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Definition: SCARVES |
SCARVESPlural1. Of Scarf |
Date "SCARVES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references) |
Crosswords: SCARVES |
| Specialty definitions using "SCARVES": surah ordinary. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Scarves by Vera, business at 417 5th Ave. Cork wall.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Tangled Tale | Carroll, Lewis | You will take account of the rate of work, the lightness of the scarves, and their warmth. |
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Health | By wearing infested clothing, such as hats, scarves, coats, sports uniforms, or hair ribbons. (references) | |
Do not share clothing, such as hats, scarves, coats, sports uniforms, hair ribbons, or barrettes. (references) | ||
Outdoors in winter, they should wear scarves, warm socks and boots, and mittens or gloves under mittens because gloves alone allow heat to escape. (references) | ||
Business | The category of giftware is extremely broad and popular gift items include jewelry, costume jewelry, fashion accessories such as hairclips, ladies' handbags, crystalware, stationery items, some apparel such as scarves, ties, lingerie and baby clothing, books, gift certificates, toiletries, candles, wine, chocolates, biscuits, toys, decorative household accessories and watches. (references) | |
Since each market has its competitive advantage concerning Argentine imports (China/Brazil/Uruguay/Italy/Spain - across the board consistent imports, Myanmar - men's shirts, Colombia - women's bras, Sri Lanka - gloves, India - women's blouses and scarves, etc.), it is interesting to note what the U.S. suppliers have been strong in. "Across the board imports" characterize U.S. imports; of 35 apparel HS Codes, the U.S. is present in only six top ten lists. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Ethiopia | Certain public school teachers in the SNNPR, Addis Ababa, and in the Amhara region objected to Muslim schoolgirls covering their heads with scarves while at school. (references) |
Women | Afghanistan | Enforcement reportedly was relatively lax in rural and non-Pashtun areas, and there were reports that some women in Herat and in rural areas cover their heads with large scarves that leave the face uncovered without reprisal. (references) |
Worker Rights | Italy | According to the Carabinieri, an estimated 30,000 illegal Chinese work in sweatshop conditions near Florence, with many minor children working alongside the rest of their families to produce scarves, purses, and imitations of various brand name products. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Heather Mercer and Dayna Curry | Well Heather is the one that started it, and we started adding our scarves as well, to make a fire, so the helicopter could see us better. |
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| "SCARVES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "SCARVES" is used about 189 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 (plural) | 100% | 189 | 22,353 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "SCARVES": head-scarves. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "SCARVES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 围巾 (Muffler, Mufflers, scarf, Scarfs). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Schals (scarfs, shawls), Schale (bark, basin, bearing half, bowl, brass, capsule, carapace, champagne glass, course, cup, dish, edge bowl, evaporating dish, evaporation cell, half bearing, hull, husk, kidney dish, lined canal, lined ditch, lined trench, literal mistake, misprint, pan, peel, peeling, pelvis, plate, platter, pod, pus basin, rind, scab, shell, shoe, shuck, skin, sliver, spill, vaporization dish, zest). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αόρ. του scarf. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | sálkendő (scarf), sál (comforter, muffler, neckerchief, scarf, shawl), vállszalag (bandolier, brace, diagonal brace, sash, scarf), nyaksál (neckcloth, scarf), nyakravaló (cravat, neck-wear, scarf), nyakkendő (cravat, four-in-hand, necktie, scarf, tie), gallérvédő (scarf). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 스카" (scarf, Scarfs). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | arvesscay шарф (cravat, muffler, neckerchief, scarf, throw). (various references) cascara (bowl, glass, shell, skin). (various references) fularlar, eşarplar, şallar, atkılar. (various references) đường xoi (groove, scarf). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"SCARVES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: escravos, scarese, scarve, scarved, Scarvee, scaves, scavies, scraver, scurve, secnaves. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "SCARVES" (pronounced skÄ"rvz) |
| 5 | -k Ä" r v z | carves. |
| 4 | -Ä" r v z | varves. |
| 3 | -r v z | dwarves. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-r-s-s-v" | |
-1 letter: caress, carses, carves, cavers, crases, craves, escars, savers, scares, seracs. | |
-2 letters: acres, arses, avers, cares, carse, carve, cases, caver, caves, crass, crave, cress, escar, races, rases, raves, saver, saves, scare, scars, sears, serac, vases. | |
-3 letters: aces, acre, arcs, ares, arse, aver, aves, care, cars, case, cave, cess, ears, eras, race, rase, rave, recs, revs, sacs, save, scar, sear, seas, secs, sera, sers, vacs, vars, vase, vera. | |
-4 letters: ace, arc, are, ars, ass, ave, car, ear, era, ers, ess, ras, rec, res, rev, sac, sae, sea, sec, ser, vac, var, vas. | |
-5 letters: ae, ar, as, er, es, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-r-s-s-v" | |
+1 letter: crevasse. | |
+2 letters: canvasers, canvasser, caressive, crevassed, crevasses, overcasts. | |
+3 letters: canvassers, cervelases, cravenness, crevassing, haversacks, oversauces, scavengers, severances, stavesacre. | |
+4 letters: caressively, clavierists, eviscerates, observances, revanchisms, revanchists, silverbacks, stavesacres, survivances. | |
+5 letters: cavalierisms, conservatism, conservators, conversances, cravennesses, creativeness, disseverance, overcastings, overclassify, overissuance, quacksalvers, reactiveness, slavocracies, subcuratives, transceivers, varicosities, vasculatures, verticalness. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 43 41 52 56 45 53 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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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)01010011 01000011 01000001 01010010 01010110 01000101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S C A R V E S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0043 0041 0052 0056 0045 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)53373552563953 |
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