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WALL-EYE

Definitions: WALL-EYE

WALL-EYE

Noun

1. The alewife; -- called also wall-eyed herring.

2. A California surf fish (Holconotus argenteus).

3. An American fresh-water food fish (Stizostedion vitreum) having large and prominent eyes; -- called also glasseye, pike perch, yellow pike, and wall-eyed perch.

4. An eye in which the iris is of a very light gray or whitish color; -- said usually of horses.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Note: Wall-eye \Wall"-eye`\, noun. [See Wall-eyed.]. (Websters 1913)


Crosswords: WALL-EYE

English words defined with "WALL-EYE": WhallZander. (references)
Etymologies containing "WALL-EYE": Whall. (references)

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Usage Frequency: WALL-EYE

"WALL-EYE" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "WALL-EYE" is used about 2 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: WALL-EYE

Language Translations for "WALL-EYE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

è§'膜白斑 (walleye). (various references)

   

Manx

  

sooill vreck. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

all-eyeway

   

Vietnamese 

  

mắt có vảy cá. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: WALL-EYE

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Stizostedion vitreum vitreum. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: WALL-EYE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: walleye.

Words within the letters "a-e-e-l-l-w-y"

-1 letter: leeway.

-2 letters: allee, alley, wally, welly.

-3 letters: alee, ally, awee, eely, leal, wale, wall, waly, weal, weel, well, wyle, yawl, yell.

-4 letters: ale, all, awe, awl, aye, eel, ell, ewe, eye, law, lay, lea, lee, ley, lye, wae, way, wee, wye, yaw, yea, yew.

-5 letters: ae, al, aw, ay, el, la, we, ya, ye.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-e-l-l-w-y"
 

+1 letter: walleyed, walleyes, weaselly.

 

+3 letters: lawyerlike, wavelessly, yellowware.

 

+4 letters: wearilessly, yellowwares.

 

+5 letters: yellowhammer.

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

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Alternative Orthography: WALL-EYE


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

57 41 4C 4C 2D 45 59 45

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

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

01010111 01000001 01001100 01001100 00101101 01000101 01011001 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#87 &#65 &#76 &#76 &#45 &#69 &#89 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0057 0041 004C 004C 002D 0045 0059 0045

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

5735464615395939

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage Frequency
4. Translations: Modern
5. Translations: Ancient
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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