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Tenpins

Definition: Tenpins

Tenpins

Noun

1. Bowling down an alley at a target of ten wooden pins.

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

Date "tenpins" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1906. (references)



Specialty Definitions: Tenpins

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Dream Interpretation

If you dream at playing at tenpins, you will doubtless soon engage in some affair which will bring discredit upon your name, and you will lose your money and true friendship.
To see others engaged in this dream, foretells that you will find pleasure in frivolous people and likely lose employment.
For a young woman to play a successful game of tenpins, is an omen of light pleasures, but sorrow will attend her later. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....

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

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Synonym: Tenpins

Synonym: tenpin bowling (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Tenpins

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Amusement

Billiards, pool, pingpong, pyramids, bagatelle; bowls, skittles, ninepins, kain, American bowls; tenpins, tivoli.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Tenpins

English words defined with "tenpins": bowling, Bowling alleyspare. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Tenpins

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Books

  • Bowler's Guide: An Instructional & Educational Book on Tenpins (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Modern Translations: Tenpins

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

Albanian

  

birili (ninepins, skittles). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏عشرات من السنتات (ten). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

игра на кегли (skittles). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

keilapeli, keilailu (bowling). (various references)

   

French

  

quille (tenpin). (various references)

   

German

  

Kegels. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

παιγνίδιο με δέκα κορύνασ, τσούνια (ninepins). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

כ"ורת (bowling, bowls, skittles). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kugli (ninepins). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

enpinstay

   

Portuguese

  

variedade de boliche. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

кегли (bowl, bowling, duckpins, ninepins, skittles). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

juego de bolos (bowling, ninepins, skittles). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

kägelspel (ninepins, skittles), bowling (bowling). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

кеглі (ninepins). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Tenpins

Misspellings

"Tenpins" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: tenain, tenupin, tepin. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Tenpins"

Words rhyming with "tenpins" (pronounced 'Ten"pins'): Ninepins. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Tenpins

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-i-n-n-p-s-t"

-1 letter: instep, pennis, sennit, spinet, tennis, tenpin.

-2 letters: inept, inset, neist, nines, nites, peins, penis, penni, pines, pints, piste, senti, snipe, spent, spine, spite, stein, stipe, tines.

-3 letters: inns, nest, nets, nine, nips, nite, nits, pein, pens, pent, pest, pets, pies, pine, pins, pint, pits, sent, sept, sine, sipe, site, snip, snit, spin, spit, step, tens, ties, tine, tins, tips.

-4 letters: ens, inn, ins, its, net, nip, nit, pen, pes, pet, pie, pin, pis, pit, psi, sei, sen, set, sin, sip, sit, ten, tie, tin, tip, tis.

-5 letters: en, es, et, in, is, it, ne, pe, pi, si, ti.

 Words containing the letters "e-i-n-n-p-s-t"
 

+1 letter: punniest.

 

+2 letters: endpoints, inaptness, ineptness, newsprint, penitents, penpoints, spinneret.

 

+3 letters: entropions, inceptions, inpatients, inspecting, inspection, internship, neptuniums, newsprints, parentings, penitences, phenytoins, pliantness, prenotions, presenting, pretension, punishment, septennial, serpentine, spinnerets, steepening, unstepping.

 

+4 letters: antileptons, antiphonies, antipodeans, antipyrines, conceptions, copingstone, embonpoints, encryptions, expunctions, hypotension, impregnants, inaptnesses, ineptnesses, inspections, internships, interplants, interpoints, interposing, knifepoints, nondescript, nonreceipts, omnipotents, omnipresent, outspending, pancreatins, patternings, pendentives, personating, personation, pertinences, phenacetins, piquantness, pneumonitis, pointedness, posttension, postweaning, presentient, pretensions, preventions, punishments, septentrion, serpentines, spinnerette, splintering, spontaneity, stenotyping, superintend, supernation, transalpine, trapnesting, truepennies, trypsinogen, turpentines, uninspected.

 

+5 letters: aminopterins, antependiums, antinepotism, antispending, appointments, compensating, compensation, concupiscent, copingstones, copresenting, dispensation, empoisonment, enterprising, expansionist, explanations, exponentials, fingerprints, hyperintense, hypertension, hyphenations, hypotensions, impenitences, impingements, impoundments, imprisonment, inappetences, incompetents, independents, inexpertness, interdepends, interspacing, intrepidness, needlepoints, nephelinites, nondescripts, omnipotences, pectinations, penetrations, pennyweights, pennywhistle, pentamidines, pentazocines, pentlandites, perennations, personations, pertinencies, phoneticians, pliantnesses, posttensions, predestining, preignitions, premonitions, premunitions, prenominates, presentation, presentiment, pretensioned, punitiveness, reinspecting, reinspection, representing, septennially, septentrions, serpentinely, spinnerettes, supereminent, superintends, supernations, supervenient, supervention, transpontine, trepanations, trypsinogens, unstoppering, unsuspecting.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Tenpins


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

54 65 6E 70 69 6E 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 01100101 01101110 01110000 01101001 01101110 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#101 &#110 &#112 &#105 &#110 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0065 006E 0070 0069 006E 0073

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

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

54718082758085

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INDEX

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


  

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