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Fish Scale

Definition: Fish Scale

Fish Scale

Noun

1. Scale of the kind that covers the bodies of fish.

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


Crosswords: Fish Scale

English words defined with "fish scale": Cycloid scale. (references)
Specialty definitions using "fish scale": CREEL CLERK. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Fish Scale

DomainTitle

Books

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

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Image Slideshow: Fish Scale

Photos:
Fish Scale

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Photo Album: Fish Scale

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Frankfort, Michigan. Fish scale flowers made about 1850.Credit: Library of Congress.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Fish Scale

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

  fish scale

80

  fish scale weighing

4
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Modern Translations: Fish Scale

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

Danish

  

skaelagtigt brud (fish scale fracture, fishscaling, flaky fracture). (various references)

   

French

  

cassure en écaille (fish scale fracture, fishscaling). (various references)

   

German

  

Fischschuppe. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

λεπιοειδής θραύση (fish scale fracture, fishscaling, flaky fracture). (various references)

   

Italian

  

frattura squamosa (fish scale fracture, fishscaling, flaky fracture). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ishfay alescay

   

Portuguese

  

fractura escamosa (fish scale fracture, fishscaling, flaky fracture). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

fractura escamosa (fish scale fracture, fishscaling, flaky fracture). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

fiskfjäll. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Fish Scale

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-f-h-i-l-s-s"

-2 letters: chaises, chisels, clashes, falsies, fecials, filches, fiscals, flashes, hisself, selfish, sheilas.

-3 letters: aisles, califs, cashes, chafes, chaise, chases, chasse, chelas, chiefs, chiels, chiles, chisel, elfish, facies, facile, falces, falsie, fasces, fashes, fecial, fiches, filses, fiscal, fishes, hassel, hassle, heliac, laches, laichs, lashes, lassie, liches, saices, scales, selahs, shales, sheafs, sheals, sheila, shiels.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-f-h-i-l-s-s"
 

+1 letter: coalfishes.

 

+2 letters: blackfishes.

 

+3 letters: candlefishes, spaceflights.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Fish Scale


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

46 69 73 68      53 63 61 6C 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

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

01000110 01101001 01110011 01101000 00100000 01010011 01100011 01100001 01101100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#105 &#115 &#104 &#32 &#83 &#99 &#97 &#108 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0069 0073 0068      0053 0063 0061 006C 0065

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

4075857425369677871

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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