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Definition: Pix |
PixNoun1. A chest in which coins from the mint are held to await assay. 2. Any receptacle in which wafers for the Eucharist are kept. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "pix" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
PIX | English | Pulp price index | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: PixSynonyms: pix chest (n), pyx (n), pyx chest (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Experiment | Crucible, reagent, check, touchstone, pix; assay, ordeal; ring; litmus paper, curcuma paper, turmeric paper; test tube; analytical instruments. |
Receptacle | Chest, box, coffer, caddy, case, casket, pyx, pix, caisson, desk, bureau, reliquary; trunk, portmanteau, band-box, valise; grip, grip sack; skippet, vasculum; boot, imperial; vache; cage, manger, rack. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Pix |
| Specialty definitions using "pix": Saxon Relics. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "pix": Pitch. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Pix" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Yucatec (cover, hood, lid). |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Pix from gas station, main street in Alexandria, shop signs, etc. Louisiana. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Soldiers inspecting new trackless tank during demonstration at Fort Myer, Virginia. (For further data see caption for pix D-570. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Secretary of War Henrey L. Stimson (back to camera) inspecting new trackless tank during demonstration at Fort Myer, Virginia. For further data see caption for pix D-570. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Soldier inspecting new trackless tank during demonstration at Fort Myer, Virginia. For further data see caption for pix D-570. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Demonstration of a new 1/4-ton "Bantam" truck on rough terrain, Fort Myer, Virginia. For more complete data, see caption for pix D-575. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | New 1/4-ton "bantam" truck being used for wire-laying during demonstration at Fort Myer, Virginia. For more complete data, see caption for pix D-575. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | President Calvin Coolidge. Front parlor, on left three pix father, on table eyeglasses and stereopticon. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Baby_lily 4" by archgimp Commentary: "People said they wanted some pix of babies - so here's some early ones of my lily - now age 11 days old." | "Clouds" by K.C. Hohensee Commentary: "Cloud pix." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Chile | Some of the foreign firms now doing business in Chile include Pix partners, Cushman and Wakefield Semco, Mackenzie Hill, Tramel Crow, and CB Richard Ellis. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Pix" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 55.56% of the time. "Pix" is used about 9 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) | 55.56% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 11.11% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 11.11% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (proper) | 11.11% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (plural) | 11.11% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 9 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "pix": pix chest. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "pix": pix-a, Pix-b. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 |
free gay pix | 777 | teen pix | 55 |
funny pix | 760 | nikon cool pix | 51 |
kid pix | 596 | free gay pix too | 50 |
pix | 485 | free teen pix | 50 |
nat pix rule source | 425 | hot pix | 45 |
natting pix | 339 | porn pix | 43 |
nat pix | 281 | pix rate | 43 |
pantie hose pix | 108 | kid pix deluxe 3 | 42 |
pretty pix | 105 | nasty pix rate | 40 |
free porn pix | 103 | charlotte good pix | 39 |
free nude pix | 99 | gay pix post | 37 |
gay pix | 81 | erica pix pretty | 36 |
pix firewall | 77 | pix pro wrestling | 36 |
nude pix | 75 | pussy pix | 32 |
find pix | 73 | pix syslog | 32 |
azn pix | 71 | fuji fine pix | 31 |
cisco pix | 65 | anime pix | 31 |
live pix | 59 | britney spears pix | 31 |
free xxx pix | 55 | adult pix | 30 |
nat pix source | 55 | free fetish pix | 29 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "pix"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Bulgarian | кино (cinema, motion picture, movies, moving pictures, picture palace, picture theatre, the pictures). (various references) | |
French | image douce (soft pix). (various references) | |
German | weich (crumby, limp, malleable, mellow, pillowy, smooth, smoothly, soft, soft boiled, soft-hearted, softly, spongy, springy, squashy, tender). (various references) | |
Greek | κιβωτίδιο (pyx), αρτοφόριο (monstrance, pyx). (various references) | |
Hungarian | riportfénykép, mozifilm (motion picture, movie, moving pictures), film (animated picture, cinema, film, movie, moving pictures, picture, picture show, screen, screen-play), fénykép (photo, photograph, photographic, pic, pinup, snapshot), újságfénykép. (various references) | |
Italian | immagine morbida (soft pix). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ixpay.(various references) | |
Romanian | fotografii, cinema (cinema, film, kinema, movie theatre, movies, picture, picture house, picture palace, picture show, picture theatre, picturedom). (various references) | |
Russian | фото;кино. (various references) | |
Spanish | imagen poco contrastada (soft pix). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "pix": pixel, pixels, pixes, pixie, pixieish, pixies, pixilated, pixilation, pixilations, pixillated, pixiness, pixinesses, pixy, pixyish. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "pix" (pronounced pi"ks) |
| 4 | p i" k s | picks. |
| 3 | -i" k s | bricks, chicks, clicks, cliques, Dicks, fix, flicks, Hicks, intermix, kicks, licks, mix, Nicks, Nix, pricks, ricks, six, slicks, sticks, ticks, tics, transfix, tricks, Wicks. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-p-x" | |
-1 letter: pi, xi. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-p-x" | |
+1 letter: pixy. | |
+2 letters: mixup, oxlip, pixel, pixes, pixie, pyxie, pyxis. | |
+3 letters: diplex, expire, expiry, mixups, oxlips, phenix, pickax, pixels, pixies, poxing, praxis, prefix, premix, prolix, pyxies, spadix, sphinx. | |
+4 letters: apraxia, apraxic, epitaxy, epoxide, epoxied, epoxies, exciple, expiate, expired, expirer, expires, explain, exploit, exposit, hypoxia, hypoxic, oxyphil, pemphix, peroxid, phoenix, pickaxe, pillbox, pixyish, postfix, premixt, prexies, princox, proxies, proximo, pyrexia, pyrexic, pyxides, pyxidia, salpinx, simplex, taxpaid, triplex, xiphoid. | |
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