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Tallis

Definition: Tallis

Tallis

Noun

1. (Judaism) a shawl with a ritually knotted fringe at each corner; worn by Jews at morning prayer.

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

Synonyms: Tallis

Synonyms: prayer shawl (n), tallith (n). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Tallis

DomainTitle

Books

  • Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis (reference)

  • Tallis (reference)

  • Tallis Ends and Other Tales (The Cartoon Mishnah Learning Series) (reference)

  • Tattered Tallis (Judaica Youth Series) (reference)

  • The Raymond Tallis Reader (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Usage Frequency: Tallis

"Tallis" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tallis" is used about 404 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)100%40413,896

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Tallis

The following table summarizes the usage of "tallis" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
TallisLast name20039,054
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Tallis

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "tallis": Tallis-byrd, Tallis-holly.

Ending with "tallis": Holly-tallis.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Tallis

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

tallis

50

thomas tallis

15

tallis scholar

9

tallis bag

8

canon tallis

4

gordon tallis

3

gorden tallis

2

mei miserere scholar tallis

2

katrina tallis

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

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Modern Translations: Tallis

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

Pig Latin

  

allistay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Tallis

Derivations

Words beginning with "tallis": tallises, tallish, tallisim. (additional references)

Words containing "tallis": bimetallism, bimetallisms, bimetallist, bimetallistic, bimetallists, crystallise, crystallised, crystallises, crystallising, monometallism, monometallisms, monometallist, monometallists, symmetallism, symmetallisms. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Tallis"

Words rhyming with "tallis" (pronounced 'Tal"lis'): Amaryllis, Anolis, Caulis, Challis, Digitalis, Eblis, Epulis, Felis, Hamamelis, Hemerocallis, Peplis, torticollis, trellis. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Tallis

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-i-l-l-s-t"

-1 letter: alist, lilts, litas, stall, still, tails, tills.

-2 letters: ails, aits, alit, alls, alts, ills, last, lati, lats, lilt, list, lits, sail, sall, salt, sati, sial, sill, silt, slat, slit, tail, tali, tall, till, tils.

-3 letters: ail, ais, ait, all, als, alt, ill, its, las, lat, lis, lit, sal, sat, sit, tas, til, tis.

-4 letters: ai, al, as, at, is, it, la, li, si, ta, ti.

 Words containing the letters "a-i-l-l-s-t"
 

+1 letter: install, saltily, tailles, tallies, tallish.

 

+2 letters: anthills, ballista, bastille, diallist, distally, galliots, installs, lanitals, lealties, legalist, listable, literals, localist, loyalist, maillots, palliest, pastille, phallist, pitfalls, playlist, rallyist, saltlike, spitball, stalkily, stalling, stallion, stillman, tailless, talliers, tallises, tallisim, talliths, tillages.

 

+3 letters: allanites, allantois, allergist, balladist, ballistae, ballistic, ballsiest, bastilles, bestially, blacklist, boatbills, braillist, callosity, celestial, cloistral, collagist, diallists, fellatios, flatlines, flatlings, flotillas, gallipots, gladliest, globalist, illations, illatives, installed, installer, inthralls, laetriles, landsleit, lastingly, latosolic, lazulites, legalists, legislate, libelants, littorals, localists, localites, loyalists, loyalties, mantillas, medallist, metallics, oscillate, palletise, palliates, pastilles, phallists, plastisol, playlists, pluralist, pulsatile, rallyists, reinstall, sailcloth, saliently, satellite, scintilla, slatelike, spatially, spitballs, stairwell, stallions, stickball, stoically, taillamps, tailleurs, tailslide, tallaisim, tallithes, tenailles, teocallis, thalliums, tonsillar, tortillas, trailless, volatiles.

 

+4 letters: algologist, allantoins, allegorist, allergists, allethrins, alleviates, alligators, allosteric, allotypies, altiplanos, argillites, balladists, ballasting, ballistics, balloonist, ballpoints, blacklists, blacktails, braillists, brilliants, celestials, cleanliest, collagists, collations, colligates, collimates, disloyalty, distillate, eightballs, fellations, flashlight, flatliners, gallivants, globalists, illustrate, installers, installing, isolatable, labilities, laccoliths, lamplights, legalistic, legalities, legislated, legislates, legislator, libellants, liberalist, linoleates, listenable, literalism, literalist, localities, logistical, medallists, metallizes, metalloids, milliwatts, millstream, molalities, multiflash, mystically, nightfalls, oscillated, oscillates, oscillator, osmolality, paillettes, palletised, palletises, palletizes, palliators, papillotes, pastellist, pistillate, plastidial, plastisols, pluralists, pollinates, reinstalls, rustically, sagittally, sailcloths, salability, salicylate, saltarelli, salutarily, satellites, scintillas, sclerotial, semilethal, sheathbill, sibilantly, slantingly, societally, solitarily, solstitial, spallation, squalliest, stairwells, standstill, statically, stealthily, sterically, stickballs, taillights, tailplanes, tailslides, tamarillos, tasselling, teaselling, televisual, tillandsia, titillates, tomatillos, treadmills, treillages, ultraslick, ululations, vacillates, valvulitis, volatilise, whitewalls.

 

+5 letters: algologists, alkylations, allantoides, allegations, allegorists, alleviators, alliterates, allocations, allocutions, allometries, allopatries, allosteries, allotropies, aquarellist, artilleries, artillerist, ascetically, aseptically, balloonists, baptismally, basipetally, bimetallics, bimetallism, bimetallist, blacklisted, blacklister, bristletail, bullmastiff, callithumps, callosities, cantillates, carnallites, caustically, celestially, citronellas, clericalist, clostridial, collimators, colonialist, crystalline, crystallise, crystallite, crystallize, crystalloid, deistically, disenthrall, distillates, drastically, drillmaster, elastically, ellipticals, eristically, essentially, faithlessly, fibrillates, flashlights, gallantries, galleryites, holoblastic, illiterates, illuminants, illuminates, illustrated, illustrates, illustrator, inflatables, installment, ipsilateral, lateralizes, legislating, legislation, legislative, legislators, legislature, leptospiral, lethalities, liabilities, liberalists, lightplanes, linealities, literalisms, literalists, literalizes, literalness, lobulations, magistrally, mesothelial, millstreams, misallocate, multicausal, oscillating, oscillation, oscillators, oscillatory, osmotically, paclitaxels, painfullest, palatalizes, palletising, palletizers, palliations, palliatives, pastellists, philatelies, philatelist, phyllotaxis, plasmolytic, plastically, pluralistic, pluralities, pollinators, postglacial, potentillas, reinstalled, salicylates, saltatorial, salvational, sartorially, satanically, satirically, scarlatinal, scintillant, scintillate, sectionally, semilethals, semitonally, sheathbills, sillimanite, skeptically, solvability, somatically, spallations, spastically, spiritually, stainlessly, standstills, startlingly, sublittoral, suppliantly, surveillant, swallowtail, syllabicate, syllabicity, tillandsias, torsionally, triliterals, tripletails, trisyllabic, trisyllable, ultralights, ultrasimple, vacillators, versatilely, vestigially, victuallers, volatilised, volatilises, volatilizes, vorticellas, whistleable, yellowtails.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Tallis


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

54 61 6C 6C 69 73

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)

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

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

01010100 01100001 01101100 01101100 01101001 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#97 &#108 &#108 &#105 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0061 006C 006C 0069 0073

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

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

546778787585

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Names: Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Rhymes
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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