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Definition: TREEBEARD |
TREEBEARDNoun1. A pendulous branching lichen (Usnea barbata); -- so called from its resemblance to hair. |
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Screenplays | I'm sorry Treebeard. (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh) Maybe Treebeard right, it's too big for us; let's go home, we still have the Shire. (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh) | |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Treebeard is a fictional character from J. R. R. Tolkien's universe, Middle-earth. Known as Fangorn in Sindarin, he is the oldest of the Ents, a tree-like being who is a sort of "shepherd of trees". Very tall and stiff-limbed, with bark-like skin and leafy hair, he befriends Meriadoc Brandybuck and Peregrin Took after they escape from Orcs. He leads a troop of Ents to destroy Saruman's tower, Orthanc.
Like most ents, Treebeard takes a long time to make up his mind. He repeatedly speaks of not "being hasty". But he makes a momentous decision about the orcs, Saruman and Orthanc after hearing the hobbits' report.
In the film, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Treebeard is a combination of a large animatronic model and a CGI construct; his voice is performed by John Rhys-Davies, who also plays Gimli.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Treebeard."
| "TREEBEARD" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "TREEBEARD" is used about 5 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% | 5 | 157,705 |
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 |
treebeard | 34 |
tolkiens treebeard | 4 |
tolkien treebeard | 3 |
lord ring treebeard | 2 |
ent treebeard | 2 |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-e-e-r-r-t" | |
-1 letter: bartered. | |
-2 letters: berated, breeder, debater, rebated, rebater, rebreed, retread, tabered, treader. | |
-3 letters: barred, barret, barter, bearer, beater, berate, darter, dearer, debate, derate, reader, reared, rebate, rebred, redate, redear, reread, retard, retear, tarred, teared, tearer, terrae, trader. | |
-4 letters: ardeb, arete, barde, bared, barer, barre, bated, beard, beret, bread, brede, breed, darer, dater, debar, derat, deter. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-e-e-r-r-t" | |
+1 letter: cerebrated, deterrable. | |
+2 letters: decerebrate, teeterboard. | |
+3 letters: decerebrated, decerebrates, reverberated, teeterboards. | |
+4 letters: brokenhearted, decerebrating, decerebration. | |
+5 letters: decerebrations, featherbrained, overelaborated, threadbareness, weatherboarded. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 52 45 45 42 45 41 52 44 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- .-. . . -... . .- .-. -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01010010 01000101 01000101 01000010 01000101 01000001 01010010 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T R E E B E A R D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0052 0045 0045 0042 0045 0041 0052 0044 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)545239393639355238 |
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