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Definition: Blain |
BlainNoun1. An inflammatory swelling or sore. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "blain" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Blemish | Freckle, mole, macula, patch, blotch, birthmark; blobber lip, blubber lip; blain, maculation; scar, wem; pustule; whelk; excrescence, pimple; (protuberance). |
Convexity | Pimple, zit; wen, wheel, papula, pustule, pock, proud flesh, growth, sarcoma, caruncle, corn, wart, pappiloma, furuncle, polypus, fungus, fungosity, exostosis, bleb, blister, blain; boil; (disease); airbubble, blob, papule, verruca. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Blain" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 92.86% of the time. "Blain" is used about 14 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) | 92.86% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Noun (proper) | 7.14% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 14 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "blain" 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 |
| Blain | Last name | 2,000 | 6,241 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
1. Blain, PA (borough, FIPS 6824) |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "blain": Blain-thomson. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
david blain | 175 | blain wa | 3 |
blain farm fleet | 35 | blain wilson | 3 |
blain | 25 | blain jason | 3 |
blain supply | 14 | blain david levitate | 3 |
blain pennsylvania | 13 | david blain levitation | 2 |
street magic david blain | 6 | david blain secret | 2 |
blain macy | 5 | david blain card trick | 2 |
david blain magic | 5 | blain inc supply | 2 |
angeline blain kearns | 4 | blain david levitates | 2 |
david blain magic trick | 4 | david blain street magician | 2 |
david blain trick | 4 | blain farm | 2 |
blain hodson tracy | 4 | blain david revealed trick | 2 |
blain jensen rv | 4 | blain charbonneau joyal | 2 |
magician david blain | 4 | ||
blain charbonneau joyal | 2 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "blain"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i thatë (arid, dead, dehydrated, dried, dry, empty, furuncle, lank, lathy, peaked, rainless, raw boned, scraggy, scrannel, scrawny, scrubby, sec, sere, short, skinny, slab-sided, slender, spare, spidery, thin, waterless, wizen, wizened). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | пришка (bleb, blister, gall, pustule, spot, whelk). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σπυρί (abscess, grain, pimple, pustule, spot, whelp), φλεγμονή (inflammation, swelling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | gennytüszõ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | pustola (pimple, pimples, pock, pustula, pustule, whelk). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | mamm (blister, boil, nipple), gurrin (pimple, tubercle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ainblay pústula (blotch, pin, pocket, pustule), ferida (bed sore, bite, bole scar, bruise, callus, cut, hurt, injury, lesion, puncture, raw, slash, sore, trauma, wound, wounded). (various references) чирей. (various references) gnojni čir (abscess). (various references) blemma (blotch, pimple). (various references) şişlik (boss, chilblain, intumescence, protuberance, proud flesh, puff, puffiness, rising, swelling, thickening, turgescence), çıban (abscess, boil, fistula, gathering, swelling). (various references) нарив (abscess). (various references) mụn rộp. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "blain": blains. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "blain": chilblain. (additional references) | |
Words containing "blain": chilblains. (additional references) | |
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"Blain" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abelian, Abolarin, alain, balai, balan, Balbi, Balbiani, Balbina, balim, balint, ballin, Balmin, balnain, Balun, belauan, bellani, bhain, blaaa, Blaauw, Blaen, blaim, blainy, blais, blait, blan, blani, blarn, blau, blawn, blean, bleni, blina, blinn, blinq, Blouin, Bolaji, bolian, Bulavin, bwain, glain, Ubalbini, vlain. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "blain" (pronounced blā"n) |
| 3 | -l ā" n | alane, complain, delaine, explain, lain, Lane, plain, plane, slain. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: binal. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-i-l-n" | |
-1 letter: anil, bail, bani, blin, lain, nail. | |
-2 letters: ail, ain, alb, ani, bal, ban, bin, lab, lib, lin, nab, nib, nil. | |
-3 letters: ab, ai, al, an, ba, bi, in, la, li, na. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-i-l-n" | |
+1 letter: ablins, albino, baling, blains. | |
+2 letters: abelian, ablings, aiblins, albinal, albinic, albinos, albumin, ambling, bailing, bairnly, balding, balking, balling, basinal, bawling, biplane, bizonal, blaming, blaring, blawing, blazing, cabling, coalbin, fabling, finable, gabling, hobnail, lambing, lambkin, lesbian, linable, minable, minilab, pinball, tabling. | |
+3 letters: ablating, ablation, ablution, abutilon, albinism, albumins, alibiing, anabolic, babbling, baculine, baffling, bailment, bailsman, bailsmen, balkline, banality, banalize, bangtail, bantling, barnlike, baronial, baseline, basinful, battling, baulking, beanlike, belaying, biannual, biathlon, bidental, biennale, biennial, bilander, bilinear, billycan, bimanual, bimensal, binately, binaural, bindable, binnacle, binomial, bioclean, biplanes, bivalent, blabbing, blackfin, blacking, blandish, blanking, blasting, blatting, blearing, bleating, blindage, blinkard, bloating, boltonia, brailing, brainily, brantail, brasilin, brawling, brawnily, brazilin, bubaline, cannibal, carbinol, coalbins, coinable, dabbling, deniable, deniably, enabling, enviable, enviably, findable, fineable, gabbling, gainable, gambling, garbling, handbill, hibernal, hobnails, inarable, instable, inviable, inviably, joinable, jubilant, labeling, laboring, lambkins, lambskin, lesbians, libation, libelant, lienable, lineable, linkable, lobation, mandible, marbling, mineable, minilabs, oblation, olibanum, panbroil, pinballs, plebeian, publican, rabbling, rambling, rinsable, ruinable, sibilant, singable, sinkable, slabbing, stabling, tailbone, tangible, tangibly, tribunal, turbinal, unviable, wabbling, wambling, warbling, windable, winnable. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 6C 61 69 6E |
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .-.. .- .. -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01101100 01100001 01101001 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B l a i n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 006C 0061 0069 006E |
| 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)3678677580 |
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