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Definitions: Scythe |
ScytheNoun1. An edge tool for cutting grass; has a long handle that must be held with both hands and a curved blade that moves parallel to the ground. Verb1. Cut with a scythe, as of grass or grain. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "scythe" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
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Dream Interpretation | To dream of a scythe, foretells accidents or sickness will prevent you from attending to your affairs, or making journeys. An old or broken scythe, implies separation from friends, or failure in some business enterprise. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In the developed world, it has now largely been replaced by motorized lawnmowers and combine harvesters. It still proves to be indispensable for farmers in third world countries and in mountainous terrain.
It also plays an important traditional role, often appearing as weapons in the hands of mythical beings such as father time and the grim reaper.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Scythe."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Angularity | Elbow, knee, knuckle, ankle, groin, crotch, crutch, crane, fluke, scythe, sickle, zigzag, kimbo, akimbo. |
Sharpness | Wedge; knife edge, cutting edge; blade, edge tool, cutlery, knife, penknife, whittle, razor, razor blade, safety razor, straight razor, electric razor; scalpel; bistoury, lancet; plowshare, coulter, colter; hatchet, ax, pickax, mattock, pick, adze, gill; billhook, cleaver, cutter; scythe, sickle; scissors, shears, pruning shears, cutters, wire cutters, nail clipper, paper cutter; sword; (arms); bodkin; (perforator); belduque, bowie knife, paring knife; bushwhacker; drawing knife, drawing shave; microtome; chisel, screwdriver blade; flint blade; guillotine. |
Time | Glass of time, sands of time, march of time, Father Time, ravages of time; arrow of time; river of time, whirligig of time, noiseless foot of time; scythe. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Scythe |
| English words defined with "scythe": cradle, Cradle scythe ♦ Desecate ♦ grim reaper ♦ Heel ring ♦ reaper ♦ Scytheman, Sithe, swath, Sythe. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "scythe": tope. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "scythe": Falcon. (references) |
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Screenplays | Now. All of you. In every generation one Slayer is born because a bunch of guys that died thousands of years ago made up that rule. They were powerful men. This woman is more powerful than all of them combined. So I say we change the rules. I say my power should be our power. Tomorrow Willow will use the essence of this scythe to change our destiny. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Farmer with scythe walking down road after livestock.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Sharpening a scythe, Windsor County, Vermont.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Sharpening a scythe, Windsor County, Vermont.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Snowshoes and scythe in barn in Orange County near Bradford, Vermont.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Sharpening scythe. Richland County, Wisconsin.Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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Hester Piozzi Thrale | A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass. |
Napoleon Bonaparte | Occupation is the scythe of time. |
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Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | Her knives were twice as long as a scythe set straight upon the handle. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | TOPE, v. To tipple, booze, swill, soak, guzzle, lush, bib, or swig. In the individual, toping is regarded with disesteem, but toping nations are in the forefront of civilization and power. When pitted against the hard-drinking Christians the absemious Mahometans go down like grass before the scythe. In India one hundred thousand beef- eating and brandy-and-soda guzzling Britons hold in subjection two hundred and fifty million vegetarian abstainers of the same Aryan race. With what an easy grace the whisky-loving American pushed the temperate Spaniard out of his possessions! From the time when the Berserkers ravaged all the coasts of western Europe and lay drunk in every conquered port it has been the same way: everywhere the nations that drink too much are observed to fight rather well and not too righteously. Wherefore the estimable old ladies who abolished the canteen from the American army may justly boast of having materially augmented the nation's military power. |
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| "Scythe" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 70.97% of the time. "Scythe" is used about 31 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) | 70.97% | 22 | 74,468 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 19.35% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 6.45% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (common) | 3.23% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 31 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "scythe": Cradle scythe ♦ scythe down. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "scythe": scythe-blade, scythe-like, scythe-stone, scythe-toting, scythe-wielding. | |
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| 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 |
scythe | 158 |
helmet shoei z ii scythe | 23 |
helmet z ii scythe | 22 |
death scythe | 9 |
picture scythe | 7 |
buffy scythe | 6 |
allen scythe | 6 |
herbicide scythe | 6 |
blade scythe | 5 |
scythe tool | 5 |
scythe weapon | 4 |
hell scythe | 3 |
scythe uk | 3 |
buffys scythe | 3 |
sale scythe | 3 |
antique scythe | 3 |
art scythe | 3 |
canada sales scythe | 3 |
character picture scythe | 2 |
scythe war | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "scythe"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | kosit (chaff, mow, mow down, shave), kosë. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | منجل (bill, billhook, hook, machete, pruning scissors, sickle), مقضب, حش بالمنجل, الحشيش المجزوز. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | кося (cut, mow), коса (floss, hair, silk, tassel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 鎌 (sickle), 芟 (cut down, mow), 鐮 (sickle), 大镰刀, 大鐮刀 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | sekat (chop, cut, hack, hew, mow), kosit (mow, reap), kosa (spit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | le (laugh). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | zeis (mower, mowing machine, reaper). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | falĉilo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | داس (Sickle), دروکردن (Reap), باداس بردن . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | viikate. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | faux. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Sense. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | δρεπάνι (sickle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מ'ל (sickle), חרמש (falx, sickle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | sarló (reaping hook, reaping-hook, sickle), kasza. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | falce (falx, sickle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 剴 (suitability), 大鎌 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | おおがま, がい (cap, congratulatory feeling, cover, criminal investigation, damage, evil influence, harm, hundred quintillion, hundred trillion, injury, lid, meaning of a picture, obstinacy, self-will, suitability, victory song). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 낫 (sickle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | yiarn foldyragh, yiarn (blade of scythe, dough, flat iron, iron, tin, tin money, tip, tool), foll, foldyragh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ythescay foice (falx, hook, reaping hook, sickle, slasher), segadeira, fouce. (various references) coasã. (various references) коса (braid, foreland, pigtail, plait, queue, tress). (various references) speal (a scythe, cut down), f l (a spade, peat spade, spade, turf). (various references) pokositi (cut down, mow down, reap), kositi (mow), kosa (hair). (various references) guadaña. (various references) lie. (various references) เกี่ยว"้วยเคียว, เคียว"้ามยาว. (various references) tırpanlamak (scythe down), tırpanla biçmek, tırpan, biçmek (crop, cut, cut out, cut up, estimate, harvest, mow, reap, scythe down, slice). (various references) коса (back-hair, braid, neck, plait, queue, tress), косити (barb, mow down, shear). (various references) cái ph", cái hái hớt cỏ. (various references) pladuro (mow), pladur. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | falce, falcem, falces, falcibus, falx. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "scythe": scythed, scythes. (additional references) | |
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"Scythe" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cythe, saythe, scid-hu, scyphe, scypt, scyth, Scythae, scyths, seythe, skyte, slyth, smythe, styche, syche. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: chesty. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-h-s-t-y" | |
-1 letter: chest, techy, yechs. | |
-2 letters: cyst, etch, eths, hest, hets, hyte, sect, stey, stye, syce, they, tyes, yech. | |
-3 letters: eth, hes, het, hey, sec, set, she, shy, sty, the, thy, tye, yeh, yes, yet. | |
-4 letters: eh, es, et, he, sh, ye. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-h-s-t-y" | |
+1 letter: scythed, scythes, sketchy, stenchy. | |
+2 letters: chanteys, chastely, chayotes, chutneys, hysteric, lecythis, lecythus, scyphate, stretchy, yachters. | |
+3 letters: chemistry, hemocytes, hesitancy, hypothecs, hysterics, latchkeys, sketchily, stitchery, synthetic, trachytes, watcheyes, yachtsmen. | |
+4 letters: archetypes, athrocytes, chrysolite, chrysotile, eurythmics, heterocyst, histiocyte, hypocrites, hysteretic, hysterical, mesophytic, metaphysic, myasthenic, mythicizes, pachytenes, phagocytes, phenocryst, sphericity, strychnine, synthetics, thylacines, thymocytes, unchastely. | |
+5 letters: bathyscaphe, chalybeates, chatoyances, cherrystone, choanocytes, chrysolites, chrysophyte, chrysotiles, cytochromes, erythristic, eschatology, eurhythmics, flycatchers, hepatocytes, heterocysts, histiocytes, hyperstatic, hypocenters, hypsometric, lymphocytes, macrophytes, matchlessly, metaphysics, myasthenics, mythicizers, phagocytose, phenocrysts, polychaetes, psychometry, strychnines, sympathetic, synesthetic, trichogynes. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 63 79 74 68 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... -.-. -.--. - .... . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100011 01111001 01110100 01101000 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S c y t h e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0063 0079 0074 0068 0065 |
| 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)536991867471 |
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