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Half-timber

Definition: Half-timber

Half-timber

Adjective

1. Having exposed wood framing with spaces filled with masonry, as in Tudor architecture.

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



Specialty Definitions: Half-timber

DomainDefinitions

Biology & Biotechnology

(Of a building)constructed of wood framing with spaces filled with masonry. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Synonym: Half-timber

Synonym: half-timbered (adj). (additional references)
Synonyms by domain: half timber (food & agriculture, industry), timber-frame (biology & biotechnology, history & folklore).

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Usage Frequency: Half-timber

"Half-timber" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Half-timber" is used about 3 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
Adjective (general or positive)100%3202,518

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

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Modern Translations: Half-timber

Language Translations for "half-timber"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Pig Latin

  

alf-timberhay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Half-timber

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-e-f-h-i-l-m-r-t"

-2 letters: halftime.

-3 letters: balmier, barefit, bimetal, blather, blither, filbert, flamier, friable, halbert, hirable, lambert, lambier, lathier, librate, limbate, maltier, marlite, thermal, thimble, timbale, timbral, timbrel, triable.

-4 letters: albeit, albite, ambler, armlet, bailer, baiter, barite, barmie, bather, behalf, bertha, blamer, blithe, breath, fabler, falter, father, ferbam, ferial, fetial, filmer, filter, fimble, flambe, flamer, habile, hafter, hailer, halite, halter, hamlet, herbal, hermai, hermit, hiemal, imaret, labret, lamber, lambie, lather, librae, lifter, limber, lither, maftir, mailer, marble, mihrab, milter, mither, mitral, ramble, ramtil, rebait, refilm, remail, retail, retial, riblet, tailer, terbia, thairm, thaler, thiram, timbal, timber, timbre, tramel, trefah, tribal, trifle.

-5 letters: abler, afire, afrit, after, aimer, airth, alert, almeh, alter, amber, ambit, amble, ariel, armet, artel, baith, baler, bathe, befit, berth, bimah, birle, birth, biter, blame, blare, blate, blear, bleat, blite, brail, bream, brief, earth, email, embar, fable, faith, farle, feral, feria, fermi, fetal, fiber, fibre, filar, filer, filet, filth, firth, flair, flame, flare, fleam, flier, flirt, flite, frail, frame, frith, habit, haler, harem, hater, heart, hemal, herma, hilar, ihram, irate, ither, laith, lamer, later, lathe, lathi, liber, libra, lifer, limba, liter, lithe, litre, maile, mater, mbira, merit, metal, miler, mirth, miter, mitre, ramet, ramie, ratel, rathe, realm, refit, rehab, relit, remit, retia, rifle, taber, table, taler, tamer, telia, terai, tharm, their, therm, thief, thirl, tiler, timer, trail, trial, tribe.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Half-timber


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

48 61 6C 66 2D 74 69 6D 62 65 72

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

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

01001000 01100001 01101100 01100110 00101101 01110100 01101001 01101101 01100010 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#97 &#108 &#102 &#45 &#116 &#105 &#109 &#98 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0061 006C 0066 002D 0074 0069 006D 0062 0065 0072

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

4267787215867579687184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage Frequency
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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