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| Domain | Definition |
Slang in 1811 | TWISS. (IRISH) A Jordan, or pot de chambre. A Mr. Richard Twiss having in his "Travels" given a very unfavourable description of the Irish character, the inhabitants of Dublin, byway of revenge, thought proper to christen this utensil by his name--suffice. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: TWISS |
| Specialty definitions using "TWISS": Black Book of the Admiralty. (references) |
| "TWISS" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "TWISS" 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 (proper) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "TWISS" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Twiss | Last name | 300 | 25,018 |
| 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 |
richard twiss | 8 |
twiss | 8 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: wists. | |
| Words within the letters "i-s-s-t-w" | |
-1 letter: sits, wiss, wist, wits. | |
-2 letters: its, sis, sit, tis, wis, wit. | |
-3 letters: is, it, si, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-s-s-t-w" | |
+1 letter: swifts, twists, waists, whists, wisest, wrists. | |
+2 letters: pitsaws, swivets, weskits, whatsis, whishts, wisents, witless, witness. | |
+3 letters: entwists, intwists, lawsuits, mistbows, newsiest, outswims, retwists, showiest, sightsaw, snowiest, snowsuit, stepwise, swastica, swastika, sweeties, sweetish, swifters, swiftest, swimsuit, switches, swithers, trishaws, twigless, twinsets, twisters, untwists, unwisest, waisters, waitress, washiest, waspiest, wastries, websites, westings, wetsuits, whatsits, whistles, wispiest, wussiest. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 57 49 53 53 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- .--. .. ... ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01010111 01001001 01010011 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T W I S S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0057 0049 0053 0053 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5457435353 |
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