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Definitions: SILE |
SILEIntransitive verb1. To drop; to flow; to fall. Noun1. A young or small herring. 2. Filth; sediment. 3. A sieve with fine meshes. Transitive verb1. To strain, as fresh milk. |
Date "SILE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
"SILE" is a common misspelling or typo for: Isle, Sale, Side, Sidle, Silo, Smile, Sole, Stile. |
Crosswords: SILE |
| English words defined with "SILE": Siling. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "SILE": Soil the Milk before Using It. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "SILE": Siling, sillabub, Syle. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "SILE" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Frisian (sail, to sail), Scottish (See <A HREF="mf10.html#seile">seile</A>, spittle). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Sile (1968) | |
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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 |
sile stone | 9 |
sile | 9 |
distributor sile | 3 |
sile realty | 3 |
bay hotel sile | 3 |
share sile | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "SILE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | sandgrævling (launce, sand lance, sandeel, smelt), sandaal (launce, sand lance, sandeel, smelt), tobis (launce, sand lance, sandeel, smelt), kysttobis (launce, sand lance, sandeel, smelt). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | zandspiering (launce, sand lance, sandeel, smelt), zandaal (launce, sand lance, sandeel, smelt). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | petit lancon, lançon, ammodyte lancéolé, ammodyte, équille. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Sandspierling (greater sandeel, launce, sand lance, sandeel, sandlance, smelt), Sandaal (launce, sand lance, sandeel, smelt), Tobieschen (launce, sand lance, sandeel, smelt), Tobiasfish (launce, sand lance, sandeel, smelt), kleiner Sandaal (launce, sand lance, sandeel, smelt). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μικροαμμόχελο (launce, sand lance, sandeel, smelt). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | cicerello minore (launce, sand lance, sandeel, smelt), cicerello (greater sandeel, launce, sand lance, sandeel, sandlance, smelt), ammodite tobiano (launce, sand lance, sandeel, smelt). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ilesay galeota menor (launce, sand lance, sandeel, smelt). (various references) процеживать цедилка. (various references) pequeño lanzón (launce, sand lance, sandeel, smelt). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Ammodytes lancea, Ammodytes tobianus (Linnaeus). (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "SILE": silence, silenced, silencer, silencers, silences, silencing, sileni, silent, silenter, silentest, silently, silentness, silentnesses, silents, silenus, silesia, silesias, silex, silexes. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "SILE": antimissile, circumscissile, ensile, extensile, fissile, fusile, missile, pensile, prehensile, resile, scissile, sessile, tensile. (additional references) | |
Words containing "SILE": antimissiles, ensiled, ensiles, fusileer, fusileers, missileer, missileers, missileman, missilemen, missileries, missilery, missiles, resiled, resiles, unsilent. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: isle, leis, lies. | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-l-s" | |
-1 letter: els, lei, lie, lis, sei, sel. | |
-2 letters: el, es, is, li, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-l-s" | |
+1 letter: aisle, biles, ceils, deils, delis, evils, files, flies, heils, idles, ileus, isled, isles, islet, istle, lenis, lewis, lexis, liens, liers, lieus, likes, limes, lines, lisle, lives, lweis, miles, piles, plies, riels, riles, shiel, sidle, silex, slice, slide, slier, slime, slipe, smile, solei, speil, spiel, spile, stile, tiles, veils, wiles. | |
+2 letters: abseil, aisled, aisles, aliens, alines, alkies, allies, alsike, ariels, belies, bezils, bibles, bields, bilges, birles, blites, chiels, chiles, chisel, clevis, climes, clines, colies, deasil, delist, devils, diesel, dispel, easily, ediles, elains, elemis, elfins, elfish, elides, elints, elites, eloins, elvish, emails, enisle, enlist, ensile, ervils, espial, exiles, falsie, felids, fields, filers, filets, filles, filose, filses, fliers, fliest, flites, fusile, gimels, glides, glimes, grilse, guiles, helios, hirsel, hirsle, holies, ideals, idlers, idlest, ilexes, illest, impels, ingles, inkles, inlets, insole, islets, isohel, istles, itself, ixtles, kelims, kevils, ladies, lassie, lazies, legist, legits, lesion, levies, levins, liaise, lianes, libels, libers, liches, lieges, lifers, ligase, ligers, likens, likers, likest, lilies, limens, limeys, linens, liners, linsey, lipase, lisles, lisped, lisper, listed, listee, listel, listen, lister, liters, litres, livens, livers, livest, livres, looies, lories, louies, lunies, lysine, mailes, mesial, milers, milles, misled, mislie, missel, molies, muesli, oilers, oldies, oleins, olives, oriels, pelvis, pensil, perils, pileus, pilose, pixels, pliers, plisse, poleis, polies, relics, relies, relish, relist, reoils, resail, resile, rifles, rilles, sailed, sailer, saline, saltie, samiel, sedile, seidel, senile, serail, serial, sexily, sheila, shield, shiels, sickle, sidled, sidler, sidles, silage, silane, sileni, silent, silked, silken, siller, siloed, silted, silvae, silver, silvex, simile, simnel, simple, single, sizzle, sleigh, sliced, slicer, slices, slider, slides, sliest, slimed, slimes, sliped, slipes, sliver, sluice, smiled, smiler, smiles, smiley, snivel, soiled, speils, spiels, spiled, spiles, spinel, splice, spline, stelai, stelic, stifle, stiles, stipel, swiple, swivel, tildes, tilers, tinsel, titles, toiles, uglies, valise, vexils, vilest, voiles, walies, whiles, wields, wisely, yields. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 49 4C 45 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... .. .-.. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01001001 01001100 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S I L E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0049 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)53434639 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Danish | ordbog, deskriptordefinition, oversættelse | danois, dänisch, δανικόσ, δανόσ, danese, dinamarquês, датский, danés |
Dutch | woordenboek, definitie, translatie | hollandsk, néerlandais, holländisch, ολλανδικόσ, ολλανδόσ, olandese, holandês, голландский, holandés |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | français, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, francese, francês, французский, francés |
German | wörterbuch, Übersetzung | tysker, Duitse, allemand, deutsch, Deutsche, "ερμανός, tedesco, alemão, немецкий, alemán |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | græker, grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, greco, grego, греческий, грек, griego |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | italiener, italien, italienisch, Ιταλός, italiano, итальянский язык, итальянец, итальянский |
Portuguese | dicionário, definição, tradução | portugiser, portugais, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portoghese, português, португальский, portugués |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | russer, Russe, russisch, Ρώσος, russo, русский, ruso |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | Spaans, espagnol, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, spagnolo, espanhol, испанский, español |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | anglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, inglese, inglês, английский, inglés |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Translations: Ancient 8. Derivations | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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