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SAUSAGES

"SAUSAGES" is a plural of: sausage.

Date "SAUSAGES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: SAUSAGES

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Building & Civil Engineering

One form of stone mesh, consisting of tubes of wire mesh, usually circular or elliptical in section, filled with stone and closed at the ends. In one form, somewhat similar to bolsters(q. v. "bolsters")used for protection of river banks, when the sausages are laid parallel and touching down the sloped bank and out into the bed, or horizontally as a mattress or apron or to form a chute. May be laid over a layer of gravel which acts as an inverted filter. Form a flexible and rapidly constructed protection. Trees or shrubs may be planted among the sausages to bind the stone with their roots. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Crosswords: SAUSAGES

English words defined with "SAUSAGES": lunch meat, luncheon meatsausage meat. (references)
Specialty definitions using "SAUSAGES": Bengodi, boudinageCHOPPING-MACHINE OPERATORfrankfurter inspectorLINKER, LINKING-MACHINE OPERATOR, LINKSPenicillic AcidSAUSAGE INSPECTOR, sausage linker, sausage stuffer, SUPERVISOR, CURED-MEAT PACKING. (references)
Etymologies containing "SAUSAGES": Botargo. (references)

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Modern Usage: SAUSAGES

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Screenplays

What's happening with them sausages Charlie (Snatch.; writing credit: Guy Ritchie)

You dunkin' your sausages in that syrup homeboy (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

That's like going to Germany and eating Jimmy Dean sausages! (Bird on a Wire; writing credit: Louis Venosta; Eric Lerner)

Eh, hosehead, once you get there you can have all the free beer and sausages you want (The Adventures of Bob & Doug McKenzie: Strange Brew; writing credit: Rick Moranis; Dave Thomas)

Movie/TV Titles

Saucy Sausages (1929)

Making Sausages (1897)

Sausages (1997)

Unpublicized Case: Human Sausages (1994)

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

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Commercial Usage: SAUSAGES

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References

  • The 2000 Import and Export Market for Meat, Meat Offals and Blood Sausages in France (reference)

  • The 2001 Report on Sausages and Meat Pies: World Market Segmentation by City (reference)

  • The 2002 World Forecasts of Meat, Meat Offals and Blood Sausages Export Supplies (reference)

  • The 2003 World Forecasts of Meat, Meat Offals and Blood Sausages Export Supplies (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Principal Characteristics of Sausages of the World Listed by Country of Origin (reference)

  • Art of Making Sausages, Pates and Other Charcuterie (reference)

  • The Professional Chef's Book of Charcuterie: Pates, Terrines, Timbales, Galantines, Sausages, and Other Culinary Delights (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Consumer Goods

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

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Photo Album: SAUSAGES

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(1) color slide shows two, cooked, link sausages. Credit: Renee Comet (photographer).

"Berth Deck, Cook's" in 1887. Photographed by E.H. Hart, 112 E. 24th St., New York. Note cooking gear, sausages in roasting rack at left, tins of beef (one from New Zealand), bread, man peeling potatoes, black sailor with bowl, coffee cups, and bearded Marine. Credit: NAVY.

Making link sausages with the aid of machines which stuff ten feet per second, Chicago, Ill. Credit: Library of Congress.

Jimmy. "'Lo Pinkey. Do you vant to take dot delivery cart of rye bread undt sausages to der hotel?". Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Digital Photo Gallery: SAUSAGES
 

"Sausages on a plate" by Carlos Villela
Commentary: "Boiled sausages on a plate."
"Sausages 1" by Adam Brown
Commentary: "Sausages bar-b-qeu'd last night."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Use in Literature: SAUSAGES

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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

On the dresser was a plate of sausages and white pudding and on the shelf there were eggs

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: SAUSAGES

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Trade

Argentina

The same data applies to processed products such as ham, sausages, canned products, etc. (references)

Bangladesh

Import licenses are not required for any imported items, except those on the restricted list, such as raw sugar, milk food, pork sausages and several other items the import of which is controlled for religious, health or trade reasons. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: SAUSAGES

"SAUSAGES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "SAUSAGES" is used about 476 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 (plural)100%47612,465

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

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Modern Translation: SAUSAGES

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

Danish

  

rulle af staaltraad fyldt med sten. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

met stenen gevulde staaldraadrol. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

kivimurskalla täytetty teräslankarulla. (various references)

   

French

  

rouleaux de grillage remplis de pierres. (various references)

   

German

  

Würste, Bratwürste. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

συρματοκύλινδροι πλήρεις λίθων. (various references)

   

Italian

  

salsicce, cilindri di rete metallica riempiti di pietrame. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ausagessay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

salsichas, rolos de gabiões. (various references)

   

Portuguese Brazilian

  

salsichas. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

makadamfylld ståltrådsnätmatta. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: SAUSAGES

Misspellings

"SAUSAGES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sasage, sauage, saudades, Saudargas, Saumares, sausag, sausaged, sausagey, sauseges, Sausmarez, Saussurea, sauvages, scutage, sosage, suasage, susage. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "SAUSAGES"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "SAUSAGES" (pronounced sô"sijuz)
5-s i j u zpresages.
4-i j u zacknowledges, advantages, appendages, arrearages, averages, cottages, bandages, beverages, blockages, brokerages, carriages, colleges, disadvantages, discourages, encourages, envisages, heritages, hostages, lineages, manages, marriages, miscarriages, mismanages, orphanages, outages, partridges, percentages, pilgrimages, pillages, porterages, ravages, repackages, stockbrokerages, stoppages, vantages, vestiges, villages, vintages, wantages.
3-j u zages, alleges, arranges, badges, barges, binges, bridges, bulges, cabbages, cages, cartridges, centrifuges, challenges, changes, charges, countercharges, coverages, cringes, damages, dinges, discharges, diverges, dodges, dosages, dredges, edges, emerges, engages, enlarges, exchanges, flanges, forages, Forges, fringes, fuselages, gauges, gorges, granges, grudges, hedges, hinges, images, impinges, indulges, infringes, interchanges, judges, languages, ledges, linkages, lodges, loges, lounges, lozenges, lunges, macrophages, mages, maharajahs, manges, merges, messages, midges, mischarges, misjudges, mortgages, ninjas, nudges, obliges, oranges, outrages, overcharges, packages, pages, passages, pledges, plumages, plunges, privileges, purges, rages, rampages, ranges, refuges, ridges, sages, savages, scourges, shortages, sieges, sponges, stages, stooges, surcharges, surges, syringes, tonnages, trudges, urges, usages, verges, voltages, voyages, wages, wedges.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: SAUSAGES

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: assuages.

Words within the letters "a-a-e-g-s-s-s-u"

-1 letter: assuage, gausses, sausage.

-2 letters: gasses, usages.

-3 letters: agues, asses, gases, gauss, guess, sagas, sages, usage.

-4 letters: agas, ages, ague, asea, gaes, saga, sage, sags, sass, seas, segs, sues, suss, uses.

-5 letters: aas, aga, age, ass, eau, ess, gae, gas, sae, sag, sau, sea, seg, sue, use.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-e-g-s-s-s-u"
 

+4 letters: assuagements.

 

+5 letters: analogousness, gradualnesses, sagaciousness, sarcophaguses.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Images: Digital Art
8. Quotations: Fiction
9. Quotations: Non-fiction
10. Usage Frequency
11. Translations: Modern
12. Derivations
13. Rhymes
14. Anagrams
15. Bibliography


  

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