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Socle

Definition: Socle

Socle

Noun

1. A plain plinth that supports a wall.

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

Etymology: Socle \So"cle\, noun. [French expression, from the Latin expression socculus, diminutive of soccus. See Sock covering for the foot. Compare to Zocco.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms within Context: Socle

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Support

Post, pillar, shaft, thill, column, pilaster; pediment, pedicle; pedestal; plinth, shank, leg, socle, zocle; buttress, jamb, mullion, abutment; baluster, banister, stanchion; balustrade; headstone; upright; door post, jamb, door jamb.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Socle

English words defined with "socle": Zoccolo, Zocle. (references)
Etymologies containing "socle": Quadra. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Socle" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (base, pedestal, plinth, socle).

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Commercial Usage: Socle

DomainTitle

Books

  • Câezallier : les forages scientifiques de Chassole, Puy-de-Dãome : un systáeme hydrominâeral de socle : (tháeme 10, gâeothermalisme actuel) (reference)

  • Champs de failles au-dessus d'un dâecrochement de socle : modâelisation expâerimentale (reference)

  • Forage scientifique de Sancerre-Couy, Cher : socle, donnâees prâeliminaires : tháeme 2, anomalie magnâetique du bassin de Paris (reference)

  • Gâeologie de la formation ferrifáere prâecambrienne et du complexe granulitique encaissant de Buur (sud de la Somalie) : implications sur l'âevolution crustale du socle de Buur (reference)

  • Les gisements de Chaillac, Indre : la barytine des Redoutiáeres, la fluorine du Rossignol : association d'un gãite stratiforme de couverture et d'un gãite filonien du socle (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Socle

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

socle

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

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Modern Translation: Socle

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

Albanian

  

thundër (hoof, oppression). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

â€Ù‡Ø¶Ø¨Ø© (eminence, highland, hill, hogback, knoll, plateau, rise, tor), â€Ù†Ø¬Ø¯ (line, pad, plateau, relieve, rescue, salvage, upholster), â€Ù‚اعدة (basis, foundation, fundament, precept, principle, rule, standard). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

цокъл (dado, die, pedestal, socket, washboard). (various references)

   

Danish

  

issokkel (ice socle). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

ijssokkel (ice socle). (various references)

   

French

  

socle (socket). (various references)

   

German

  

sockel (base, footing, foundation, holder, Mount, mounting, pedestal, pedestals, pillar, plinth, socket, supporting base). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

βάση αγάλματοσ. (various references)

   

Manx

  

kiap (block, block for burning, butt, last, log, pad, pillow, snag, stock, tree-stump, trunk, trunk of tree). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oclesay

   

Portuguese

  

soco (blow, bop, fib, jab, lunge, paste, patten, punch, sabot, sock, stroke, supporting base, thump, wallop), peanha (pedestal, supporting base). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

soclu (base, bed, bottom, dado, footing, pedestal, truss), postament (Patten, pedestal, standard, support). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

цоколь (cap, dado, die, seating). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

zócalo (baseboard, plinth, skirting, skirting board, wainscot). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

sockel (base, dado, pedestal, plinth). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

temel (abecederian, back drop, backbone, basal, base, basic, basis, bed, bottom, bread and butter, constitutive, corner stone, elemental, elementary, footing, fortification, foundation, fundament, fundamental, grass roots, ground, ground form, groundwork, guiding, hard pan, keystone, parent, pedestal, primary, principal, root, rudimental, rudimentary, staple, substratum, substructure, underlying, working), kaide (base, basis, entablement, fundament, matrix, pedestal, precept, principle, sole). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

цоколь (base, dado, plinth, socket), п'Ñ"деÑтал (base, pedestal), Ð¿Ð»Ñ–Ð½Ñ‚ÑƒÑ (baseboard, plinth, skirting). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Socle

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Sumerian3100 BCE-2500 BCE

ki-sa-a. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations: Socle

Derivations

Words beginning with "socle": socles. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Socle"

Words rhyming with "socle" (pronounced 'So"cle'): Ancle, granduncle, Mascle, Muscle, Peduncle, Racle, Sarcle, Secle, Sicle, Surcle, treacle, Zocle. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Socle

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: close, coles.

Words within the letters "c-e-l-o-s"

-1 letter: cels, cole, cols, lose, oles, sloe, sole.

-2 letters: cel, col, cos, els, oes, ole, ose, sec, sel, sol.

-3 letters: el, es, lo, oe, os, so.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-l-o-s"
 

+1 letter: cellos, celoms, ceorls, clones, closed, closer, closes, closet, cloves, clozes, cobles, coleus, colies, cresol, locoes, oscule, scolex, socles, solace.

 

+2 letters: alcoves, beclogs, boucles, cajoles, callose, celosia, cholers, cineols, citoles, claroes, cleomes, cloches, cloners, cloques, closely, closers, closest, closets, closeup, closure, clothes, clovers, coalers, cobbles, cockles, coddles, coeloms, coevals, coffles, coilers, coldest, coleads, collets, collies, colones, colters, colures, compels, console, coolers, coolest, coolies, corbels, cormels, cornels, corslet, costrel, coulees, counsel, couples, creoles, creosol, cresols, enclose, escalop, escolar, glucose, inclose, lactose, lectors, loaches, locales, locates, lockers, lockets, locules, ocellus, ocelots, oracles, oscules, ossicle, polices, recoals, recoils, relocks, scolded, scolder, scowled, scowler, solaced, solacer, solaces, talcose, unclose.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Socle


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

53 6F 63 6C 65

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)

...    ---    -.-.    .-..    .

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

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

01010011 01101111 01100011 01101100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#111 &#99 &#108 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 006F 0063 006C 0065

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

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

5381697871

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Translations: Ancient
7. Derivations
8. Rhymes
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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