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Definition: Flintstone |
FlintstoneNoun1. Pebbles of flint used in masonry construction. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "flintstone" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Crosswords: Flintstone |
| Specialty definitions using "flintstone": barney. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Bold choice, Mr. Flintstone! (The Flintstones; writing credit: Tom S. Parker; Jim Jennewein) Fred Flintstone! (The Flintstones; writing credit: Tom S. Parker; Jim Jennewein) We interface, Flintstone, we conceptualize, tenderize, prioritize (The Flintstones; writing credit: Tom S. Parker; Jim Jennewein) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Man Called Flintstone (1966) Fred Flintstone and Friends (1977) A Flintstone Christmas (1977) | |
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| "Flintstone" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 68.75% of the time. "Flintstone" is used about 16 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) | 68.75% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Noun (singular) | 31.25% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 16 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
1. Flintstone, GA 2. Flintstone, MD |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "flintstone": flintstone-like. | |
| 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. |
Misspellings | |
"Flintstone" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Lincstone. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-f-i-l-n-n-o-s-t-t" | |
-2 letters: fistnote, insolent, loftiest, nontitle, tinstone, tontines. | |
-3 letters: entoils, intents, intones, leftist, linnets, litotes, nonlife, nonself, olefins, tennist, tension, toilets, toniest, tonlets, tontine. | |
-4 letters: elfins, elints, eloins, enlist, entoil, feints, felons, filets, filose, finest, fliest, flints, flites, infest, inlets, insole, intent, intone, itself, lentos, lesion, linens, linnet, listen, litten, lottes, nelson, nitons, nonets, oftest. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-f-i-l-n-n-o-s-t-t" | |
+5 letters: fortunetellings, functionalities, latensification. | |
| 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 6C 69 6E 74 73 74 6F 6E 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. .-.. .. -. - ... - --- -. . |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01101100 01101001 01101110 01110100 01110011 01110100 01101111 01101110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F l i n t s t o n e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 006C 0069 006E 0074 0073 0074 006F 006E 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)40787580868586818071 |
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