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Definition: SHIED |
SHIED1. Imp. & p. p. of Shy. Imperative & past participle1. Of Shy |
Date "SHIED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1856. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | He tested it with his thumb and then shied it at a blackbird sitting on a fence wire |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "SHIED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 58.90% of the time. "SHIED" is used about 73 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 (past tense) | 58.9% | 43 | 52,181 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 38.36% | 28 | 65,706 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.37% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 1.37% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 73 | 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 |
shied | 4 |
blue blue cross shied | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "SHIED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 胆怯 (Shying, shyness). (various references) | |
German | scheute (eschewed, took fright). (various references) | |
Greek | αόρ. του shy. (various references) | |
Korean | '걸음치". (various references) | |
Pig Latin | iedshay.(various references) | |
Russian | бросать брошенный. (various references) | |
Thai | กริยาช่องที่ 2 และ 3 ของ shy. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"SHIED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: chieda, phied, Scheid, Schiedam, Schiel, schmied, schmiled, Shedd, sheed, Sheeeet, Sheezdi, sheged, shei, sheid, sheidal, sheit, shid, Shide, shided, Shieh, shiek, Shien, shife, shio, shird, shired, shited, shiu, shived, shnide, Shved, shyed, Sied, Sjie, thied. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "SHIED" (pronounced shī"d) |
| 2 | -ī" d | abide, allied, alongside, applied, aside, astride, belied, beside, betide, bide, bride, chide, coincide, collide, complied, confide, cried, decide, decried, defied, denied, deride, died, lied, divide, dried, dyed, Eide, eyed, flied, fried, glide, guide, hide, implied, inside, misapplied, misguide, nationwide, outside, oversupplied, pied, plied, preside, pride, pried, provide, relied, replied, reside, retried, ride, side, sighed, slide, snide, spied, Stateside, stride, subdivide, subside, supplied, tide, tied, tried, untied, untried, upside, vide, vied, wide, worldwide. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: hides. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-h-i-s" | |
-1 letter: dies, dish, edhs, hide, hied, hies, ides, shed, side. | |
-2 letters: die, dis, edh, eds, hes, hid, hie, his, ids, sei, she. | |
-3 letters: de, ed, eh, es, he, hi, id, is, sh, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-h-i-s" | |
+1 letter: chides, dished, dishes, fished, hiders, hissed, histed, hoised, pished, shield, shined, sighed, wished. | |
+2 letters: airshed, aphides, behinds, chiders, chields, childes, dashier, deafish, dehisce, dervish, diphase, dishelm, dishier, ditches, dithers, duchies, halides, hardies, heisted, herdics, hideous, hinders, hirsled, hoidens, hoisted, hoodies, howdies, hurdies, nerdish, reddish, redfish, shadier, shields, shifted, shilled, shimmed, shinned, shipped, shirked, shirred, shrined, shrived, sighted, swished, whished, whisked, whisted. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Quotations: Fiction 3. Usage Frequency 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Rhymes 8. Anagrams | 9. Bibliography |
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