Baize

Definition: Baize

Baize

Noun

1. A bright green fabric napped to resemble felt; used to cover gaming tables.

Date "baize" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Etymology: Baize \Baize\, noun. [For bayes, plural from Old French baie; compare to French bai bay-colored. See Bay color.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definitions
Industry	Weaving of pure hairy wool. Source: European Union. (references)
	Coarse cloth similar to swansking. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Crosswords: Baize

English words defined with "baize": Bayze ♦ Domett. (references)

Specialty definitions using "baize": Green Baize Road ♦ oil baize. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	When I've finished with the Green Baize Vampire, he's gonna need a blood transfusion, a brain transplant and a set of National Health railings. (Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire; writing credit: Trevor Preston)
Movie/TV Titles	Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire (1985)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Beyond the green baize door (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Baize" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Baize" is used about 75 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)	100%	75	38,535

The following table summarizes the usage of "baize" 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
Baize	Last name	1,000	13,358
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

Expressions using "baize": green baize ♦ oil baize. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "baize": baize-covered, baize-lined, baize-topped.
	Ending with "baize": green-baize.
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.

Language		Translations for "baize"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		fanellatë e trashë. (various references)

Arabic		‏البيز نسيج أخضر تكسى به موائد البليارد. (various references)

Bulgarian		шаяк (frieze, russet, shag), аба (cloak, frieze, homespun, mantle). (various references)

Chinese		台面呢. (various references)

Czech		kuleèníkové sukno. (various references)

Danish		bayetas, baize, bai (border area indicator, when the BAI is set to one the receiver shall examine other channels for messages, when the receiver is in its home network and the BAI = 0 it is expected that the receiver will usually only examine this channel). (various references)

Dutch		baaien, baai (bay, cross-cut Maryland, russet). (various references)

Esperanto		krudlanŝtofo, krudlanŝtofa. (various references)

French		baize, baie (bay), tapis (band conveyor), serge, frise. (various references)

German		fries (frieze, Frisian). (various references)

Greek		μπαγιέττα, μπαγιέτ, μαλακό μάλλινο ύφασμα, τσόχα (blanket, felt, suiting). (various references)

Hungarian		vastag szövet, posztó. (various references)

Indonesian		tabir (curtain, screen), kain hijau. (various references)

Italian		tessuto di lana (delaine, woolen, woollen, woven fabric of sheep's or lamb's wool). (various references)

Manx		baise (vice). (various references)

Pig Latin		aizebay.(various references)

Portuguese		baeta. (various references)

Romanian		postav (cloth), aba (flushing, frieze). (various references)

Russian		байка. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		tkanina na bilijarskom stolu. (various references)

Spanish		bayeta (dishcloth, duster). (various references)

Swedish		boj (buoy, drogue, float, nun buoy). (various references)

Thai		ผ้าขนสัตว์หนาสีเขียวที่ใช้ปูโต๊ะกีฬา (เช่น กีฬาบิลเลีย�"). (various references)

Turkish		çuha (broadcloth, green cloth). (various references)

Ukranian		грубе сукно, завіса з байки, бобрик (ratteen), байка (fable). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "baize": baizes. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Baize" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Abiezer, aize, Aizik, Aizu, Azize, baaz, Bacie, Baeza, Bahide, baie, baige, baije, baile, baine, Baire, bais, baise, Baiser, baiste, baite, baiza, balise, Banza, Banzie, bause, bauz, Bayazid, Bayisa, baze, bazeu, bazi, bazid, bazier, Bazza, beeze, beisa, Beitzel, beize, Benizi, biabe, biace, biade, biage, biane, biase, Biasi, biave, biaz, biaze, bioze, Bizen, bizer, bizjet, Bizzi, bizzo, bizzy, blaise, blize, boize, bozie, briza, buise, Buize, daize, gaize, Kailzee, naize, paize, waize. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "baize" (pronounced bā"z)
3	b ā" z	bays, obeys.
2	-ā" z	ablaze, allays, amaze, appraise, arrays, ballets, berets, betrays, blase, blaze, bouquets, braise, cabernets, cafes, chaise, chalets, clays, cliches, communiques, conveys, craze, dais, days, daze, decays, defrays, delays, dismays, displays, dossiers, essays, faze, filets, gays, gaze, glaze, Grays, graze, Hays, haze, jays, Kays, lase, lays, leis, leys, Lyonnaise, Maes, maize, malaise, Mays, maze, morays, nays, okays, pays, phase, phrase, plays, polonaise, portrays, praise, prays, preys, raise, Rase, rays, raze, reappraise, repays, rephrase, replays, Res, shays, sprays, stays, strays, surveys, sways, todays, trays, urokinase, ways, weighs, yeas.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-e-i-z"
	-1 letter: bize.
	-2 letters: biz.
	-3 letters: ab, ae, ai, ba, be, bi.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-e-i-z"
	+1 letter: baizes, braize.
	+2 letters: arabize, baptize, bizarre, braizes, brazier, imblaze, sizable, zebraic.
	+3 letters: arabized, arabizes, arborize, banalize, baptized, baptizer, baptizes, begazing, bizarres, botanize, braziers, hebraize, imblazed, imblazes, seizable, sizeable, sizeably, urbanize, zabaione, zwieback.
	+4 letters: arabicize, arborized, arborizes, bacterize, balkanize, banalized, banalizes, baptizers, barbarize, bizarrely, bombazine, botanized, botanizes, brazening, brutalize, byzantine, carbonize, carburize, diabolize, emblazing, globalize, hebraized, hebraizes, ionizable, labialize, marbleize, rebaptize, stabilize, urbanized, urbanizes, verbalize, zabaiones, zwiebacks.
	+5 letters: absolutize, aerobicize, arabicized, arabicizes, bacterized, bacterizes, balkanized, balkanizes, barbarized, barbarizes, bastardize, bedazzling, benzocaine, bestialize, bipolarize, bizarrerie, blazonries, bombazines, brutalized, brutalizes, burglarize, carbonized, carbonizes, carburized, carburizes, catabolize, cognizable, diabolized, diabolizes, dialyzable, globalized, globalizes, hebraizing, labialized, labializes, liberalize, marbleized, marbleizes, metabolize, oxidizable, realizable, rebaptized, rebaptizes, stabilized, stabilizer, stabilizes, unbaptized, utilizable, verbalized, verbalizer, verbalizes, zabaglione.
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