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Definition: Sial |
SialNoun1. The granite-like rocks that form the outermost layer of the earth's crust; rich in silicon and aluminum. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Geography | A synonym of sial, so named for its supposed petrologic composition. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. A layer of rocks, underlying all continents, that ranges from granitic at the top to gabbroic at the base. The thickness is variously placed at 30 to 35 km. The name derives from the principal ingredients, silica and alumina. Specific gravity, about 2.7 b. A petrologic name for the upper layer of the Earth's crust, composed of rocks that are rich in silica and alumina; it may be the source of granitic magma. It is characteristic of the upper continental crust. Etymol: an acronym for silica + alumina. Adj: sialic. CF:sialmaSyn:sal; granitic layer. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Sial |
| Specialty definitions using "sial": granitic layer ♦ sialma. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Sial" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Indonesian (inopportune, misfortune, ominous, unlucky). |
| "Sial" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sial" is used about 5 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% | 5 | 157,705 |
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 |
sial | 39 |
photokina pitti sial | 3 |
mercosul sial | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "sial"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
French | Sial, croûte sialique, croûte granitique. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ialsay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "sial": sialagogue, sialagogues, sialic, sialid, sialidan, sialidans, sialids, sialoid, sials. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "sial": adenohypophysial, ambrosial, carnassial, controversial, diaphysial, ecclesial, ecdysial, epiphysial, hypophysial, indusial, loessial, mesial, monochasial, nasial, neurohypophysial, noncontroversial, paradisial, rickettsial, symphysial, uncontroversial. (additional references) | |
Words containing "sial": ambrosially, carnassials, controversialism, controversialisms, controversialist, controversialists, controversially, mesially, uncontroversially. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: ails, sail. | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-l-s" | |
-1 letter: ail, ais, als, las, lis, sal. | |
-2 letters: ai, al, as, is, la, li, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-l-s" | |
+1 letter: aisle, alias, alifs, alist, anils, arils, axils, bails, basil, dials, fails, glias, hails, jails, kails, laics, lairs, lapis, laris, liars, limas, liras, litas, mails, nails, pails, rails, rials, sails, salic, salmi, sials, silva, sisal, slain, snail, spail, swail, tails, vails, vials, wails. | |
+2 letters: aaliis, ablins, abseil, aiolis, aisled, aisles, alcids, algins, alibis, aliens, aligns, alines, aliyas, aliyos, alkies, allies, aloins, alsike, anvils, argils, ariels, assail, assoil, aswirl, avails, basils, bialis, bialys, blains, brails, brasil, califs, caulis, cavils, claims, dalasi, deasil, dismal, distal, drails, dulias, easily, elains, emails, espial, falsie, finals, fiscal, flails, flairs, frails, gaslit, glacis, glairs, grails, halids, ideals, iliads, inlays, instal, island, kalifs, kiblas, ladies, laichs, laighs, lairds, lamias, lanais, lapins, lasing, lassie, lathis, latish, lavish, lazies, liaise, lianas, lianes, liangs, liards, libras, lidars, ligans, ligase, lilacs, limans, limbas, limpas, linacs, lingas, lipase, mailes, maills, mesial, miauls, milpas, miskal, mislay, missal, nasial, oxalis, palais, palish, pastil, phials, pibals, pilafs, pilaus, pilaws, pipals, plaids, plains, plaits, quails, resail, rivals, riyals, sailed, sailer, sailor, salami, salify, salina, saline, saliva, salmis, salpid, saltie, saluki, salvia, samiel, scilla, serail, serial, sheila, sialic, sialid, signal, silage, silane, silica, silvae, silvan, silvas, sisals, smalti, smilax, snails, social, spails, spinal, spiral, spital, stelai, swails, tahsil, tallis, ticals, tilaks, trails, trials, urials, vakils, valise, villas, vinals, violas, visual, vitals, vizsla, walies. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 69 61 6C |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101001 01100001 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S i a l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0069 0061 006C |
| 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)53756778 |
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