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Definitions: Birdlime |
BirdlimeNoun1. A sticky adhesive that is smeared on small branches to capture small birds. Verb1. Spread birdlime on branches to catch birds. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "birdlime" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references) |
Synonym: BirdlimeSynonym: lime (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Connection | Cement, glue, gum, paste, size, wafer, solder, lute, putty, birdlime, mortar, stucco, plaster, grout; viscum. |
Deception | Snare, trap, pitfall, decoy, gin; springe, springle; noose, hoot; bait, decoy-duck, tub to the whale, baited trap, guet-a-pens; cobweb, net, meshes, toils, mouse trap, birdlime; dionaea, Venus's flytrap; ambush; trapdoor, sliding panel, false bottom; spring-net, spring net, spring gun, mask, masked battery; mine; flytrap; green goods; panel house. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Birdlime |
| English words defined with "birdlime": Belime ♦ Guttatrap ♦ Inviscate ♦ lime, Lime-twigged ♦ Trap tree ♦ Viscin. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "birdlime": FICUS CITRIFOLIA. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "birdlime": Englaimed, Englue ♦ Ixia, Ixodes. (references) |
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| "Birdlime" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Birdlime" is used about 2 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% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
birdlime | 14 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "birdlime"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | الدابوق مادة لزجة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | glu (bird lime). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ιξόσ (lime, mistletoe), ξοβέργα. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 鳥黐 , 黐 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | もち (be not, charge, do not, draw, durability, hold, in charge, keep possession, life, must not, sticky rice cake, usage, wear), とりもち (entertainment, mediation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | glooee eean, gleiy ushag, gleiy ghlass. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | irdlimebay cola para pegar pássaros. (various references) птичий клей (bird-lime, lime). (various references) liga (alloy, bird lime, blend, garter, league, lime, pickup, slime, suspender, table). (various references) ökse (lime). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Old English | 450-1100 | lim. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "birdlime": birdlimed, birdlimes. (additional references) | |
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"Birdlime" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: birdlife, Birdline, birlime. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-e-i-i-l-m-r" | |
-1 letter: limbier. | |
-2 letters: birdie, birled, bridle, ibidem, limbed, limber, limier, midrib, milder. | |
-3 letters: bedim, bider, bield, birle, bride, dimer, idler, imbed, imide, liber, libri, limbi, limed, medii, miler, mired, rebid, riled, rimed. | |
-4 letters: berm, bide, bier, bile, bird, birl, bled, bred, brie, brim, deil, deli, derm, diel, dime, dire, dirl, drib, emir, idem, idle, imid. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-d-e-i-i-l-m-r" | |
+1 letter: birdlimed, birdlimes. | |
+3 letters: remobilized. | |
+4 letters: irremediable, irremediably. | |
+5 letters: administrable, discriminable, remediability, thimblerigged. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 69 72 64 6C 69 6D 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .. .-. -.. .-.. .. -- . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01101001 01110010 01100100 01101100 01101001 01101101 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B i r d l i m e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0069 0072 0064 006C 0069 006D 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3675847078757971 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Translations: Ancient | 9. Derivations 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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