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Tallith

Definition: Tallith

Tallith

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: Tallith

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

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Commercial Usage: Tallith

DomainTitle

Books

  • Gown & tallith : in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Cambridge University Jewish Society (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Tallith

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

tallith

5

fringes tallith

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

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Modern Translations: Tallith

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

Albanian

  

talis. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

טלית. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

talesz. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

allithtay.(various references)

   

Russian 

  

талис. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

tkanina za pokrivanje glave, talit. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Tallith

Derivations

Words beginning with "tallith": tallithes, tallithim, talliths. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Tallith"

Words rhyming with "tallith" (pronounced 'Tal"lith'): Trilith. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Tallith

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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

-1 letter: tallit, thalli.

-2 letters: atilt, laith, lathi, thill, tilth.

-3 letters: alit, hail, hall, halt, hila, hill, hilt, lath, lati, lilt, tail, tali, tall, that, till, tilt.

-4 letters: ail, ait, all, alt, att, hat, hit, ill, lat, lit, tat, til, tit.

-5 letters: ah, ai, al, at, ha, hi, it, la, li, ta, ti.

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

+1 letter: talliths.

 

+2 letters: lethality, taillight, tallithes, tallithim, tallitoth.

 

+3 letters: stealthily, taillights, thetically, ultralight.

 

+4 letters: lethalities, philatelist, ultralights.

 

+5 letters: athletically, bathetically, pathetically, philatelists, phyllotactic, thallophytic, theatrically, theistically, thematically.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Tallith


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

54 61 6C 6C 69 74 68

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)

01010100 01100001 01101100 01101100 01101001 01110100 01101000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#97 &#108 &#108 &#105 &#116 &#104

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0061 006C 006C 0069 0074 0068

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

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

54677878758674

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INDEX

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


  

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