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Definition: Powdery |
PowderyAdjective1. Consisting of fine particles; "powdered cellulose"; "powdery snow"; "pulverized sugar is prepared from granulated sugar by grinding". 2. As if dulled in color with a sprinkling of powder; "a powdery blue". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "powdery" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1854. (references) |
Synonyms: PowderySynonyms: fine-grained (adj), powdered (adj), pulverised (adj), pulverized (adj), small-grained (adj). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: dustier (transportation). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Pulverulence | Adjective: powdery, pulverulent, granular, mealy, floury, farinaceous, branny, furfuraceous, flocculent, dusty, sandy, sabulous, psammous; arenose, arenarious, arenaceous; gritty, efflorescent, impalpable; lentiginous, lepidote, sabuline; sporaceous, sporous. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Powdery |
| English words defined with "powdery": Bergmeal, bloom, Burnt ear ♦ class Pyrenomycetes ♦ dust, dustlike ♦ efflorescence, Erysiphaceae, Erysiphe ♦ family Erysiphaceae, fine, flour, floury ♦ genus Erysiphe, genus Pityrogramma, glaucous ♦ mealy bug, mealybug, mealy-mouthed, Miller, moth miller, Mountain meal ♦ Peronate, Pityrogramma, powdery mildew, Powdry, Pulverulent, Pyrenomycetes ♦ Rock meal ♦ sago, sinter, smut, squeak ♦ tin disease, tin pest, tin plague ♦ white rust, Wood fiber. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "powdery": beaver loader ♦ copper sulphide ♦ fusite ♦ Greenawalt process ♦ jacutinga ♦ mazaedium, mechanical feeder, mechanical shovel ♦ nitroglycerin powder ♦ scacchite. (references) |
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 | The new lilac cultivar named Betsy Ross, released by Margaret Pooler of the U.S. National Arboretum, has fragrant white flowers and tolerates powdery mildew. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Margaret Pooler.. |  | A whirling plough used by USSC (United States Sugar Corporation) in soft powdery muck soil to prepare soil for planting sugarcane. Near Pahokee, Florida. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Little flakes of fire fell and powdery ashes fell softly, alighting on the houses of men. |
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| "Powdery" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Powdery" is used about 65 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) | 100% | 65 | 41,645 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "powdery": grape powdery mildew ♦ oidium powdery mildew ( uncinula necator ♦ powdery mildew ♦ powdery mildew of grapevine ♦ powdery snow. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "powdery": powdery-grey. | |
Ending with "powdery": face-powdery. | |
| 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 |
powdery mildew | 105 |
mildew powdery rose | 15 |
mildew powdery treatment | 4 |
control mildew powdery | 4 |
dogwood mildew powdery | 4 |
grape mildew powdery | 4 |
lawn mildew powdery | 3 |
mildew plant powdery | 3 |
mildew powdery squash | 3 |
grass mildew powdery | 3 |
mildew powdery white | 2 |
mildew phlox powdery | 2 |
cucumber mildew powdery | 2 |
fungus leaf mildew powdery rose | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "powdery"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | pluhuror, i thërrmueshëm (crumbly), i pluhurosur (dusty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مغطى بالبودرة, هش (brash, brittle, crisp, fragile, friable, short, shortened, tender, tenuous), ناعم (cosiness, delicate, downy, fine, gentle, glace, mellow, neat, on velvet, silken, silky, smooth, soft, springy, squashy, tender, velvet, velvety), سهل التفتيت, ذروري. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | ронлив (cracky, flaky, friable, light, loose, pulverulent, short), като прах, посипан с прах, покрит с прах (pulverulent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 粉状 (floury). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | práškový (powdered). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | støvfyldt (dusty), støvet (dusty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | mul (loose, sandy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | pulvora. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | pölyinen (dusty), tomuinen (dusty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | pulvérulent (in powder form), poussiéreux, poudreux, sous forme de poudre (in powder form), friable, couvert de poudre. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | pulverig, staubig (dusty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κονιώδης (dusty, pulverulent), πουδραρισμένοσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | קמחי (floury, mealy), אביק (buttonhole, dusty, pipe, tube), אבקי (dusty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | porszerű (dusty, pulverulent), poros (dusty, hand-me-down, pulverulent), porhanyós (crisp, crispy, short, tender). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | polveroso (dusty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | パイル" (pile fabric, pilot, pilot boat, pilot farm, pilot lamp, pilot shop, pilot survey, pine, pineapple juice, pirate, pirated edition, pirate's pants, powder, Pyrex, Pyrex glass, Pyroceram). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | パウダリー . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 가루 (Flour). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | poodyragh (pulverulent), joanagh (dusty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | owderypay pulverulento (dusty, pulverulent), pulvéreo, poeirento (dusty), quebradiço (brash, brittle, crisp, crumbly, fragile, frail, friable). (various references) pulverulent (dusty, pulverulent). (various references) порошкообразный (powdered, pulverulent). (various references) prašnjav (dusty), nalik na prah. (various references) polvoriento (dusty, pulverulent). (various references) pulverformig (dusty, pulverulent), pulver-, pudrad, puderfin. (various references) tozlu (dusty, pulverulent), toz halinde (pulverulent), toz gibi (dusty). (various references) розсипчастий (crisp, crumbly, mealy), напудрений (powdered), посипаний порошком, порошкоподібний (powdered, pulverulent). (various references) đầy bột; đầy bụi như bột; dạng bột có thể tán th nh bột. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Powdery" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Penderry, povder, Powda, Powdrill. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "powdery" (pronounced pou"derē) |
| 3 | -d er ē | boundary, camaraderie, embroidery, prudery, quandary. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-o-p-r-w-y" | |
-1 letter: dowery, powder. | |
-2 letters: doper, dopey, dower, dowry, pedro, perdy, pored, power, roped, ropey, rowdy, rowed, wordy, yowed. | |
-3 letters: dewy, doer, dope, dopy, dore, dorp, dory, drew, drop, dyer, oped, owed, oyer, pore, prey, prod, prow, pyre, redo, repo, rode, rope, ropy, word, wore, yore, yowe. | |
-4 letters: dew, dey, doe, dor, dow, dry, dye, ode. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-o-p-r-w-y" | |
+3 letters: hydropower. | |
+4 letters: hydropowers, swordplayer. | |
+5 letters: swordplayers. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 6F 77 64 65 72 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. --- .--. -.. . .-. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01101111 01110111 01100100 01100101 01110010 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P o w d e r y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 006F 0077 0064 0065 0072 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)50818970718491 |
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