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QUATORZE

Definition: QUATORZE

QUATORZE

Noun

1. The four aces, kings, queens, knaves, or tens, in the game of piquet; -- so called because quatorze counts as fourteen points.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "QUATORZE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1814. (references)

Etymology: Quatorze \Qua*torze"\, noun. [French expression quatorze fourteen, from Latin expression quattuordecim. See Fourteen.]. (Websters 1913)


Crosswords: QUATORZE

English words defined with "QUATORZE": French ChippendaleLonis quatorze. (references)
Etymologies containing "QUATORZE": Quatorzain. (references)
Non-English Usage: "QUATORZE" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (fourteen, fourteenth), French Canadian (fourteen), Portuguese (fourteen).

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Modern Usage: QUATORZE

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Quatorze juillet (1953)

Mil huit cent quatorze (1910)

Le Crime de la Rue de Cherche-Midi à quatorze heures (1908)

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

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Usage Frequency: QUATORZE

"QUATORZE" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "QUATORZE" is used about 2 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 (singular)100%2245,945

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

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Expressions: QUATORZE

Expressions using "QUATORZE": Lonis quatorze Louis quatorze. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: QUATORZE

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

louis quatorze

4

quatorze treize

4

quatorze

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

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Derivations: QUATORZE

Derivations

Words beginning with "QUATORZE": quatorzes. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: QUATORZE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-o-q-r-t-u-z"

-1 letter: equator.

-2 letters: quarte, quarto, quartz, quatre, quoter, roquet, torque.

-3 letters: azote, azure, oater, orate, outer, outre, quare, quart, quate, quota, quote, roque, route, toque, urate.

-4 letters: aero, auto, euro, rate, rato, raze, rota, rote, roue, rout, tare, taro, tear, toea, tora, tore, tour, true, tzar, urea, zero, zeta, zoea.

-5 letters: are, art, ate, azo, ear.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-o-q-r-t-u-z"
 

+1 letter: quartzose, quatorzes.

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

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Alternative Orthography: QUATORZE


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

51 55 41 54 4F 52 5A 45

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)

01010001 01010101 01000001 01010100 01001111 01010010 01011010 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#81 &#85 &#65 &#84 &#79 &#82 &#90 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0051 0055 0041 0054 004F 0052 005A 0045

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

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

5155355449526039

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INDEX

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


  

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