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RECLINED

Definitions: RECLINED

RECLINED

Adjective

1. Falling or turned downward; reclinate.

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Recline

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "RECLINED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

 

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Crosswords: RECLINED

English words defined with "RECLINED": Reclinate, Reclination. (references)

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Image Slideshow: RECLINED

Illustrations:
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Photo Album: RECLINED

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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.

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

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Use in Literature: RECLINED

TitleAuthorQuote

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

Noah and Tom and Al squatted, and the preacher sat down, and then reclined on his elbow.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: RECLINED

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past tense)77.27%1785,106
Lexical Verb (past participle)22.73%5157,705
                    Total100.00%22N/A

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

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Expression: RECLINED

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "RECLINED": semi-reclined.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: RECLINED

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

reclined

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: RECLINED

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

   

Ukranian 

  

відкинутий назад (back-cast), лежачий (decumbent, lying, recumbent), пологий (acclivous, aslope, declivous). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: RECLINED

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).

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Anagrams: RECLINED

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.

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

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Alternative Orthography: RECLINED


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

52 45 43 4C 49 4E 45 44

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)

01010010 01000101 01000011 01001100 01001001 01001110 01000101 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#69 &#67 &#76 &#73 &#78 &#69 &#68

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)

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

5239374643483938

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Images: Slideshow
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Quotations: Fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Derivations
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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