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Blat

Definition: Blat

Blat

Verb

1. Cry plaintively; "The lambs were bleating".

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

Date "blat" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1907. (references)


Specialty Definitions: Blat

DomainDefinitions

Computing

Blat n. 1. Syn. blast, sense 1. 2. See thud. Source: Jargon File.

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

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Synonyms: Blat

Synonyms: baa (v), blate (v), bleat (v). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Blat

English words defined with "blat": blat out. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Blat" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Occitan (corn, wheat), Provencal (wheat).

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Modern Usage: Blat

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

La Festa del Blat (1914)

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

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Commercial Usage: Blat

DomainTitle

Books

  • La palmera de blat (reference)

  • Russia's Economy of Favours : Blat, Networking and Informal Exchange (reference)

  • Bribery and Blat in Russia: Negotiating Reciprocity from the Middle Ages to the 1990s (Studies in Russian and East European History and Society) (reference)

  • El blat del temps (reference)

  • La festa del blat (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

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

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Expression: Blat

Expression using "blat": blat out. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Blat

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

  blat

72

  blat khayma.com

3

  blat caio

3

  blat form

2

  blat francisco gimeno

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Blat

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

Hungarian

  

bégetés (baa, baaing, bleat, bleating), nagyszájúság, kotyogás (blatter, chuck, cluck, clucking, gurgle, hammering, ping, slack), kirívó közönségesség, kikotyogás, kifecsegés (divulgation, telling), hangoskodás (bluster, rowdiness), feltűnő közönségesség, fecsegés (babble, blab, blatter, cackle, chaffering, chat, chatter, clack, clash, driveling, drivelling, gab, gabble, gossiping, jabber, jangle, lip, loquacity, palaver, piffle, prattle, small talk, talk, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

atblay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Blat

Derivations

Words beginning with "blat": blatancies, blatancy, blatant, blatantly, blate, blather, blathered, blatherer, blatherers, blathering, blathers, blatherskite, blatherskites, blats, blatted, blatter, blattered, blattering, blatters, blatting. (additional references)

Words containing "blat": ablate, ablated, ablates, ablating, ablation, ablations, ablative, ablatively, ablatives, entablature, entablatures, oblate, oblately, oblateness, oblatenesses, oblates, oblation, oblations, oblatory, sublate, sublated, sublates, sublating, sublation, sublations, tablature, tablatures. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Blat" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Balt, Balta, balti, balto, balut, bhat, bla, blaaa, blaat, blach, blad, blag, blait, blant, blap, blar, blart, blath, blato, blatt, Blatta, blatz, blau, blav, blaw, blax, blaz, bliaut, blit, Blitt, Blut, Bluto, Btat, Bulat, bwat, Lbut, vlat. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Blat

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-l-t"

-1 letter: alb, alt, bal, bat, lab, lat, tab.

-2 letters: ab, al, at, ba, la, ta.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-l-t"
 

+1 letter: blast, blate, blats, bleat, bloat, tabla, table, tubal.

 

+2 letters: ablate, ablaut, ablest, abvolt, albata, albeit, albite, atabal, balata, ballet, ballot, basalt, battle, blasts, blasty, bleats, bloats, boatel, brutal, bytalk, cablet, cobalt, labret, lobate, oblast, oblate, stable, stably, tablas, tabled, tables, tablet, tabuli, tibial, timbal, tombal, tribal, tymbal.

 

+3 letters: abettal, ability, ablated, ablates, ablauts, abluent, abluted, abuttal, abvolts, actable, albatas, albites, albitic, astilbe, atabals, backlit, bailout, balatas, baldest, ballast, ballets, ballots, ballute, basalts, bastile, batfowl, bathyal, batlike, battled, battler, battles, beastly, belated, beleapt, beltway, benthal, bestial, bimetal, bitable, blanket, blasted, blaster, blastie, blatant, blather, blatted, blatter, bleated, bleater, bloated, bloater, boatels, boatful, bobtail, borstal, brattle, bullate, bullbat, butanol, buttals, butyral, bytalks, cablets, citable, cobalts, cubital, datable, eatable, flatbed, flyboat, getable, globate, halbert, halibut, hatable, labiate, labrets, lambast, lambent, lambert, librate, limbate, lobated, mutable, mutably, notable, notably, oblasti, oblasts, oblates, orbital, outbawl, potable, ratable, ratably, retable, saltbox, stabile, stabled, stabler, stables, stibial, sublate, tableau, tablets, tabling, tabloid, tabouli, tabular, tabulis, takable, tallboy, tamable, tambala, taxable, taxably, teabowl, tenable, tenably, timbale, timbals, timbral, tollbar, tombola, totable, triable, tubular, tunable, tunably, tymbals, typable, votable.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Blat


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

42 6C 61 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

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 01101100 01100001 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#108 &#97 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 006C 0061 0074

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

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

36786786

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INDEX

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


  

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