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SENNET

Definitions: SENNET

SENNET

Noun

1. The barracuda.

2. A signal call on a trumpet or cornet for entrance or exit on the stage.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "SENNET" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1590. (references)

"SENNET" is a common misspelling or typo for: Sinned, Sonnet.


Crosswords: SENNET

Etymologies containing "SENNET": signet. (references)

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Image Slideshow: SENNET

Illustrations:
SENNET

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Photo Album: SENNET

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Plate 178. The West Indian Barracouta or Sennet. Sphyraena picuda, Schn. The Northern Barracouta. Sphyraena borealis, de Kay.Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Use in Literature: SENNET

TitleAuthorQuote

King Richard III

Shakespeare, William

The palace Sound a sennet.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: SENNET

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  sennet

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: SENNET

Language Translations for "SENNET"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

тържествен тръбен сигнал. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ennetsay

   

Thai

  

เครื่อง"นตรีเป่าประเ ททรัมเปต. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

boru sesi (blare, bugle call, Clarion, clarion voice, tarantara, toot, trump). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: SENNET

Derivations

Words beginning with "SENNET": sennets. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "SENNET"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "SENNET" (pronounced se"nut)
5s e" n u tsenate.
4-e" n u tBennet, rennet, tenet.
3-n u taffectionate, alternate, baronet, bicarbonate, bluebonnet, bonnet, cabinet, compassionate, coordinate, definite, diaconate, dispassionate, disproportionate, effeminate, electromagnet, extortionate, ferromagnet, fortunate, garnet, geminate, granite, hornet, incarnate, indefinite, indeterminate, indiscriminate, infinite, innominate, inordinate, laminate, magnate, magnet, minute, obstinate, passionate, peanut, Pinot, planet, proportionate, sultanate, unfortunate, unit.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: SENNET

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-n-n-s-t"

-1 letter: nenes, sente, teens, tense.

-2 letters: nene, nest, nets, seen, sene, sent, teen, tees, tens.

-3 letters: ens, nee, net, see, sen, set, tee, ten.

-4 letters: en, es, et, ne.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-n-n-s-t"
 

+1 letter: bennets, intense, jennets, neatens, rennets, sennets, tenners, tennies.

 

+2 letters: canteens, centners, centones, dentines, desinent, einstein, endnotes, ententes, enterons, entwines, intenser, internes, neatness, neonates, nescient, netizens, nineties, pendents, pentanes, pentenes, sentence, sentient, sentinel, setenant, sonneted, tennises, tenoners, wenniest.

 

+3 letters: antigenes, antisense, ascendent, bannerets, canescent, consented, consenter, cretonnes, deponents, einsteins, enceintes, entangles, enthrones, entrances, exponents, extension, ignescent, incenters, indenters, ineptness, inertness, insensate, intendeds, intenders, intensely, intensest, intensive, internees, intestine, inventers, lannerets, lengthens, menthenes, neotenies, nepenthes, nescients, newsagent, nineteens, nondesert, nonevents, notedness, penitents, penstemon, reinvents, renascent, renesting, resenting, retinenes, revenants, roentgens, rotenones, senescent, sentenced, sentences, sententia, sentience, sentients, sentiment, sentinels, setenants, seventeen, sonneteer, sonnetted, spinneret, splendent, sternness, tangences, tanneries, tenancies, tendances, tendences, tenements, tenpences, tenseness, tensioned, tensioner, tunnelers, unevenest, unscented, venenates, venetians, xanthenes.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: SENNET


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 45 4E 4E 45 54

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...    .    -.    -.    .    -

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01000101 01001110 01001110 01000101 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#69 &#78 &#78 &#69 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0045 004E 004E 0045 0054

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

533948483954

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Images: Slideshow
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Quotations: Fiction
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Rhymes
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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