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Definition: Bilge |
BilgeNoun1. Water accumulated in the bilge of a ship. 2. Where the sides of the vessel curve in to form the bottom. Verb1. Cause to leak; as of vessels. 2. Take in water at the bilge; of vessels. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bilge" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
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Food & Agriculture | The widest part of a cask. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Any space in the lower part of a ship's hold where waste water collects and in which bilge suctions are placed for pumping out. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Transportation | The lower internal part of the hull where the bilge water collects. in double bottom vessels the waterway formed by the margin plate and the curvature of the shell. Source: European Union. (references) |
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His name literally means "wise emperor". He assumed the leadership after a coup against the previous emperor, gathered the local Turkic people under his flag after numerous battles and invaded the western sections of the Chinese territories. After he was killed by being poisoned, an inscription was erected near the Orhon River on a monumental area, which is known today as Orhon inscriptions.
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Synonyms: BilgeSynonyms: bilge water (n), take in water (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Base | Noun: base, basement; plinth, dado, wainscot; baseboard, mopboard; bedrock, hardpan; foundation; (support); substructure, substratum, ground, earth, pavement, floor, paving, flag, carped, ground floor, deck; footing, ground work, basis; hold, bilge. |
Convexity | Convexity, prominence, projection, swelling, gibbosity, bilge, bulge, protuberance, protrusion; camber, cahot, thank-ye-ma'am. swell. |
Lowness | Molehill; lowlands; basement floor, ground floor; rez de chaussee; cellar; hold, bilge; feet, heels. |
Opening | Verb: open, ope, gape, yawn, bilge; fly open. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Bilge |
| English words defined with "bilge": Bilge free, bilge keel, Bilge pump, Bilge water, Bilged, Bilging, bilgy, Billage, Bouge, Bulge ways ♦ take in water. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "bilge": bilge hoop, bilge plank, bilge plate, bilge trake ♦ carpenter helper, carpenter, ship ♦ DOCK HAND, DOCK SUPERVISOR ♦ filling frame, filling timber ♦ MATERIAL INSPECTOR ♦ POWERED BRIDGE SPECIALIST ♦ RIGGER HELPER ♦ self-priming centrifugal pump, SHIPWRIGHT HELPER, stave grader, stave inspector, supervisor, ship maintenance services ♦ woodworker helper. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "bilge": Sentine. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Bilge" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (bilge), Turkish (erudite, learned, luminary, omniscient, owl, polymath, profound, sage, scholar, sophisticate, sophisticated, wise, wise person). |
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Screenplays | Swoogle me eyes, they're all bilge rats by the look of them (Kingdom Hearts; writing credit: Billy Gallo; Robert Gillings) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Rescue teams at work on the capsized hull of USS Oklahoma (BB-37), seeking crew members trapped inside, 7 December 1941. The starboard bilge keel is visible at the top of the upturned hull. Officers' Motor Boats from Oklahoma and USS Argonne (AG-31) are in the foreground. USS Maryland (BB-46) is in the background. Credit: NAVY. |
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| "Bilge" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 93.75% of the time. "Bilge" is used about 16 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) | 93.75% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 6.25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 16 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "bilge": Bilge free ♦ bilge hoop ♦ bilge keel ♦ bilge plank ♦ bilge plate ♦ bilge pump ♦ bilge trake ♦ bilge water ♦ bilge water(taste or odor) ♦ Bilge ways ♦ bilge well ♦ talk bilge. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "bilge": bilge-induced, bilge-water. | |
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| 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 "bilge"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | vrimë në anije ku futet ujët, i hapet vrimë ku futet ujët. (various references) | |
Arabic | ماء آسن, جوف المركب, جوف البرميل, أصاب (blast, come, get, hit, infect, inflict, pick off, shoot, strike), رشح المركب. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | трюмна вода, най-издутата част на буре, безсмислици (baloney, gibberish, rubbish, tripe), пропускам вода (leak, make water), дъно (bed, bottom, hearth, sole). (various references) | |
Chinese | 舱底 (bilges). (various references) | |
Czech | břicho (abdomen, belly, gut, midriff, paunch, stomach). (various references) | |
Danish | bug (abdomen, belly, tummy), udbugning, runding (bending, camber, curl, curvature, fillet, rounding, roundness), rendesten (drainage channel, gutter, gutter waterway, waterway), kimming, kiming (bilge plank, bilge plate, bilge trake, horizon). (various references) | |
Dutch | buik (abdomen, belly, tummy), bilge, vulling (burden, charge, load, stuffing), lensruimte, kim (horizon), kielruimte, hoosgat. (various references) | |
Farsi | هرچیززننده ومتعفن , تراوش کردن (Exude, Infiltrate, Leak, Ooze, Percolate, Secrete, Seep), اب ته کشتی , رخنه پیداکردن , شکم بشکه . (various references) | |
Finnish | tynnyrin pullea osa, pilssi, kupu (craw, crop). (various references) | |
French | sentine, fond de cale, bouchain (bilge plank, bilge plate, bilge trake). (various references) | |
German | Kielraum, Kimm (visual horizon), Bilge. (various references) | |
Greek | κύρτωμα (bump, camber, crook, curvature, hump), κάνω ρωγμή, κάνω νερά (spring a leak), κοιλιά βαρελιού, κοιλία (belly, ventricle), κοίλωμα κάδου, ύφαλα πυθμένοσ πλοίου, σεντίνα, παραπυθμενίς, υδροσυλλέκτησν, υδροσυλλέκτης, διαρρέω (leak, ooze, seep). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ס פיר (bilge keel, fin, flapper, flipper). (various references) | |
Hungarian | hajófenék (bottom, floor). (various references) | |
Indonesian | lambung. (various references) | |
Italian | sentina. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 船底 (ship's bottom). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ふなぞ" (ship's bottom), せ"てい (pruning, selection, ship's bottom, the late emperor). (various references) | |
Korean | 빌지 (bilges). (various references) | |
Manx | rummey, bolg (abdomen, belly, bowl, bowl of lamp, corporation, stomach, tummy). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ilgebay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | bojo de pipa, bojo de barril, bojo (boss, bowl, bulge, bunt), tirar o fundo, sentina, porão de esgoto, porão (basement, cargo hold, cellar, hold), palavreado chocho, fundo interior, fundo de porão, fazer bojo (bulge, bunt), fazer água, cantoneira (corner), asneira (rigmarole, rot, stupid thing, stupidity). (various references) | |
Romanian | burtã (abdomen, belly, bottom, gut, guts, paunch, pot belly, stomach). (various references) | |
Russian | днище (bottom). (various references) | |
Scottish | taoim (bilge water in a boat). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | brodsko dno, procuriti (begin to leak), oteći (drain, flow, swell, tumefy), naduti se, koještarija (baloney, buncombe, bunk, bunko, cobbler, crap, humbug, moonshine, nonsense, rigmarole, rot), kaljuga (mire, mud, slab, soil). (various references) | |
Spanish | sentina (cesspit). (various references) | |
Swedish | buk (abdomen, abdominal, belly, bow window, bunt, paunch, tummy). (various references) | |
Thai | ส่วนที่ต่ำที่สุ"ของเรือ, ความเหลวไหล (fiddle-dee-dee, kibosh). (various references) | |
Turkish | zırva (balderdash, baloney, blather, blether, boloney, bosh, bull, bunk, bunkum, eyewash, fiddle, fiddle-de-dee, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, flapdoodle, flimflam, gammon, garbage, gassing, hooey, jabber wocky, nonsense, punk, raving, ravings, rot, rubbish, stuff, tommyrot, twaddle), sintine suyu (bilge water), sintine, saçmalık (absurdity, applesauce, balderdash, blather, blatherskite, blether, bosh, drivel, extravagance, eyewash, farce, fatuity, fiddle-faddle, flapdoodle, flimflam, flubdub, footle, gab, galimatias, gassing, gibberish, guff, hog-wash, hokum, hooey, inanity, ineptitude, ineptness, insanity, irrationality, lark, malarkey, moonshine, nonsense, piffle, poppycock, punk, rot, rubbish, shenanigan, silliness, spinach, stuff, talkee-talkee, the irrational, trash, triviality, twaddle, vacuity, whimsicality, whimsicalness, wind, wishy-wash). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | нісенітниця (applesauce, balderdash, blah, bosh, drivel, flam, flubdub, haver, jiggery pokery, nonsense, shucks, slaver, tommyrot), найширша частина бочки, пробити днище, днище. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | chuyện bậy bạ. (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Late Latin | 300-700 | bulga. (various references) |
| Old North French | 1200-1500 | boulge. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bilge": bilged, bilges, bilgewater, bilgewaters. (additional references) | |
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"Bilge" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ablige, Balgie, begle, belg, belga, Belge, biage, Biaggi, Biagi, Bidge, Biga, Bigge, bigi, Biglan, Biglen, Bigli, bigme, bildge, Bilek, bilg, bilga, bilgen, bilger, bilget, bilgh, bilie, Bille, billee, birge, biue, bleg, blig, blige, bloge, bolga, builge, dilge, hilge, ileg, wilge. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-g-i-l" | |
-1 letter: bile, gibe, glib. | |
-2 letters: beg, bel, big, gel, gib, gie, leg, lei, lib, lie. | |
-3 letters: be, bi, el, li. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-g-i-l" | |
+1 letter: bilged, bilges, gerbil, giblet, oblige. | |
+2 letters: beguile, belling, belting, belying, bilgier, blueing, bulgier, filibeg, gerbils, giblets, gilbert, glibber, gribble, ignoble, legible, legibly, obliged, obligee, obliger, obliges. | |
+3 letters: agitable, beetling, begirdle, beguiled, beguiler, beguiles, belaying, belching, bellying, beltings, bemingle, benignly, beveling, bielding, bilgiest, blearing, bleating, bleeding, bleeping, blending, blessing, blighted, blighter, blindage, bluegill, blueings, boweling, bulgiest, elbowing, eligible, eligibly, enabling, exigible, filibegs, fungible, gainable, galabieh, gerbille, gilberts, gimbaled, giveable, glibbest, glibness, globbier, gribbles, guidable, gullible, labeling, libeling, obligate, obligees, obligers, pebbling, philabeg, philibeg, singable, tangible, trebling. | |
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