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SYCEE

Definition: SYCEE

SYCEE

Noun

1. Silver, pounded into ingots of the shape of a shoe, and used as currency. The most common weight is about one pound troy.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Sycee \Sy*cee"\, noun. [Said to be from Chinese word, se-tze or se-sze, meaning, fine silk, and to be so called because if pure it may be drawn out into fine threads.]. (Websters 1913)


Commercial Usage: SYCEE

DomainTitle

Books

  • A catalogue of sycee in the British Museum : Chinese currency ingots, c.1750-1933 (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: SYCEE

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

sycee

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations: SYCEE

Derivations

Words beginning with "SYCEE": sycees. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: SYCEE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-e-s-y"

-1 letter: cees, eyes, syce.

-2 letters: cee, eye, sec, see, yes.

-3 letters: es, ye.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-e-s-y"
 

+1 letter: cheesy, cyeses, lycees, sycees.

 

+2 letters: cymenes, ecdyses, ectypes, eyecups, lychees, myceles, scenery, secrecy, sockeye.

 

+3 letters: buckeyes, cayennes, cheesily, cockeyes, cypreses, cypselae, cysteine, decayers, decoyers, ecdysone, ecotypes, encysted, recycles, screechy, secretly, securely, selectly, sequency, sockeyes, typecase.

 

+4 letters: abeyances, cageyness, cerotypes, coenzymes, conveyers, coryphees, coynesses, curtseyed, cycleries, cymogenes, cypresses, cysteines, ecdysones, ecosystem, epicycles, eyepieces, hemocytes, lycopenes, necessary, necessity, obscenely, osteocyte, precisely, reconveys, recyclers, residency, secretary, secretory, sergeancy, sincerely, speechify, syngeneic, typecases, typefaces, watcheyes, wheyfaces.

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

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Alternative Orthography: SYCEE


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

53 59 43 45 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 01011001 01000011 01000101 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#89 &#67 &#69 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0059 0043 0045 0045

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

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

5359373939

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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