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Definition: VAIR |
VAIRNoun1. The skin of the squirrel, much used in the fourteenth century as fur for garments, and frequently mentioned by writers of that period in describing the costly dresses of kings, nobles, and prelates. It is represented in heraldry by a series of small shields placed close together, and alternately white and blue. |
Date "VAIR" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
Etymology: Vair \Vair\, noun. [French expression vair, from Old French vair, adjective, from Latin expression varius various, variegated. See Various, and compare to Menivel.]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: VAIR |
| English words defined with "VAIR": Counter vair ♦ Vairy. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "VAIR": Glass Slipper. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "VAIR": Meniver ♦ Various. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "VAIR" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 60.00% of the time. "VAIR" 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 (singular) | 60% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 40% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "VAIR" 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 |
| Vair | Last name | 130 | 59,475 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expression using "VAIR": Counter vair. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Containing "VAIR": lairs-hairv-lunch-vair-soo. | |
| 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 |
vair | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "VAIR"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Manx | veir. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | airvay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "VAIR": vairs. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words ending with "air": FLAIR, hair, lair, stair, Wair. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-r-v" | |
-1 letter: air, ria, var, via. | |
-2 letters: ai, ar. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-r-v" | |
+1 letter: aiver, bravi, invar, ravin, rival, vairs, varia, varix, vicar, viral, virga. | |
+2 letters: aivers, arrive, aviary, caviar, gravid, havior, invars, naiver, parvis, pavior, ravine, raving, ravins, ravish, rivage, rivals, savior, trivia, vainer, varied, varier, varies, viator, vicars, virago, virgas, visard, vivary, vizard, waiver, wavier. | |
+3 letters: adviser, advisor, agravic, airwave, aquiver, archive, arrival, arrived, arriver, arrives, avarice, aviator, avodire, avoider, bolivar, braving, carving, caviare, caviars, caviler, chivari, clavier, corvina, craving, gravida, gravies, graving, gravity, havarti, haviors, haviour, heavier, invader, leavier, misaver, nirvana, olivary, ovarial, ovarian, ovaries, ovipara, parvise, paviors, paviour, paviser, prevail, privacy, private, ravelin, ravined, ravines, ravings, ravioli, reavail, reaving, revisal, revival, rivages, rivaled, rivalry, riviera, savarin, saviors, saviour, savvier, travail, travois, trivial, valeric, vampire, variant, variate, varices, variers, variety, variola, variole, various, varmint, varnish, varsity, varying, vastier, vealier, velaria, veritas, vermian, vervain, viators, vibrant, vibrate, vibrato, vicarly, vinegar, viragos, virally, virelai, virelay, viremia, virgate, virtual, visards, viscera, vitamer, vitrain, vivaria, vizards, waivers. | |
+4 letters: abortive, abrasive, acervuli, achiever, advisers, advisors, advisory, aggrieve, airwaves, ambivert, archival, archived, archives, arrivals, arrivers, arriving, avarices, averring, aversion, aversive, averting, aviaries, aviarist, aviators, aviatrix, avicular, avigator, avodires, avoiders, behavior, biovular, bolivars, bravoing, breviary, calvaria, carnival, carvings, cavalier, caviares, cavicorn, cavilers, caviller, cavitary, cervical, chivalry, chivaree, claviers, corrival, corvinas, cravings, creative, cultivar, curative, deprival, derivate, deviator, disfavor, drivable, driveway, durative, enravish, ergative, favoring, favorite, gravidae, gravidas, gravidly, gravitas, graviton, grievant, havartis, havering, haviours, interval, invaders, jarovize, lavalier, lavisher, lawgiver, levirate, livetrap, maravedi, maverick, misavers, navicert, nirvanas, nirvanic, nonrival, nonviral, obviator, omnivora, outrival, ovariole, ovaritis, overlaid, overlain, overpaid, parvises, parvolin, paviours, pavisers, prevails, primeval, privater, privates, proviral, pulvinar, ravaging, raveling, ravelins, ravening, ravigote, ravingly, ravining, raviolis, ravished, ravisher, ravishes, reactive, reavails, reinvade, relative, repaving, reviewal, revisals, revivals, rivaling, rivalled, rivieras, rotative, salivary, savarins, saviours, savorier, savories, savorily, savoring, shivaree, shrieval, starving, stravaig, subvicar, subviral, survival, tovarich, tovarish, tractive, travails, travoise, trivalve, unvaried, vagaries, valerian, valkyrie, valorise, valorize, vampires, vampiric, vanisher, vanitory, vaporing, vaporise, vaporish, vaporize, variable, variably, variance, variants, variated, variates, varicose, variedly, varietal, variform, variolar, variolas, varioles, variorum, varistor, varmints, varnishy, vasiform, vaultier, velarium, velarize, veracity, veratria, veratrin, verbatim, verbiage, veronica, vertical, vervains, vespiary, vestiary, vexillar, viatores, vibrance, vibrancy, vibrants, vibrated, vibrates, vibrator, vibratos, vibrissa, vicarage, vicarate, vicarial, vicenary, victoria, villager, vinegars, vinegary, vineyard, vinifera, vintager, violater, violator, viragoes, virelais, virelays, viremias, virgates, virginal, viridian, virtuosa, visceral, vitamers, vitiator, vitrains, vivaries, vivarium, vivipara, vizarded, vizirate, vizirial, voracity, vortical, votaries, votarist, wavering. | |
+5 letters: abrasives, accretive, achievers, activator, acyclovir, adverbial, adversity, adverting, advertise, advertize, aggrieved, aggrieves, almsgiver, ambiverts, antiviral, antivirus, approving, arbovirus, archiving, archivist, archivolt, arriviste, assertive, averaging, aversions, aviarists, avigators, avirulent, beavering, behaviors, behaviour, bereaving, bivariate, bolivares, braveries, cabdriver, cadaveric, calvarias, calvaries, calvarium, caregiver, caressive, carnivals, carnivora, carnivore, cavaliers, cavalries, caverning, cavillers, cavorting, charivari, chevalier, chivalric, chivareed, chivarees, chivaried, chivaries, clavering, corrasive, corrivals, covariant, cravening, cultivars, curatives, daredevil, depraving, depravity, deprivals, derivable, derivates, deviators, deviatory, disfavors, driveable, driveways, duratives, echeveria, embracive, engraving, evaporite, farmwives, favorites, favouring, flavoring, flavorist, formative, fricative, grapevine, gravamina, graveling, graveside, gravidity, gravitate, gravities, gravitons, grievance, grievants, hortative, incurvate, innervate, innovator, intervale, intervals, invariant, invertase, involucra, iterative, jarovized, jarovizes, knaveries, larvicide, lavaliere, lavaliers, laveering, lavishers, lawgivers, levirates, leviratic, lifesaver, liveryman, livetraps, lucrative, maravedis, marveling, mavericks, microwave, motivator, myxoviral, narrative, navicerts, navicular, navigator, nervation, nonrivals, normative, obviators, operative, outraving, outrivals, ovarioles, overawing, overclaim, overplaid, overtrain, oviparous, partitive, parvolins, pervading, pervasion, pervasive, portative, prevailed, previable, primavera, privacies, privateer, privately, privatest, privation, privatise, privatism, privative, privatize, proactive, probative, purgative, quadrivia, quavering, radiative, ravelings, ravelling, ravenings, ravigotes, ravishers, ravishing, reavailed, reavowing, reinvaded, reinvades, relatives, reprieval, reshaving, retrieval, revaluing, revamping, revealing, revictual, reviewals, revisable, revivable, reweaving, ribavirin, rivalling, rivalries, rivalrous, riverbank, riverboat, riverward, rotavirus, salivator, savoriest, savourier, savouries, savouring, shivareed, shivarees, slaveries, slavering, stravaigs, subvicars, survivals, timesaver, travailed, traveling, travoises, trivalent, trivalves, trivially, universal, unrivaled, unvarying, uvarovite, vagarious, vainglory, valerians, valkyries, valorised, valorises, valorized, valorizes, vampirish, vampirism, vanishers, vaporetti, vaporings, vaporised, vaporises, vaporized, vaporizer, vaporizes, vapouring, variables, variances, variating, variation, varicella, varicosed, variegate, varietals, varieties, variorums, variously, varisized, varistors, varnished, varnisher, varnishes, varooming, varsities, varyingly, vectorial, vehicular, velarized, velarizes, venireman, veracious, verapamil, veratrias, veratrine, veratrins, verbalism, verbalist, verbalize, verbiages, veridical, veritable, veritably, veritates, vernalize, vernation, veronicas, versatile, versional, verticals, vesicular, vibraharp, vibrances, vibrantly, vibratile, vibrating, vibration, vibrators, vibratory, vibrissae, vicarages, vicarates, vicariant, vicariate, vicarious, vicarship, viceregal, victorias, victualer, villagers, villagery, vinegared, vineyards, viniferas, vintagers, violaters, violators, virginals, viricidal, viridians, virtually, virtuosas, virucidal, visionary, vitiators, vivariums, vizierate, vizierial, vizirates, vocalizer, voracious, votarists, vulgarian, vulgarise, vulgarism, vulgarity, vulgarize. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)56 41 49 52 |
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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)01010110 01000001 01001001 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)V A I R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0056 0041 0049 0052 |
| 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)56354352 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Names: Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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