Nylons

Definition: Nylons

Nylons

Noun

1. Women's stockings made from a sheer material (nylon or rayon or silk).

Specialty Definitions: Nylons

Domain	Definitions
Health	Polymers where the main polymer chain comprises recurring amide groups. These compounds are generally formed from combinations of diamines, diacids, and amino acids and yield fibers, sheeting, or extruded forms used in textiles, gels, filters, sutures, contact lenses, and other biomaterials. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Nylons

Synonyms: nylon stocking (n), rayon stocking (n), rayons (n), silk stocking (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Nylons

English words defined with "nylons": ladder ♦ run. (references)

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Modern Usage: Nylons

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	At the same time our people grumbled for more nylons and washing machines. (Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb; writing credit: Peter George; Stanley Kubrick) Kneeling bags my nylons. (The Big Carnival; writing credit: Walter Newman; Lesser Samuels)
Movie/TV Titles	Geheimnisse in goldenen Nylons (1967) Schwarze Nylons - heiße Nächte (1958)
Song Titles	Bop Till You Drop (performing artist: The Nylons) Chain Gang (performing artist: The Nylons) Drift Away (performing artist: The Nylons) Happy Together (performing artist: The Nylons) Kiss Him Goodbye (performing artist: The Nylons)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Nylons

Domain	Title
Music	The Best of the Nylons (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Nylons

Author	Quotation
Billy Wilder	I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
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Non-Fiction Usage: Nylons

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		The Tou-Fen petrochemical complex makes petrochemicals based on natural gas. However few firms are located here, due to the limited amount of natural gas in the area. Currently the Tou-Fen area produces fertilizers, plastics, industrial chemicals and nylons. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Nylons

"Nylons" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 97.50% of the time. "Nylons" is used about 40 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 (plural)	97.5%	39	55,036
Noun (proper)	2.5%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	40	N/A

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Nylons

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
nylons	2,808	nylons gallery	31
sexy nylons	107	in lady nylons	31
woman in nylons	102	nylons secretary	31
leg nylons	93	nylons seamed	30
black nylons	90	sex nylons	29
nylons and heel	79	vintage nylons	27
foot in nylons	77	knitted nylons	27
high heel nylons	70	crossed in leg nylons	27
nylons and garter	61	nylons vickis	27
pantie hose nylons	61	bas nylons	26
nylons stocking	59	babe in nylons	26
mature nylons	57	nylons photo	23
leg in nylons	53	in nylons secretary	22
in man nylons	52	alexandra nylons	22
girl in nylons	50	sex in nylons	21
foot nylons	45	man nylons wearing	21
ff nylons	44	full fashioned nylons	19
girdle nylons	34	sheer nylons	19
nikkis nylons	32	nylons fetish	19
nylons rht	32	teen in nylons	18
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Nylons

Language		Translations for "nylons"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		çorape nailoni. (various references)

Bulgarian		найлонови чорапи. (various references)

Chinese		尼龙 (nylon). (various references)

Czech		nylonové punèochy. (various references)

German		Strümpfe (stockings). (various references)

Hungarian		nylonharisnya, harisnyanadrág (panty hose, pantyhose, tights). (various references)

Korean		나일론 (nylon). (various references)

Pig Latin		ylonsnay

Russian		нейлоновые чулки. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		ženske čarape. (various references)

Thai		ถุงน่องของผู้หญิง. (various references)

Turkish		naylon giysiler, naylon çorap. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Nylons

Misspellings
	"Nylons" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dylon, neilans, Neylan, Neylin, nilon, nolens, nycon, Nykland, nylone, nylong, nyon, nyons, nyson. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Nylons"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "nylons" (pronounced nī"lÄ'nz)
5	-ī" l Ä' n z	pylons.
4	-l Ä' n z	echelons.
3	-Ä' n z	ailerons, Amazons, antiphons, axons, crayons, deuterons, helicons, Hogans, icons, liaisons, marathons, mesons, microns, neons, neutrons, pentagons, photons, pompons, positrons, protons.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Nylons

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: nonyls.
	Words within the letters "l-n-n-o-s-y"
	-1 letter: nonyl, nylon, sonly, sonny.
	-2 letters: nosy, only.
	-3 letters: nos, ons, sly, sol, son, soy, syn, yon.
	-4 letters: lo, no, on, os, oy, so, yo.
	Words containing the letters "l-n-n-o-s-y"
	+2 letters: nonplays, nonstyle.
	+3 letters: donnishly, lyonnaise, nonstyles, unsoundly.
	+4 letters: ankylosing, constantly, insolently, insolvency, nonlawyers, resonantly, soundingly, swooningly, synchronal, younglings.
	+5 letters: anonymously, calypsonian, confusingly, consolingly, consonantly, consultancy, dissonantly, geosyncline, holystoning, ingeniously, ingenuously, innocuously, lincomycins, nonmystical, nonphysical, nonsyllabic, nonsymbolic, pennyroyals, somnolently, synonymical, tyrannously, unanimously.
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