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Pencil Case

Definition: Pencil Case

Pencil Case

Noun

1. A box for holding pencils.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Pencil Case

Synonym: pencil box (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Pencil Case

Specialty definitions using "pencil case": INSPECTOR, CASINGLEATHER CUTTERQUALITY-CONTROL INSPECTOR. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Pencil Case

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

  pencil case

55
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Pencil Case

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

Albanian

  

këllëf për penat. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏مقلمة (pencil box). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

кутийка за моливи. (various references)

   

French

  

trousse. (various references)

   

German

  

federmäppchen. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

קלמר (pen box, pencil box, school box). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

tolltartó (pen box). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

筆入れ . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ふでいれ. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

encilpay asecay

   

Portuguese

  

lapiseira (multi-lead propelling pencil, propelling pencil), afiadeira. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

пенал (pen box, pencil box, pencil-case, school box). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

držalje za pero. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

plumier, plumero (duster, pencil box, pen-rest, pen-tray, plume), lapicero (propelling pencil), estuche de lápices (pencil box). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

pennfodral. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

kalemlik (pen box, pencil box, penholder), kalem kutusu. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Pencil Case

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-e-i-l-n-p-s"

-2 letters: calcines, calipees, capelins, cenacles, ecclesia, especial, licences, panicles, pelicans, penalise, salience, sapience, scenical, sepaline.

-3 letters: alpines, calcine, calices, calipee, cancels, capelin, caplins, celiacs, cenacle, cleanse, eclipse, elapine, enclasp, enlaces, icecaps, inclasp, inlaces, inscape, ipecacs, licence, license, panicle, pelican, pencels, pencils, pensile, pineals, plaices, sanicle, scalene, scaleni, science, selenic, silence, spancel, spaniel, special.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-c-e-e-i-l-n-p-s"
 

+3 letters: complacencies, conceptualise, encyclopedias, mesencephalic.

 

+4 letters: conceptualised, conceptualises, conceptualizes, encyclopaedias, prosencephalic.

 

+5 letters: complicatedness, conceptualities, conceptualizers, overcompliances, practicableness, practicalnesses.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Pencil Case


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

50 65 6E 63 69 6C      43 61 73 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01100101 01101110 01100011 01101001 01101100 00100000 01000011 01100001 01110011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#101 &#110 &#99 &#105 &#108 &#32 &#67 &#97 &#115 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0065 006E 0063 0069 006C      0043 0061 0073 0065

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

507180697578237678571

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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