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Definition: Bevel |
BevelAdjective1. Having the slant of a bevel; "a bevel edge"; "a cant buttress". Noun1. Two surfaces meeting at an angle different from 90 degrees. 2. A hand tool consisting of two rules that are hinged together so you can draw or measure angles of any size. Verb1. Cut a bevel on; shape to a bevel; "bevel the surface". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bevel" was first used: 1562. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Industry | Narrow flat surface formed at an angle to another surface. Source: European Union. (references) |
| An arris reduced to a sloping plane surface, as in wood moulding, and making the cutting edges of saw teeth and other cutters. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: BevelSynonyms: beveled (adj), bevel square (n), cant (n), chamfer (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Obliquity | Noun: obliquity, inclination, slope, slant, crookedness; Adjective: slopeness; leaning; Verb: bevel, tilt; bias, list, twist, swag, cant, lurch; distortion; bend; (curve); tower of Pisa. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Beebe Windmill, Bridgehampton, New York. Floor 4; Brake wheel with iron bevel cogs, cast iron bevel wallower. Photograph by Jet Lowe, 1978. (Reproduction Number: HAER, NY,52-BRIG,4-6). Credit: Library of Congress. |  | James Bevel, half-length portrait, standing, facing front, behind microphone at a church in Selma, Alabama. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Bevel" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 87.50% of the time. "Bevel" is used about 32 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) | 87.5% | 28 | 65,706 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 6.25% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 3.13% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.13% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 32 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "bevel" 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 |
| Bevel | Last name | 300 | 24,017 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "bevel": A bevel angle ♦ bevel away ♦ bevel edge ♦ bevel gear ♦ bevel gears ♦ bevel square ♦ bevel wheel ♦ skew bevel gearing. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "bevel": bevel-edge, bevel-edged. | |
| 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 "bevel"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | tatëpjetë (decline, declivity, descent, dip, down, downhill, downward, downwards, incline, ramp, slant, slope), shtrembëroj (contort, deface, deform, deprave, distort, falsify, mutilate, skew, slant, sophisticate, travesty, warp), qoshe (corner, nook), pres me pjerrje, pjerrje (bias, careen, inclination, list, obliquity, tilt), i pjerrët (arduous, declivitous, declivous, high pitched, hilly, inclined, leaning, oblique, reclinate, sideling, skew, slant, slanting, slantwise, sloping). (various references) | |
Arabic | ميل (affection, aptness, bent, cant, disposition, flair, genius, gradient, gust, gusto, inclination, lean, leaning, liking, obliqueness, obliquity, penchant, persuasion, ply, predilection, predisposition, proclivity, propensity, readiness, run, sentiment, set, slant, slope, strain, tendency, tip, turn, use, will), مسطار الزوايا, مائل (atilt, awry, bent, bias, cock eyed, diagonal, inclined, oblique, sidelong, skew, slant, slanted, slantwise, slope, sloping, stooping, thwart, titled), حافة الزجاج, زاوية التخطيط المائل, شطبة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ъгълник (gusset, knee), скосявам, с откос, кос (blackbird, oblique, ousel, ouzel, sidelong, sideward, sideways, skew, slantways, slantwise, splay, thwart, transversal, transverse), откос (bank, cant, case shot, slope, swath, swathe, windrow), наклон (batter, bias, declension, declivity, dip, fall, grade, gradient, incidence, inclination, incline, inflection, inflexion, lean, leaning, low-grade, rake, ramp, rise, skew, slant, slope, throw, tilt, versant), подвижен винкел. (various references) | |
Chinese | 斜面 (Chamfer, incline). (various references) | |
Czech | zkosení (taper), sklon (aptitude, bent, bias, dip, disposition, drive, fall, gradient, inclination, lean, leaning, penchant, ply, proclivity, propensity, rake, slant, slope, strain, tendency, tilt, twist), úkos (chamfer, taper), šikmo seříznout. (various references) | |
Danish | skraanende sidemur, skrå (diagonal, inclined, oblique, skew), skæv (blocked, coating, high, oblique, skew, turned on), fas, facet (facet, flat, sloped edge), affasning (chamfering). (various references) | |
Dutch | uitkomen (appear, be appropriate, be suitable, bud, come out, come to pass, come true, emerge, exit, go out, perform, result, sprout, suit), schuin en scherp geslepen rand of kant, schuin (oblique, obscene, slanting, sloping), scheef (oblique, slanting), facet (facet, facet name, flat, range, sloped edge), afsteken (contrast, cut off), afschuining (angle of preparation, bevel angle, chamfering, pinching, pinchout, splay). (various references) | |
Esperanto | reliefiĝi. (various references) | |
Farsi | گونیا(oblique=), سطح اریب (Slant), اریب کردن , اریب واربریدن یاتراشیدن , رنده کردن (Chip, Grate, Plane, Shave). (various references) | |
Finnish | vino (disorted, inclined, oblique, slanting), viistosärmä, viisto (oblique, slanting), viiste (chamfering, facet, lead, mitre, scarfing, starting taper, the ends of the cylindrical bodies are machined to conform to the bevelling of the circular welding seams), leikata viistoon, hioa viistoon, fasetti (facet), faasi (phase). (various references) | |
French | biseau (bezel). (various references) | |
German | schräge (angle, cant, obliqueness, pitch, slant, slantingly, slope, sloping surface, transversely), Fase (chamfer), abschrägen (chamfering, skew, slant, slope, to bevel, to slant, to slope). (various references) | |
Greek | κόβω λοξά (chamfer). (various references) | |
Hebrew | שפוע (bank, cant, gradient, incline, obliqueness, rake, rise, slant, slope, splay, tilt, tip). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szögmérő (goniometer, mitre, protractor), szögben elhajlás, szög (angle, corner, nail, pile), ferde szél (cant), ferde él (cant). (various references) | |
Indonesian | lereng siku-siku, alat pengukur sudut. (various references) | |
Italian | bisello (sloped edge), bisellatura, di sbieco (oblique, skew), angolo (angle, corner, nook). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 斜面 (slanting surface, slope), 傾斜 (dip, inclination, list, slant, slope). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しゃかく (angle of fire), しゃめ" (remission, slanting surface, slope), けいしゃ (decanting, dip, inclination, list, poultry house, slant, slope). (various references) | |
Korean | 벨. (various references) | |
Manx | cur bevyl er, bevyl, battyr (batter, taper). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | evelbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | bisel (chamfering, sloped edge). (various references) | |
Romanian | teşi (cant, dull), tãia oblic, suprafaţã în poziţie oblicã, sta oblic (be on the slant, slope), se înclina (bank, decline, dip, incline, lean, list, slant, tilt up, tip), echer mobil. (various references) | |
Russian | скошенная плоскость, скос (scarf, tilt), скашивать скос (splay), скашивать (scarf), косоугольный, косой (cock eyed, cock-eye, cross-eyed, leer, oblique, sidelong, skew, slantindicular, slanting, slantingdicular, splay, squinteyed, squint-eyed, thwart, walleyed), конус (bell, cone, nozzle, taper), обрезать наискось, наклон (bias, cant, declination, gradient, incidence, inclination, incline, lean, nutation, pitch, rake, slope, slopping, tilt), малка. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zakositi, uglomer (protractor, semicircle), nagnut (declivous, inclined, leaning, rakish, sideling, slanting, sloping), nagib (bank, bias, camber, cant, descent, escarp, grade, gradient, heel, inclination, incline, lean, list, offset, pitch, slant, slope, tilt, tip, weathering), kosina (descent, skew, slant, slope), kos (awry, lop-sided, oblique, ousel, ouzel, skew, slant, slantindicular, slanting, slantwise, sloping, traverse). (various references) | |
Spanish | bisel (bezel, cant), ángulo oblicuo (oblique angle). (various references) | |
Swedish | snedslipa (cant), avfasning (chamfer), avfasa (chamfer, slope). (various references) | |
Thai | เอียงลา" (rake), ทำให้เป็นมุมเอียง, มุมเอียง. (various references) | |
Turkish | konik (coned, conic, conical, coniform, conoid, tapered, tapering), iletki (protractor), eğimli yapmak, eğim vermek, eğim (cant, declination, dip, elevation, fall, grade, gradient, inclination, incline, my better half, obliquity, pitch, slant, slope, tilt, tip), eğik kesmek, eğik (drooping, droopy, inclined, leaning, oblique, on the slope, skewed, slanting, sloping, threshold), şevli (bevelled, sloping, splay), açı (angle, corner, gonio-). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | схил (chute, declension, decline, declivity, descent, down grade, fall, grade, incidence, lean, pitch, shelving, side, skew, slant), скіс (batter, obliqueness, obliquity, splay), скошувати (cant, splay), косий (askew, awry, boss-eyed, cock eyed, cockeyed, cross-eyed, diagonal, oblique, sidelong, sideway, sideways, sidewise, skew, slant, slanting, splay), знімати фаску. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | góc xiên. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bevel": beveled, beveler, bevelers, beveling, bevelled, beveller, bevellers, bevelling, bevels. (additional references) | |
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"Bevel" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bavai, bavel, bavelaw, bebel, Becel, bedel, beel, beeli, beelz, beev, Beevi, bejel, Bekele, Belval, bemel, Berve, besel, Beuve, beva, beve, bevee, bevely, beven, bevet, bevey, bevil, bevit, bevo, bevven, bive, bived, bivel, bivet, bivi, bivvi, Bleaval, Bleuel, blevey, Bosvil, bovel, Bovell, Bovill, bovl, bovle, Breeveld, Breuel, Breval, ebel, ebvil, evel, evell, Gejvall, sevel, Sevell, wevel. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "bevel" (pronounced be"vul) |
| 4 | -e" v u l | bedevil, devil, dishevel, level, multilevel, revel. |
| 3 | -v u l | anvil, approval, archival, arrival, arval, carnival, civil, daredevil, disapproval, drivel, evil, festival, gavel, gravel, grovel, hovel, survival, swivel, interval, larval, marvel, medieval, naval, navel, novel, oval, primeval, Ravel, removal, retrieval, revival, rival, servile, shovel, shrivel, travel, uncivil, unravel, upheaval, weevil. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-e-l-v" | |
-2 letters: bee, bel, eel, eve, lee, lev, vee. | |
-3 letters: be, el. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-e-l-v" | |
+1 letter: belive, bevels. | |
+2 letters: bedevil, believe, beloved, beveled, beveler, verbile. | |
+3 letters: bedevils, bedrivel, behalves, believed, believer, believes, beloveds, beslaved, bevelers, beveling, bevelled, beveller, deverbal, enviable, evadable, evadible, evitable, evocable, giveable, leviable, liveable, loveable, moveable, overable, overblew, saveable, servable, sublevel, vendable, vendible, verbiles, verbless, viewable, voteable. | |
+4 letters: bedeviled, bedrivels, believers, believing, belvedere, bevellers, bevelling, cleavable, coverable, covetable, derivable, devisable, driveable, eversible, evincible, evolvable, moveables, obversely, preverbal, previable, removable, revisable, revivable, revocable, revokable, severable, sublevels, unbeloved, vegetable, vegetably, vendables, vendibles, venerable, venerably, verbalize, verbosely, veritable, vertebral, vestibule. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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