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Dragee

Definition: Dragee

Dragee

Noun

1. Silver-coated candy bead for decorating cakes.

2. Sugar-coated nut or fruit piece.

3. Pill that is a sugar-coated medicated candy.

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


Specialty Definition: Dragee

DomainDefinition

Food & Agriculture

Or--the process of coating nuts, preserved fruit, caramels, nougat, chocolate or certain kinds of paste with sugar or chocolate is known as "panning" Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Crosswords: Dragee

Non-English Usage: "Dragee" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

German (dragee, sugar-coated pill).

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Dragee

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

dragee almond

7

dragee

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

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Modern Translation: Dragee

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

Czech

  

dražé. (various references)

   

Danish

  

dragévarer (panned good, panned sweet, pralines, sugar almonds, sugar coated good, sugared almond, sugared almonds), dragé (panned good, panned sweet, pralines, sugar almonds, sugar coated good, sugared almond, sugared almonds), kandiserede mandler (panned good, panned sweet, pralines, sugar almonds, sugar coated good, sugared almond, sugared almonds). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

dragees (panned good, panned sweet, pralines, sugar almonds, sugar coated good, sugared almond, sugared almonds), dragee (panned good, panned sweet, pralines, sugar almonds, sugar coated good, sugar-coated tablet, sugared almond, sugared almonds), suikerboon (panned good, panned sweet, pralines, sugar almonds, sugar coated good, sugared almond, sugared almonds), suikeramandel (panned good, panned sweet, pralines, sugar almonds, sugar coated good, sugared almond, sugared almonds), gedrageerd artikel (panned good, panned sweet, pralines, sugar almonds, sugar coated good, sugared almond, sugared almonds). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

sokeroitu manteli (panned good, panned sweet, pralines, sugar almonds, sugar coated good, sugared almond, sugared almonds). (various references)

   

French

  

dragee, dragée, produit dragéifié. (various references)

   

German

  

dragee (sugar-coated pill). (various references)

   

Italian

  

prodotto confettato (panned good, panned sweet, pralines, sugar almonds, sugar coated good, sugared almond, sugared almonds), confetto (bonbon, bon-bon, candy, comfit, sugared almond), confetti (panned good, panned sweet, pralines, sugar almonds, sugar coated good, sugared almond, sugared almonds). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ageedray

   

Portuguese

  

drageias (panned good, panned sweet, pralines, sugar almonds, sugar coated good, sugared almond, sugared almonds), drageia (hard panned goods, panned good, panned sweet, pralines, sugar almonds, sugar coated good, sugared almond, sugared almonds), drágea, amêndoa francesa (panned good, panned sweet, pralines, sugar almonds, sugar coated good, sugared almond, sugared almonds). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

драже (drop). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

gragea (pill). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

drage (sugar-coated peel). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

draje, badem şekeri. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

драже (drop). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Dragee

Derivations

Words beginning with "dragee": dragees. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Dragee

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: agreed, geared.

Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-g-r"

-1 letter: agree, eager, eagre, eared, edger, grade, greed, raged, ragee.

-2 letters: aged, agee, ager, dare, dear, deer, dere, drag, dree, dreg, edge, egad, eger, gaed, gear, geed, grad, gree, rage, read, rede, reed.

-3 letters: age, are, dag, dee, ear, era, ere, erg, gad, gae, gar, ged, gee, rad, rag, red, ree, reg.

-4 letters: ad, ae.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-g-r"
 

+1 letter: angered, degrade, derange, dragees, enraged, grandee, greased, greaved, grenade, lagered, preaged, ragweed, regaled, regrade, wagered.

 

+2 letters: averaged, badgered, beggared, daggered, dangered, degasser, degraded, degrader, degrades, degrease, deranged, deranges, derogate, disagree, dogeared, dressage, dungaree, endanger, engraved, enlarged, gadarene, gandered, gardened, gardener, garnered, gartered, gathered, gendarme, gheraoed, grandees, graveled, grenades, hardedge, headgear, jaggeder, laagered, overaged, pargeted, presaged, raggeder, ragweeds, reargued, redamage, redargue, regained, regarded, regauged, regeared, reglazed, regraded, regrades, regrated, rehanged, reimaged, renegade, renegado, restaged, retagged, saggered, targeted, underage.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Dragee


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

44 72 61 67 65 65

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)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01110010 01100001 01100111 01100101 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#114 &#97 &#103 &#101 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0072 0061 0067 0065 0065

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

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

388467737171

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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