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Definition: Carafe |
CarafeNoun1. A bottle with a stopper; for serving wine or water. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "carafe" was first used: 1786. (references) |
Etymology: Carafe \Ca*rafe"\, noun. [French expression]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Personal Care & Hotels | On bottle with a flaring lip used to hold water or leverages. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: CarafeSynonym: decanter (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Carafe |
| Non-English Usage: "Carafe" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (carafe, carfe, decanter, jug, tankard). |
| Domain | Title |
Consumer Goods | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Carafe" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.44% of the time. "Carafe" is used about 39 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) | 97.44% | 38 | 55,818 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.56% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 39 | N/A |
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. |
| Language | Translations for "carafe"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | kanë (ewer, have, jug, jugful, pitcher), brokë (flagon, pitcher). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | قنينة (bottle, flacon, flask, vial), غرافة إبريق زجاجي, إبريق زجاجي (cruet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | гарафа (decanter, flagon, water bottle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | karafa (cruet, water bottle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | karaffel. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | karaf (decanter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | karafo (decanter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | karahvi (decanter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | carafe (carfe). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | karaffe (decanter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | καράφα (decanter, flagon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | בקבוק (bottle, flask). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | vizeskancsó (ewer, water jug, water pitcher). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | caraffa (carfe, decanter, flagon, jug). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | caraafe (water bottle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | arafecay garrafa (bottle). (various references) sticlã (bottle, flagon, flask, glass, phial), garafã (decanter, flagon). (various references) графин (decanter, water bottle). (various references) bokal (decanter, ewer, pitcher). (various references) garrafa (carboy, decanter, demijohn, glass balloon, winchester). (various references) karaff (decanter). (various references) ขว"ชนิ"หนึ่งใช้ใส่น้ำ"ื่มหรือไวน์เพื่อเสิร์ฟที่โต๊ะอาหาร. (various references) sürahi (decanter, jug, pitcher), karaf. (various references) карафа (decanter), графин (decanter, flagon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Arabic | 500-Modern | gharraf. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "carafe": carafes. (additional references) | |
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"Carafe" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: caaf, Caerfai, Calafat, caraf, Carafa, caraffe, carafino, Caranfil, carate, carige, carlfa, Carnarfon, carpave, carrafe, carrage, cerade, cerae, Crarae, crefe, crife, curace, Kharafi, Maraffi, Najafi. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-f-r" | |
-1 letter: areca, facer, farce. | |
-2 letters: acre, afar, area, cafe, care, face, fare, fear, frae, race. | |
-3 letters: ace, arc, are, arf, car, ear, era, far, fer, rec, ref. | |
-4 letters: aa, ae, ar, ef, er, fa, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-f-r" | |
+1 letter: carafes, carfare. | |
+2 letters: artefact, carfares, fracases, furcraea, seacraft. | |
+3 letters: affricate, aftercare, afterclap, artefacts, barefaced, cafeteria, cafetoria, fabricate, factorage, flagrance, fragrance, furcraeas, seacrafts. | |
+4 letters: affirmance, affricates, aftercares, afterclaps, cafeterias, defalcator, fabricated, fabricates, factorable, factorages, flagrances, fragrances, fricandeau, malefactor, spacecraft, stagecraft, statecraft, tradecraft, watercraft. | |
+5 letters: acriflavine, affirmances, affricative, barefacedly, calefactory, defalcators, farinaceous, flagrancies, forbearance, fractionate, fragrancies, fricandeaus, fricandeaux, handcrafted, interfacial, malefactors, manufacture, microfaunae, parfocalize, rarefaction, safecracker, spacecrafts, stagecrafts, statecrafts, tradecrafts, trafficable, watercrafts. | |
| 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)43 61 72 61 66 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- .-. .- ..-. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01110010 01100001 01100110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a r a f e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 0072 0061 0066 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)376784677271 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Translations: Ancient 10. Derivations 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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