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Definition: Buttoned-up |
Buttoned-upAdjective1. (British colloquial) not inclined to conversation. 2. Conservative in professional manner; "employers are looking for buttoned-up types". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| "Buttoned-up" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Buttoned-up" is used about 9 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 9 | 117,287 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "buttoned-up"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 按 (Buttoned, Buttoning, Had, HAS, have, Having, Pressed, Pressing, press-up). (various references) | ||||
Korean | 단"를 끼우" 위로. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | uttoned-upbay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-e-n-o-p-t-t-u-u" | |
-2 letters: buttoned, unpotted. | |
-3 letters: upbound. | |
-4 letters: bunted, butted, button, nutted, obtund, output, potent, potted, pouted, punted, putout, putted, tenuto, touted, tuneup. | |
-5 letters: beton, boned, bound, bundt, buteo, butte, butut, debut, depot, donut, doubt, netop, noted, opted, outed, petto, pound, punto, puton, putto, toned, toped, toted, tubed, tuned, undue, upend. | |
| 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 75 74 74 6F 6E 65 64 2D 75 70 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01110101 01110100 01110100 01101111 01101110 01100101 01100100 00101101 01110101 01110000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B u t t o n e d - u p |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0075 0074 0074 006F 006E 0065 0064 002D 0075 0070 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3687868681807170158782 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , 중국 |
Korean | 사 , 의, 번역 | 韩国语, "國 , 朝鮮語 , 한국 |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , 영국 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage Frequency 3. Translations: Modern 4. Anagrams | 5. Orthography 6. Bibliography |
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