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Definitions: Rattan |
RattanNoun1. Climbing palm of Sri Lanka and southern India remarkable for the great length of the stems which are used for Malacca canes. 2. The stem of various climbing palms of the genus Calamus and related genera used to make wickerwork and furniture and canes. 3. A switch made from the stems of the rattan palms. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "rattan" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references) |
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Food & Agriculture | Stems of climbing palms usually of the Calamus family. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Rattan is a town located in Pushmataha County, Oklahoma. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 241.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Rattan."
Synonyms: RattanSynonyms: ratan (n), rattan cane (n), rattan palm (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Scourge | Noun: scourge, rod, cane, stick; ratan, rattan; birch, birch rod; azote, |
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Crosswords: Rattan |
| English words defined with "rattan": calamus ♦ malacca, malacca cane ♦ ratan, Ratoon, rattan cane, rattan palm. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "rattan": 74562 ♦ BASKET MENDER ♦ CANER II ♦ FUR CLEANER, fur dry-cleaner ♦ Rattan Cane ♦ sawdust-machine operator. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Rattan" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Manx (rattan). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Rattan (1944) | |
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Business | In Gaza there are several furniture factories that make a line of rattan and bamboo furniture that is in demand for outdoor seating areas. (references) | |
Economic History | Laos | Trade: Exports (2000t.)--$393 million: garments, electricity, wood and wood products, coffee, rattan. (references) |
Solomon Islands | Industry: Types--palm oil milling, fish canning, sawmilling, rice milling, boats, rattan and wood furniture, fiberglass products, shell jewelry, tobacco, clothing, soap, nails, handicrafts. (references) | |
Laos | ELECTRICITY EXPORTS EXPERIENCED THE SHARPEST RISE IN 1998, INCREASING BY NEARLY 220%, WHILE COFFEE EXPORTS GREW BY 150%. THE RANGE OF GOODS MANUFACTURED FOR EXPORT IS LIMITED PRIMARILY TO GARMENTS; WOOD AND RATTAN PRODUCTS; AND HANDICRAFTS. (references) | |
Trade | Laos | LAO LAW PROHIBITS THE EXPORT OF WEAPONS; ANTIQUITIES; BUDDHA IMAGES; ILLEGAL DRUGS; LOGS; 15X80 SIZE AND THICKER SAWED WOOD (REGARDLESS OF LENGTH); RAW RATTAN AND BASIC PROCESSED RATTAN; AND WILDLIFE. (references) |
Worker Rights | Indonesia | Children work in the rattan and wood furniture industries, the garment industry, the footwear industry, food processing, toy-making, and small mining operations, and other industries. (references) |
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| "Rattan" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 73.91% of the time. "Rattan" is used about 23 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) | 73.91% | 17 | 85,106 |
| Noun (singular) | 21.74% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.35% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 23 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "rattan" 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 |
| Rattan | Last name | 200 | 37,071 |
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1. Rattan, OK (town, FIPS 61950) |
Expressions using "rattan": rattan cane ♦ rattan chair ♦ rattan furniture ♦ rattan palm ♦ rattan table. Additional references. | |
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| 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 |
rattan furniture | 873 |
rattan | 558 |
rattan or wicker furniture | 115 |
rattan chair | 87 |
rattan and wicker | 54 |
rattan bar stool | 48 |
rattan cane | 27 |
rattan table | 26 |
rattan bedroom furniture | 25 |
rattan sofa | 25 |
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| Language | Translations for "rattan"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | palmë kacavjerrëse, bastun prej palme kacavjerrëse. (various references) | |
Arabic | الروطان أسل الهند. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | вид виеща се палма. (various references) | |
Chinese | 藤条 (splint), 藤 (cane), 籐 (cane). (various references) | |
Danish | spanskroer. (various references) | |
Dutch | rotting (digestion, putrefaction, rot), rotan. (various references) | |
Farsi | چوبدستی (Billy), خیزران (Bamboo), درخت خون سیاوشان , باعصای خیزران تنبیه کردن . (various references) | |
Finnish | rottinki (cane). (various references) | |
French | rotin. (various references) | |
German | Rotang, Stuhlrohr. (various references) | |
Greek | ροτέν, ινδικός κάλαμος, ινδοκάλαμοσ (bamboo), μπαστούνι (cane, walking stick). (various references) | |
Hungarian | rotángpálma (ratan, rattan cane), nádpálma (ratan, rattan cane), nádpálca (cane, ferule, fescue, ratan, rattan walking-stick). (various references) | |
Indonesian | rotan (cane). (various references) | |
Italian | palma d'India, malacca, canna d'India (indian shot). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 籐製 , 籐 (cane). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | とうせい (ceramics, control, eastern expedition, head voice, nowadays, present-day, regulation, strength of a party, upward trend), とう (and the like, be frozen over, building, cane, child, congeal, counter for large animals, engraving tool, et cetera, etc., foolishness, freeze, ground spider, knife, pagoda, party, place, saber, section, servant, sickle, steal, sugar, sword, T'ang-Dynasty, to accuse, to ask, to charge, to question, tower, without regard to). (various references) | |
Manx | rattan. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | attanray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | rotim, rota (broken, circuit, rota, route, transit, walk), vime (osier, wattle, with, withy), palhinha (straw). (various references) | |
Russian | трость из ротанга, пальма ротанговая. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | ratan palma. (various references) | |
Spanish | rotang, rotén, rota, junco de indias, caña de indias. (various references) | |
Swedish | rotting (cane). (various references) | |
Turkish | hazaren, duvar yosunu. (various references) | |
Ukranian | ротанг. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | gậy bằng song (ratan), cây song roi mây (ratan). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "rattan": rattans. (additional references) | |
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"Rattan" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Artan, artcan, Battant, Bratan, brettan, Cattan, gattnar, Hattan, Radda, Radday, Ratak, ratam, Ratan, Ratana, Ratany, ratian, ratin, ratman, Ratna, Ratnam, ratteen, Ratti, Ratton, Rauta, reattain, retan, retant, retean, retta, ritan, Roatan, Roatta, rortyan, Rottmann, rottsann, Rushtah, ruttan, Ruttmann. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "rattan" (pronounced rata"n) |
| 3 | -t a" n | harmattan, tan. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: tantra, tartan. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-n-r-t-t" | |
-1 letter: antra, attar, ratan, tatar. | |
-2 letters: anta, rant, tarn, tart. | |
-3 letters: ana, ant, art, att, ran, rat, tan, tar, tat. | |
-4 letters: aa, an, ar, at, na, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-n-r-t-t" | |
+1 letter: arnatto, rattans, tantara, tantras, tartana, tartans. | |
+2 letters: alterant, anteater, arnattos, attainer, natatory, reactant, reattain, saturant, tantaras, tarantas, tarlatan, tarletan, tartanas, transact. | |
+3 letters: alterants, alternate, annotator, antarctic, anteaters, antidraft, antiparty, apartment, arrestant, astronaut, attainder, attainers, harmattan, natatoria, reactants, reattains, retardant, saturants, tarantism, tarantula, tarlatans, tarletans, tarnation, tearstain, termagant, transacts, translate. | |
+4 letters: adulterant, alteration, alternated, alternates, alternator, annotators, anthracite, antimarket, antimatter, antinature, antiracist, antitrades, apartments, aquatinter, arctangent, arrestants, astronauts, attainders, attenuator, attractant, attracting, attraction, cantatrice, cantatrici, castrating, castration, denaturant, harmattans, ingratiate, intraplate, intrastate, intravital, intravitam, maturating, maturation, natatorial, natatorium, naturalist, naturopath, reattained, restaurant, retardants, retreatant, rotational, saturating, saturation, starvation, stationary, surfactant, tantalizer, tarantases, tarantella, tarantisms, tarantulae, tarantulas, tarnations, tearstains, tentacular, termagants, tetracaine, tetragonal, trabeation, tractional, tragacanth, tramontane, transacted, transactor, transeptal, translated, translates, translator, transplant, transudate, unsaturate. | |
+5 letters: abstracting, abstraction, adulterants, alterations, altercating, altercation, alternately, alternating, alternation, alternative, alternators, anthracites, anthracitic, anticipator, antigravity, antimatters, antinatural, antinatures, antiracists, antirealist, antitarnish, antitumoral, apartmental, appurtenant, aquatinters, arbitrament, arbitrating, arbitration, arctangents, astronautic, attenuators, attractance, attractancy, attractants, attractions, attritional, cantatrices, castrations, coarctation, contractual, denaturants, entablature, extravagant, fractionate, fragmentate, gnatcatcher, gratulating, gratulation, gravitating, gravitation, impartation, incantatory, ingratiated, ingratiates, interactant, intercalate, intractable, intractably, intrathecal, maltreating, matriculant, maturations, natatoriums, naturalists, naturopaths, naturopathy, nonabstract, participant, paternalist, portmanteau, protonemata, ratiocinate, rationalist, rationality, rattlebrain, rattlesnake, reattaching, reattacking, reattaining, recantation, restaurants, retaliating, retaliation, retardation, retranslate, retreatants, saturations, standpatter, starvations, strangulate, supernatant, surfactants, tantalizers, tarantellas, tearstained, tetracaines, tetrahymena, tetravalent, trabeations, traditional, tragacanths, tramontanes, transacting, transaction, transactors, transhumant, translating, translation, translative, translators, translatory, translocate, transmittal, transparent, transplants, transudates, trepanation, treponemata, triangulate, trinitarian, uncastrated, unsaturated, unsaturates, utilitarian, vaticinator. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 61 74 74 61 6E |
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. .- - - .- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100001 01110100 01110100 01100001 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R a t t a n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0061 0074 0074 0061 006E |
| 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)526786866780 |
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