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| Domain | Definition |
Industry | Machine designed to wind the weft yarns on to bobbins ready for use in weaving. Source: European Union. (references) |
Occupations | Tends machine equipped with automatic quill loading and doffing device that winds yarn from $T3cones$T1 or tubes onto quills for use in loom shuttle: Loads hopper with empty quills by hand or electric hoist. Places supply packages of yarn on holders, according to yarn count, blend, and color of label inside packages, and ties yarn ends from packages to ends in machine and cuts excess yarn at knots with scissors. Observes winding units to detect breaks in yarn. Removes quills when yarn breaks, rethreads yarn through guides, and ties yarn ends. Removes full boxes or pinboards (boards with upright spindles), which receive wound quills ejected by machine, and separates partially filled quills. Keeps production records. May inspect quills for defects, such as broken filament and dirty or damaged yarn. May mark quills of yarn according to style of yarn being processed, using colored chalk. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Boasting | Boaster; braggart, braggadocio; Gascon, fanfaron, pretender, soi-disant; blower, bluffer, Foxy Quiller; blusterer; charlatan, jack-pudding, trumpeter; puppy; (fop). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: QUILLER |
| Specialty definitions using "QUILLER": long-chain-quiller tender ♦ QUILLER OPERATOR, quill-machine tender. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Quiller Memorandum (1966) Quiller (1975) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "QUILLER" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "QUILLER" is used about 2 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 (proper) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "QUILLER" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Quiller | Last name | 170 | 49,881 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "QUILLER": Quiller-couch. | |
| 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 |
quiller | 16 |
stephen quiller | 6 |
balalaika quiller | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "QUILLER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | spoleapparat (filling winder, pirn winder, spooler, weft winder), skudgarnsspolemaskine (filling winder, pirn winder, spooler, weft winder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | schietspoelmachine (filling winder, pirn winder, spooler, weft winder), inslagspoelmachine (filling winder, pirn winder, spooler, weft winder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | machine caneter, cannetière, canetière. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Schussspulmaschine (filling winder, pirn winder, spooler, weft winder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | μηχανή για το τύλιγμα σε μασούρια (filling winder, pirn winder, spooler, weft winder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | spoliera (filling winder, pirn winder, spooler, weft winder), canettiera (filling winder, pirn winder, spooler, weft winder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | illerquay caneleira (cinnamon). (various references) canillera (filling winder, pirn winder, spooler, weft winder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "QUILLER": tranquiller. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-l-l-q-r-u" | |
-2 letters: iller, quell, quill, quire, rille. | |
-3 letters: lier, lieu, lire, lure, riel, rile, rill, rule. | |
-4 letters: ell, ill, ire, lei, leu, lie, rei, rue. | |
-5 letters: el, er, li, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-l-l-q-r-u" | |
+2 letters: quadrille, squallier. | |
+3 letters: quadrilles, squirrelly. | |
+4 letters: aquarellist, equilateral, quarrelling, squirrelled, tranquiller. | |
+5 letters: aquarellists, soliloquizer, squirrelling, tranquillest, tranquillize. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Crosswords 2. Usage: Modern 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Names: Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Anagrams 11. Bibliography |
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