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Argyles

Definition: Argyles

Argyles

Noun

1. A sock knitted or woven with a diamond-shaped pattern.

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

Date "argyles" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1896. (references)


Synonym: Argyles

Synonym: argyle (n). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Argyles

DomainUsage

Song Titles

Alley-Oop (performing artist: The Hollwood Argyles)

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Argyles

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

hollywood argyles

5

argyles

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Misspellings: Argyles

Misspellings

"Argyles" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: a'ghlas, agilis, Agydeus, argile, Argilos, argle, argles, Argule, Argyre, Margoyles, Margulies, Rayles. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Argyles

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-g-l-r-s-y"

-1 letter: argles, argyle, glares, greasy, gyrase, lagers, larges, layers, relays, sagely, slayer, yagers.

-2 letters: agers, agley, argle, arles, aryls, earls, early, eyras, gales, gayer, gears, glare, glary, gleys, grays, greys, gyral, gyres, lager, lares, large, laser, layer, lears, leary, lyase, lyres, rages, rales, reals, regal, relay, resay, sager, sarge, sayer, seral, slyer, yager.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-g-l-r-s-y"
 

+1 letter: greasily, greylags, larynges.

 

+2 letters: gargoyles, layerages, layerings, playgoers, searingly, strangely, yearlings.

 

+3 letters: gesturally, gyroplanes, laryngeals, lawyerings, pargylines.

 

+4 letters: arrestingly, caressingly, dangerously, galleryites, gracelessly, grandiosely, karyologies, ladyfingers, phraseology, screamingly, searchingly.

 

+5 letters: aggressively, astringently, courageously, decreasingly, despairingly, disagreeably, farsightedly, gallerygoers, glycerinates, granulocytes, gregariously, increasingly, lammergeyers, laryngitides, laryngoscope, outrageously, papyrologies, polygraphers, rampageously, reassuringly, redisplaying, regardlessly, scatteringly, shatteringly, staggeringly, swaggeringly, synergically, umbrageously, xylographers, xylographies.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Argyles


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

41 72 67 79 6C 65 73

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    .-.    --.    -.--.    .-..    .    ...

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01000001 01110010 01100111 01111001 01101100 01100101 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#114 &#103 &#121 &#108 &#101 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0072 0067 0079 006C 0065 0073

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

35847391787185

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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