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Definitions: ROUST |
ROUSTNoun1. A strong tide or current, especially in a narrow channel. Transitive verb1. To rouse; to disturb; as, to roust one out. |
Date "ROUST" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1883. (references) |
Crosswords: ROUST |
| English words defined with "ROUST": Rost. (references) |
| "ROUST" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 83.33% of the time. "ROUST" 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 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 83.33% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (singular) | 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
roust | 4 |
roust a bout | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ROUST"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Farsi | فراردادن , بهم زدن (Disturb, Overthrow, Poach, Poke, Rough, Rouse, Rummage, Stir, Unmake), برانگیختن (Abet, Act, Actuate, Arouse, Evince, Exacerbate, Exasperate, Excite, Heat, Impulse, Infuse, Instigate, Irritate, Nettle, Prod, Prompt, Provoke, Sick, Whet). (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | kiugraszt (to roust out, to rout out), kiráncigál (rout out, to roust out, to rout out), kiűz (to dislodge, to exorcise, to exorcize, to expel, to oust, to roust out, to rout out), felkutat (ferret out secrets, search, to grub, to hunt up, to mouse, to reconnoitre, to roust out, to rout out), erőszakkal kikerget (to roust out, to rout out), erőszakkal kihajt (to roust out, to rout out), buzgólkodik (to bustle about, to mosey, to roust about, to scrum). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | oustray тревожить (dismay, disturb, harass, perturb, press upon, trouble), вытаскивать (drag out, lug out, pull, pull out, rummage), вынимать (lay out, take out). (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ROUST": roustabout, roustabouts, rousted, rouster, rousters, rousting, rousts. (additional references) | |
Words containing "ROUST": croustade, croustades, proustite, proustites. (additional references) | |
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"ROUST" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: doust, foust, froust, Groucutt, groust, irous, orst, raust, rautsi, roaset, Rocus, roduct, roest, rouat, Rouissi, roups, rous, roush, routw, routy, rouzs, Royst, rrost, rusot, woust. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: routs, stour, torus, tours. | |
| Words within the letters "o-r-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: orts, ours, oust, outs, rots, rout, rust, ruts, sort, sour, tors, tour. | |
-2 letters: ors, ort, our, out, rot, rut, sot, sou, tor, uts. | |
-3 letters: or, os, so, to, us, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "o-r-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: courts, grouts, ouster, outers, robust, rousts, routes, rouths, souter, sprout, stoure, stours, stoury, stroud, stupor, suitor, torous, trouts, tumors, turbos, tussor, tutors. | |
+2 letters: authors, brulots, burbots, burtons, citrous, couters, detours, dourest, drouths, estrous, fourths, hotspur, jouster, nitrous, nostrum, obtuser, oestrum, oestrus, ousters, outrows, outruns, outrush, outsert, outsoar, outwars, petrous, posture, pouters, proteus, quartos, questor, quoters, ragouts, redouts, riotous, robusta, roquets, rostrum, rotguts, rousted, rouster, routers, rubatos, rubouts, runouts, santour, sautoir, scouter, scrotum, shouter, sourest, souters, souther, spouter, sprouts, stoures, stourie, stouter, strouds, stupors, suitors, support, surcoat, surtout, tabours, tenours, tonsure, torques, torulas, tourers, tourism, tourist, touters, troilus, troughs, troupes, trouser, trustor, tryouts, tsouris, tumours, turacos, turbots, turgors, turkois, turnons, tussore, tussors, unroots, uproots, yogurts. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 4F 55 53 54 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. --- ..- ... - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01001111 01010101 01010011 01010100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R O U S T |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 004F 0055 0053 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)5249555354 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage Frequency 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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