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SMATCH

Definition: SMATCH

SMATCH

Intransitive verb

1. To smack.

Noun

1. Taste; tincture; smack.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "SMATCH" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1599. (references)


Synonyms within Context: SMATCH

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Taste

Verb: taste, savor, smatch, smack, flavor, twang; tickle the palate. (savory); smack the lips.

Noun: taste, flavor, gust, gusto, savor; gout, relish; sapor, sapidity; twang, smack, smatch; aftertaste, tang.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Non-Fiction Usage: SMATCH

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Hungary

Examples of foreign chains with operations in Hungary include Auchan (France), Metro (Germany), KIKA (Austria), Ikea (Sweden), Baumax (Germany), OBI (Germany), Humanic (Austria), Smatch (Belgium), Penny Market (UK), Cora (France), Marks & Spencer (UK), and Tesco (UK). (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: SMATCH

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

smatch

5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations: SMATCH

Derivations

Words ending with "SMATCH": mismatch. (additional references)

Words containing "SMATCH": mismatched, mismatches, mismatching. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: SMATCH

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-h-m-s-t"

-1 letter: chams, chasm, chats, machs, match, maths, tachs.

-2 letters: acts, cams, cash, cast, cats, cham, chat, hams, hast, hats, mach, macs, mash, mast, math, mats, scam, scat, sham, shat, tach, tams.

-3 letters: act, ash, cam, cat, ham, has, hat, mac, mas, mat, sac, sat, sha, tam, tas.

-4 letters: ah, am, as, at, ha, hm, ma.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-h-m-s-t"
 

+1 letter: matches, stomach, tachism.

 

+2 letters: camshaft, hematics, machetes, manchets, mastiche, matchers, matchups, mismatch, mispatch, misteach, moschate, mustache, schemata, schmaltz, stomachs, stomachy, tachisme, tachisms.

 

+3 letters: achromats, alchemist, asthmatic, camshafts, catechism, chiasmata, chromates, haematics, hecatombs, machinist, macintosh, mahlstick, masochist, mastiches, matchless, mechanist, merchants, moustache, mustached, mustaches, mustachio, outcharms, rematches, schematic, schmaltzy, stomached, stomacher, stomachic, switchman, tachismes, thematics, trachomas, yachtsman, yachtsmen.

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

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Alternative Orthography: SMATCH


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

53 4D 41 54 43 48

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 01001101 01000001 01010100 01000011 01001000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#77 &#65 &#84 &#67 &#72

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 004D 0041 0054 0043 0048

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

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

534735543742

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Quotations: Non-fiction
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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