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Geld

Definition: Geld

Geld

Verb

1. Cut off the testicles; of male animals such as horses.

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

Date "geld" was first used: sometime around 1300. (references)

Synonyms within Context: Geld

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Impotence

Unman, unnerve, enervate; emasculate, castrate, geld, alter, neuter, sterilize, fix.

Money

Phrase: barbarus ipse placet dummodo sit dives; "but the jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that honor feels"; Gelt regiert die Welt, money makes the world go round; nervos belli pecuniam infinitam; redet Geld so schweigt die Welt; " money is the mother's milk of politics"; money is the root of all evil; money isn't everything; "as phony as a three-dollar bill"; "don't take any wooden nickels".

Nonaddition Subtraction

Garble, mutilate, amputate, detruncate; cut off, cut away, cut out; abscind, excise; pare, thin, prune, decimate; abrade, scrape, file; geld, castrate; eliminate.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Geld

English words defined with "geld": UngeldWodegeld. (references)
Specialty definitions using "geld": Hide of Landpersonal reintegration budgetthe four Gs. (references)
Etymologies containing "geld": GuildUngeldWodegeld. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Geld" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Afrikaan (money), Dutch (money), Flemish (money), German (finance, gold, money).

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Modern Usage: Geld

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Das Geld liegt auf der Bank (1971)

Geld und Geist (1964)

Bis daß das Geld euch scheidet (1960)

Geld aus der Luft (1954)

Komedie om geld (1936)

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

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Commercial Usage: Geld

DomainTitle

Books

  • Das Geld Der Deutschen: Geldgeschichte Deutschlands Von Den Anfangen Bis Zur Gegenwart (reference)

  • Der Kauf mit fremdem Geld (reference)

  • Frauen Und Geld (reference)

  • Geld and Klein Financial Services (reference)

  • Geld und Magie : Deutung und Kritik der modernen Wirtschaft anhand von Goethes Faust (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Photo Album: Geld

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Geld lässt man nicht so rumliegen : Arzneimittel gehören in eine gut verschliessbare Hausapotheke.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

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

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Usage Frequency: Geld

"Geld" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Geld" is used about 6 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)66.67%4175,879
Lexical Verb (base form)16.67%1339,140
Noun (singular)16.67%1339,140
                    Total100.00%6N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Geld

Expression using "geld": redet Geld so schweigt die Welt. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Geld

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

geld

226

geld lenen

170

geld verdienen

86

geld verdienen im internet

17

geld gratis win

12

geld nodig

12

geld winnen

11

geld vouwen

10

geld sparen

9

geld nl

9

geld veel verdienen

9

geld gewinnen

9

geld lening

8

geld mlm network verdienen werbung

7

contant geld

6

geld snel verdienen

6

geld ima

6

geld verdienen op internet

6

geld stallion

6

geld verdienen online

5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Geld

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

Albanian

  

tredh (castrate, doctor, emasculate, evirate), tatim (cess, charge, duty, imposition, impost, rating, ratio, tax, taxability). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏هذب (chasten, civilize, cultivate, edify, educate, elevate, file, lop, perfect, polish, prune, refine, retouch, revise, shear off, sublimate, touch, touch up, trim), ‏حرم (abridge, ban, be bereaved, be forbidden, bereave, contraband, debar, deny, deprive, disable, dispossess, divest, excommunicate, forbade, forbid, interdict, inviolable, outlaw, prohibit, proscribe, restrain, rob, sacred, sanctuary, starve, suppress, wife), ‏خصى (alter, castrate, emasculate, neuter), ‏أضعف (attenuate, break, debilitate, decay, decline, depress, detach, diminish, disable, emaciate, emasculate, enervate, enfeeble, fade, hone, hurt, impair, incapacitate, invalidate, jellify, languish, lose weight, macerate, neutralize, pall, perish, reduce, run down, sag, sap, shorten, sink, slacken, slake, soften, subside, thin, waste, weaken). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

скопявам (emasculate), кастрирам (castrate, cut, emasculate, evirate, fix, gelt, unman). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

(to geld). (various references)

   

Czech

  

vykleštit zvíře. (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

محروم کردن (Bereave, Deprive, Devest, Disappoint, Dispossess, Divest, Evacuate, Exclude), اخته کردن (Castrate, Castration, Emasculate, Mutilate, Neuter), بی تخمدان کردن (Spay). (various references)

   

French

  

hongrer, châtrer, castrer, affaiblir. (various references)

   

German

  

verschneiden (blend, blending, castrate, clip, cut, cut badly, cut wrongly, to cut, to hit), kastrieren (alter, castrate, castration, neuter, to castrate, to emasculate). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

μουνουχίζω (castrate), ευνουχίζω (alter, castrate, emasculate, neuter, to castrate, to emasculate, unsex). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

לסרס (castrate, emasculate, neuter). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

herél. (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

mengebiri (castrate, emasculate). (various references)

   

Italian

  

castrare (alter, caponise, caponize, castrate, neuter, to castrate, to emasculate). (various references)

   

Manx

  

spoiy (castrate, castration, emasculate, emasculation, gelding, neuter, spay). (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

kastrere (emasculate). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eldgay

   

Portuguese

  

congelamento (freeze, frost, icing), capar (castrate). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

jugãni (castrate), castra (alter, castrate, cut, emasculate), întoarce (crank, put about, repay, retaliate, retort, reverse, revert, set, shift, spade, turn). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

кастрировать (castrate, emasculate, evirate, gelt, unman). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

spoth. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

uštrojiti (castrate, neuter). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

castrar (alter, caponize, castrate, doctor, emasculate, neuter, to castrate, to emasculate), capar (alter, castrate, neuter, to castrate, to emasculate). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

snöpa, kastrera (alter, castrate, cut, emasculate, evirate, neuter, to castrate, to emasculate). (various references)

   

Thai

  

ตอนสัตว์, ล"กำลัง. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

iğdiş etmek (castrate, emasculate), hadım etmek (alter, castrate, cut, doctor, emasculate, evirate, unman). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

обкладати податком, платити податок. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

disbaddu (castrate, spay). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Geld

Derivations

Words beginning with "geld": gelded, gelder, gelders, gelding, geldings, gelds. (additional references)

Words ending with "geld": danegeld, wergeld. (additional references)

Words containing "geld": danegelds, wergelds. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Geld" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eld, gald, gauld, Gedi, Geel, Geely, gehd, gela, gelb, gelc, gele, gelf, geli, gelk, gella, gelo, gelp, gelu, gely, gelz, gend, geod, Geodh, gerd, Gezda, gilad, gilda, gildt, glec, Gledy, gler, goldi, Gueld, Gulda, ield, leld, neld, yeld, zeld. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Geld

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: gled.

Words within the letters "d-e-g-l"

-1 letter: del, eld, ged, gel, led, leg.

-2 letters: de, ed, el.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-g-l"
 

+1 letter: gelds, gelid, glade, glede, gleds, gleed, glide, glued, ledge, ledgy, lodge, luged, ogled.

 

+2 letters: agedly, angled, argled, beglad, bilged, bugled, bulged, cudgel, daggle, dangle, deluge, dingle, dogleg, dongle, edgily, engild, fledge, fledgy, fodgel, fugled, gabled, galled, gaoled, gelada, gelded, gelder, gelled, gilded, gilder, gilled, girdle, glades, glared, glazed, gledes, gleeds, gleyed, glided, glider, glides, glimed, globed, gloved, glowed, glozed, goaled, golden, golder, golfed, guiled, gulden, gulfed, gulled, gulped, kludge, lagend, lagged, ledger, ledges, legend, legged, lodged, lodger, lodges, logged, longed, lugged, lunged, midleg, pledge, redleg, regild, ridgel, sledge, sludge.

 

+3 letters: aligned, alleged, angeled, beglads, bludger, blunged, boggled, bungled, burgled, clagged, clanged, clinged, clogged, cudgels, daggled, daggles, dangled, dangler, dangles, dealing, decalog, deglaze, deleing, delight, deluged, deluges, delving, dingles, divulge, doggrel, doglegs, doglike, dogsled, dongles, draggle, dueling, eliding, eluding, endlong, engilds, flagged, flanged, fledged, fledges, flogged, gabbled, gaggled, gallied, galoped, gambled, garbled, gargled, gaveled, geladas, gelated, gelders, gelding, gelidly, gentled, geoidal, giggled, gilders, gillied, girdled, girdler, girdles, glaceed, gladded, gladden, gladder, gladier, glaired, glaived, glanced, glandes, glassed, gleamed, gleaned, gleeked, gleeted, glenoid, gliders, glinted, gloated, glommed, gloomed, glopped, gloried, glossed, glouted, glugged, glutted, gnarled, gobbled, godless, godlier, godlike, goggled, goldest, goldeye, griddle, grilled, growled, grueled, guggled, guilder, guldens, gullied, gurgled, guttled, guzzled, haggled, higgled, indulge, jangled, jiggled, jingled, joggled, juggled, jungled, kludges, lagends, lagered, laughed, leading, leagued, ledgers, ledgier, legated, legends, lending, ligated, lighted, lodgers, lounged, mangled, melding, midlegs, mingled, niggled, obliged, plagued, pledged, pledgee, pledger, pledges, pledget, pledgor, plugged, plunged, pungled, redlegs, regaled, regilds, reglued, ridgels, singled, slagged, slanged, sledged, sledges, slogged, sludges, slugged, splodge, tangled, tingled, toggled, ullaged, unglued, waggled, wangled, welding, wergeld, wergild, wiggled.

 

+4 letters: algicide, alighted, amygdale, amygdule, anglepod, badgerly, becudgel, begalled, begirdle, beguiled, begulfed, belonged, bielding, bleeding, blending, blighted, blindage, bludgeon, bludgers, collaged, cologned, cudgeled, cudgeler, danegeld, danglers, dealings, decalogs, defiling, deglazed, deglazes, delating, delaying, delegacy, delegate, deleting, delights, deliming, deluding, deluging, develing, deviling, diallage, dialoged, dialoger, dialogue, diligent, diplegia, dirgeful, dislodge, divulged, divulger, divulges, doggedly, doggerel, doggrels, dogsleds, doweling, draggled, draggles, dragline, duelling, duologue, dwelling, edgeless, effulged, elegised, elegized, eloigned, engilded, engirdle, englobed, engulfed, enlarged, fenagled, fielding, finagled, fledgier, fledging, flighted, foliaged, gabelled, gadflies, galeated, galleted, galloped, gallused, galopade, galoshed, gamboled, gatefold, gavelled, geldings, gelidity, giftedly, gilthead, gimbaled, gimleted, girdlers, gladdens, gladdest, gladiate, gladiest, gladlier, gladness, gladsome, glanders, glandule, gliadine, glimpsed, glissade, globated, glowered, glunched, goadlike, godliest, goldener, goldenly, goldeyes, goodlier, gorgedly, grabbled, gradable, grappled, graveled, greedily, griddled, griddles, grillade, grizzled, groveled, gruelled, grumbled, gruntled, guidable, guilders, gulfweed, headlong, hydrogel, idealogy, ideology, impledge, indulged, indulger, indulges, ingulfed, jaggedly, laagered, ladening, leadings, ledgiest, legendry, lingered, lodgment, longhead, magdalen, maligned, medaling, meddling, megadeal, mislodge, modeling, needling, overgild, overglad, pedaling, peddling, pedology, pillaged, pleading, pledgees, pledgeor, pledgers, pledgets, pledging, pledgors, plighted, ploughed, plumaged, prologed, raggedly, reddling, reedling, regilded, reglazed, reglowed, repledge, ruggedly, salvaged, seedling, seladang, selvaged, selvedge, shingled, sideling, sidelong, signaled, sledding, sledging, sleighed, slighted, sloughed, sludgier, slugabed, smuggled, sniggled, snuggled, spangled, splodged, splodges, splurged, swingled, tallaged, twangled, uglified, ungalled, unglazed, ungloved, wedeling, weregild, wergelds, wergilds, wielding, wingedly, wrangled, wriggled, yielding, yodeling.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Geld


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

47 65 6C 64

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

--.    .    .-..    -..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01000111 01100101 01101100 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#101 &#108 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0065 006C 0064

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

41717870

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INDEX

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


  

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