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Definition: Half-timbered |
Half-timberedAdjective1. 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. |
Date "half-timbered" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1915. (references) |
Synonym: Half-timberedSynonym: half-timber (adj). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: half-timbered farm house (public administration), half-timbered house (industry). |
Crosswords: Half-timbered |
| English words defined with "half-timbered": Tudor architecture. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "half-timbered": half-timbered house. (references) |
| "Half-timbered" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Half-timbered" is used about 58 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 58 | 44,427 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "half-timbered": fake-half-timbered. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "half-timbered"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | bindingsvaerkshus (half-timbered house). (various references) | |
Dutch | vakwerkhuis (half-timbered house), vakwerkboerderij (half-timbered farm house). (various references) | |
French | maison à colombage (half-timbered house). (various references) | |
German | Fachwerkhaus (half-timbered house). (various references) | |
Greek | ξυλότοιχο σπίτι (half-timbered house), τσατμάς (half-timbered house). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | alf-timberedhay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | casa de tabique (half-timbered house). (various references) | |
Spanish | casa de entramado de madera y relleno de otro material (half-timbered house). (various references) | |
Swedish | korsvirkeshus (half-timbered house). (various references) | |
Turkish | yarı ahşap. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Words rhyming with "half-timbered" (pronounced 'Half"-tim`bered'): Clean-timbered. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-e-f-h-i-l-m-r-t" | |
-2 letters: timberhead. | |
-3 letters: bedlamite, blathered, blithered, heritable, liberated. | |
-4 letters: afebrile, atremble, balefire, bedframe, belfried, breathed, deflater, detailer, diameter, editable, elaterid, faltered, fathered, featlier, filtered, fireable, flambeed, fleabite, halftime, haltered, hireable, lathered, liberate, librated, limbered, materiel, realtime, rebaited, refilmed, reflated, remailed, remedial, retailed, rideable, timbered, trameled, trembled. | |
-5 letters: airthed, alerted, altered, atelier, balmier, barefit, beadier, beamier, bedmate, bedrail, bedtime, belated, beldame, bemired, berated, berimed, berthed, bimetal, birthed, blather, bleared, bleated, bleater, blether, blither, brailed, breadth, breamed, breathe, briefed, debater, debrief, defamer, defiler, deflate, demerit, diether, dilater, dimeter, draftee, driblet, earthed, emailed, emerald, emerita, emirate, faithed, fatbird, feather, febrile, federal, fermate, fertile, fibered, fielder, filaree, filbert, fileted, flambee, flamier, flatbed, flirted, friable, habited, halberd, halbert, haltere, headier, hearted, heftier, hidable, hirable, lambert, lambier, lathier, leadier, leafier, leather, librate, limbate, limeade, maltier, marbled, marlite, mealier, meatier, mediate, merited, metaled, mitered, rambled, readmit, rebated, redbait, redtail, refiled, reflate, related, remated, retable, retiled, retimed, ridable, tabered, terefah, thermae, thermal, thermel, thimble, thirled, timbale, timbral, timbrel, trailed, treadle, trebled, tremble, triable, tribade, trifled. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 61 6C 66 2D 74 69 6D 62 65 72 65 64 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01100001 01101100 01100110 00101101 01110100 01101001 01101101 01100010 01100101 01110010 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H a l f - t i m b e r e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0061 006C 0066 002D 0074 0069 006D 0062 0065 0072 0065 0064 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)42677872158675796871847170 |
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