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Definition: Simnel |
SimnelNoun1. A crisp bread of fine white flour. 2. (British) a fruitcake (sometimes covered with almond paste) eaten at mid-Lent or Easter or Christmas. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "simnel" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1906. (references) |
Etymology: Simnel \Sim"nel\, noun. [Old French expression simenel cake or bread of wheat flour, Late Latin expression simenellus wheat bread, from the Latin expression simila the finest wheat flour. Compare to Semolina.]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: Simnel |
| Etymologies containing "simnel": semolina. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Simnel" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 83.33% of the time. "Simnel" is used about 12 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 (proper) | 83.33% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Noun (singular) | 16.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 12 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "simnel": simnel cake. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "simnel"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Bulgarian | вид коледен сладкиш, вид великденски сладкиш. (various references) | ||||||||||
Hebrew | ׂו'ת װירות. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | imnelsay torta pascual (simnel cake). (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "simnel": simnels. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "simnel" (pronounced 'Sim"nel'): Colonel, Cornel, Cracknel, Crapnel, Darnel, flannel, funnel, grapnel, Kymnel, Pannel, Pernel, Rannel, runnel, Scrannel, shrapnel, Spicknel, Spigurnel, Uncharnel, Unkennel, Unpannel, Wennel. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: limens. | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-l-m-n-s" | |
-1 letter: lenis, liens, limen, limes, limns, lines, miens, miles, mines, slime, smile. | |
-2 letters: elms, isle, leis, lens, lien, lies, lime, limn, line, lins, mels, mien, mile, mils, mine, mise, nils, nims, semi, sine, slim. | |
-3 letters: elm, els, ems, ens, ins, ism, lei, lie, lin, lis, mel, men, mil, mis, nil, nim, sei, sel, sen. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-l-m-n-s" | |
+1 letter: limners, lomeins, malines, menials, merlins, mildens, milnebs, mingles, myelins, plenism, seminal, simnels. | |
+2 letters: ailments, alienism, aliments, alumines, bailsmen, bimensal, emulsion, flamines, foilsmen, fulmines, gremlins, hemlines, impanels, inflames, kremlins, laminose, legumins, lemmings, lemnisci, lemonish, liminess, limpness, linesman, linesmen, linksmen, manilles, maniples, manliest, marlines, melanics, melanins, melanism, melanist, meniscal, midlines, mildness, millines, mindless, minerals, minglers, minstrel, misenrol, mislearn, moleskin, mulleins, myelines, nimblest, oinomels, plenisms, selenium, semolina, simoleon, slimness, smaltine, smelling, smelting, splenium, stillmen. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 69 6D 6E 65 6C |
| 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 01101101 01101110 01100101 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S i m n e l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0069 006D 006E 0065 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)537579807178 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Bulgarian | речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, превод | български, български език, българин, búlgaro |
Hebrew | אוצר מילים, "'"ר", "'בל", תור'מ ות, תר'ום, "עתק", "עתק | иврит, староеврейски език, древен жител на юдея, юдейски, израилтянин, евреин, староеврейски, юдей, עברי, עברית, hebreo |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | испански език, испански, ספר"ית, ספר"י, español |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | английски език, английски, англичаните, א 'לית, inglés |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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