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Definition: Filature |
FilatureNoun1. A bobbin used in spinning silk into thread. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Filature \Fil"a*ture\, noun. [from Late Latin expression filatura, from filare to spin: compare to the French expression filature. See Filatory.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Food & Agriculture | The best silk is obtained from the cultivated variety. . of silkworm. . , which is bred in filature or farms. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Filature |
| Specialty definitions using "filature": silk filature, silk-farm. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Filature" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (mill, spinning). |
Expression using "filature": silk filature. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
filature | 13 |
filature peignee | 8 |
de equipment filature | 8 |
coton de filature | 8 |
filature tunisie | 7 |
filature sofil | 5 |
filature la | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "filature"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | точене на сурова коприна. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 絲 (filature silk). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | proces výroby vláken. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | magnanerie (silk filature). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מטוי" (spinning mill), מטוא". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | fonalgyártás. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | filatura (flowers becoming green, spinning). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 製糸 (silk reeling, spinning). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | せいし (authentic history, check, chief delegate, control, family name, full name, heir, history, imperial command, inhibition, life and death, looking straight ahead, meditation, oath, paper making or manufacturing, pledge, repose, restraint, senior envoy, silk reeling, sperm, spinning, standing still, stillness, successor, viewing sincerely, vow, written oath). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ilaturefay filaturã pentru firele de mãtase, filare a firelor de mãtase. (various references) шелкопрядение. (various references) upredanje (spinning). (various references) spinning (spinning), spinneri, silkesspinneri. (various references) การปั่นให้เป็นเส้น"้ายหรือเส้นใย. (various references) iplikçilik, iplik fabrikası. (various references) sự xe chỉ máy kéo sợi xưởng kéo sợi, sự kéo sợi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "filature": filatures. (additional references) | |
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"Filature" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fellators, fibatube, fixature, Frialator. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "filature" (pronounced 'Fil"a*ture'): Abature, Abbreviature, Acclimature, Acture, Adjudicature, Admixture, Affixture, Agriculture, Alcoholature, Anfracture, Aperture, Apiculture, Aquapuncture, Arboriculture, architecture, Attainture, Aventure, Aviculture, Batture, Belecture, Breviature, Candidature, Capillature, Ceinture, Celature, Celsiture, Cincture, Climature, Colature, Colorature, Comfiture, Commixture, Compacture, Composture, Concreture, Confecture, Confiture, Conjuncture, Connature, Consignature, Constructure, Contemperature, Contexture, Contracture, Corporature, Coverture, Creature, Crenature, Crispature, Cubature. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: faultier. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-f-i-l-r-t-u" | |
-1 letter: failure, flutier, refutal, tearful, uralite. | |
-2 letters: artful, earful, falter, ferial, ferula, fetial, filter, fluter, futile, ireful, lifter, retail, retial, ritual, rutile, tailer, trifle. | |
-3 letters: afire, afrit, after, alert, alter, ariel, artel, aurei, farle, fault, feral, feria, fetal, feuar, filar, filer, filet, flair, flare, flier, flirt, flite, flute, frail, fruit, irate, later, lifer, liter. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-f-i-l-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: filatures, flauntier, ultrafine. | |
+2 letters: fluoridate, fluorinate, quatrefoil, ultrafiche. | |
+3 letters: beautifuler, centrifugal, faultfinder, fluoridated, fluoridates, fluorinated, fluorinates, frugalities, irrefutable, irrefutably, lactiferous, quatrefoils, ultrafiches, unfaltering. | |
+4 letters: centrifugals, faultfinders, figuratively, fluidextract, interfaculty, interfluvial, quarterfinal, salutiferous, transfusible, ultraleftism, ultraleftist, ultrarefined, unflattering, unprofitable. | |
+5 letters: caulifloweret, centrifugally, fluidextracts, metalliferous, quarterfinals, reformulating, reformulation, refundability, tetrafluoride, ultrafeminine, ultrafiltrate, ultraleftisms, ultraleftists, ultrararefied, underinflated, unfalteringly. | |
| 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)46 69 6C 61 74 75 72 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. .. .-.. .- - ..- .-. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01101001 01101100 01100001 01110100 01110101 01110010 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F i l a t u r e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0069 006C 0061 0074 0075 0072 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)4075786786878471 |
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