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SLAB-SIDED

Definition: SLAB-SIDED

SLAB-SIDED

Adjective

1. Having flat sides; hence, tall, or long and lank.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "SLAB-SIDED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1840. (references)


Usage Frequency: SLAB-SIDED

"SLAB-SIDED" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "SLAB-SIDED" is used about 5 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%5157,705

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: SLAB-SIDED

Language Translations for "SLAB-SIDED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

me faqe të sheshta, i thatë (arid, blain, dead, dehydrated, dried, dry, empty, furuncle, lank, lathy, peaked, rainless, raw boned, scraggy, scrannel, scrawny, scrubby, sec, sere, short, skinny, slender, spare, spidery, thin, waterless, wizen, wizened). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

слаб и висок, като върлина (lanky), дългунест (gangling, lanky, lathy). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

平板"持. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ισχνόσ (gaunt, lank, lean, meager, meagre, peaked, raw boned, scraggly, scrawny, skinny, slender, slim, spare, thin), υψηλόσ (high, lofty, sublime, tall, towering). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

nyurga (gangling, gaunt, lanky, lathy, overgrown, slab-muscled, spindling, spindly), cingár (scrawny, spare, spindly, weedy). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

석판 편"". (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ab-sidedslay

   

Russian 

  

худощавый (scrawny), имеющий плоские стороны. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

obložen (furred). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

худорлявий (bony, gaunt, lank, slight), з плоскими стегнами. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

lẻo khoẻo, cao v gầy. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "SLAB-SIDED"

Words rhyming with "SLAB-SIDED" (pronounced 'Slab"-sid`ed'): Above-cited, Aforecited, Alike-minded, Antimoniureted, armor-plated, Arrowheaded, Arseniureted, Backhanded, baldheaded, Bank-sided, Barefooted, Barehanded, Beetle-headed, black-hearted, Blockheaded, Bluff-headed, Bristle-pointed, Broken-hearted, Broken-winded, Buckler-headed, Buffle-headed, Bullheaded, Carnal-minded, Cataphracted, Chicken-breasted, Chicken-hearted, Chuckleheaded, Clear-headed, Clear-sighted, Cleft-footed, Clodpated, Close-banded, Closefisted, Closehanded, Clubfisted, Clubfooted, Cold-blooded, Cold-hearted, Cool-headed, Cowhearted, Cross-banded, Dead-hearted, Deep-waisted, Fin-footed, flat-footed, Flat-headed, Flint-hearted, Forecited, forehanded, Forequoted. (additional references)

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Anagrams: SLAB-SIDED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-d-d-e-i-l-s-s"

-1 letter: disabled, disables.

-2 letters: abseils, addible, aidless, baddies, baldies, biassed, blissed, disable, laddies, saddles.

-3 letters: abided, abides, abseil, addles, aisled, aisles, asides, baddie, bailed, balded, basils, biased, biases, bields, bladed, blades, daises, dassie, deasil, dialed, dissed, ideals, laddie, ladies, lassie, sables, saddle, sailed, sidled, sidles, slides.

-4 letters: abide, ables, addle, aided, aides, ailed, aisle, aside.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-d-d-e-i-l-s-s"
 

+3 letters: disassembled, nondisableds.

 

+5 letters: addressability, disestablished.

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

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Alternative Orthography: SLAB-SIDED


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

53 4C 41 42 2D 53 49 44 45 44

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

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

01010011 01001100 01000001 01000010 00101101 01010011 01001001 01000100 01000101 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#76 &#65 &#66 &#45 &#83 &#73 &#68 &#69 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 004C 0041 0042 002D 0053 0049 0044 0045 0044

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

53463536155343383938

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage Frequency
3. Translations: Modern
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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