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Definition: Arista |
AristaNoun1. Bristlelike process near the tip of the antenna of certain flies. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Arista" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "an ear of corn". |
Etymology: Arista \A*ris"ta\, noun. [Latin expression]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: Arista |
| Etymologies containing "arista": Aristate, Aristulate. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Arista" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Latin (awn, beard, ear, red beard, the beard on an ear of wheat, the point of the ear, vandyke beard), Serbo-Croatian (arista), Spanish (Arista, arris, awn, beard, edge, edger). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Arista ang Aking Asawa (1968) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | Battle of Palo Alto--May 8th 1846, between 2900 Americans, under Genl. Taylor, and 6000 Mexicans, commanded by Genl. Arista [...] / E.B. & E.C. Kellogg, Hartford, Conn. ; D. Needham, Buffalo. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Arista" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Arista" is used about 11 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 (proper) | 100% | 11 | 106,044 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "arista" 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 |
| Arista | Last name | 200 | 36,377 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name |
| USA | Arista Investors Corp. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "arista"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | Bosht (axis, axle, axletree, bobbin, fulcrum, kingbolt, kingpin, pivot, shaft, spindle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | Szálka (barb, bone, splint, splinter, string). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | èŠ' (awn, beard). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ã®ãŽ (awn, beard). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | aristaay Aresta (arris, awn, edge, gable, groin, rib), Barba De Milho. (various references) ОÑть. (various references) arista. (various references) Arista (arris, awn, beard, edge, edger). (various references) ОÑтюк. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "arista": aristae, aristas, aristate. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "arista" (pronounced eri"stu) |
| 4 | -i" s t u | vista. |
| 3 | -s t u | canasta, celesta, Costa, Cuesta, Fiesta, pasta, podesta, robusta, Testa, Vesta. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: riatas, tarsia, tiaras. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-i-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: airts, arias, astir, atria, raias, riata, sitar, stair, stria, tarsi, tiara. | |
-2 letters: airs, airt, aits, aria, arts, raia, rats, rias, sari, sati, star, stir, tars, tsar. | |
-3 letters: aas, air, ais, ait, ars, art, its, ras, rat, ria, sat, sir, sit, sri, tar, tas, tis. | |
-4 letters: aa, ai, ar, as, at, is, it, si, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-i-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: amritas, antiars, aristae, aristas, artisan, asteria, atresia, caritas, lariats, latrias, tamaris, tarsias, tsarina. | |
+2 letters: airboats, airdates, alarmist, amirates, antisera, apiarist, aquarist, arbalist, archaist, ariettas, aristate, artisans, aspirant, aspirata, aspirate, asterias, atresias, aviarist, aviators, awaiters, bartisan, castrati, citharas, dataries, diastral, granitas, gravitas, havartis, hetairas, intarsia, kitharas, martians, parasite, parfaits, partials, partisan, partitas, pastrami, radiants, radiates, ratafias, ratanies, rattails, salariat, sanitary, seatrain, septaria, stairway, stravaig, tamarins, tamarisk, timaraus, travails, tsarinas, tsaritza, tzarinas, variants, variates, wistaria. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 72 69 73 74 61 |
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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)01000001 01110010 01101001 01110011 01110100 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A r i s t a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0072 0069 0073 0074 0061 |
| 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)358475858667 |
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