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"TEKEL" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "weight". |
Date "TEKEL" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Bible | Tekel weighed (Dan. 5:27). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Hopelessness | Phrase: "lasciate ogni speranza voi ch'entrate"; its days are numbered; the worst come to the worst; "no change, no pause, no hope, yet I endure"; "O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon"; "mene mene tekel upharson". |
Warning | Handwriting on the wall, mene mene tekel upharsin, red flag, yellow flag; fog-signal, foghorn; siren; monitor, warning voice, Cassandra, signs of the times, Mother Cary's chickens, stormy petrel, bird of ill omen, gathering clouds, clouds in the horizon, death watch. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: TEKEL |
| Non-English Usage: "TEKEL" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Turkish (monopoly). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Mene Tekel (1913) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Turkey | The GOT is committed to privatize TEKEL within the next few years, which could result in increased opportunities for marketing these products. (references) |
Trade | Turkey | Private traders may import wine through TEKEL only for use in hotels and restaurants. (references) |
Turkey | Alcohol can only be imported at present by the government monopoly enterprise, TEKEL. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; 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 |
tekel | 12 |
mene mene tekel | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Date | Source | Daniel Chapter 5, Verse 27 |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Thecel adpensum est in statera et inventus es minus habens |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Tekel; you have been put in the scales and seen to be under weight. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Daniel Chapter 5, Verse 27 |
| Cebuano | TEKEL: Ikaw ginatimbang diha sa timbangan, ug nakita nga kulangan. |
| Croatian | Tekel: bio si vagnut na tezulji i naðen si prelagan; |
| Danish | Tekél betyder: Du er vejet på Vægten og fundet for let. |
| Dutch | TEKEL; gij zijt in weegschalen gewogen; en gij zijt te licht gevonden. |
| Finnish | Tekel: sinut on vaa`alla punnittu ja köykäiseksi havaittu. |
| French | Pesé: Tu as été pesé dans la balance, et tu as été trouvé léger. |
| German | Tekel, das ist: man hat dich in einer Waage gewogen und zu leicht gefunden. |
| Haitian Creole | Peze: Li mete ou nan balans, li jwenn ou manke pèz. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | ditimbang, Tuanku telah ditimbang dan didapati tidak memuaskan; |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | TEKAIL, tuanku sudah ditimbang dengan neraca, tetapi didapati akan tuanku terlalu ringan! |
| Italian | Tekel: tu sei stato pesato sulle bilance e sei stato trovato mancante. |
| Maori | TEKERE; kua oti koe te pauna ki te pauna, a kua kitea tou koha. |
| Norwegian | Tekel: Veid er du på vektskål og funnet for lett. |
| Portuguese | TEQUEL: Pesado foste na balança, e foste achado em falta. |
| Rumanian | Ckntqrit, knseamnq cq ai fost ckntqrit kn cumpqnq wi ai fost gqsit uwor! |
| Russian | фЕЛЕМ--ФЩ ЧЪЧЕЫЕО ОБ ЧЕУБИ Й ОБК"ЕО ПЮЕОШ МЕЗЛЙН; |
| Spanish | TEQUEL: Pesado has sido en balanza y has sido hallado falto. |
| Swedish | Tekel, det betyder: du är vägd* på en våg och befunnen för lätt. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-k-l-t" | |
-1 letter: keel, keet, leek, leet, leke, teel, tele. | |
-2 letters: eel, eke, elk, lee, lek, let, tee, tel. | |
-3 letters: el, et. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-k-l-t" | |
+1 letter: kelter, kettle. | |
+2 letters: jetlike, kantele, kelters, kestrel, kettles, netlike, skelter, sleekit, tealike, toelike. | |
+3 letters: bleakest, eyestalk, feltlike, gatelike, hellkite, kanteles, keelboat, kestrels, kitelike, leakiest, lorikeet, nestlike, poetlike, retackle, skeletal, skeleton, skelters, sklented, sleekest, spikelet, stemlike, steplike, takeable, tapelike, telemark, tentlike, tidelike, tilelike, treelike, triskele, tubelike, vestlike. | |
+4 letters: blanketed, deathlike, dekaliter, earthlike, eyestalks, flutelike, heathlike, hellkites, keelboats, kentledge, kilometer, leukocyte, likeliest, lorikeets, petallike, platelike, retackled, retackles, sheetlike, skeletons, skeltered, slatelike, sleekiest, spikelets, stagelike, steelwork, teakettle, telemarks, tigerlike, towerlike, triskeles, triweekly, weakliest, whelkiest. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 45 4B 45 4C |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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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 01000101 01001011 01000101 01001100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T E K E L |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0045 004B 0045 004C |
| 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)5439453946 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Bible Trace | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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