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Definition: STRASS |
STRASSNoun1. A brilliant glass, used in the manufacture of artificial paste gems, which consists essentially of a complex borosilicate of lead and potassium. Cf. Glass. |
Etymology: Strass \Strass\, noun. [So called from its inventor, German jeweler: compare to the French expression stras.]. (Websters 1913) |
"STRASS" is a common misspelling or typo for: stars, straps, stress, sutras. |
| Domain | Definition |
Chemical Industry | Special glass whith a high refractive index which may be colourless or coloured directly with metallic oxides. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: STRASS |
| Non-English Usage: "STRASS" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Bavarian (street), French (paste), German (paste), Italian (paste, rhinestone), Portuguese (strass), Swedish (rhinestone, strass). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Strass et Compagnie (1915) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| "STRASS" is generally used as a noun (common) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "STRASS" is used about 3 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 |
| Noun (common) | 66.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (singular) | 33.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3 | 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 |
strass | 31 |
strass swarovski | 14 |
strass chandelier | 7 |
strass crystal | 7 |
chandelier classic lighting strass | 5 |
crystal strass swarovski | 4 |
fixture strass swarovski | 4 |
lighting strass | 3 |
strass crystal chandelier | 3 |
levi strass | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "STRASS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | strassglas. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | strass, stras. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | strass. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Strass (paste). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | strass, ύαλοσ ψευδών κοσμήματων, στρας. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | strass (paste, rhinestone). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | assstray strass. (various references) strass. (various references) strass (rhinestone). (various references) bột l m ngọc giả. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "STRASS": strasses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words ending with "ass": Ass, Brass, Cass, Crass, LASS. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-r-s-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: stars, trass, tsars. | |
-2 letters: arts, rats, sass, star, tars, tass, tsar. | |
-3 letters: ars, art, ass, ras, rat, sat, tar, tas. | |
-4 letters: ar, as, at, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-r-s-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: asserts, assorts, trasses, tussars. | |
+2 letters: assister, assistor, crassest, sacrists, smartass, sparsest, starless, strasses, trespass, tsarisms, tsarists. | |
+3 letters: actresses, arsonists, assenters, assentors, asserters, assertors, assisters, assistors, assorters, asterisks, asterisms, brassarts, brassiest, disasters, esterases, grassiest, masseters, matrasses, misstarts, passports, prosaists, reasserts, reassorts, sarodists, sarsenets, satirises, satirists, seamsters, sitarists, smartness, stardusts, starkness, starnoses, starships, strapless, swartness. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Bibliography |
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