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| Antonyms: one-piece (adj), two-piece (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Three-piece |
| English words defined with "three-piece": three-piece suit. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | You know that they call a Florida cop in a three-piece suit? (Fair Game; writing credit: Charlie Fletcher) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| "Three-piece" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 81.82% of the time. "Three-piece" is used about 55 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 81.82% | 45 | 50,900 |
| Noun (singular) | 16.36% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.82% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 55 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "three-piece": three-piece-suite. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "three-piece"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 三片断. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | tredelt daase (three-piece can), ikke-vandtaet tredelt urkasse (three-piece non-water-resisting case). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | driedelige bus (three-piece can), bankstel (lounge suite, three-piece suite). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | benkseĝaro (lounge suite, three-piece suite). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kolmiosainen tölkki (three-piece can). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | jante en trois pièces (three-piece rim), boîte trois pièces montée (built-up three-piece can), boîte trois pièces agrafée (built-up three-piece can), boîte non étanche 3 pièces (three-piece non-water-resisting case), boîte en trois parties (three-piece can). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | nicht wasserdichtes dreiteiliges Uhrgehaeuse (three-piece non-water-resisting case), dreiteilige Dose (three-piece can), aus drei Teilen bestehende Dose (built-up three-piece can). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κουτί με τρία μέρη (three-piece can). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | lattina in tre parti (three-piece can), cassa non impermeabile 3 pezzi (three-piece non-water-resisting case). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | スラム街 (bunting on two strikes, bust-waist-hip measurements, petticoat, slalom, sleep, sleeve, slim, slimmer, slip, slippers, slit, slum quarters, slump, slurry, three-piece suit, three-wheeled bicycle, vital statistics), 三つ揃い (three-piece suit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | スリーピース (three-piece suit), みつぞろい (three-piece suit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 삼 조각. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | cullee tree peesh (three-piece suit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ee-piecethray em três partes. (various references) tresillo (lounge suite, ombre, three-piece suite), trecillo (three-piece suite), lata de tres piezas (three-piece can), caja no hermética 3 piezas (three-piece non-water-resisting case). (various references) tredelad (tripartite). (various references) üç parçalı (ternary, ternate, tripartite). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-e-e-h-i-p-r-t" | |
-2 letters: herpetic. | |
-3 letters: cheeper, creepie, erethic, etheric, heretic, pitcher, prithee, receipt, techier. | |
-4 letters: ceriph, cerite, cipher, cither, either, etcher, peerie, piecer, pierce, recept, recipe, recite, techie, teepee, threep, thrice, tierce. | |
-5 letters: cheep, cheer, chert, chirp, citer, creep, crepe, crept, cripe, eerie, erect, ether, ethic, ither, perch, peter, piece, pitch, price, recti, retch, retie, tepee, terce. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-e-e-h-i-p-r-t" | |
+4 letters: chemoreceptive, hyperenergetic. | |
+5 letters: hyperexcitement. | |
| 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 68 72 65 65 2D 70 69 65 63 65 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01101000 01110010 01100101 01100101 00101101 01110000 01101001 01100101 01100011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T h r e e - p i e c e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0068 0072 0065 0065 002D 0070 0069 0065 0063 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5474847171158275716971 |
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