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Definition: Ear Lobe |
Ear LobeNoun1. The fleshy pendulous part of the external human ear. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Ear LobeSynonym: earlobe (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Ear Lobe |
| English words defined with "ear lobe": auditory center ♦ earring ♦ Lobule of the ear. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ear lobe": laboratory assistant ♦ medical technicia, MEDICAL-LABORATORY TECHNICIAN. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Ma stepped to her, put the cork in back of the ear lobe and pushed the needle through the ear, into the cork. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
ear lobe | 22 |
ear lobe stretching | 19 |
ear lobe piercing | 8 |
ear lobe infection | 6 |
ear lobe plug | 5 |
crease ear lobe | 5 |
cyst ear lobe | 4 |
ear lobe stretched | 4 |
ear lobe torn | 4 |
ear lobe reduction surgery | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ear lobe"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | oereflip (ear lap). (various references) | |
Dutch | oorlelletje (ear lap). (various references) | |
Finnish | korvannipukka. (various references) | |
French | lobule (ear lap). (various references) | |
German | Ohrlaeppchen (ear lap), Ohrenlappen. (various references) | |
Greek | λοβός αυτιού. (various references) | |
Italian | lobo (clout, ear lap, earlobe, lobe, rag, rags). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | earay obelay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | ouvido (audition, auris, ear, hearing, vent). (various references) | |
Spanish | lóbulo de oreja. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: earlobe. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-e-l-o-r" | |
-1 letter: aerobe, areole, boreal. | |
-2 letters: abele, abler, baler, blare, blear, bolar, boral, labor, laree, lobar, rebel, roble. | |
-3 letters: able, aero, alee, aloe, bale, bare, bear, beer, blae, boar, bola, bole, bora, bore, brae, bree, earl, lear, leer, lobe, lore, olea, oral, orle, rale, real, reel, robe, role. | |
-4 letters: abo, alb, ale, arb, are, bal, bar, bee, bel, boa, bra, bro, ear, eel, era, ere, lab, lar, lea, lee, lob, oar, obe, ole, ora, orb, ore, reb, ree, rob, roe. | |
-5 letters: ab, ae, al, ar, ba, be, bo, el, er, la, lo, oe, or, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-e-l-o-r" | |
+1 letter: earlobes, exorable, leeboard, operable, overable. | |
+2 letters: banderole, bandoleer, belabored, bracteole, coverable, elaborate, forgeable, leeboards, memorable, orderable, porbeagle, removable, revocable, revokable, tolerable. | |
+3 letters: banderoles, bandoleers, beclamored, beglamored, belaboured, blastomere, bracteoles, brocatelle, celebrator, deformable, deplorable, deportable, elaborated, elaborates, emblazoner, endorsable, exportable, governable, hyperbolae, inexorable, inoperable, neoliberal, obliterate, observable, overbleach, personable, ponderable, porbeagles, reasonable, reclosable, recordable, recoupable, reformable, removeable, reportable, resolvable, restorable, revolvable. | |
+4 letters: barrelhouse, beglamoured, blastomeres, boilermaker, boilerplate, brocatelles, celebration, celebrators, celebratory, conferrable, conversable, correctable, elaborately, elaborative, emblazoners, enforceable, foreseeable, forfeitable, forgettable, halterbroke, intolerable, irremovable, irrevocable, leaderboard, memorizable, neoliberals, nonreusable, obliterated, obliterates, observables, overbalance, overlabored, performable, processable, projectable, recoverable, redoubtable, relocatable, rhabdocoele, treasonable, unelaborate, unmemorable, unremovable, wheelbarrow. | |
+5 letters: adorableness, aeroembolism, bachelorette, banderillero, barrelhouses, boilermakers, boilerplates, boulevardier, breechloader, celebrations, concelebrant, concelebrate, considerable, coralberries, correlatable, deliberation, demonstrable, discoverable, doubleheader, emblazonries, equiprobable, forecastable, halterbroken, imponderable, irreformable, irresolvable, leaderboards, loganberries, nonbreakable, nonrenewable, nonrepayable, nonreusables, obliterative, overbalanced, overbalances, overbleached, overbleaches, prosecutable, provableness, radiolabeled, recognizable, reconcilable, renegotiable, reproachable, rhabdocoeles, ribonuclease, semiarboreal, superposable, thermolabile, thermostable, throttleable, troublemaker, ungovernable, unobservable, unreasonable, unresolvable, wheelbarrows, workableness. | |
| 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)45 61 72 4C 6F 62 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01100001 01110010 00100000 01001100 01101111 01100010 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E a r   L o b e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0061 0072 004C 006F 0062 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)396784246816871 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Quotations: Fiction | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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