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Definition: Low-rise |
Low-riseAdjective1. Used of buildings of one or only a few stories and usually no elevator; low; "looking out over the roofs of low-rise apartment buildings". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Antonym: high-rise (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Low-rise |
| Specialty definitions using "low-rise": attached house ♦ fourplex. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | After the sharp drop of the 1989-1996 period, residential construction began to pick up once again in 1997. Today's growth, primarily low-rise housing and condominiums, is being driven by rising prosperity and by increased public optimism about the direction of the economy. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Low-rise" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 81.82% of the time. "Low-rise" is used about 11 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) | 81.82% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (singular) | 18.18% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 11 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "low-rise"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Albanian | me pak kate. (various references) | ||||
Chinese | 低上升. (various references) | ||||
Korean | 낮 일어나십시". (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ow-riselay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-l-o-r-s-w" | |
-1 letter: lories, lowers, oilers, oriels, reoils, rowels, slower. | |
-2 letters: lewis, liers, lores, loris, loser, lower, lowes, lowse, lweis, oiler, oriel, orles, osier, reoil, resow, riels, riles, roils, roles, rowel, serow, slier, solei, sorel, sower, swirl, swore, weirs, wiles, wires, wiser, worse, wries. | |
-3 letters: eros, ires, isle, leis, lier, lies, lire, lore, lose, lowe, lows. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-l-o-r-s-w" | |
+1 letter: blowsier. | |
+2 letters: growliest, lifeworks, lowlifers, lowriders, pileworts, swordlike, willowers. | |
+3 letters: bowdlerise, clowneries, demiworlds, fieldworks, floweriest, growliness, liverworts, outlawries, willpowers, wolverines, worldliest, worldviews. | |
+4 letters: bowdlerised, bowdlerises, bowdlerizes, brownfields, downhillers, floweriness, lowercasing, middlebrows, mindblowers, otherwhiles, rottweilers, snowmobiler, sparrowlike, trelliswork, twinflowers, wearisomely, wildflowers, wildfowlers, willowwares, windflowers, withholders, wolfberries, wolframites, worldliness, worrisomely, worshipless. | |
+5 letters: bowdlerising, bowdlerizers, cauliflowers, cowardliness, followership, gillyflowers, growlinesses, latticeworks, outwrestling, snowmobilers, towardliness, trellisworks. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 6F 77 2D 72 69 73 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01101111 01110111 00101101 01110010 01101001 01110011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L o w - r i s e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 006F 0077 002D 0072 0069 0073 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4681891584758571 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Translations: Modern 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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