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Definition: Soft-boiled |
Soft-boiledAdjective1. Easily moved to pity or sorrow; "a softhearted judge". 2. Used of eggs; having the yolk still liquid; "soft-boiled eggs". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Soft-boiledSynonym: softhearted (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: hardhearted (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Soft-boiled |
| Specialty definitions using "soft-boiled": -endian. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | A husband who only eats soft-boiled eggs is never going to satisfy me. (Tales of the Unexpected; writing credit: Patricia Moyes; Tony Wilmot) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Health | Eat soft, soothing foods, such as ice cream, milkshakes, baby food, soft fruits (bananas and applesauce), mashed potatoes, cooked cereals, soft-boiled or scrambled eggs, yogurt, cottage cheese, macaroni and cheese, custards, puddings, and gelatin. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Soft-boiled" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Soft-boiled" is used about 3 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% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "soft-boiled"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 软煮沸. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | löysäksi keitetty. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | oeuf mollet (soft-boiled eggs, soft-cooked egg), oeuf la coque mollet (soft-boiled eggs). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μελάτο αυγό (soft-boiled egg), αυγά βραστά μελάτα (soft-boiled eggs). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | lágytojás (half-boiled egg, soft-boiled eggs). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 半熟 (half-cooked, half-done). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | は"じゅく (half-cooked, half-done). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 연약하 비"하". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | bog-vroiet. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oft-boiledsay cozido mole. (various references) сваренный всмятку, всмятку (soft boiled). (various references) คิ"มาก. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-e-f-i-l-o-o-s-t" | |
-1 letter: bloodiest. | |
-2 letters: bloodies, botflies. | |
-3 letters: befools, bilsted, boldest, bolides, boodles, boosted, booties, diobols, doolies, floosie, foibles, foisted, folioed, foliose, foodies, footies, footled, footles, footsie, loobies, oolites, osteoid, ostiole, stifled, stooled, stoolie, toledos. | |
-4 letters: bedsit, befits, befool, bidets, bields, bifold, blites, bloods, blooie, bodies, boiled, boites, boleti, bolide, bolted, boodle, booted, bootie, botels, debits, delfts. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-d-e-f-i-l-o-o-s-t" | |
+4 letters: discomfortable. | |
| 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 6F 66 74 2D 62 6F 69 6C 65 64 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101111 01100110 01110100 00101101 01100010 01101111 01101001 01101100 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S o f t - b o i l e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006F 0066 0074 002D 0062 006F 0069 006C 0065 0064 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5381728615688175787170 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Translations: Modern 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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