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Semiquaver

Definition: Semiquaver

Semiquaver

Noun

1. 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: Semiquaver

Synonym: sixteenth note (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Semiquaver

English words defined with "semiquaver": DemiquaverHemi-demi-semiquaversixteenth note. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Semiquaver

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%8124,375

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

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Expression: Semiquaver

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "semiquaver": Hemi-demi-semiquaver.

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

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Modern Translations: Semiquaver

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

   

Portuguese

  

semicolcheia (sixteenth). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

шестнадцатая нота. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

šesnaestinka. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

semicorchea (semi-quaver, semmiquaver). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

sextondelsnot. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

on altılık nota (sixteenth note). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

шістнадцята нота. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

atgrychyn (sixteenth note). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Semiquaver

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).

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Anagrams: Semiquaver

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.

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Alternative Orthography: Semiquaver


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

53 65 6D 69 71 75 61 76 65 72

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)

...    .    --    ..    --.-    ..-    .-    ...-    .    .-.

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

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

01010011 01100101 01101101 01101001 01110001 01110101 01100001 01110110 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#101 &#109 &#105 &#113 &#117 &#97 &#118 &#101 &#114

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)

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

53717975838767887184

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INDEX

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


  

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