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Definitions: Fife |
FifeNoun1. A small high-pitched flute similar to a piccolo; has a shrill tone and is used chiefly to accompany drums in a marching band. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "fife" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
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Dream Interpretation | To dream of hearing a fife, denotes that there will be an unexpected call on you to defend your honor, or that of some person near to you. To dream that you play one yourself, indicates that whatever else may be said of you, your reputation will remain intact. If a woman has this dream, she will have a soldier husband. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
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Crosswords: Fife |
| English words defined with "fife": Cardinal grosbeak ♦ Fife major, fife rail, Fifed, Fifer, fifing ♦ Hanch ♦ Piffara, Pin rail ♦ Whiffle. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "fife": Elie ruby ♦ Fife ♦ King's-Crag ♦ Macduff ♦ PAN. (references) |
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Song Titles | BABYFACE (performing artist: WING & A PRAYER FIFE & DRUM CORPS) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | U.S.S. San Francisco, Commodore Fife coming on board.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | U.S.S. San Francisco, Commodore Fife leaving the ship.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | W.R. Fife.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Mr. M. Taradash, Irvington-on-Hudson. Duncan Fife sewing table.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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 | Flute; wind instrument; airy; fife; . |
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Bill Hicks | I'll tell you, too, that's starting to depress me about UFO's, about the fact that they cross galaxies, or wherever they come from to visit us, and always end up in places like Fife, Alabama. Maybe these are not super-intelligent beings, man. Maybe they're like hillbilly aliens. Some intergalactic Joad family or something. "Don't you all want to land in New York, or L.A.?" "Nah, we just had a long trip, we gonna kick back and whittle some." Oh, my God, they're idiots. "We're gonna enter our mothership in the tractor pull!" My God, we're being invaded by rednecks. My biggest fear. Last thing I want to see is a flying saucer up on blocks in front of some trailer, you know? Wouldn't that be depressing? Some bumper sticker on it - "They'll get my ray gun when they pry my cold, dead, eighteen-fingered hand off of it." |
Shannon Fife | The persons hardest to convince that they're at the retirement age are children at bedtime. |
Sir Walter Scott | Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! To all the sensual world proclaim. One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name. |
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| "Fife" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 97.34% of the time. "Fife" is used about 413 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 (proper) | 97.34% | 402 | 13,930 |
| Noun (singular) | 2.66% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Total | 100.00% | 413 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "fife" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Fife | Last name | 3,000 | 4,314 |
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1. Fife, TX 2. Fife, WA (city, FIPS 23795) |
Expressions using "fife": Fife Lake ♦ Fife major ♦ fife rail ♦ fife years ♦ shepherd's fife. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "fife": fife-based, fife-born, fife-built. | |
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| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
fife | 133 | bruce fife | 10 |
barney fife | 96 | fife lake | 8 |
fife drum | 41 | corps drum fife | 8 |
fife washington | 37 | fife college | 8 |
duncan fife | 35 | fife free press | 8 |
fife scotland | 34 | fife apartment | 7 |
fife lake michigan | 33 | drum fife music | 7 |
district fife school | 31 | fife hotel | 7 |
city of fife | 24 | cupar fife scotland | 7 |
fife honda | 22 | acura fife | 6 |
duncan fife furniture | 17 | fife volvo | 6 |
bmw fife | 17 | fife vineyard | 6 |
council fife | 16 | uss fife | 6 |
nissan of fife | 15 | city of fife wa | 6 |
fife high school | 14 | fife sam | 6 |
duncan fife table | 12 | camp fife | 6 |
fife music | 11 | fife lexus | 6 |
fife korum | 11 | fife and drum inn | 5 |
barney fife picture | 11 | falkland fife in | 5 |
fife promotion | 10 | art fife gallery | 5 |
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| Language | Translations for "fife"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | Fyell (flute, pipe, Reed, shank), Flaut (flute, recorder, syrinx), Zamare (Reed), Xhura (shepherd's pipe). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | ناي آلة موسيقية. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | Малка Флейта За 'оенна Музика, Свиря На Такава Флейта, Свирач На Такава Флейта. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | Pikola (piccolo). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | Fifre. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Pfeife (blowing iron, blowpipe, bootleg, organ pipe, piccolo, pipe, socket, washout, whistle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | Αυλόσ (Reed), Φλογέρα, αίζω Φλογέρα. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ַליל. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | Síp (hooter, pipe, quill, whistle), Kisfuvola (piccolo). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | Piffero (pipe). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 横笛 (flute). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | よ"ぶえ (flute). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | Feevey, feddan (aqueduct, barrel, channel, chanter, flageolet, flute, pipe, sleeve, sleeving, tube, tubing, vessel, whistle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ifefay Fogoso (ardent, burning, dashing, frisky, hot, hot tempered, hot-blooded, hotchpotch, hot-headed, hotstuff, impetuous, mettlesome, mettlesomeness, proud, proud-spirited, unruly), Pífaro, Pífano. (various references) Flaut Mic, Cânta Ceva Din Fluier. (various references) Маленькая Флейта, Флейта, "удка. (various references) Fìofa (pnm. Fife). (various references) frula. (various references) Pífano. (various references) Liten Flöjt. (various references) ขลุ่ยขนา"เล็ก. (various references) Fifre Çalmak, Fifre Çalan Kimse, Fifre, Yanlamasına Çalınan Flüt. (various references) "удка, "удар (Piper). (various references) ống sáo, ống địch (tin-whistle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| German | 100 BCE-Modern | Pfeife. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Matthew Chapter 25, Verse 16 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | PoreuqeiV de o ta pente talanta labwn eirgasato en autoiV kai epoihsen alla pente talanta |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Abiit autem qui quinque talenta acceperat et operatus est in eis et lucratus est alia quinque |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Ða ferde se þe þa fif pund under-feng& ge-streonede oðre fife. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And he that hadde fyue besauntis, wente forth, and wrouyte in hem, and wan othere fyue. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Then he that had receaved the fyve talentes went and bestowed them and wanne other fyve talentes. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Then he that had received the five talents went and traded with the same, and made them other five talents. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Then he that had received the five talents, went and traded with the same, and gained other five talents. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Straight away he who had been given the five talents went and did trade with them, and made five more. |
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| Language | Matthew Chapter 25, Verse 16 |
| Cebuano | Ang nakadawat ug lima ka talanton milakaw dihadiha ug gipamatigayon niya kini, ug nakaganansiya siyag laing lima ka talanton. |
| Croatian | I otputova. Onaj koji je primio pet talenata odmah ode, upotrijebi ih i stekne drugih pet. |
| Danish | Men den, som havde fået de fem Talenter, gik hen og købslog med dem og vandt andre fem Talenter |
| Dutch | Die nu de vijf talenten ontvangen had, ging heen, en handelde daarmede, en won andere vijf talenten. |
| Finnish | Se, joka oli saanut viisi leiviskää, meni kohta ja asioitsi niillä ja voitti toiset viisi leiviskää. |
| French | Aussitôt celui qui avait reçu les cinq talents s`en alla, les fit valoir, et il gagna cinq autres talents. |
| German | Da ging der hin, der fünf Zentner empfangen hatte, und handelte mit ihnen und gewann andere fünf Zentner. |
| Hungarian | Elmenvén pedig a ki az öt tálentomot kapta vala, kereskedék azokkal, és szerze más öt tálentomot. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Pelayan yang menerima lima ribu uang emas itu segera pergi berdagang, lalu mendapat keuntungan lima ribu uang emas lagi. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka orang yang menerima lima talenta itu, segeralah pergi menjalankan modalnya, sehingga memperoleh keuntungan lima talenta. |
| Manx Gaelic | Eisht hie yn fer v'er gheddyn ny queig talentyn, as ren eh dellal lhieu, as chossyn eh queig talentyn elley. |
| Maori | Na ko te haerenga o te tangata i a ia nei nga taranata e rima, hokohokona ana aua mea e ia, a riro ana i a ia e rima atu nga taranata. |
| Norwegian | Den som hadde fått de fem talenter, gikk da straks bort og kjøpslo med dem, og tjente fem talenter til. |
| Portuguese | O que recebera cinco talentos foi imediatamente negociar com eles, e ganhou outros cinco; |
| Rumanian | Kndatq, cel ce primise cei cinci talanyi, s`a dus, i -a pus kn negoy, wi a ckwtigat cu ei alyi cinci talanyi. |
| Russian | рПМХЮЙЧЫЙК СФШ ФБМБОФПЧ ПЫЕМ, Х ПФТЕ'ЙМ ЙИ Ч "ЕМП Й ТЙП'ТЕМ "ТХЗЙЕ СФШ ФБМБОФПЧ; |
| Shuar | Takarin senku mir Kuítian achikmia nujai takakmas ataksha senku mir Kuítian patakmai. |
| Swahili | Mara yule aliyekabidhiwa talanta tano akafanya kazi nazo akapata faida talanta tano. |
| Swedish | Strax gick då den som hade fått de fem punden bort och förvaltade dem så, att han med dem vann andra fem pund. |
| Uma | Pahawaa' to mporata lima ncobu doi bulawa toei, kaliliu napopodaga mpali' donihi-na, narata mpu'u-mi donihi-na lima ncobu wo'o. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "fife": fifed, fifer, fifers, fifes. (additional references) | |
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"Fife" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Afif, Aife, faif, Fbie, feefe, fefe, feiffer, ffet, Ffi, Ffiii, Ffis, ffive, ffo, fibe, fice, Fidem, Fiee, fiefe, fiefed, fiefy, fieh, fif, fifa, fifew, fiffer, Fi-fi, fifte, fige, fike, fime, fimf, fise, fite, Fivf, fixe, fize, Fofe, foff, Fofi, fuf, fyce, fyte, hife, ife, ifee, Iffa, jife, nfyfc. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "fife" (pronounced fī"f) |
| 2 | -ī" f | knife, life, rife, strife, wife. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: fief. | |
| Words within the letters "e-f-f-i" | |
-1 letter: eff, fie, iff. | |
-2 letters: ef, if. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-f-f-i" | |
+1 letter: fiefs, fifed, fifer, fifes. | |
+2 letters: affine, biffed, coiffe, differ, effigy, fifers, griffe, iffier, miffed, niffer, office, piaffe, piffle, riffed, riffle, tiffed, waffie. | |
+3 letters: affaire, affiche, affined, affines, affixed, affixer, affixes, baffies, biffies, buffier, caffein, coiffed, coiffes, daffier, differs, diffuse, effendi, fiefdom, fifteen, fifties, firefly, forfeit, foxfire, giraffe, griffes, huffier, iffiest, infeoff, jiffies, lifeful, miffier, niffers, officer, offices, offline, offside, piaffed, piaffer, piaffes, piffled, piffles, puffier, reaffix, reffing, riffled, riffler, riffles, sheriff, skiffle, sniffed, sniffer, sniffle, spiffed, stiffed, stiffen, stiffer, suffice, taffies, toffies, waffies, whiffed, whiffer, whiffet, whiffle. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 69 66 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. .. ..-. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01101001 01100110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F i f e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0069 0066 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)40757271 |
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