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Definition: Secretaire |
SecretaireNoun1. A desk used for writing. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "secretaire" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1830. (references) |
Synonyms: SecretaireSynonyms: escritoire (n), secretary (n), writing table (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Receptacle | Closet, commode, cupboard, cellaret, chiffonniere, locker, bin, bunker, buffet, press, clothespress, safe, sideboard, drawer, chest of drawers, chest on chest, highboy, lowboy, till, scrutoire, secretary, secretaire, davenport, bookcase, cabinet, canterbury; escritoire, etagere, vargueno, vitrine. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Secretaire" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Secretaire" is used about 10 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% | 10 | 111,207 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
secretaire | 60 |
emploi secretaire | 18 |
orgie secretaire | 9 |
secretaire sexy | 8 |
secretaire super | 6 |
medicale secretaire | 6 |
secretaire sexe | 6 |
la secretaire | 5 |
nue secretaire | 5 |
d emploi offres secretaire | 4 |
secretaire xxx | 3 |
comptable secretaire | 3 |
film la secretaire | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "secretaire"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | sekretariat (secretariat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | секретер (secretary), писалищна маса (davenport, secretary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | sekretär (bureau, secretary, secretary bird). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szekreter (bureau, bureaux, davenport, escritoire). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | secrétaire. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | coyr screeuee (bureau, writing cabinet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ecretairesay secretária (bureau, desk, escudo, office desk, secretary, writing-desk), escrivaninha (bureau, davenport, desk, escritoire, writing desk, writing table). (various references) секретер (escritoire). (various references) sekreter, ministar (minister), državni skretar. (various references) secreter (secretary). (various references) yazı masası (davenport, desk, secretary, writing desk, writing table). (various references) секретер (escritoire, writing desk). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-e-i-r-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: careerist, recreates, traceries. | |
-2 letters: arrestee, arteries, caterers, creasier, eateries, erecters, erratics, reciters, recrates, recreate, reerects, retirees, retraces, secreter, terraces. | |
-3 letters: aeriest, artsier, careers, carries, carters, caterer, cerates, cerites, cirrate, craters, creaser, creates, cristae, ecartes, eeriest, erecter, erratic, raciest, reciter, recites, recrate, reerect, reraise, retears, retiree, retires, retrace, retries, scarier, secrete, seriate, serrate, stearic. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-e-i-r-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: secretaries, treacheries. | |
+2 letters: generatrices. | |
+4 letters: creatureliness, decerebrations, diastereomeric, refractiveness, subsecretaries, tercentenaries. | |
+5 letters: carpetbaggeries, intercorrelates, overcentralizes, refractometries. | |
| 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)53 65 63 72 65 74 61 69 72 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... . -.-. .-. . - .- .. .-. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100101 01100011 01110010 01100101 01110100 01100001 01101001 01110010 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S e c r e t a i r e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0065 0063 0072 0065 0074 0061 0069 0072 0065 |
| 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)53716984718667758471 |
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