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SILE

Definitions: SILE

SILE

Intransitive verb

1. To drop; to flow; to fall.

Noun

1. A young or small herring.

2. Filth; sediment.

3. A sieve with fine meshes.

Transitive verb

1. To strain, as fresh milk.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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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Modern Usage: SILE

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Sile (1968)

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

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Commercial Usage: SILE

DomainTitle

Books

  • Hrvatska od okupacije do regionalne sile (reference)

  • Islam, Balkan i velike sile (XIV-XX vek) : meunarodni naucni skup 11-13. decembar 1996 (reference)

  • La protostoria tra Sile e Tagliamento : antiche genti tra Veneto e Friuli (reference)

  • Listening with Heart Sile (reference)

  • Nechistiki : svod prostonarodnykh v Vitebskoi Belorussii skazanii o nechistoi sile (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: SILE

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

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.

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Modern Translations: SILE

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

   

Portuguese

  

galeota menor (launce, sand lance, sandeel, smelt). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

процеживать цедилка. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

pequeño lanzón (launce, sand lance, sandeel, smelt). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: SILE

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Ammodytes lancea, Ammodytes tobianus (Linnaeus). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations: SILE

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).

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Anagrams: SILE

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.

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

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Alternative Orthography: SILE


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

53 49 4C 45

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 01001001 01001100 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#73 &#76 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0049 004C 0045

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

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

53434639

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Non-English Dictionaries with "SILE"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Danish

ordbog, deskriptordefinition, oversættelsedanois, dänisch, δανικόσ, δανόσ, danese, dinamarquês, датский, danés

Dutch

woordenboek, definitie, translatiehollandsk, néerlandais, holländisch, ολλανδικόσ, ολλανδόσ, olandese, holandês, голландский, holandés

French

dictionnaire, définition, traductionfrançais, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, francese, francês, французский, francés

German

wörterbuch, Übersetzungtysker, Duitse, allemand, deutsch, Deutsche, "ερμανός, tedesco, alemão, немецкий, alemán

Greek

λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφρασηgræker, grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, greco, grego, греческий, грек, griego

Italian

dizionario, definizione, traduzioneitaliener, italien, italienisch, Ιταλός, italiano, итальянский язык, итальянец, итальянский

Portuguese

dicionário, definição, traduçãoportugiser, portugais, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portoghese, português, португальский, portugués

Russian

словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещениеrusser, Russe, russisch, Ρώσος, russo, русский, ruso

Spanish

diccionario, definición, traducciónSpaans, espagnol, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, spagnolo, espanhol, испанский, español

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationanglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, inglese, inglês, английский, inglés
 


INDEX

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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