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Burin

Definition: Burin

Burin

Noun

1. A chisel of tempered steel with a sharp point; used for engraving.

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


Specialty Definitions: Burin

DomainDefinitions

Publishing & Graphic Arts

A steel graver or cutting tool with a lozenge-shaped point, used for engraving on metal. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Synonyms within Context: Burin

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Engraving

Graver, burin, etching point, style; plate, stone, wood block, negative; die, punch, stamp.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Burin

English words defined with "burin": BurinistDry pointGraverline engraving. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Burin" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (burin), German (boer), Serbo-Croatian (burin).

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Commercial Usage: Burin

DomainTitle

Books

  • Du burin au laser : la gravure pour tissu du XVIIIe siècle à nos jours (reference)

  • Initiation à la gravure : eau-forte, pointe sèche, aqua-tinte, burin (reference)

  • Le burin (reference)

  • Peintre-Graveur: Contenant L'Histoire De LA Gravare Sur Bois, Sur Metal Et Au Burin Jusque Vers LA Fix Du Seizieme Siecle/6 Volumes in 3. (reference)

  • Quelques coups de burin pour la statue de Dutourd (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Image Slideshow: Burin

Illustrations:
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Usage Frequency: Burin

"Burin" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Burin" is used about 4 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%4175,879

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Burin

The following table summarizes the usage of "burin" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
BurinLast name17044,370
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Burin

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

burin

22

burin newfoundland

5

burin peninsula

4

board burin peninsula school

4

burin canada

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Burin

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

Arabic 

  

‏المنقاش أداة. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

щихел (graver), гравьорски резец. (various references)

   

Czech

  

náèiní rytce. (various references)

   

Danish

  

gravstikke (etcher's needle, graver), gravestikke, gravernål (etcher's needle, graver). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

naald (needle, pin), graveerstift (etcher's needle, graver), etsnaald (stylus). (various references)

   

French

  

burin. (various references)

   

German

  

stichel (gouge). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κοπίδι (chisel, cutter), γλυφή χαράκτου. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

vésõ (adze, chisel). (various references)

   

Italian

  

bulino (chisel, cold chisel, etcher's needle, graver). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

urinbay

   

Portuguese

  

buril (chisel, graver, puncheon). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

резец гравера. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

burin, igla za graviranje. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

buril (cold chisel, etcher's needle, graver). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

gravsticker. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

різець гравера. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

dao trổ (scalper), dao khắc (engraver). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Burin

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Sumerian3100 BCE-2500 BCE

buru. (various references)

Latin500 BCE-Modern

caeli, caelique, caelis, caelo, caelorum, caelum, celita. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Burin

Derivations

Words beginning with "burin": burins. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Burin" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: barian, barin, Barni, barrin, Bauhin, beran, Berin, Beuren, Bhuird, birlinn, birmin, Birnin, boran, borim, borine, bruan, brucin, Bruhn, Bruijn, Bruijne, bruun, Bruyn, Bucin, Budin, budino, Buir, bujic, burana, buraq, burdin, buri, burian, Buric, buring, Burion, burit, burkian, Burkin, Burlin, burne, Buron, burran, burren, burri, burtini, Buryan, buyin, Euryn, ubring, urin. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Burin"

Words rhyming with "burin" (pronounced 'Bu"rin'): Aurin, Cerin, Chrysaurin, Convallarin, Morin, Muscarin, Onocerin, Polyperythrin, Quadrin, Uroerythrin, Warrin. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Burin

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: bruin.

Words within the letters "b-i-n-r-u"

-1 letter: brin, burn, ruin.

-2 letters: bin, bun, bur, nib, nub, rib, rin, rub, run, urb, urn.

-3 letters: bi, in, nu, un.

 Words containing the letters "b-i-n-r-u"
 

+1 letter: brucin, bruins, burins, burnie.

 

+2 letters: brucine, brucins, bruting, burking, burling, burnies, burning, burnish, burping, burring, burying, butyrin, curbing, inburst, nubbier, rubbing, rubying, suberin, subring, sunbird, tribune, turbine, unbraid.

 

+3 letters: abjuring, airbound, binaural, blurbing, blurring, blurting, bouncier, braunite, brucines, bruising, bruiting, brunizem, brushing, bullring, bunchier, burbling, burgling, burnings, bursting, butyrins, crumbing, curbings, drubbing, embruing, furibund, grubbing, imbruing, inbursts, incumber, inurbane, knubbier, manubria, moribund, nubblier, purblind, rebuking, rebuying, rubbings, rubbling, rubicund, ruinable, rumbaing, rumbling, snubbier, suberins, subrings, sunbirds, tribunal, tribunes, turbinal, turbines, umbering, unbitter, unbraids, unbridle, unbright, unburied, underbid, unlimber, unrobing, urbanise, urbanism, urbanist, urbanite, urbanity, urbanize, viburnum, windburn.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Burin


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

42 75 72 69 6E

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

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

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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 01110101 01110010 01101001 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#117 &#114 &#105 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0075 0072 0069 006E

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

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

3687847580

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Non-English Dictionaries with "Burin"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Arabic

‏معجم, ‏قاموس, ‏الوضوحية في الشيء, ‏حد, ‏تحديد, ‏تعريف, ‏التحديد, ‏الإيضاحية, ‏ترجمة من لغة أجنبية للغة الأم, ‏ترجمة, ‏إفتتان‏العربية, ‏عربي, ‏اللغة العربية, арабски език, арабски, arabský, arabština, arabe, arabisch, αραβικόσ, arab, arabo, арабский, arapski, árabe, arabisk, арабська мова, арабський, tiếng A-rập, thuộc A-rập

Bulgarian

речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, превод‏البلغارية, ‏بلغاري, български, български език, българин, bulharský, bulgarer, bulgare, 'ούλγαρος, bolgár, bulgaro, болгарский, болгарин, bugarski jezik, bugarski, bugarka, bugarin, búlgaro, bulgar, болгарський, người Bun-ga-ri tiếng Bun-ga-ri

Czech

slovník, definice, překlad‏تشيكي, ‏اللغة التشيكوسلوفاكية, ‏التشيكي أحد أبناء تشيكوسلوفاكيا, чешки, èesky, èeské, èech, èeština, èeský, èeška, tjekker, tjekke, Tsjech, Tsjechisch, tchèque, Tscheche, tschechisch, Tschechin, Τσέχος, cseh, ceco, чешский, češki jezik, čeh, češki, checo, tjeck, чех, чеська мова, чеський, чешка, người Séc tiếng Séc

Danish

ordbog, deskriptordefinition, oversættelse‏لغة الدانمركية, ‏نوع كعك, ‏دانماركي, датски език, датски, dánský, dánština, danois, dänisch, δανικόσ, δανόσ, dán, danese, dinamarquês, датский, danski, danski jezik, danés, dansk, датський, датська мова, tiếng Đan-mạch

Dutch

woordenboek, definitie, translatie‏هولندي, ‏اللغة الهولندية, холандски, немски език, холандски език, холандците, немски, holandský, nizozemský, hollandsk, néerlandais, holländisch, ολλανδικόσ, ολλανδόσ, holland, olandese, holandês, голландский, holanđanin, u škripcu, holandski, holandés, holländsk, голландська мова, голландський, ngôn ngữ khó hiểu, "b xã"

French

dictionnaire, définition, traduction‏اللغة الفرنسية, ‏فرنسي, ‏الشعب الفرنسي, френски език, френски, francouzský, francouzština, français, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, francia, francese, francês, французский, francuski jezik, francuski, francuzi, francés, fransk, franska, французька мова, французький

German

wörterbuch, Übersetzung‏ضرب من الرقص, ‏جرماني, ‏الماني, ‏اللغة الألمانية, ‏المانية, германски, немски език, немски, немец, роден, готически, германец, nìmec, nìmecký, tysker, Duitse, allemand, deutsch, Deutsche, "ερμανός, német, tedesco, alemão, немецкий, germanski, alemán, tysk, німкеня, німецький, німець, $sisters german$ chị em ruột, $cousin german$ anh chị em con chú bác ruột, sister

Greek

λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση‏يوناني, ‏اللغة اليونانية, ‏الإغريقي, гръцки език, гръцки, грък, řek, řecký, řeètina, græker, grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, görög, greco, grego, греческий, грек, grčki, grk, grčki jezik, griego, grek, грецький, гречанка, грецька мова, quân bạc bịp tôi không thể hiểu được điều đó thật l kỳ phùng địch thủ, kẻ lừa đảo, kẻ cắp b gi gặp nhau, người Hy-lạp tiếng Hy-lạp kẻ bịp bợm

Hungarian

szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás‏مجري, ‏المجري, ‏الهنغاري, ‏هنغاري, ‏اللغة الهنغارية, унгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, maïarský, maïarština, maïar, ungarer, Hongaarse, hongrois, Ungar, Ούγγρος, magyar, ungherese, венгр, венгерский, mađarski jezik, mađarski, mađar, húngaro, ungrare, угорська мова, угорський, угорка, угорець, người Hung-ga-ri tiếng Hung-ga-ri

Italian

dizionario, definizione, traduzione‏الإيطالي, ‏اللغة الإيطالية, ‏إيطالي, ‏شخص إيطالي, италиански език, италиански, италианец, italský, italština, ital, italiener, italien, italienisch, Ιταλός, olasz, italiano, итальянский язык, итальянец, итальянский, italijan, italijanski jezik, italijanski, italiensk, italienska, italienare, італі"ць, італійська мова, італійський, італійка

Portuguese

dicionário, definição, tradução‏اللغة البرتغالية, ‏البرتغالية, ‏البرتغالي, португалски, португалски език, португалец, portugalský, portugiser, portugais, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portugál, portoghese, português, португальский, portugalski jezik, portugalac, portugalski, portugués, portugis, португальський, португальська мова, португалець, người B"-đ o-nha tiếng B"-đ o-nha

Russian

словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение‏روسي, ‏اللغة الروسية, ‏الروسية, руски език, руски, руснак, ruština, ruský, russer, Russe, russisch, Ρώσος, orosz, russo, русский, ruski jezik, ruski, ruso, ryss, росіянка, росіянин, російська мова, російський, người Nga tiếng Nga

Serbo-Croatian

leksikon, rečnik, definicija, tumačenjeserbokroatisch, servo-croata, srpsko-hrvatski jezik, srpsko-hrvatski, serbokroatiska, serbokroatisk

Spanish

diccionario, definición, traducción‏اللغة الأسبانية, ‏الأسبانية, ‏أسباني, испански език, испански, španìlský, španìlština, Spaans, espagnol, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, spanyol, spagnolo, espanhol, испанский, španski, španski jezik, español, spanska språk, spansk, іспанський, іспанська мова

Swedish

ordbok, lexikon, definition, översättning‏اللغة السويدية, шведски, шведски език, швед, švédský, švédština, Zweeds, suédois, schwedisch, σουηδικόσ, σουηδικά, svéd, svedese, шведский, švedski jezik, švedski, sueco, svensk, шведська мова, шведський, người Thuỵ điển tiếng Thuỵ điển

Ukranian

словник, довідник, чіткість, тлумачення, виразність, визначення, дефініція, ясність, чітка чутність, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщення

Vietnamese

có tính chất sách vở, sự định rõ, sự định nghĩa, lời định nghĩa sự định, sự dịch, sự biến th nh sự giải thíchвиетнамски език, виетнамски, vietnamec, vietnamský, vietnamka, vietnamština, vietnameser, vietnamien, vietnamesin, vietnamesisch, vietnamese, 'ιετναμέζος, vietnami, vietnámi, vietnamita, вьетнамский, vijetnamski jezik, vijetnamski, vijetnamac, vietnames, в'"тнамець, в'"тнамський, người Việt nam tiếng Việt

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translation‏الإنجليزية, ‏الأنكليزي, ‏إنكليزي, ‏ترجمة إنكليزية, ‏اللغة الإنكليزية, английски език, английски, англичаните, anglicky, anglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, angol, inglese, inglês, английский, engleski, englez, engleski jezik, inglés, engelsk, англійський, англійці, англійська мова
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Usage Frequency
6. Names: Frequency
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Translations: Ancient
10. Derivations
11. Rhymes
12. Anagrams
13. Orthography
14. Bibliography


  

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