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Three-piece


Synonyms: Three-piece

Synonyms by domain: built-up three-piece can (meteorology & standards, engineering & technology), three piece welded cylinder (mechanical engineering, meteorology & standards), three-piece can (engineering & technology), three-piece non-water-resisting case (industry), three-piece rim (meteorology & standards, transportation).
Antonyms: one-piece (adj), two-piece (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Three-piece

English words defined with "three-piece": three-piece suit. (references)

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Modern Usage: Three-piece

DomainUsage

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.

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Usage Frequency: Three-piece

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)81.82%4550,900
Noun (singular)16.36%9117,287
Noun (proper)1.82%1339,140
                    Total100.00%55N/A

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

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Expression: Three-piece

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "three-piece": three-piece-suite.

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

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Modern Translations: Three-piece

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

   

Portuguese

  

em três partes. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

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)

   

Swedish

  

tredelad (tripartite). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

üç parçalı (ternary, ternate, tripartite). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Three-piece

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.

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Alternative Orthography: Three-piece


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

54 68 72 65 65 2D 70 69 65 63 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

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

01010100 01101000 01110010 01100101 01100101 00101101 01110000 01101001 01100101 01100011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#104 &#114 &#101 &#101 &#45 &#112 &#105 &#101 &#99 &#101

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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