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Definition: Machete |
MacheteNoun1. A large heavy knife used in Central and South America as a weapon or for cutting vegetation. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "machete" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
Etymology: Machete \Ma*che"te\, noun. [Spanish expression]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | A medium-weight chopping and slashing tool in the form of a large knife set in a short handle(the blade being variable in shape but originally resembling a seaman's cutlass)which is used extensively in bush clearing in tropical countries. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A machete is a cleaver like tool that looks like a very large bread knife. The blade is about a 1.5 - 2.0 feet (0.5 m - 0.6 m) longThe machete is normally used to cut through thick vegetation such as sugar cane or jungle undergrowth, but it can also be used as an offensive weapon. In southern Africa, the same tool is known as a panga. The difference largely being that a panga has a broader blade and a squared off tip.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Machete."
Synonyms: MacheteSynonyms: matchet (n), panga (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Machete |
| English words defined with "machete": cut down ♦ slash. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "machete": CHRISTMAS-TREE FARM WORKER ♦ DESMONCHUS. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Machete" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (machete), Italian (machete), Portuguese (machete), Spanish (bowie knife, cutlass, machete), Swedish (machete). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | He just wanted his machete back (Jason X; writing credit: Todd Farmer) Oh, you want your machete! (Jason X; writing credit: Todd Farmer) | |
Movie/TV Titles | La Primera carga al machete (1969) Machete (1958) | |
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Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Boy scouts on donkeys breaking through jungle with machete. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Laborer cutting down sugar cane with a machete, Banes, Cuba. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Guanica, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Sharpening a "machete" used in cutting sugar cane. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Bethlehem, Saint Croix Island, Virgin Islands (vicinity). Sharpening a machete in a small village. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Haiti | On May 21, several residents of the village of Chenet killed a houngan (male voodoo priest) by stoning and with machete blows. (references) |
Economic History | Angola | Flag: Two equal horizontal bands of red (top) black with a centered yellow emblem consisting of a five-pointed star within half a cogwheel crossed by a machete and hoe (in the style of a hammer and sickle). (references) |
Human Rights | Nicaragua | Artola, resisting arrest, attacked the policemen with a machete. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Machete" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.87% of the time. "Machete" is used about 47 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) | 97.87% | 46 | 50,285 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.13% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 47 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "machete": machete-wielding. | |
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| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
control machete | 179 | antique machete | 3 |
machete | 158 | best machete | 3 |
control lyrics machete | 22 | machete volant | 3 |
machete paper | 10 | machete martindale | 3 |
bolo machete | 9 | competition machete womens | 3 |
survival machete | 6 | clothing machete | 2 |
machete knife | 5 | machete sales | 2 |
machete picture | 5 | machete tramontina | 2 |
machete mfg | 4 | military machete | 2 |
aid child hands machete mother toronto | 3 | child hands machete toronto | 2 |
attack machete | 3 | control lyrics machete senor si | 2 |
control machete mp3 | 3 | control machete video | 2 |
collins machete | 3 | control machete señor si | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "machete"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | satër (carver, carving knife, chopper), hanxhar (carver, carving knife, chopper, cleaver, pole-ax, snickersnee, stylet). (various references) | |
Arabic | منجل (bill, billhook, hook, pruning scissors, scythe, sickle), مدية (blade, knife, penknife), قيثارة برتغالية, خنجر (dagger, dirk, poniard, spike, stiletto). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | мачете (cutlass). (various references) | |
Chamorro | machette. (various references) | |
Czech | maèeta. (various references) | |
Danish | machete (bush knife, cutlass, machet, matchet, slasher). (various references) | |
Dutch | machete (bush knife, cutlass, machet, matchet, slasher). (various references) | |
Finnish | machete (bush knife, cutlass, machet, slasher), viidakkoveitsi (bush knife, cutlass, machet, slasher). (various references) | |
French | machette (machet, matchet). (various references) | |
German | machete (bush knife, cutlass, machet, matchet, slasher), buschmesser (bushwhacker, bushwhackers). (various references) | |
Greek | Κλαδευτήρι(τροπικών περιοχών) (bush knife, cutlass, machet, slasher), μεγάλη μαχαίρα. (various references) | |
Hebrew | 'רזן "תחפרות, סכין "מוי חרב. (various references) | |
Hungarian | széles pengéjű kés. (various references) | |
Indonesian | golok (chopping knife, cleaver, dagger). (various references) | |
Italian | machete (bush knife, cutlass, machet, matchet, slasher). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | achetemay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | machete, machado usado nos trópicos para o corte da cana do açúcar (bush knife, cutlass, machet, slasher), faca~o, faca de mato (matchet). (various references) | |
Russian | мачете, большой нож (gully). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | mačeta. (various references) | |
Spanish | machete (bowie knife, cutlass). (various references) | |
Swedish | machete (bush knife, cutlass, machet, slasher). (various references) | |
Turkish | pala (broadsword, cutlass, paddle, scimitar, scimiter, sword). (various references) | |
Turkmen | зalgy. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | мачете. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Erythrina, ERYTHRINA BERTEROANA, gladium. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "machete": machetes. (additional references) | |
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"Machete" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acheter, cachette, Macbeath, macche, Maceeter, Macehiter, Machale, macheen, Machet, machette, Machie, Machmeter, Machree, macht, Maciet, Macnee, Macphie, Macwhirter, Mahele, Makhtar, makuti, Makweta, Makweto, Manchete, manhede, Marchette, Maschsee, Masheter, Mashiter, matchee, Matchet, matcheth, Matete, Mcbeth, Mechata, mechette, Mechie, Mehretu, melchite, Michetti, Miketi, mnchener, Mokete, Moucharte, muchacho, muchame, Muchene, Muchope, Munhepe, Nachtwey, sachete, Zakhele. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "machete" (pronounced 'Ma*che"te'): Achiote, Aguardiente, Andante, Aphrodite, Astarte, Atte, Bleynte, Borachte, Breste, Brillante, Cete, Chicalote, Chierte, Cognoscente, Concertante, Durante, Freelte, Frelte, Lentamente, Lette, Mecate, Mercatante, metate, Mordente, Niste, Pococurante, Prighte, Rafte, rete, Semidiapente, Soavemente, Stacte, Sterte, Stirte, Swatte, Venite. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-h-m-t" | |
-1 letter: thecae. | |
-2 letters: cheat, mache, match, tache, teach, theca, theme. | |
-3 letters: ache, acme, ahem, came, cate, cete, cham, chat, each, eath, eche, etch, haem, haet, hame, hate, heat, heme, mace, mach, mate, math, meat, meet, meta, mete, meth, tace, tach, tame, team, teem, thae, thee, them. | |
-4 letters: ace, act, ate, cam, cat, cee, eat, eme. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-h-m-t" | |
+1 letter: machetes. | |
+2 letters: checkmate, rematched, rematches. | |
+3 letters: catechumen, checkmated, checkmates, chemotaxes, detachment, empathetic, encashment, hemiacetal, hermetical, merchanted, metaethics, metathetic, misteaches, preachment, schematize, tachometer. | |
+4 letters: achievement, antechamber, catechumens, chamaephyte, champerties, detachments, encashments, enchainment, enchantment, enhancement, hemiacetals, hepatectomy, impeachment, merchantmen, metaethical, metanephric, overmatched, overmatches, preachments, schematized, schematizes, spermatheca, tachometers, theorematic, trencherman. | |
+5 letters: accouchement, achievements, aerenchymata, aestheticism, antechambers, cephalometry, chamaephytes, chastisement, chemotherapy, cinematheque, enchainments, enchantments, encroachment, enhancements, exanthematic, gemeinschaft, hemichordate, hermetically, impeachments, merchantable, mesothoraces, metathetical, metathoraces, metencephala, methacrylate, overemphatic, reattachment, semidetached, spermathecae. | |
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