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Definitions: RECLINED |
RECLINEDAdjective1. Falling or turned downward; reclinate. Imperative & past participle1. Of Recline |
Date "RECLINED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Crosswords: RECLINED |
| English words defined with "RECLINED": Reclinate, Reclination. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | Trial of Ossawattamie [sic] Brown View of the court-room during the trial, with accurate portraits of the presiding judge, the twelve ... men, the counsel for the prisoner and prosecution, and Brown, as he reclined on his couch / / from a drawing taken b.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Noah and Tom and Al squatted, and the preacher sat down, and then reclined on his elbow. |
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| "RECLINED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 77.27% of the time. "RECLINED" is used about 22 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 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 77.27% | 17 | 85,106 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 22.73% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 22 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "RECLINED": semi-reclined. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
reclined | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "RECLINED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 斜倚 (recline, reclining). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | legte (laid), gelehnt (leaned, leant). (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | támaszkodó (leaning), megtámasztott, hátradőlt, hátradőlő. (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | posai. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | eclinedray відкинутий назад (back-cast), лежачий (decumbent, lying, recumbent), пологий (acclivous, aslope, declivous). (various references) | ||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"RECLINED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ecline, precleared, reclin, recloned, reclosed, resliced, roclined. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: decliner. | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-i-l-n-r" | |
-1 letter: decline, recline, redline, relined. | |
-2 letters: ceiled, ceiler, cinder, clerid, crenel, decern, decile, deicer, denier, edenic, lender, lieder, lierne, nereid, reined, relend, relied, reline. | |
-3 letters: ceder, cered, cider, cline, creed, creel, cried, deice, dicer, diene, diner, edile, eider, elder, elide, ender, idler, lined, liner, nicer, niece, relic, riced, riled. | |
-4 letters: cede, cedi, ceil, cere, cine, cire, deer, deil, dele, deli, dene, deni, dere, dice, diel, dine, dire, dirl, dree, eide, erne, iced, idle, ired, leer, lend, lice, lied, lien, lier, line, lire, need, nerd, nice, nide, rede, reed, reel, rein, rend, rice, ride, riel, rile, rind. | |
-5 letters: cee, cel, dee, del, den, die, din, eel, eld, end, ere, ern, ice, ire, led, lee, lei, lid, lie, lin, nee, nil, rec, red, ree, rei, rid, rin. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-i-l-n-r" | |
+1 letter: clinkered, decliners, encircled. | |
+2 letters: chandelier, credential, cylindered, incredible, interlaced, reconciled, relicensed. | |
+3 letters: calendering, centralised, centralized, chandeliers, chandleries, credentials, deliverance, dereliction, discernable, discernible, interlocked, recanalized, recolonized, reconditely, unreclaimed. | |
+4 letters: cantilevered, chandeliered, cheerleading, considerable, credentialed, decelerating, deceleration, decentralize, dechlorinate, decreasingly, deliverances, denuclearize, derelictions, glycerinated, indiscreetly, ineradicable, intercalated, iridescently, predilection, reinoculated, rescheduling, stepchildren, tredecillion, unreconciled. | |
+5 letters: candleberries, candlelighter, cephaloridine, clairaudience, comradeliness, considerables, considerately, cordialnesses, coresidential, countervailed, credentialing, credentialism, credentialled, decelerations, decentralized, decentralizes, dechlorinated, dechlorinates, decriminalize, denuclearized, denuclearizes, deprecatingly, directionless, electioneered, incredulities, indescribable, indiscernible, monoglyceride, perpendicular, porcelainized, predilections, prescheduling, radicalnesses, reconsolidate, tredecillions, trinucleotide, undescribable, unelectrified, unpredictable. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 45 43 4C 49 4E 45 44 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . -.-. .-.. .. -. . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01000101 01000011 01001100 01001001 01001110 01000101 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R E C L I N E D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0045 0043 004C 0049 004E 0045 0044 |
| 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)5239374643483938 |
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