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Becalm

Definition: Becalm

Becalm

Verb

1. Make steady; "steady your hands".

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



Synonyms: Becalm

Synonyms: calm (v), steady (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Becalm

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Quiescence

Dwell; (be present); settle; (be located); alight; (arrive) stick, stick fast; stand like a post; not stir a peg, not stir a step; be at a stand; n. quell, becalm, hush, stay, lull to sleep, lay an embargo on.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Becalm

English words defined with "becalm": Becalming. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Becalm

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

becalm d

57

becalm

42
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Becalm

Language Translations for "becalm"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

qetësoj (allay, appease, assuage, balsam, calm, calm down, comfort, conciliate, cool down, ease, gentle, hush, lull, mollify, pacificate, pacify, palliate, placate, propitiate, quiet, quieten, reassure, relieve, salve, settle, soften, soothe, tranquilize, tranquillize), ndal (arrest, check, close up, cut, discontinue, end, fight off, fold, halt, heave to, hold, interrupt, pull in, pull up, rein up, shut down, stay, stem, stop). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏هدأ (allay, appease, assuage, attemper, calm, calm down, cool, die down, dust, ease, hush, keep quiet, lull, moderate, mollify, pacify, palliate, placate, quench, quieten, relieve, rest, salve, settle, settle down, simmer, smooth, sober, soothe, stay, steady, still, subside, supple, sweeten, tranquillize), ‏أوقف مركبا لقلة الريح. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

успокоявам (allay, appease, assuage, calm, calm down, comfort, compose, conciliate, cool, ease, hush, lull, mitigate, mollify, pacify, palliate, placate, quiet, quiet down, quieten, reassure, relieve, salve, settle, silence, sleek, soothe, still, tranquilize, tranquillize, unbend), утешавам (cheer up, comfort, console, solace, soothe, visit). (various references)

   

Czech

  

utišit (allay, appease, assuage, ease, hush, pacify, quiet down, quieten, relieve, rest, silence, sooth, stay, tranquillize), uklidnit (appease, calm, placate, quell, reassure, relax, set at ease, soothe, tranquilize, tranquillize). (various references)

   

German

  

beruhigen (allay, appease, calm, calm down, comfort, ease, kill, lull, pacify, quiet, quieten, quieten down, reassure, relieve, salve, sedate, settle, settle down, smooth, soothe, still, to allay, to appease, to calm, to compose, to pacify, to reassure, to sedate, to tranquilize, to tranquillize). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ησυχάζω (allay, calm, calm down, ease, hush, lull, pacify, quiesce, quiet, settle down), ακινητοποιώ (immobilize, overpower, tie up). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ל""מים (silence, stall). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

megnyugtat (assuage, calm down, disembarrass, gentle, quell, quiet, quiet down, reassure, still, to appease, to assuage, to calm sy down, to gentle, to hush, to lull, to quell, to quiet down, to reassure, to salve, to sedate, to sleek, to solace, to soothe, to still, to stroke down, to stroke sy down, to tranquillize, tranquilize, tranquillize), lecsendesít (allay, calm, hush, lull, pacify, quieten, to appease, to assuage, to calm, to calm sy down, to hush, to lull, to pacify, to quiet down, to quieten, to still, to stroke down, to stroke sy down, to tranquillize). (various references)

   

Italian

  

calmare (abate, allay, appease, assuage, calm, calm down, compose, cool, ease, hush, lull, pacify, quell, quiet, quieten, reassure, sober, soothe, still, to appease), acquietare (still). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

気'静める (to becalm one's feelings, to compose oneself). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

き'しずめる (to becalm one's feelings, to compose oneself). (various references)

   

Manx

  

kiunaghey (allay, appease, appeasement, calm, calming, compose, die down, hush, hush as child, lull, pacification, pacify, quell, quiet, quieten, sedate, sedation, soothe, steady down, tranquillization, tranquillize). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ecalmbay

   

Portuguese

  

privar de vento, acalmar (allay, appease, assuage, calm down, cool, ease, hush, lay, lullaby, mollify, pacify, placate, quiet, relieve, resettle, salve, settle, simmer down, slow down, smooth, soothe, still, tranquilize, tranquillize). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

potoli (compromise, dulcify, dull, hush, lighten, lull, mollify, quench, quiet, reassure, relieve, slack, slake, smooth, smooth down, sober, solace, stay, still, subdue, suppress, sweeten, temper, tranquillize), linişti (abate, appease, assuage, attemper, calm, cease, comfort, compose, ease, hush, mitigate, mollify, pacify, quiet, quieten, reassure, recompose, rest, salve, serene, settle, smooth, smooth down, soothe, still), calma (allay, appease, calm, chasten, compose, ease, kill, mollify, pacify, quiet, salve, settle, smooth, smooth down, sober, soften, soothe, steady, still, temper, tranquillize). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

успокаивать (allay, appease, assuage, calm, calm down, conciliate, hush, mince, mollify, pacify, quiet, quiet down, quieted, quieten, quieting, reassure, smooth, soothe, still, tranquilize, tranquillize). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

stišati (calm, mollify, pacify, placate, quiet, soothe, tranquilize), smiriti (appease, calm, lull, pacify, quiet, quieten, settle, tranquillize). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

calmar (allay, appease, assuage, calm, calm down, cool, damp, dampen, lull, moderate, mollify, pacify, quell, quiet, quieten, settle, sober down, soothe, still). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

lugna (allay, appease, calm, calm down, hush, lull, mollify, pacify, placate, quieten, reassure, salve, settle, settle down, soothe, tranquilize, tranquillize). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yatıştırmak (abate, allay, alleviate, appease, assuage, attemper, calm, comfort, compose, conciliate, defuse, disarm, ease, hush, lull, mitigate, moderate, mollify, pacify, placate, propitiate, quell, quiet, quieten, remit, salve, sedate, settle, smooth down, smother up, soften, soothe, still, tranquilize, tranquillize), sakinleştirmek (allay, appease, calm, hush, pacify, placate, quiet, smooth, smooth down, soothe, steady, still, tranquilize, tranquillize). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

утішати (comfort, console, solace), заспокоювати (appease, assuage, assure, calm, comfort, conciliate, cool down, ease, lull, mollify, plaster, propitiate, quell, quiet, quieten, relieve, salve, satisfy, smooth, soften, soothe, still, tranquilize, tranquillize). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

tawelu (allay, appease, become quiet, calm), llonyddu (appease, assuage, calm, quiet, still). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Becalm

Derivations

Words beginning with "becalm": becalmed, becalming, becalms. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Becalm" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bacale, baccala, Baykal, beca, becall, Becel, Beecom, Bekale, Bekulo, bocals, Bukalo, Kecal. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Becalm"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "becalm" (pronounced bikÄ"m)
3-k Ä" mcalm.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Becalm

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-l-m"

-1 letter: amble, blame, cable, camel, macle.

-2 letters: able, acme, alec, alme, bale, balm, beam, bema, blae, blam, calm, came, clam, lace, lamb, lame, mabe, mace, male, meal.

-3 letters: ace, alb, ale, bal, bam, bel, cab, cam, cel, elm, lab, lac, lam, lea, mac, mae, mel.

-4 letters: ab, ae, al, am, ba, be, el, em, la, ma, me.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-c-e-l-m"
 

+1 letter: alembic, becalms, cembali, cembalo, clamber.

 

+2 letters: alembics, amicable, becalmed, bechamel, beclamor, cembalos, clambake, clambers, cymbaler, lambency, mockable, scramble.

 

+3 letters: ambulance, becalming, bechamels, beclamors, bicameral, cablegram, camelback, claimable, clambakes, clambered, clamberer, climbable, cymbalers, imbalance, matchable, medicable, metabolic, scrambled, scrambler, scrambles, semblance.

 

+4 letters: acetabulum, ambulances, amerciable, beclamored, bimetallic, biomedical, blancmange, cablegrams, camelbacks, clamberers, clambering, combinable, commutable, comparable, compatible, computable, consumable, descramble, emblematic, imbalanced, imbalances, impeccable, impeccably, implacable, lambencies, lumberjack, machinable, misbalance, scramblers, semblances, umbilicate, unscramble.

 

+5 letters: acetabulums, ambivalence, bachelordom, beclamoring, bimetallics, bimolecular, biochemical, biometrical, blackmailed, blackmailer, blancmanges, blastematic, candelabrum, chamberlain, collembolan, combatively, comfortable, commandable, commendable, commendably, committable, compactible, compassable, compatibles, compellable, compensable, condemnable, confirmable, conformable, consumables, descrambled, descrambler, descrambles, embraceable, embracingly, flamboyance, immedicable, immedicably, impeachable, lumberjacks, machineable, medicinable, meroblastic, misbalanced, misbalances, problematic, reclaimable, resemblance, subclimaxes, umbilicated, unclimbable, unmatchable, unscrambled, unscrambler, unscrambles.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Becalm


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

42 65 63 61 6C 6D

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)

01000010 01100101 01100011 01100001 01101100 01101101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#101 &#99 &#97 &#108 &#109

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0065 0063 0061 006C 006D

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

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

367169677879

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Rhymes
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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