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Definitions: SEMBLE |
SEMBLEAdjective1. Like; resembling. 2. It seems; -- chiefly used impersonally in reports and judgments to express an opinion in reference to the law on some point not necessary to be decided, and not intended to be definitely settled in the cause. 3. To imitate; to make a representation or likeness. |
Date "SEMBLE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1894. (references) |
"SEMBLE" is a common misspelling or typo for: assemble, emblem, sable, sample, seeable, simile, simple, smile. |
Crosswords: SEMBLE |
| Specialty definitions using "SEMBLE": Baisser. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "SEMBLE" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (seems). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | Si ma voix te semble floue (I Will Love Again; performing artist: Lara Fabian) | |
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| "SEMBLE" is generally used as a lexical verb (base form) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "SEMBLE" is used about 3 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 (base form) | 66.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (singular) | 33.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "SEMBLE": semble-t-il. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "SEMBLE": assemble, disassemble, dissemble, ensemble, misassemble, reassemble, resemble. (additional references) | |
Words containing "SEMBLE": assembled, assembler, assemblers, assembles, disassembled, disassembles, dissembled, dissembler, dissemblers, dissembles, ensembles, misassembled, misassembles, preassembled, reassembled, reassembles, resembled, resembles, unassembled. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-e-l-m-s" | |
-2 letters: bees, bels, eels, elms, else, emes, lees, mels, seel, seem, seme. | |
-3 letters: bee, bel, eel, elm, els, eme, ems, lee, mel, see, sel. | |
-4 letters: be, el, em, es, me. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-e-l-m-s" | |
+1 letter: beslime, besmile, emblems. | |
+2 letters: assemble, beamless, beldames, beslimed, beslimes, besmiled, besmiles, bluesmen, bluestem, emblazes, embolies, embowels, ensemble, resemble, trembles. | |
+3 letters: assembled, assembler, assembles, bechamels, bedimples, bejumbles, bemingles, bemuddles, bemusedly, bemuzzles, bepimples, blameless, blaspheme, blemished, blemishes, bluestems, bonemeals, dissemble, embalmers, embattles, embellish, embezzles, emblazers, emboldens, ensembles, estimable, imbeciles, limberest, lumberers, marbleise, misbelief, miserable, moveables, periblems, preambles, rebeldoms, resembled, resembles, semblable, semblance, slumbered, slumberer, smokeable, stablemen, temblores, tremblers, umbellets. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 45 4D 42 4C 45 |
| 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 01000101 01001101 01000010 01001100 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S E M B L E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0045 004D 0042 004C 0045 |
| 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)533947364639 |
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