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Samite

Definition: Samite

Samite

Noun

1. A heavy silk fabric (often woven with silver or gold threads); used to make clothing in the Middle Ages.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "samite" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)

Etymology: Samite \Sa"mite\, adjective. [Old French expression samit, Late Latin expression samitum, examitum, from LGr., woven with six threads; Greek six thread. See Six, and compare to Dimity.]. (Websters 1913)



Specialty Definitions: Samite

DomainDefinitions

Industry

Silk cloth. Source: European Union. (references)

Mining

Artificially produced silicon carbide or carborundum. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: Samite

English words defined with "samite": Samette. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Samite

"Samite" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Samite" is used about 3 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%3202,518

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Samite

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

samite

21
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Samite

Language Translations for "samite"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

златотъкан брокат. (various references)

   

Czech

  

hedvábná látka (faille, grenadine, marquisette). (various references)

   

Danish

  

samite. (various references)

   

French

  

samite. (various references)

   

German

  

Samite. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

χρυσοΰφαντο μεταξωτό ύφασμα. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

ezüsttel (to damascene), arannyal átszõtt, arannyal átszőtt nehéz brokátselyem, átszőtt nehéz brokátselyem. (various references)

   

Italian

  

samite. (various references)

   

Manx

  

sameet. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

amitesay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

samito, samite. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

тяжелый шелк. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

brokat (brocade). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

samite, brocado de seda. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

ipekli kalın kumaş. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

венеціанська парча. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

gấm. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Samite

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Greek700 BCE-300 CE

hexamitos. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations: Samite

Derivations

Words beginning with "samite": samites. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Samite"

Words rhyming with "samite" (pronounced 'Sa"mite'): Ammite, Bismite, Chromite, Domite, gummite, Ichthyophthalmite, Ophthalmite, osmite, Palmite, Pandermite, Podophthalmite, Protosomite, Psammite, Sclerodermite, somite, stalagmite, termite, Thomite, Zamite. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Samite

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: misate, miseat.

Words within the letters "a-e-i-m-s-t"

-1 letter: amies, emits, items, maist, mates, meats, metis, mites, satem, smite, steam, stime, tames, tamis, teams, times.

-2 letters: aims, aits, amie, amis, ates, east, eats, emit, etas, item, maes, mast, mate, mats, meat, mesa, meta, mise, mist, mite, same, sate, sati, seam, seat, semi, seta, sima, site, smit, stem, tame, tams, team, teas, ties, time.

-3 letters: aim, ais, ait, ami, ate, eat, ems, eta, ism, its, mae, mas, mat, met, mis, sae, sat, sea, sei, set, sim, sit, tae, tam, tas, tea, tie, tis.

-4 letters: ae, ai, am, as, at, em, es, et, is, it, ma, me, mi, si, ta, ti.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-i-m-s-t"
 

+1 letter: amities, amosite, atheism, atomies, atomise, diastem, etamins, etatism, gamiest, imarets, impaste, inmates, maestri, maziest, mestiza, misdate, miseats, mismate, misrate, misseat, mistake, pastime, samites, sematic, semimat, sigmate, smartie, tameins, tamises, tammies.

 

+2 letters: adamsite, ailments, airtimes, aliments, ambients, amentias, amirates, amitoses, amnestic, amniotes, amortise, amosites, animates, asterism, atheisms, atomised, atomiser, atomises, atomizes, autecism, balmiest, barmiest, beamiest, bimetals, campiest, campsite, casteism, ceramist, clematis, climates, daytimes, diastema, diastems, emeritas, emirates, estimate, etamines, etatisms, flamiest, foamiest, gammiest, hammiest, hematics, hematins, imamates, imitates, impasted, impastes, jammiest, lambiest, lamister, loamiest, magister, majestic, malmiest, maltiest, mangiest, manifest, manliest, mannites, mantises, marliest, marlites, marmites, massiest, mastiche, mastixes, mastlike, mateship, matinees, matiness, matrices, matrixes, mealiest, meatiest, medalist, mediants, mediates, megabits, megahits, melanist, mestizas, metalise, metalist, meticais, meticals, migrates, minarets, mintages, misacted, misagent, misalter, misatone, misdated, misdates, misdealt, miseaten, mismated, mismates, misrated, misrates, misseats, misstate, mistaken, mistaker, mistakes, misteach, mistrace, mistreat, muriates, palmiest, pastimes, primates, psammite, ragtimes, raiments, rammiest, readmits, scimetar, seamiest, semantic, semimatt, seriatim, shipmate, simulate, smaltine, smaltite, smarties, steamier, steamily, steaming, sterigma, tachisme, taleysim, teatimes, teratism, timbales, toxemias, vitamers, wartimes.

 

+3 letters: acetamids, adamsites, admitters, airstream, alchemist, ambiverts, amenities, aminities, amitroles, ammonites, amnestied, amnesties, amortised, amortises, amortizes, anatomies, anatomise, animaters, antimeres, antiserum, antismoke, armistice, artemisia, asterisms, atomisers, atomizers, autecisms, autoecism, azotemias, bailments, calamites, campsites, casteisms, catamites, catechism, ceramists, clammiest, coinmates, creamiest, decimates, defeatism, demasting, dementias, demitasse, diamantes, diameters, dismalest, dismantle, dismasted, dominates, dramatise, dreamiest, dynamites, emaciates, emigrants, emigrates, empathies, empathise, enamelist, encomiast, estaminet, estimable, estimably, estimated, estimates, estimator, filaments, fumigates, geminates, gleamiest, haematics, haematins, halftimes, haulmiest, hemateins, hematines, hematites, histamine, immatures, immolates, impacters, imparters, impastoed, impatiens, intimates, isogamete, kamacites, laminates, lamisters, ligaments, lithemias, magisters, magnesite, magnetics, magnetise, magnetism, mainsheet, majesties, makeshift, maledicts, malemiuts, manifesto, manifests, mannerist, marbliest, marcasite, marinates, marshiest, martinets, martyries, masteries, mastering, masticate, mastiches, materials, materiels, mateships, maximites, mealtimes, meantimes, measliest, meatiness, mechanist, medalists, medallist, mediators, medicates, meditates, megaliths, melanists, melanites, melismata, mentalism, mentalist, metalised, metalises, metalists, metalizes, metallics, metatarsi, midstream, militates, ministate, misagents, misalters, misatoned, misatones, miscreant, miscreate, miseating, mishanter, mislearnt, mislocate, misparted, misrelate, misseated, misstated, misstates, mistakers, mistraced, mistraces, mistreats, mitigates, monazites, motivates, mutilates, nizamates, nominates, osmeteria, pantheism, playtimes, preadmits, psammites, ptomaines, qualmiest, rebaptism, remittals, rolamites, ruminates, sawtimber, schematic, scimetars, semantics, semimatte, semimetal, semitonal, septarium, shipmates, simulated, simulates, smaltines, smaltites, smarmiest, smeariest, spearmint, spermatia, spermatic, spermatid, staminate, steamiest, steamship, stemmatic, sterigmas, stimulate, streamier, streaming, sublimate, summative, swampiest, tachismes, teratisms, terminals, thematics, thiamines, tidemarks, timecards, timesaver, timescale, toxaemias, tramlines, tribesman, tympanies, tyramines, ultimates, umangites, vitamines, wambliest.

 

+4 letters: abominates, abstemious, acclimates, acetamides, administer, admixtures, advisement, aeronomist, affixments, aftertimes, airstreams, alchemists, alignments, alinements, almandites, altimeters, aluminates, amateurish, amateurism, amazonites, ametropias, amiantuses, ammoniates, amnestying, amplitudes, anamnestic, anatomised, anatomises, anatomizes, antimonies, antinomies, antiserums, antismoker, antonymies, aposematic, armistices, aromatizes, artemisias, asceticism, assignment, assimilate, assoilment, assumptive, asymmetric, autoecisms, autogamies, autonomies, autotomies, banishment, bedlamites, bombinates, brambliest, brominates, cacomistle, calamities, calmatives, catechisms, centesimal, centigrams, centralism, ceramicist, chemotaxis, clematises, collimates, costmaries, cremations, criminates, culminates, cysteamine, deaminates, defeatisms, demantoids, demitasses, dentaliums, dermatitis, dermatosis, diastemata, diatomites, diplomates, disbarment, dismantled, dismantles, dogmatizes, dramatised, dramatises, dramatizes, dreamtimes, dynamiters, eliminates, emanations, emittances, empathised, empathises, empathizes, emulations, enamelists, encomiasts, enthusiasm, erraticism, estaminets, estimating, estimation, estimative, estimators, examinants, famishment, firmaments, formatives, frameshift, fulminates, fumatories, gemmations, germinates, glutamines, haematites, hardiments, heathenism, hematinics, hematurias, hemostasis, hemostatic, hermitages, histamines, humanities, humiliates, imbricates, immigrates, imparities, imperators, impetrates, implanters, implicates, imprecates, inseminate, instalment, intimacies, intimaters, ironmaster, isogametes, isogametic, isothermal, kinematics, lemniscate, limewaters, lineaments, literalism, machinates, magistrate, magnesites, magnetised, magnetises, magnetisms, magnetites, magnetizes, magnitudes, mainsheets, mainstream, maisonette, majorities, makeshifts, malachites, mammitides, manganites, manifested, manifester, manifestly, manifestos, mannerists, manticores, marcasites, margarites, marginates, marketings, marquisate, martensite, martyrizes, masseteric, mastermind, mastership, masticated, masticates, mastitides, matinesses, matricides, maturities, maumetries, mechanists, medallists, mediastina, mediations, meditators, megacities, melanistic, melatonins, meliorates, melismatic, mendicants, mentalisms, mentalists, mentations, mesnalties, mesothelia, metabolism, metaethics, metalising, metallizes, metalloids, metalsmith, metamerism, metaphysic, metaplasia, metastasis, metastatic, metathesis, microstate, micturates, midstreams, midwatches, militances, militaries, militarise, millstream, minacities, mincemeats, miniatures, ministates, misadapted, misaltered, miscreants, miscreated, miscreates, miseducate, misgrafted, mishanters, mislocated, mislocates, mismatched, mismatches, mispainted, mispatched, mispatches, misplanted, misrelated, misrelates, misseating, misstarted, mistakable, mistakenly, misteaches, mistrained, mistreated, mizzenmast, modalities, molalities, molarities, monetarism, monetarist, moralities, morganites, mortuaries, multiphase, multistage, multistate, mutualizes, myasthenia, myasthenic, myopathies, negativism, neutralism, nightmares, palimpsest, palmitates, pantheisms, pantomimes, peacetimes, pegmatites, penultimas, protamines, psalterium, quizmaster, ramosities, ravishment, reanimates, rebaptisms, reestimate, reimplants, relativism, remediates, restamping, retransmit, rheumatics, rheumatism, ringmaster, samarskite, sawtimbers, schematics, schematism, schematize, semantical, semestrial, semilethal, semimetals, seminarist, semipostal, separatism, septicemia, shipmaster, shirtmaker, shmaltzier, sidestream, signalment, simulative, slipstream, smaragdite, smartening, smattering, spearmints, spermaceti, spermatial, spermatids, spermatium, stalagmite, stammering, stampeding, steamering, steaminess, steamships, stepfamily, sterigmata, stigmatize, stimulated, stimulates, stramonies, streamiest, streamings, streamline, streamside, sublimated, sublimates, submediant, subprimate, sympathies, sympathise, sympathize, sympatries, systematic, tamoxifens, taximeters, taxonomies, terminates, terrariums, thiaminase, thimerosal, timesavers, timesaving, timescales, timetables, trapeziums, traumatise, treadmills, tularemias, tympanites, ultimacies, unmanliest, vagotomies, vasotomies, womanliest.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Samite


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 61 6D 69 74 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01100001 01101101 01101001 01110100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#97 &#109 &#105 &#116 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0061 006D 0069 0074 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

536779758671

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Translations: Ancient
7. Derivations
8. Rhymes
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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