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"QUILLS" is a plural of: quill. |
Date "QUILLS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1594. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of quills, denotes to the literary inclined a season of success. To dream of them as ornaments, signifies a rushing trade, and some remuneration. For a young woman to be putting a quill on her hat, denotes that she will attempt many conquests, and her success will depend upon her charms. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
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Quills is a 2000 film which tells the story of the imprisonment of the Marquis de Sade. It stars Geoffrey Rush, Kate Winslet, Joaquin Phoenix, Michael Caine and Billie Whitelaw.The movie was adapted by Doug Wright from his play, and was directed by Philip Kaufman.
It was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Geoffrey Rush), Best Art Direction-Set Decoration and Best Costume Design.
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Roughness | Adjective: rough, uneven, scabrous, scaly,knotted; rugged, rugose, rugous; knurly; asperous, crisp, salebrous, gnarled, unpolished, unsmooth, roughhewn; craggy, cragged; crankling, scraggy; prickly; (sharp); arborescent; leafy, well-wooded; feathery; plumose, plumigerous; laciniate, laciniform, laciniose; pappose; pileous, pilose; trichogenous, trichoid; tufted, fimbriated, hairy, ciliated, filamentous, hirsute; crinose, crinite; bushy, hispid, villous, pappous, bearded, pilous, shaggy, shagged; fringed, befringed; setous, setose, setaceous; "like quills upon the fretful porcupine"; rough as a nutmeg grater, rough as a bear. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Movie/TV Titles | Quills (2000) | |
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 | Mr. Coon: Good morning, Mrs. Porcupine, how are the twins? : Mrs. Porcupine: They have been a bit cross lately, you see, they are just cutting their quills. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Production. Parachute cloth and shrouds. The quilling operation, early in the making of parachute cloth, consists of winding the fine nylon thread from spools onto small quills. The threads will later be woven into the parachute cloth. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Quills" by Nick Coyne Commentary: "Porcupine quills in a vase." |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | They are known by quills which they wear in their hatband |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These, by some occult process of nature, are penetrated and suffused with various degrees of the bird's intellectual energies and emotional character, so that when inked and drawn mechanically across paper by a person called an "author," there results a very fair and accurate transcript of the fowl's thought and feeling. The difference in geese, as discovered by this ingenious method, is considerable: many are found to have only trivial and insignificant powers, but some are seen to be very great geese indeed. |
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| "QUILLS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 94.59% of the time. "QUILLS" is used about 37 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 94.59% | 35 | 58,339 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 2.7% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.7% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 37 | N/A |
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Expressions using "QUILLS": primary quills ♦ secondary quills. Additional references. | |
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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 |
quills | 198 | ireland quills | 4 |
porcupine quills | 35 | lettering quills | 4 |
quills movie | 28 | porcupine quills removing | 3 |
chin quills | 17 | dog porcupine quills | 3 |
quills sugar | 11 | movie quills review | 3 |
feather quills | 8 | parchment quills | 3 |
quills writing | 8 | office quills supply | 3 |
chin n quills | 6 | nude quills | 2 |
cast quills | 6 | photo quills | 2 |
kate quills winslet | 5 | blue college first nation quills | 2 |
ink quills | 5 | quills review | 2 |
quills picture | 5 | harry potter quills | 2 |
buy movie not quills rent | 2 | ||
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| Language | Translations for "QUILLS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
German | Feder (feather, nib, pen, plume, plumes, quill, spring). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | illsquay.(various references) | |
Russian | игла дикобраза (porcupine quills, quill). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "QUILLS": squills. (additional references) | |
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"QUILLS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aquilus, quaills, quales, quals, quella, quels, quelz, quiell, quil, Quila, quilb, quilble, quild, quile, quiles, quilf, quilk, quilla, quille, quillo, quilms, quiln, quilp, quils, quiol, quiwl, qulil, qulis, qumill, qwill, squills. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: squill. | |
| Words within the letters "i-l-l-q-s-u" | |
-1 letter: quill. | |
-2 letters: ills, sill. | |
-3 letters: ill, lis, suq. | |
-4 letters: is, li, si, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-l-l-q-s-u" | |
+1 letter: squilla, squills. | |
+2 letters: quillais, quillets, squillae, squillas. | |
+3 letters: coquilles, quillaias, quillajas, quillings, quinellas, soliloquy, squalidly, squallier, squalling. | |
+4 letters: cliquishly, colloquies, colloquist, ololiuquis, quadrilles, qualmishly, quesadilla, quillbacks, quillworks, rainsquall, squalliest, squirrelly. | |
+5 letters: aquarellist, colloquials, colloquists, colloquiums, maquillages, quesadillas, rainsqualls, soliloquies, soliloquise, soliloquist, soliloquize, squirrelled. | |
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