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Definition: Semiquaver |
SemiquaverNoun1. A musical note having the time value of a sixteenth of a whole note. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "semiquaver" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1903. (references) |
Synonym: SemiquaverSynonym: sixteenth note (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Semiquaver |
| English words defined with "semiquaver": Demiquaver ♦ Hemi-demi-semiquaver ♦ sixteenth note. (references) |
| "Semiquaver" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Semiquaver" is used about 8 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% | 8 | 124,375 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "semiquaver": Hemi-demi-semiquaver. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "semiquaver"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | nota gjashtëmbëdhjetë. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | موسيقي (harmonic, musical, musician), ستة أعشار النغم. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | шестнадесетина нота. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | šestnáctinová nota. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | double croche, double croche. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tizenhatod. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | semicroma. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | lieh-chammane. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | emiquaversay semicolcheia (sixteenth). (various references) шестнадцатая нота. (various references) šesnaestinka. (various references) semicorchea (semi-quaver, semmiquaver). (various references) sextondelsnot. (various references) on altılık nota (sixteenth note). (various references) шістнадцята нота. (various references) atgrychyn (sixteenth note). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "semiquaver": semiquavers. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "semiquaver": demisemiquaver, hemidemisemiquaver. (additional references) | |
Words containing "semiquaver": demisemiquavers, hemidemisemiquavers. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-i-m-q-r-s-u-v" | |
-2 letters: marquees, marquise, queasier, requiems. | |
-3 letters: amusive, aquiver, esquire, marquee, marques, marquis, masquer, measure, misaver, quaeres, quavers, queries, quivers, requiem, seamier, seriema, uremias. | |
-4 letters: aeries, aimers, aivers, ameers, amuser, armies, averse, easier, maquis, marque, masque, mauves, mavies, quaere, quaver, queers, quires, quiver, ramees, ramies, reaves, reives, remise, reseau, resume, revise, revues, risque, seamer, square. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-i-m-q-r-s-u-v" | |
+1 letter: semiquavers. | |
+4 letters: demisemiquaver. | |
+5 letters: demisemiquavers. | |
| 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 6D 69 71 75 61 76 65 72 |
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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)... . -- .. --.- ..- .- ...- . .-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100101 01101101 01101001 01110001 01110101 01100001 01110110 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S e m i q u a v e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0065 006D 0069 0071 0075 0061 0076 0065 0072 |
| 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)53717975838767887184 |
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