehearsal, run through, rush, school, seal, sign, substantiation, taste, tasting, test, touch, trial, try, try on, try out, witness), shëmbëll, mostër (model, pattern, sample, sampling, snip, specimen). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | самороден метал, парче руда. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | tablet (compressed good, data tablet, digitizer, graphics tablet, pressed good, tablet), kugleformet prøve. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | rijke ertsfractie, klompje gedegen metaal. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | pieni metallinäyte, malmin pala. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | granulé, bille sphéroïde. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Sprühkristall, Granalie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | βώλος (clod, lump). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | próbadarab, minta (design, fantasy, formula, model, motif, muster, norm, paradigm, paragon, pattern, probe, sample, shape, standard). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | prill. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | illpray pepita (nugget), amostra esferóide. (various references) самородок (nugget). (various references) prečišćena bakarna ruda, bogata bakarna ruda. (various references) pepita (nugget, pip, seed). (various references) prov (audition, display, experiment, probation, proof, sample, sign, specimen, test, token, trial, try out), sfärisk kula. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "PRILL": prilled, prilling, prills. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "PRILL" (pronounced pri"l) |
| 3 | -r i" l | brill, drill, frill, grill, grille, krill, rill, shrill, thrill, trill. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-l-l-p-r" | |
-1 letter: pill, rill. | |
-2 letters: ill, lip, rip. | |
-3 letters: li, pi. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-l-l-p-r" | |
+1 letter: pillar, prills. | |
+2 letters: pallier, perilla, pillars, pillory, pilular, prebill, prepill, prilled, spiller. | |
+3 letters: calliper, impeller, impellor, paillard, paltrily, papillar, perillas, perilled, pillager, pillared, playgirl, prebills, prechill, predrill, prilling, prolixly, spillers, spirally, spirilla. | |
+4 letters: callipers, capillary, impellers, impellors, overspill, paillards, palliator, papillary, partially, pellagrin, pellitory, perilling, pilgarlic, pillagers, pillaring, pilloried, pillories, playgirls, pluralism, pluralist, plurality, pluralize, prebilled, prechills, predrills, prefilled, prothalli, puerilely, pupillary, repelling, repolling, spillover, spiralled, spirillum, whirlpool, willpower. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 52 49 4C 4C |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .-. .. .-.. .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01010010 01001001 01001100 01001100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P R I L L |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0052 0049 004C 004C |
| 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)5052434646 |
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