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Definition: SLAB-SIDED |
SLAB-SIDEDAdjective1. Having flat sides; hence, tall, or long and lank. |
Date "SLAB-SIDED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1840. (references) |
| "SLAB-SIDED" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "SLAB-SIDED" 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "SLAB-SIDED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | me faqe të sheshta, i thatë (arid, blain, dead, dehydrated, dried, dry, empty, furuncle, lank, lathy, peaked, rainless, raw boned, scraggy, scrannel, scrawny, scrubby, sec, sere, short, skinny, slender, spare, spidery, thin, waterless, wizen, wizened). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | слаб и висок, като върлина (lanky), дългунест (gangling, lanky, lathy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 平板"持. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ισχνόσ (gaunt, lank, lean, meager, meagre, peaked, raw boned, scraggly, scrawny, skinny, slender, slim, spare, thin), υψηλόσ (high, lofty, sublime, tall, towering). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | nyurga (gangling, gaunt, lanky, lathy, overgrown, slab-muscled, spindling, spindly), cingár (scrawny, spare, spindly, weedy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 석판 편"". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ab-sidedslay худощавый (scrawny), имеющий плоские стороны. (various references) obložen (furred). (various references) худорлявий (bony, gaunt, lank, slight), з плоскими стегнами. (various references) lẻo khoẻo, cao v gầy. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Words rhyming with "SLAB-SIDED" (pronounced 'Slab"-sid`ed'): Above-cited, Aforecited, Alike-minded, Antimoniureted, armor-plated, Arrowheaded, Arseniureted, Backhanded, baldheaded, Bank-sided, Barefooted, Barehanded, Beetle-headed, black-hearted, Blockheaded, Bluff-headed, Bristle-pointed, Broken-hearted, Broken-winded, Buckler-headed, Buffle-headed, Bullheaded, Carnal-minded, Cataphracted, Chicken-breasted, Chicken-hearted, Chuckleheaded, Clear-headed, Clear-sighted, Cleft-footed, Clodpated, Close-banded, Closefisted, Closehanded, Clubfisted, Clubfooted, Cold-blooded, Cold-hearted, Cool-headed, Cowhearted, Cross-banded, Dead-hearted, Deep-waisted, Fin-footed, flat-footed, Flat-headed, Flint-hearted, Forecited, forehanded, Forequoted. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-d-e-i-l-s-s" | |
-1 letter: disabled, disables. | |
-2 letters: abseils, addible, aidless, baddies, baldies, biassed, blissed, disable, laddies, saddles. | |
-3 letters: abided, abides, abseil, addles, aisled, aisles, asides, baddie, bailed, balded, basils, biased, biases, bields, bladed, blades, daises, dassie, deasil, dialed, dissed, ideals, laddie, ladies, lassie, sables, saddle, sailed, sidled, sidles, slides. | |
-4 letters: abide, ables, addle, aided, aides, ailed, aisle, aside. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-d-e-i-l-s-s" | |
+3 letters: disassembled, nondisableds. | |
+5 letters: addressability, disestablished. | |
| 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 4C 41 42 2D 53 49 44 45 44 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01001100 01000001 01000010 00101101 01010011 01001001 01000100 01000101 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S L A B - S I D E D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 004C 0041 0042 002D 0053 0049 0044 0045 0044 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53463536155343383938 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage Frequency 3. Translations: Modern 4. Rhymes | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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