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Date "SQUARE-CUT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Industry | Of timber cut(i. e. square-sawn or square hewn)to a rectangular cross-section, with or without wane. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: SQUARE-CUT |
| Specialty definitions using "SQUARE-CUT": depth gage ♦ mine prop ♦ narrow face ♦ pit prop, pitprops. (references) |
| "SQUARE-CUT" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "SQUARE-CUT" is used about 8 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) | 75% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 25% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 8 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "SQUARE-CUT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | firskaaret toemmer (die-square, squared, square-sawn timber), firskaaret (die-square, square hewn, squared, square-sawn). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | vierkant bezaagd hout (die-square, squared), gekantrecht hout (die-square, edged timber, squared, square-edged sawn timber). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | équarri (squared). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | vollkantig (die-square, squared), Kantholz (balks, baulks, cant, die-square, rectangular timber, scantling, square, squared, squared timber, square-sawn timber). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ορθογωνισμένη ξυλεία (die-square, squared). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | squadrato (die-square, squared). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | are-cutsquay falca (die-square, squared). (various references) escuadrada (die-square, squared). (various references) fyrsågat timmer (die-square, squared), fyrsågad (die-square, squared). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-q-r-s-t-u-u" | |
-1 letter: racquets. | |
-2 letters: acquest, auteurs, curates, quartes, quatres, racquet. | |
-3 letters: acuter, acutes, aureus, auteur, carets, cartes, casque, caster, caters, causer, cesura, crates, cruets, cruset, cuesta, curate, curets, eructs, quarte, quarts, quatre, reacts, recast, rectus, recuts, sacque, saucer, square, suture, traces, truces, tuques, uraeus, urates, uterus. | |
-4 letters: acres, acute, arcus, aster, aures, cares, caret, carse, carte. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-q-r-s-t-u-u" | |
+3 letters: aquacultures, aquicultures. | |
+5 letters: quadruplicates. | |
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