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Definition: RELAIS |
RELAISNoun1. A narrow space between the foot of the rampart and the scarp of the ditch, serving to receive the earth that may crumble off or be washed down, and prevent its falling into the ditch. |
Etymology: Relais \Re*lais"\ (re*l[asl]"), noun. [French expression See Relay, noun.]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: RELAIS |
| Non-English Usage: "RELAIS" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (interstation, relay, road house, shift, stance), German (relay). |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "RELAIS" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 83.33% of the time. "RELAIS" is used about 6 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 (singular) | 83.33% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (proper) | 16.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6 | N/A |
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. |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "RELAIS": virelais. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: ariels, resail, sailer, serail, serial. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-l-r-s" | |
-1 letter: aisle, ariel, arils, arise, arles, earls, lairs, lares, laris, laser, lears, liars, liers, liras, rails, raise, rales, reals, rials, riels, riles, serai, seral, slier. | |
-2 letters: ails, airs, ales, ares, aril, arse, earl, ears, eras, ilea, ires, isle, lair, lari, lars, lase, lear, leas, leis, liar, lier, lies, lira, lire, rail, rale, rase. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-l-r-s" | |
+1 letter: aerials, airless, aliners, bailers, claries, derails, dialers, eclairs, glaires, hailers, jailers, mailers, nailers, railers, rallies, realise, realism, realist, redials, remails, renails, resails, retails, revisal, sailers, sallier, saltier, saltire, scalier, serails, serials, shalier, slatier, tailers, wailers. | |
+2 letters: ailerons, airholes, airlines, alieners, alienors, aligners, appliers, articles, assailer, ateliers, auricles, ballsier, barflies, bedrails, bilayers, blastier, brailles, calibers, calibres, calipers, calories, carioles, carlines, cavilers, charlies, claimers, classier, claviers, dalliers, darioles, decrials, diallers, dialyser, dilaters, dismaler, earliest, earlship, engrails, entrails, espalier, failures, filarees, flashier, foresail, frailest, gasalier, gaselier, gasolier, girasole, glaciers, glariest, glassier, glaziers, graciles, greasily, gremials, hairless, harelips, hauliers, impalers, impearls, inhalers, inlayers, islander, lamister, lanciers, lardiest, larkiest, latrines, lavisher, leariest, lempiras, liberals, librates, literals, marliest, marlines, marlites, measlier, minerals, miracles, misalter, mislayer, mislearn, moralise, nargiles, parslied, pelorias, perillas, pilaster, plaister, plaiters, plashier, polarise, pralines, prevails, radicels, radicles, rainless, raisable, ralliers, ramilies, rashlike, ratlines, ravelins, realigns, realised, realiser, realises, realisms, realists, realizes, realties, reassail, reavails, recitals, reclaims, redtails, relaxins, replicas, reprisal, resailed, residual, retinals, retrials, revisals, revivals, rinsable, ruralise, salaried, salaries, salliers, saltiers, saltires, seraglio, serially, shoalier, shrieval, sidereal, signaler, slaggier, slangier, sleazier, slipware, snarlier, solarise, solarize, sparlike, spiracle, spiraled, spirulae, stalkier, starlike, sterical, talliers, tertials, trailers, trenails, uralites, valorise, varioles, virelais, virelays, visceral, yearlies. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 45 4C 41 49 53 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . .-.. .- .. ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01000101 01001100 01000001 01001001 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R E L A I S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0045 004C 0041 0049 0053 |
| 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)523946354353 |
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