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Definitions: Reticule |
ReticuleNoun1. A woman's drawstring handbag; usually made of net or beading or brocade; used in 18th and 19th centuries. 2. A network of fine lines, dots, cross hairs, or wires in the focal plane of the eyepiece of an optical instrument. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "reticule" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Aerospace | = reticle. (references) |
Geography | A mark such as a cross or a system of lines lying in the image plane of a viewing apparatus. It may be used singly as a reference mark on certain types of monocular instruments or as one of a pair to form a floating mark as in certain types of stereoscopes. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A set of intersecting very fine lines, wires, etc., in the optical focus of an optical instrument. It is also referred to as graticule.See also:collimation line. (references) |
Physics | Fine wires, or strands of spider web or other material, crossing in the focal plane of an optical instrument and serving to define a line of sight. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: ReticuleSynonyms: graticule (n), reticle (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Receptacle | Pocket, pouch, fob, sheath, scabbard, socket, bag, sac, sack, saccule, wallet, cardcase, scrip, poke, knit, knapsack, haversack, sachel, satchel, reticule, budget, net; ditty bag, ditty box; housewife, hussif; saddlebags; portfolio; quiver; (magazine). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Reticule |
| English words defined with "reticule": Cabas ♦ Reticulated micrometer. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "reticule": collimation line ♦ reticule cross. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "reticule": reticle, retina. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Reticule" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (handbag, hand-bag). |
| "Reticule" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Reticule" 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) | 100% | 9 | 117,287 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "reticule": reticule cross. Additional references. | |
| 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 |
reticule | 9 |
micr reticule | 3 |
premier reticule | 2 |
ravenshield reticule | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "reticule"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | rrjetëz, çantë grash (handbag). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | حقيبة يد نسوية صغيرة, شبيكة الشعر. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | географска мрежа (reticle), визирен кръст (reticle), дамска плетена чанта. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | taštièka. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | trådkors (cross hairs, cross lines, graticule, hair cross, reticle), stregkors (reticle, reticule cross). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | kruisdraden (reticle, reticule cross), dradenkruis (cross hairs, cross lines, graticule, hair cross, lease, reticle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | lankaristikko (reticle, reticule cross), hiusristikko (cross hairs, cross lines, graticule, hair cross, reticle, reticule cross). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | réticule (reticle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Gitternetz (grid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σταυρόνημα (graticule, reticle, reticule cross), γυναικείο τσαντάκι, δικτυωτός σταυρός (cross hairs, cross lines, graticule, hair cross, reticle), δικτυωτό σακίδιο. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | retikül (bag, handbag), női táska, női kézitáska, hajszálkereszt (reticle), háló (lattice, mesh, net, nett, netting, snare, springe, tunnel, web), fonálkereszt (reticle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | reticolo (graticule, grid, lattice, network, raster, screen). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | poagey moggyllagh (net-bag). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eticuleray reticulado (cancellated, nettermost, reticulate, reticulated), retículo (reticle), fios do retículo (reticle, reticule cross). (various references) сумочка (bum bag, cabas, pocketbook, purse), сетка (grid, lathing, lattice, mesh-work, net, netting, network, reticle, rose, string bag). (various references) torbica (bag, cartridge pouch, scrip), mreža (chain, mesh, meshes, net, netting, network, reticle, reticulation, screen, seine, trammel, web). (various references) retículo (reticle). (various references) hårkors (reticle). (various references) kadın çantası (tote bag), el çantası (handbag, pochette, pocket book, purse), dürbün ağı (reticle), ağsı objektif. (various references) сітка (caul, lattice, net, netting, network, rack, reticle, string bag, web), сумочка (purse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "reticule": reticules. (additional references) | |
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"Reticule" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: articulo, Rafiqul, Rathcullen, Rattakul, recticule, rectocele, redicule, Renicola, retical, reticula, Reticuli, retinulae, revictual, rupicola, rusticola, Rutaceae. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "reticule" (pronounced 'Ret"i*cule'): Animalcule, Bascule, Canicule, Corpuscule, Cysticule, floccule, Floscule, graticule, Lodicule, Lucule, majuscule, minuscule, molecule, monocule, Muscule, Oscule, Pedicule, Poeticule, Radicule, Ramuscule, saccule, Semifloscule, Silicule, Vermicule. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-i-l-r-t-u" | |
-1 letter: eucrite, lecture, leucite, reticle, tiercel, utricle. | |
-2 letters: ceiler, cerite, curite, cutler, luetic, recite, relict, reluct, retile, rutile, tercel, tierce, uretic. | |
-3 letters: citer, creel, cruel, cruet, culet, culti, curet, curie, cuter, cutie, elect, elite, elute, erect, eruct, liter, litre, lucre, recti, recut, relet, relic, relit, retie, telic, terce, tiler, trice, truce, ulcer, ureic, uteri. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-i-l-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: cruelties, cutleries, reticules, ureotelic. | |
+2 letters: reticulate, ulcerative. | |
+3 letters: credulities, electuaries, executorial, intercouple, lectureship, multicenter, multiscreen, neuroleptic, putrescible, recirculate, recultivate, reductively, reduplicate, reinoculate, relubricate, reticulated, reticulates, revictualed, sericulture, vermiculate, vermiculite. | |
+4 letters: computerlike, coulometries, destructible, inoperculate, intercluster, interculture, internuclear, internucleon, lectureships, multiservice, neuroleptics, rearticulate, recapitulate, recirculated, recirculates, recultivated, recultivates, reduplicated, reduplicates, reinoculated, reinoculates, relubricated, relubricates, reluctancies, reticulately, reticulocyte, revictualled, secularities, sericultures, truculencies, turbulencies, ultraprecise, unreflective, vermiculated, vermiculites. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 74 69 63 75 6C 65 |
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| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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