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Definition: TURQUOIS |
TURQUOISNoun1. A hydrous phosphate of alumina containing a little copper; calaite. It has a blue, or bluish green, color, and usually occurs in reniform masses with a botryoidal surface. |
Date "TURQUOIS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1817. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Jewelry | Diamond, brilliant, rock; beryl, emerald; chalcedony, agate, heliotrope; girasol, girasole; onyx, plasma; sard, sardonyx; garnet, lapis lazuli, opal, peridot, tourmaline, chrysolite; sapphire, ruby, synthetic ruby; spinel, spinelle; balais; oriental, oriental topaz; turquois, turquoise; zircon, cubic zirconia; jacinth, hyacinth, carbuncle, amethyst; alexandrite, cat's eye, bloodstone, hematite, jasper, moonstone, sunstone. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: TURQUOIS |
| English words defined with "TURQUOIS": Turkis. (references) |
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Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
turquois | 16 |
turquois jewelry | 5 |
ring turquois | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "TURQUOIS": turquoise, turquoises. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-o-q-r-s-t-u-u" | |
-2 letters: quirts, quoits, squirt, suitor. | |
-3 letters: quirt, quits, quoit, riots, rotis, roust, routs, stour, tiros, torsi, torus, tours, trios, trois. | |
-4 letters: orts, ours, oust, outs, quit, riot, roti, rots, rout, rust, ruts, sori, sort, sour, stir, suit, tiro, tori, tors, tour, trio, tuis, urus. | |
-5 letters: its, ors, ort, our, out, rot, rut, sir, sit, sot. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-o-q-r-s-t-u-u" | |
+1 letter: turquoise. | |
+2 letters: soubriquet, turquoises. | |
+3 letters: soubriquets, tourniquets, triquetrous. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 55 52 51 55 4F 49 53 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, 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 01010101 01010010 01010001 01010101 01001111 01001001 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T U R Q U O I S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0055 0052 0051 0055 004F 0049 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)5455525155494353 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Derivations 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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