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Semolina

Definition: Semolina

Semolina

Noun

1. Milled product of durum wheat (or other hard wheat) used in pasta.

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

Date "semolina" was first used: 1797. (references)

Etymology: Semolina \Sem`o*li"na\, noun. [Italian semolino, from semola bran, from Latin expression simila the finest wheat flour. Compare to Semoule, Simnel.]. (Websters 1913)


Specialty Definitions: Semolina

DomainDefinitions

Food & Agriculture

The purified moddlings of durum or other hard wheat used for macaroni and other alimentary pastes. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Crosswords: Semolina

English words defined with "semolina": couscousManna croupSemolella, Semolino, Semoule, Suji. (references)
Etymologies containing "semolina": simnel. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Semolina" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Manx (semolina), Portuguese (semolina).

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Commercial Usage: Semolina

DomainTitle

Books

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: Semolina

SubjectTopicQuote

Trade

Brazil

Breeder livestock (cattle, swine, sheep, goats, horses and donkeys, including semen and embryos); wine and brandy, distilled spirits (rum, wodka and whiskey); fresh vegetables (asparagus, beans, broccoli, carrots, cauliflower, celery, corn, garlic, lettuce, onions, peppers, potatoes and tomatoes); canned vegetables (asparagus, beans, carrots, corn, peas, tomatoes and tomato paste); frozen vegetables (beans, broccoli, carrots, corn and spinach); peanut butter or peanut flour; dairy products (butter, butter oil, ghee, anhydrous milk fat, non-fat and whole milk powder, whey powder, whey protein concentrate, lactose, non-sweetened condensed milk, fluid milk, lecithin and cheese); ice cream; meat, frozen or chilled (beef, pork and their products);wheat, wheat flour, semolina; cotton, 100% cotton yarn, 100% cotton fabrics (woven and knit unbleached/bleached/dyed, and/or printed); rice; feed grains (barley, including malting barley, white corn, yellow corn, sorghum and oats); corn products (flour, starch, corn meal, popcorn and gluten); pulses(dry beans, peas and lentils), poultry breeder stock (baby chicks, turkey pouts and hatching eggs); eggs and egg products (fresh, dry, refrigerated, frozen, albumin, etc); fresh fruits (apples, apricots, avocados, blueberries, cherries, grapes, grapefruit, kiwi, lemons, melons, nectarines, oranges, pears, plums, peaches, raspberries and tangerines); hops: hops extract; tallow: grease, lard, barley malt; potatoes(cut and chilled or frozen; flakes, granules); peanuts; commercially prepared dog and cat food, animal feed ingredients, fish food; seeds for sowing; almonds ( walnuts, pistachios, hazelnut and pecan); dry fruits, frozen fruits, canned fruits, fruit pure and fruit pulp, 100% natural fruit juice; seafood (fresh and frozen);tomato paste; alfalfa; honey; skins; nutritional beverages preparations (for human consumption); soy protein products; vegetable oils; wood; beer; cereals; preparation for breads and pizzas (powder, refrigerated of frozen); canned pickles; ready-to-eat meals; soft drinks and sodas; soups and sauces. (references)

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

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Usage Frequency: Semolina

"Semolina" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Semolina" is used about 30 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%3063,341

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

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Expression: Semolina

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "semolina": semolina-type.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Semolina

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

  semolina

103

  semolina flour

18

  restaurant semolina

10

  semolina bread

8

  recipe semolina

6

  durum semolina

5

  semolina pasta

5

  pilchard semolina

4

  semolina wheat

3

  durum semolina wheat

3

  cake semolina

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

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Modern Translations: Semolina

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

Albanian

  

bollgur (grit meal, groats, oatmeal). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏سميد (cream of wheat), ‏السميد لباب الخبز. (various references)

   

Breton

  

brasvleud. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

грис. (various references)

   

Czech

  

krupice. (various references)

   

Danish

  

semuljegryn (farina V.S.), semulje (farina V.S.), gryn (bead, farina V.S., groats, lump, pellet), gruttet korn (farina V.S., groats, shred). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

griesmeel (farina V.S., meal). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

mannasuurimo (farina V.S.). (various references)

   

French

  

semoule. (various references)

   

German

  

Grieß (concrement, concretion, farina V.S., gravel, grit), Grießmehl (Farina, farina V.S.). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

σιμιγδάλι (farina V.S., groats), σημιγδάλι. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

'ריסי סלת, סולת (cream of wheat, fine flour). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

gríz, búzadara (grits, groats). (various references)

   

Italian

  

semolino (farina V.S.). (various references)

   

Manx

  

semolina. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

emolinasay

   

Portuguese

  

sêmola (farina V.S., grocer). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

griş (manna croup). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

манная крупа (farina, manna croup, manna-croup). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

krupno brašno (meal), griz (grits, groats, manna croup). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

sémola (farina V.S., grits, groats). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

mannagryn (farina V.S.). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

irmik. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

манна крупа. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

lõi hạt (semola). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Semolina

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

simila. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Semolina

Derivations

Words beginning with "semolina": semolinas. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Semolina" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aemilian, asimovian, emilian, samolina, santolinas, Segolene, Sehoulia, semiplina, Semlin, Semoigne, semonila, Semonin, Senlin. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Semolina

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: laminose.

Words within the letters "a-e-i-l-m-n-o-s"

-1 letter: anisole, anomies, lomeins, malines, malison, menials, seminal.

-2 letters: aliens, alines, aloins, amines, amnios, amoles, animes, anoles, anomie, elains, eloins, emails, eolian, eonism, inseam, insole, lanose, lemans, lemons, lesion, lianes, limans, limens, lomein, mailes, maline, melons, menial, mensal, mesial, mesian, molies, moline, monies, oilman, oilmen, oleins, saline, salmon, samiel, semina, silane, simnel, solemn.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-i-l-m-n-o-s"
 

+1 letter: alimonies, almonries, anomalies, melanoids, normalise, semitonal, semolinas.

 

+2 letters: assoilment, bromelains, emulations, flamingoes, impersonal, mandolines, medaillons, medallions, melatonins, moniliases, nemophilas, neorealism, normalcies, normalised, normalises, normalizes, palimonies, polyamines, prolamines, rosemaling, womanliest.

 

+3 letters: abolishment, assoilments, ceremonials, chloramines, colemanites, complainers, compliances, dimensional, eliminators, endoplasmic, filamentous, glucosamine, ligamentous, lovemakings, meridionals, molestation, neorealisms, nonfamilies, normalities, normalizers, orientalism, palindromes, personalism, plasminogen, regionalism, rosemalings, salinometer, scopolamine, semitonally, sulfonamide, testimonial, tourmalines, trampolines, womanliness.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Semolina


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

53 65 6D 6F 6C 69 6E 61

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)

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

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

01010011 01100101 01101101 01101111 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#101 &#109 &#111 &#108 &#105 &#110 &#97

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0065 006D 006F 006C 0069 006E 0061

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

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

5371798178758067

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Translations: Ancient
10. Derivations
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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