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Venetian Blind

Definition: Venetian Blind

Venetian Blind

Noun

1. A window blind made of horizontal strips that overlap when closed.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 



Specialty Definitions: Venetian Blind

DomainDefinitions

Personal Care & Hotels

Made of numerous horizontal slats suspended one above another permitting various degrees of overlapping or may be drawn together and raised. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: Venetian Blind

Specialty definitions using "Venetian blind": ladder webVENETIAN-BLIND ASSEMBLER. (references)

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Image Slideshow: Venetian Blind

Computer Images:
Venetian Blind

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Photo Album: Venetian Blind

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

The venetian blind.Credit: Library of Congress.

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Use in Literature: Venetian Blind

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

In the Rue Saint Denis, a woman fired upon the Municipal Guard from behind a Venetian blind.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Venetian Blind

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

venetian blind

197

wooden venetian blind

14

venetian blind cleaning

11

lafayette venetian blind

7

venetian blind retail

6

clean venetian blind

5

venetian blind repair

4

venetian blind window

3

wood venetian blind

3

uk venetian blind

2

custom venetian blind

2
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Modern Translations: Venetian Blind

Language Translations for "Venetian blind"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

жалузи (louvre-boards, persiennes, shutter). (various references)

   

Czech

  

žaluzie (louver, sun blind). (various references)

   

Danish

  

jalousi (blind, jalousie, louvre, shutter, ventilator). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

jaloezie (blind, envy, jalousie, jealousy). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

latkurteno. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

sälekaihdin. (various references)

   

French

  

store vénitien. (various references)

   

German

  

venezianischer Vorhang, Store (net curtain, storeroom), Rolladen (roll top, roller-blind, shutter, shutters), Jalousie (blind, blind(s) Venetian ~, blinds, jalousie, louver, louvre, roller-blind, shade, venetian blinds, ventilator). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ρολλό βενετικού τύπου. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

reluxa (venetian blinds), lécroletta. (various references)

   

Italian

  

veneziana (blind, jalousie), stoino alla veneziana. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

ベニヤ板 (baby, baby bed, baby boom, baby doll, baby face, baby oil, baby powder, baby-sitter, basinette, behemoth, benefit, crib, play pen, plywood, stroller, unlicensed child care, Venetian glass). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ベネチアンブラインド . (various references)

   

Manx

  

doalan slatt. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

enetianvay indblay

   

Portuguese

  

veneziana (blind, jam, shutter). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

jaluzele (louver, persiennes). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

подъемные жалюзи. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

persiana veneciana. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

jaluzi (blind, Jalousie, persian blinds, persiennes, window shade). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Venetian Blind

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-e-i-i-l-n-n-n-t-v"

-3 letters: evidential, inevitable.

-4 letters: antivenin, valentine.

-5 letters: bidental, biennale, biennial, bivalent, dateline, deniable, dentinal, dilative, divalent, editable, entailed, enviable, evadible, evitable, ideative, inedible, invented, inviable, lenitive, levanted, lineated, vanitied, vendable, vendible, venetian, vitiable.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Venetian Blind


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

56 65 6E 65 74 69 61 6E      42 6C 69 6E 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010110 01100101 01101110 01100101 01110100 01101001 01100001 01101110 00100000 01000010 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#86 &#101 &#110 &#101 &#116 &#105 &#97 &#110 &#32 &#66 &#108 &#105 &#110 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0056 0065 006E 0065 0074 0069 0061 006E      0042 006C 0069 006E 0064

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

567180718675678023678758070

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Images: Slideshow
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Quotations: Fiction
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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