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LENO

Definition: LENO

LENO

Noun

1. A light open cotton fabric used for window curtains.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "LENO" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references)

 

Crosswords: LENO

Specialty definitions using "LENO": CARPET SEWERdan leno, dan leno assembly, dan leno board, dan leno bobbin, Dan leno stickFABRICATOR, FOAM RUBBER, foam fabricator, fringe-binder operatorleno sewerMATTRESS MAKER, mock gauze, mock lenopony boardsewing-machine operator, carpet and rugs, sisal operator, splits, spreader bar, spreading wire, STAPLER, HAND, sweep *wire stitcher, hand. (references)
Non-English Usage: "LENO" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Latin (go-between, procurer), Sotho (your).

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Modern Usage: LENO

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Jeeze, Lois, is you think that's funny, you must write for Leno. (Family Guy; writing credit: Dolores Payás)

Movie/TV Titles

Dan Leno and Herbert Campbell Edit the 'Sun' (1902)

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992)

Jay Leno and the American Dream (1986)

The Jay Leno Special (1979)

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

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Commercial Usage: LENO

DomainTitle

Books

  • Dan Leno & Limehouse Golem (reference)

  • Dan Leno, El Golem y El Music Hall (reference)

  • The funniest man on earth : the story of Dan Leno (reference)

  • The Late Shift: Letterman, Leno, and the Network Battle for the Night (reference)

  • The Leno Wit: His Life and Humor (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

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

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Familiar Quotations: LENO

AuthorQuotation

Jay Leno

You aren't famous till my mother has heard of you.
The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Name Usage Frequency: LENO

The following table summarizes the usage of "LENO" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
LenoLast name40020,748
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: LENO

Expressions using "LENO": dan leno dan leno assembly dan leno board dan leno bobbin Dan leno stick mock leno. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: LENO

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
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

jay leno

2,971

biography jay leno

12

tonight show with jay leno

343

jay justin leno timberlake

12

leno

170

jay leno quote

12

jay leno show

146

jay late leno show

11

jay leno headline

89

guest jay leno

10

cameron diaz jay leno

71

jay leno show tonite

10

jay leno ticket

53

leno o park state

10

car jay leno

39

jay leno monologue

9

cameron diaz leno

30

leno show tonight

9

car collection jay leno

27

jay leno motorcycle

9

bio jay leno

26

j leno

9

jay leno nbc

17

jay late leno night

8

jay leno republican

15

headline jay leno show tonight

8

jay leno picture

15

alyssa milano jay leno

7

jay joke leno

14

jay leno salary

7

leno headline

13

jay leno official site

7

jay leno show ticket

13

jay jewel leno

7

leno mavis

13

jay leno site web

6

diaz leno

13

barrymore drew jay leno

6

poor leno

12

anderson jay leno pamela

6
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: LENO

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

Danish

  

væv til elastiske textiler (loom for leno fabrics), mock leno (mock gauze, mock leno), mock gauze (mock gauze, mock leno), danlenokugle (bobbin, dan leno bobbin). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

kogel (ball, ball-bearing, bead, bobbin, bullet, dan leno bobbin, globe, pellet), danlenokogel (bobbin, dan leno bobbin). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

teräskuula (bobbin, dan leno bobbin), paino (ballast *, bobbin, dan leno bobbin, emphasis, load, mould weight, ponderosity, printing press, sinker, stress, weight, weight **). (various references)

   

French

  

gaze. (various references)

   

German

  

Webstuhl für elastische Gewebe (loom for leno fabrics), Mock Leno (mock gauze, mock leno), Mock Gauze (mock gauze, mock leno), Kugel (ball, ball-bearing, bobbin, bowl, bulb, bullet, dan leno bobbin, globe, marble, orb, pellet, scoop, shot, slug, sphere), Dan-Leno-Rolle (bobbin, dan leno bobbin). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

καρούλι dan leno (bobbin, dan leno bobbin), καρούλι (bobbin, dan leno bobbin, reel, spool, trundle), μπομπίνα dan leno (bobbin, dan leno bobbin), μπομπίνα (bobbin, coil, dan leno bobbin, pirn, reel, spool), αργαλειός για ελαστικά υφάσματα (loom for leno fabrics), απομίμηση γάζας (mock gauze, mock leno). (various references)

   

Italian

  

telaio per tessuti elastici (loom for leno fabrics), sfera della mazzetta (bobbin, dan leno bobbin), sfera (ball, bobbin, castor, dan leno bobbin, globe, orb, round, special jewel round, sphere), mock leno (mock gauze, mock leno), mock gauze (mock gauze, mock leno), diavolone (bobbin, dan leno bobbin). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

enolay

   

Portuguese

  

tecido imitação de gaze (mock gauze, mock leno), tear para tecido elástico (loom for leno fabrics), esfera do calão (bobbin, dan leno bobbin). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

telar para tejidos elásticos (loom for leno fabrics), mock weave (mock gauze, mock leno), mock leño (mock gauze, mock leno), diábolo del calón (bobbin, dan leno bobbin), campana semiesférica (bobbin, dan leno bobbin). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

"danlenobobbins", "bobbins". (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: LENO

Derivations

Words beginning with "LENO": lenos. (additional references)

Words containing "LENO": euglenoid, euglenoids, glenoid, inglenook, inglenooks, pollenoses, pollenosis, selenocentric, selenological, selenologies, selenologist, selenologists, selenology, selenous, solenoid, solenoidal, solenoids, splenomegalies, splenomegaly. (additional references)


Misspellings

"LENO" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: alxenor, elne, elno, Glenoo, Lano, lanu, layon, leano, leco, ledo, leene, Lefnol, lego, lemo, len, lenao, lenix, lenk, Lenoci, lenoi, lenos, lenx, leny, Lenyon, lenz, lenzo, leong, lero, levo, lewo, Lezo, Linhof, Linpoh, liqo, Livno, llen, Llenor, lonnu, Lono, Lujo, luno, lwen, nelo, pleno, Qenmo, yeno, zeno. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "LENO"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "LENO" (pronounced le"nō or lē"nō)
3-e" n ōsteno.
4l ē" n ōlino.
3-ē" n ōamino, andantino, bambino, cappuccino, casino, Cassino, Chino, fino, keno, ladino, latino, maraschino, Merino, neutrino, palomino, wino.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: LENO

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: enol, lone, noel.

Words within the letters "e-l-n-o"

-1 letter: eon, ole, one.

-2 letters: el, en, lo, ne, no, oe, on.

 Words containing the letters "e-l-n-o"
 

+1 letter: alone, anole, clone, eloin, enols, enrol, felon, lemon, lenos, lento, leone, loden, loner, longe, melon, nerol, noble, noels, novel, olden, olein, pelon.

 

+2 letters: anoles, belong, benzol, blonde, cineol, cloned, cloner, clones, cloven, colone, cornel, dolmen, dongle, donzel, elevon, eloign, eloins, enfold, enhalo, enolic, enroll, enrols, ensoul, entoil, eolian, etalon, felons, felony, fondle, golden, holden, holpen, hondle, indole, insole, kelson, lanose, legion, legong, lemons, lemony, lentos, leones, lepton, lesion, lesson, leukon, loaned, loaner, lodens, lomein, loment, lonely, loners, longed, longer, longes, looney, loosen, louden, lounge, loupen, melons, melton, merlon, moline, molten, nelson, neroli, nerols, niello, nobble, nobler, nobles, noddle, nodule, noodle, novels, nozzle, oilmen, olefin, oleine, oleins, online, openly, phenol, pinole, poleyn, pollen, reloan, rondel, ronnel, sloven, solemn, stolen, telson, tolane, tonlet, woolen, zonule.

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

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Alternative Orthography: LENO


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

4C 45 4E 4F

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)

01001100 01000101 01001110 01001111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#69 &#78 &#79

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0045 004E 004F

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

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

46394849

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Familiar
6. Names: Frequency
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Derivations
11. Rhymes
12. Anagrams
13. Orthography
14. Bibliography


  

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