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Definition: Barbette |
BarbetteNoun1. (formerly) a mound earth inside a fort from which heavy gun can be fired over the parapet. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "barbette" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1824. (references) |
Etymology: Barbette \Bar*bette"\, noun. [French expression compare to Barbet.]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: Barbette |
| English words defined with "barbette": Barbette battery, Barbette carriage, Barbette gun. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "barbette": Barbette , en barbette ♦ En Barbette. (references) |
Expressions using "barbette": Barbette battery ♦ Barbette carriage ♦ Barbette gun ♦ En barbette ♦ In barbette. Additional references. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
barbette | 3 |
barbette cafe | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "barbette"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | البربيت كلب طويل الشعر متجعد. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | барбет. (various references) | |
Hungarian | felemelt lövegállás. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | arbettebay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | barbete. (various references) | |
Russian | барбет. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | barbetni uređaj. (various references) | |
Spanish | barbeta. (various references) | |
Swedish | skjutplattform. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "barbette": barbettes. (additional references) | |
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"Barbette" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: arbete, Bambatta, Barbedette, Barbeito, barbut, barette, Barletta, Barnette, bimbette, Burbedge. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "barbette" (pronounced bÄrbe"t) |
| 3 | -b e" t | abet, bet. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-b-e-e-r-t-t" | |
-1 letter: abetter, beretta. | |
-2 letters: barbet, batter, beater, berate, better, rabbet, rebate. | |
-3 letters: arete, barbe, beret, betta, eater, ebbet, rebbe, taber, tater, tetra, treat. | |
-4 letters: abbe, abet, babe, barb, bare, bate, batt, bear, beat, beer, beet, beta, brae, brat, bree, rate, rete, tare, tart, tate, tear, teat, tree, tret. | |
-5 letters: arb, are, art, ate, att, bar, bat, bee, bet, bra, ear, eat, ebb, era, ere, eta, rat, reb, ree, ret, tab, tae, tar, tat, tea, tee, tet. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-b-e-e-r-t-t" | |
+1 letter: barbettes. | |
+2 letters: rebuttable. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 61 72 62 65 74 74 65 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .- .-. -... . - - . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100001 01110010 01100010 01100101 01110100 01110100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B a r b e t t e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0061 0072 0062 0065 0074 0074 0065 |
| 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)3667846871868671 |
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