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Definition: RELIGHT |
RELIGHTTransitive verb1. To light or kindle anew. |
Date "RELIGHT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1840. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Mechanical Engineering | In engine terminology, a re-start of an engine after a flame-out. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "RELIGHT" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "RELIGHT" is used about 11 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) | 100% | 11 | 106,044 |
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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
fire relight | 6 |
relight | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "RELIGHT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | rindizem, rindez (relume). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | светвам отново, запалвам отново (rekindle, relume). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 重新照明. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | ranimer (reanimate, rekindle, revive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ανάπτω πάλι. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | újra meggyújt (relit, relume, to rekindle, to relight). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | aafoaddey (rekindle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | elightray reacender (relume), voltar a acender (relume). (various references) снова загореться, снова зажечь. (various references) opet upaliti, opet obasjati. (various references) volver a arder. (various references) flammas på nytt. (various references) знову загорітися, знову запалити. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "RELIGHT": relighted, relighting, relights. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "RELIGHT": firelight. (additional references) | |
Words containing "RELIGHT": firelights. (additional references) | |
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"RELIGHT" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Erleigh, Rabigh, redlight, reflight, reigh, reight, releigh, relig, riiight. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: lighter. | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-h-i-l-r-t" | |
-1 letter: lither, regilt. | |
-2 letters: eight, girth, grith, ither, legit, liger, light, liter, lithe, litre, relit, right, their, thirl, tiger, tiler. | |
-3 letters: elhi, gelt, gilt, girl, girt, grit, heil, heir, herl, hilt, hire, lehr, lier, lire, lite, riel, rile, rite, thir, tier, tile, tire, tirl, trig. | |
-4 letters: erg, eth, gel, get, ghi, gie, git, her, het. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-h-i-l-r-t" | |
+1 letter: blighter, lighters, litharge, plighter, regolith, relights, slighter, thirlage. | |
+2 letters: blighters, delighter, earthling, firelight, flightier, ghastlier, ghostlier, haltering, lathering, lengthier, lethargic, lightener, lightered, litharges, overlight, plighters, preflight, regoliths, relighted, sightlier, thirlages. | |
+3 letters: blathering, blethering, blithering, delighters, earthlight, earthlings, firelights, holstering, leathering, lethargies, lighteners, lighterage, lightering, overflight, overlights, philtering, reclothing, relighting, rheologist, sheltering, slathering, slithering, superlight, telphering, theurgical, thimblerig, tigerishly. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 45 4C 49 47 48 54 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . .-.. .. --. .... - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01000101 01001100 01001001 01000111 01001000 01010100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R E L I G H T |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0045 004C 0049 0047 0048 0054 |
| 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)52394643414254 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage Frequency 3. Expressions: Internet 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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