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Definitions: Tailored |
TailoredAdjective1. Severely simple in line or design; "a neat tailored suit"; "tailored curtains". 2. Of clothing. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tailored" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1889. (references) |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| TABS | English | Tailored Abstracts Service | Computing |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: TailoredSynonyms: bespoke (adj), bespoken (adj), custom (adj), made-to-order (adj), tailor-made (adj), trim (adj). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: custom-built (transportation). |
Crosswords: Tailored |
| English words defined with "tailored": appropriate ♦ coatdress, contour sheet ♦ fitted sheet ♦ harmonious ♦ shirtdress, sleek ♦ trim. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "tailored": DATA CENTER ♦ evolutionary prototyping ♦ interpersonal messaging system message store, IPMS MS ♦ middleware, Modified Atmosphere ♦ Wound Rotor Motors. (references) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Rose of Sharon sat down heavily on a box and regarded her wedding shoes, black patent leather and tailored black bows. |
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Health | The therapy is tailored to the needs of each patient. (references) | |
Cerebral palsy therapy should be tailored to reflect these changing demands. (references) | ||
For the majority of patients, tailored pelvic exenteration remains the standard surgical approach. (references) | ||
Business | The big Swiss hydroelectric generating facilities are custom tailored for this purpose. (references) | |
The Egyptian market offers a complete range of products from simple T-shirts to tailored suits. (references) | ||
In terms of in-house training, there are HR-based companies who specialize in workshops tailored to suit individual firms' needs. (references) | ||
Children | Brazil | The CECRIA report stated that government efforts to combat sexual exploitation of children need to be better tailored and coordinated. (references) |
Civil Liberties | South Africa | Nevertheless, community radio provided radio access for the first time to thousands of historically marginalized citizens, providing special event information and news tailored for specific interest groups. (references) |
Economic History | India | However, the products tailored to Indian taste have better opportunities. (references) |
Political Economy | SINGAPORE | Investment policies are generally open and tailored to attract foreign investment and ensure an environment conducive to efficient business operations. (references) |
Indonesia | Her cabinet is tailored to deal with these issues, as well as to cement cohesion among the political parties that make up the DPR and MPR. With her new cabinet, she seems particularly well-positioned to begin economic recovery, but many hard decisions will need to be confronted. (references) | |
Trade | Switzerland | Small and medium size businesses usually approach their banks for finance, and are offered a tailored package drawn from a wide range of financing products. (references) |
Worker Rights | Portugal | These teams develop programs of scholastic and vocational study tailored to the individual child and his community. (references) |
Belgium | These officers gather information about local conditions and trafficking trends and assist in establishing antitrafficking information campaigns tailored for the local population. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Tailored" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 56.19% of the time. "Tailored" is used about 331 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 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 56.19% | 186 | 22,556 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 29.61% | 98 | 33,072 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 13.6% | 45 | 50,900 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.6% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 331 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "tailored": tailored costume ♦ tailored suit ♦ tailored to the same pattern. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "tailored": hand-tailored, well-tailored. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
tailored sportsman | 19 |
cover slip tailored | 16 |
tailored suit | 12 |
tailored shirt | 12 |
tailored | 11 |
tailored bed skirt | 9 |
access enjoy internet line need t1 tailored | 6 |
tailored clothing | 6 |
image tailored | 5 |
tailored sportsman breeches | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "tailored"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i qepur (hot, importunate), i bërë nga rrobaqepësi. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | приспособен (adjusted), изкусурен. (various references) | |
Chinese | 剪裁 (tailoring). (various references) | |
Czech | šitý na míru (tailor made). (various references) | |
Danish | specialkonstrueret (custom built), ikke seriefremstillet (custom built). (various references) | |
Dutch | gefabriceerd volgens klantenspecificatie (custom built). (various references) | |
Finnish | erityistarpeiden mukaisesti mitoitettu pakkaus (package tailored to one's needs, tailor-made package). (various references) | |
French | hors série. (various references) | |
German | zugeschnitten (fitted), geschneidert. (various references) | |
Greek | κατασκευή κατά παραγγελία (custom built), επειξειργασμένοσ από ραπτήν. (various references) | |
Italian | fuori serie (custom built, customized). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | テーベ物語 (beefsteak, project, tail, tail end, tail fin, tail lamp, tailcoat, taillight, tailor, tailored suit, tailor-made, take, taste, Taylor system, tea, teeing ground, teenage, teen-age, teenager, teen-ager, Tegafur, tequila, Texas, Texas hit, Texas leaguer, text, text book, text file, textbook, textile, texture, Thebais, theme, Theme campaign, Theme music, theme park, Theme promotion, Theme song, tilapia, timpani, tissue, tissue paper, tissues, topic, TROFF, tympany, typical, tyranny). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | テーラード . (various references) | |
Korean | 양복을 "". (various references) | |
Manx | gooyn thalearagh (tailored dress). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ailoredtay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | fora de série (custom built). (various references) | |
Russian | сделанный на заказ (bespoke, custom-made, made to measure, made to order, made-to-order), сделанный портным. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | skrojen. (various references) | |
Spanish | fuera de serie (custom built). (various references) | |
Swedish | skuren efter samma mall (tailored to the same pattern), skräddarsydd förpackning (package tailored to one's needs, tailor-made package). (various references) | |
Turkish | özel dikilmiş, ısmarlama (bespoke, commission, custom, custom-made, made to measure, made to order, ordered, placement, tailormade, treat). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "tailored": retailored. (additional references) | |
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"Tailored" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: tailore, trailered, triforked. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "tailored" (pronounced tā"lerd) |
| 3 | -l er d | antlered, bollard, Collard, collared, colored, coloured, discolored, hollered, mallard, multicolored, pillared, Pollard, steamrollered. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: idolater. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-l-o-r-t" | |
-1 letter: dariole, delator, dilater, dilator, leotard, redtail, trailed. | |
-2 letters: adroit, airted, ariled, dartle, derail, detail, dialer, dilate, dotier, editor, eidola, iodate, laired, loader, loiter, orated, ordeal, railed, redial, relaid, reload, retail, retial, retold, rialto, rioted, roadie, roiled, tailed, tailer, tailor, tirade, tirled, toiled, toiler, triode. | |
-3 letters: adore, aider, ailed, aired, alder, alert, alter, ariel, aroid, artel, dater, deair, dealt, delta, derat, dotal, doter, drail, droit, ideal, idler, irade, irate, lader, laird, lated, later, liard, lidar, lirot, liter, litre, oared, oater, oiled, oiler, older, oldie, orate, oread, oriel, radio, rated, ratel, ratio, redia, relit, reoil, retia, riled, taler, tardo, tared, telia, teloi, terai, tidal, tilde, tiled, tiler, tired, toile, tolar, toled, trade, trail, tread, triad, trial, tried, triol, trode. | |
-4 letters: adit, aero, aide, airt, alit, aloe, alto, arid, aril, dale, dare, dart, date, dato, deal, dear, deil, deli, delt, dial, diel, diet, diol, dire, dirl, dirt, dita, dite, doat, doer, doit, dole, dolt, dore, dote, drat, earl, edit, idea, idle, idol, ilea, iota, ired, lade, laid, lair, lard, lari, late, lati, lead, lear, liar, lido, lied, lier, lira, lire, lite, load, lode, lord, lore, lota, loti, odea, olea, orad, oral, orle, raid, rail, rale, rate, rato, read, real, redo, rial, ride, riel, rile, riot, rite, road, rode, roil, role, rota, rote, roti, rotl, tael, tail, tale, tali, tare, taro, teal, tear, tela, tide, tied, tier, tile, tire, tirl, tiro, toad, toea, toed, toil, tola, told, tole, tora, tore, tori, trad, trio, trod. | |
-5 letters: ado, aid, ail, air, ait, ale, alt, are, art, ate, dal, del, die, dit, doe, dol, dor, dot, ear, eat, eld, era, eta, ire, lad, lar, lat, lea, led, lei, let, lid, lie, lit, lot, oar, oat, ode, oil, old, ole, ora, ore, ort, rad, rat, red, rei, ret, ria, rid, rod, roe, rot, tad, tae, tao, tar, tea, ted, tel, tie, til, tod, toe, tor. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-l-o-r-t" | |
+1 letter: editorial, estradiol, floriated, idolaters, steroidal. | |
+2 letters: asteroidal, defoliator, delineator, depilatory, editorials, elucidator, estradiols, fluoridate, idolatries, intermodal, internodal, meliorated, outrivaled, retailored, tetraploid. | |
+3 letters: advertorial, ameliorated, boatbuilder, chlorinated, declaration, defloration, defoliators, delineators, desalinator, dilatometer, dilatometry, directional, directorial, disrelation, editorially, elucidators, endometrial, fluoridated, fluoridates, fluorinated, labradorite, lepidoptera, lionhearted, maledictory, meteoroidal, obliterated, outrivalled, periodontal, radiolucent, redactional, reductional, tetraploids, tetraploidy, trapezoidal, valedictory. | |
+4 letters: adulteration, advertorials, bardolatries, boatbuilders, coordinately, cordialities, deceleration, dechlorinate, declarations, decoratively, deflagration, deflationary, deflorations, deliberation, depilatories, deregulation, derivational, dermatologic, derogatively, derogatorily, desalinators, dilatometers, dilatometric, dilatoriness, disrelations, dorsiventral, editorialist, editorialize, edulcorating, foolhardiest, immoderately, immortalised, immortalized, inordinately, interpolated, labradorites, lepidopteran, lithographed, melodramatic, modularities, noneditorial, nonsteroidal, orientalized, overinflated, postcardlike, proliferated, providential, radioelement, rationalised, rationalized, reinoculated, revalidation, solidarities, subeditorial, temporalized, towardliness, tropicalized, ventromedial. | |
+5 letters: adorabilities, adulterations, aldosteronism, bidirectional, considerately, constrainedly, coresidential, countervailed, decelerations, dechlorinated, dechlorinates, defibrillator, deflagrations, deformational, degranulation, deliberations, deprecatorily, derealization, deregulations, dermatologies, dermatologist, devolutionary, dilatometries, documentarily, editorialists, editorialized, editorializer, editorializes, grandiloquent, lepidopterans, maladroitness, melodramatics, melodramatise, melodramatist, melodramatize, metronidazole, nondeliberate, particleboard, periodontally, perissodactyl, pictorialized, predominantly, predominately, prodigalities, radiationless, radioactively, radioelements, reconsolidate, reduplication, revalidations, roadabilities, sacerdotalism, sacerdotalist, solderability, subordinately, superdiplomat, tetrachloride, tetrafluoride, tetraploidies, traditionless, unchlorinated, valedictorian, valedictories, waterflooding. | |
| 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)54 61 69 6C 6F 72 65 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- .- .. .-.. --- .-. . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01100001 01101001 01101100 01101111 01110010 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T a i l o r e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0061 0069 006C 006F 0072 0065 0064 |
| 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)5467757881847170 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Quotations: Fiction 7. Quotations: Non-fiction 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Expressions 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Abbreviations | 13. Acronyms 14. Derivations 15. Rhymes 16. Anagrams | 17. Orthography 18. Bibliography |
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