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Definition: Silks |
SilksNoun1. The brightly colored garments of a jockey; emblematic of the stable. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "silks" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references) |
Crosswords: Silks |
| English words defined with "silks": Dress goods, Dry goods ♦ Fancy goods ♦ mercer ♦ Silkman, Sur ♦ To turn back, Tyre. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "silks": colors custodian, corn silk ♦ JOCKEY VALET ♦ moiré ♦ RIDING-SILKS CUSTODIAN. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "silks": Baldachin. (references) |
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Screenplays | They used to bring their women here - brazen, lolling creatures in silks and satins. (The Old Dark House; writing credit: J.B. Priestley; Benn W. Levy) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Slippery Silks (1936) Silks and Saddles (1936) Cat Murkil and the Silks (1976) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Lie: we haven't any victory silks in stock but here are a few synthetics I highly recommend. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Angel Cordero, half-length portrait, facing front, dressed in racing silks. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Silks" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 95.27% of the time. "Silks" is used about 169 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 (plural) | 95.27% | 161 | 24,661 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.73% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Total | 100.00% | 169 | N/A |
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. |
| Language | Translations for "silks"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 丝绸 (silk). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | silkestoffer. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | zijdeartikelen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | silkkikankaat (silk-stuffs). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | soierie (silk factory, silk industry). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | rennfarben, farben (colors, colorsUS, colours, coloursBrit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μεταξωτά, προϊόντα μετάξης. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | suhogó selymekben jár (to rustle in silks). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | seteria, articoli di seta. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 실크 (silk). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ilkssay sedas (bristle), artigos de seda. (various references) sedería, gorra y chaquetilla de jockey, géneros de seda. (various references) шовковий товар. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "silks": silkscreen, silkscreens. (additional references) | |
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"Silks" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dilks, ilks, pilks, Salka, selke, sikl, Siklos, siksi, Silka, silke, silki, Silko, sils, silus, skils, smilk, szlk. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "silks" (pronounced si"lks) |
| 4 | -i" l k s | milks. |
| 3 | -l k s | elks, hulks, talcs. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-k-l-s-s" | |
-1 letter: ilks, kiss, silk, skis. | |
-2 letters: ilk, lis, sis, ski. | |
-3 letters: is, li, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-k-l-s-s" | |
+1 letter: skills, skirls, slicks, slinks, suslik. | |
+2 letters: alsikes, asslike, inkless, miskals, salukis, shaslik, sickles, silkies, skysail, sulkies, susliks. | |
+3 letters: basilisk, dislikes, kindless, kingless, kissable, kissably, kistfuls, klisters, kolbasis, kolbassi, lentisks, leukosis, likeness, milksops, mislikes, mosslike, obelisks, odalisks, oilskins, pliskies, pusslike, riskless, sealskin, shashlik, shasliks, sicklies, silkiest, skiffles, skilless, skillets, skinfuls, skinless, skittles, skylines, skysails, slickers, slickest, soymilks, stickles, subskill, sulkiest. | |
| 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 69 6C 6B 73 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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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 01101001 01101100 01101011 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S i l k s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0069 006C 006B 0073 |
| 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)5375787785 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , kineser, kiinalainen, Chinois, Chinesisch, Κινέζος, κινέζικα, κινέζικοσ, κινέζοσ, σινικόσ, kínai, cinese, 중국, chinês, chino, китаянка, китайська мова, китайський, кита"ць |
Danish | ordbog, deskriptordefinition, oversættelse | 丹麦语, tanskalainen, danois, dänisch, δανικόσ, δανόσ, dán, danese, 덴마크, dinamarquês, danés, датський, датська мова |
Dutch | woordenboek, definitie, translatie | 菏蘭語 , 荷兰语, hollandsk, hollantilainen, néerlandais, holländisch, ολλανδικόσ, ολλανδόσ, holland, olandese, 네덜란", holandês, holandés, голландська мова, голландський |
Finnish | määritelmä, translaatio, taajuusmuutos | 芬蘭語 , 芬兰语, suomi, suomalainen, finnois, Finlandaise, finlandais, finnisch, φινλανδικόσ, finn, finlandese, 핀란", finlandês, finês, finlandés, finés, фінська мова, фінський |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | 法國 , 法文 , 法語 , 法语, ranskalainen, français, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, francia, francese, "랑스, francês, francés, французька мова, французький |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | 德语, 德國 , 德文 , 德語 , tysker, Duitse, saksalainen, allemand, "ερμανός, német, tedesco, 독일, alemão, alemán, німкеня, німецький, німець |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | 希腊语, 希臘語 , græker, kreikkalainen, grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, görög, greco, 그리스, grego, griego, грецький, гречанка, грецька мова |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | 匈牙利语, 匈牙利語 , ungarer, Hongaarse, unkarilainen, hongrois, Ungar, Ούγγρος, magyar, ungherese, 헝가리, húngaro, угорська мова, угорський, угорка, угорець |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | 意大利 , 意大利語 , 意大利语, italiener, italialainen, italien, italienisch, Ιταλός, olasz, italiano, 이탈리아, італі"ць, італійська мова, італійський, італійка |
Korean | 사 , 의, 번역 | 韩国语, "國 , 朝鮮語 , Koreaans, coréen, koreanisch, Koreaner, κορεάτικοσ, κορεάτησ, koreai, 한국, coréia, a língua coreana, coreano, кореянка, коре"ць, корейська мова, корейський |
Portuguese | dicionário, definição, tradução | 葡萄牙語 , 葡萄牙人 , 葡萄牙语, portugiser, portugalilainen, portugais, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portugál, portoghese, 포르투갈, português, portugués, португальський, португальська мова, португалець |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | 西班牙語 , 西班牙文 , 西班牙语, Spaans, espanjalainen, espagnol, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, spanyol, spagnolo, 스페인, espanhol, español, іспанський, іспанська мова |
Ukrainian | словник, довідник, чіткість, тлумачення, виразність, визначення, дефініція, ясність, чітка чутність, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщення | 乌克兰, Oekraïens, ukrainalainen, ukrainien, ukrainisch, ukrainerin, Ukrainer, ουκρανικόσ, Ουκρανός, ουκρανόσ, ukrán, ucraino, ucraniano, ucranio, український, українець |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , englantia, englantilainen, anglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, angol, inglese, 영국, inglês, inglés, англійський, англійці, англійська мова |
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