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Definitions: Tetherball |
TetherballNoun1. A game with two players who use rackets to strike a ball that is tethered to the top of a pole; the object is to wrap the string around the pole. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Sports & Leisure | A game which is played by two contestants with rackets and a ball suspended by a string from an upright pole and in which the object of each contestant is to wrap the string around the pole. Source: European Union. (references) |
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 |
tetherball | 92 |
tetherball rule | 14 |
tetherball set | 12 |
tetherball pole | 7 |
equipment tetherball | 3 |
official rule tetherball | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "tetherball"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
French | text processing BTUMQ 74 4729 12 traitement de texte BTUM 74 22 KBB-RBI gd1 2, spirobole. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | etherballtay | ||||
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Words beginning with "tetherball": tetherballs. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-e-h-l-l-r-t-t" | |
-2 letters: harebell. | |
-3 letters: abetter, athlete, battler, beretta, blather, blatter, bleater, blether, brattle, breathe, halbert, haltere, labeler, leather, relabel, retable, theater, theatre, thereat. | |
-4 letters: aether, baller, ballet, bather, batter, battle, beater, belter, berate, bertha, bethel, better, breath, elater, halter, hatter, healer, heater, heller, herbal, hereat, labret, lather, latter, lethal, letter, rattle, rebate, reheat, relate, retell, tablet, taller, teller, tether, thaler, thrall, threat, treble. | |
-5 letters: abele, abler, alert, allee, alter, arete, artel, baler, bathe, belle, beret, berth, betel, betta, blare, blate, blear, bleat, earth, eater, elate, ether, haler, hater, heart, label, laree, later, lathe, latte, lethe, ratel, rathe, rebel, rehab, relet, taber, table, taler, tater, teeth, telae, tetra, thebe, there, theta, three, treat. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-e-h-l-l-r-t-t" | |
+1 letter: tetherballs. | |
+2 letters: throttleable. | |
| 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 65 74 68 65 72 62 61 6C 6C |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- . - .... . .-. -... .- .-.. .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01100101 01110100 01101000 01100101 01110010 01100010 01100001 01101100 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T e t h e r b a l l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0065 0074 0068 0065 0072 0062 0061 006C 006C |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)54718674718468677878 |
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