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Definition: Ghee |
GheeNoun1. Clarified butter used in Indian cookery. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "ghee" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1833. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Food & Agriculture | A kind of butter made from buffalo's milk. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Ghee |
| English words defined with "ghee": Dubber. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ghee": Dietary Fats. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | I know nothing more provoking than soles that squeak and go ghee, ghee, ghee, all along the street. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | West Bank | Good opportunities exist in snack foods, cereals, condiments and sauces, canned fruits and vegetables, cheese, dried fruits, tea and instant coffee, frozen meat, vegetable oil, candy, vegetable oil, and ghee. (references) |
Trade | Kenya | Special labeling is required for condensed milk, paints, varnishes, vegetables, and butter ghee. (references) |
Brazil | Breeder livestock (cattle, swine, sheep, goats, horses and donkeys, including semen and embryos); wine and brandy, distilled spirits (rum, wodka and whiskey); fresh vegetables (asparagus, beans, broccoli, carrots, cauliflower, celery, corn, garlic, lettuce, onions, peppers, potatoes and tomatoes); canned vegetables (asparagus, beans, carrots, corn, peas, tomatoes and tomato paste); frozen vegetables (beans, broccoli, carrots, corn and spinach); peanut butter or peanut flour; dairy products (butter, butter oil, ghee, anhydrous milk fat, non-fat and whole milk powder, whey powder, whey protein concentrate, lactose, non-sweetened condensed milk, fluid milk, lecithin and cheese); ice cream; meat, frozen or chilled (beef, pork and their products);wheat, wheat flour, semolina; cotton, 100% cotton yarn, 100% cotton fabrics (woven and knit unbleached/bleached/dyed, and/or printed); rice; feed grains (barley, including malting barley, white corn, yellow corn, sorghum and oats); corn products (flour, starch, corn meal, popcorn and gluten); pulses(dry beans, peas and lentils), poultry breeder stock (baby chicks, turkey pouts and hatching eggs); eggs and egg products (fresh, dry, refrigerated, frozen, albumin, etc); fresh fruits (apples, apricots, avocados, blueberries, cherries, grapes, grapefruit, kiwi, lemons, melons, nectarines, oranges, pears, plums, peaches, raspberries and tangerines); hops: hops extract; tallow: grease, lard, barley malt; potatoes(cut and chilled or frozen; flakes, granules); peanuts; commercially prepared dog and cat food, animal feed ingredients, fish food; seeds for sowing; almonds ( walnuts, pistachios, hazelnut and pecan); dry fruits, frozen fruits, canned fruits, fruit pure and fruit pulp, 100% natural fruit juice; seafood (fresh and frozen);tomato paste; alfalfa; honey; skins; nutritional beverages preparations (for human consumption); soy protein products; vegetable oils; wood; beer; cereals; preparation for breads and pizzas (powder, refrigerated of frozen); canned pickles; ready-to-eat meals; soft drinks and sodas; soups and sauces. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Ghee" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Ghee" is used about 7 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 (singular) | 100% | 7 | 133,076 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "ghee" 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 |
| Ghee | Last name | 400 | 19,677 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
ghee | 80 |
ghee phillip | 6 |
airport ghee mc tyson | 4 |
butter ghee | 3 |
ghee make | 3 |
ghee recipe | 3 |
ghee rice | 2 |
ghee making | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ghee"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | топено масло. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 酥油. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | bílý olej. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | ghee. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | ghee. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | ghee. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Ghee. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | Ghee, βούτυρο Ghee. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | india bivalytehéntejbõl készült sült vaj. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | ghee. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eeghay Ghee. (various references) топленое масло (drawn butter, melted butter). (various references) topljeno maslo. (various references) ghee. (various references) น้ำมันเนย. (various references) bơ sữa trâu lỏng. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | i-ab-se -ga, i-nun. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ghee": ghees. (additional references) | |
Words containing "ghee": carragheen, carragheens. (additional references) | |
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"Ghee" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: geeh, geh, gehd, gehen, gh, ghade, ghe, ghede, Gheel, gheer, ghees, gheg, Ghelew, ghem, gher, ghes, ghet, ghey, Gheyn, ghid, ghie, Ghir, Ghiz, Gho, ghode, Ghoe, Ghu, ghy, gje, gnee, Gzhel, hge, Nghe. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words ending with "ee": Blee, -ee, flee, Glee, KEE, Nee, scree, Skee, Slee, spree, Stee, Stree. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-g-h" | |
-1 letter: gee. | |
-2 letters: eh, he. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-g-h" | |
+1 letter: ghees, hedge. | |
+2 letters: chegoe, hedged, hedger, hedges. | |
+3 letters: chegoes, egghead, greenth, greyhen, hedgers, hedgier, heeding, heeling, heezing, hegumen, herbage, hogweed, hygiene, neighed, rehinge, reweigh, shegetz, skreegh, thenage, thuggee, weighed, weigher, whangee. | |
+4 letters: cheeking, cheeping, cheering, cheesing, cogwheel, dogteeth, eggheads, eggshell, eighteen, eighties, exchange, eyesight, gathered, gatherer, geophone, geophyte, gheraoed, gheraoes, ghettoed, ghettoes, goethite, grapheme, greenish, greenths, greyhens, hardedge, headgate, headgear, hedgehog, hedgehop, hedgepig, hedgerow, hedgiest, heelings, hegemony, hegumene, hegumens, hegumeny, heighten, helotage, herbages, heritage, hogweeds, hugeness, hungered, hygienes, hypogene, leeching, lengthen, meshugge, phosgene, rechange, recharge, regather, rehanged, rehinged, rehinges, reweighs, seething, shagreen, sheening, sheepdog, sheering, sheeting, sightsee, skreeghs, sleighed, sleigher, teething, thenages, thuggees, together, unhedged, weighers, weighmen, weighted, weighter, whangees, wheeling, wheeping, wheezing. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 68 65 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. .... . . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01101000 01100101 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G h e e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0068 0065 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)41747171 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Fiction | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Names: Frequency 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Translations: Ancient 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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