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Semisweet

Definition: Semisweet

Semisweet

Adjective

1. Having a taste that is a mixture of bitterness and sweetness.

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


Synonym: Semisweet

Synonym: bittersweet (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Semisweet

English words defined with "semisweet": crackergraham crackerMarsalaSauterne, Sauternestea biscuit, teacake. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Semisweet

DomainTitle

Books

  • Death Is Semisweet : A Heaven Lee Mystery (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Semisweet

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

  chocolate semisweet substitution

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Semisweet

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

German

  

halbsüß. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

emisweetsay

   

Russian 

  

полусладкий. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Semisweet

Misspellings

"Semisweet" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Semaswati. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Semisweet

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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

-1 letter: sweeties.

-2 letters: esteems, mestees, metisse, sweetie.

-3 letters: emeses, emesis, esteem, etwees, mestee, misset, smites, stimes, sweets, tmeses, tmesis, wisest.

-4 letters: emits, etwee, items, meets, metes, metis, mises, mists, mites, seems, seise, seism, semes, semis, sites, smews, smite, stems, stews, sties, stime, sweet, swims, teems, times, weest, weets, wests, wises, wists, wites.

-5 letters: emes, emit, eses.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Semisweet


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

53 65 6D 69 73 77 65 65 74

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 01110011 01110111 01100101 01100101 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#101 &#109 &#105 &#115 &#119 &#101 &#101 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0065 006D 0069 0073 0077 0065 0065 0074

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

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

537179758589717186

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INDEX

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


  

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