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Definition: Tonsured |
TonsuredAdjective1. Having a bald spot either shaved or natural; "tonsured monks". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tonsured" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Large "M." Tonsured master, holding book, gestures towards one of two tonsured students (as if determining a dispute?). Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Tonsured" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 55.56% of the time. "Tonsured" is used about 9 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 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 55.56% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 44.44% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 9 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "tonsured"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
French | tonsuré. (various references) | ||||
Greek | κουρευμένοσ. (various references) | ||||
Hebrew | מ'ולח (shaved). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | onsuredtay | ||||
Misspellings | |
"Tonsured" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: toensure, tonsura. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "tonsured" (pronounced 'Ton"sured'): leisured. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: roundest, unsorted. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-n-o-r-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: detours, dourest, enduros, redouts, resound, rodents, rousted, snorted, snouted, sounder, tenours, tonsure, undoers, undrest. | |
-2 letters: detour, donuts, doters, douser, drones, duster, enduro, nestor, noters, nudest, nursed, ousted, ouster, outers, redons, redout, rodent, rotund, rouens, rounds, roused, routed, routes, rudest, rusted, snored, sonder, sorned, sorted, soured, souter, stoned, stoner, stored, stound, stoure, strode. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-n-o-r-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: construed, deuterons, outsnored, roundlets, tournedos, trudgeons, undermost, undershot, undertows. | |
+2 letters: discounter, eruditions, introduces, outlanders, outscorned, rediscount, reductions, rotundness, surmounted, tendrilous, thunderous, tremendous, uncorseted, undercoats, underplots, undershoot, understood, understory, undertones, unescorted, unforested, unrestored. | |
+3 letters: adventurous, conductress, constructed, cotransduce, counterbids, countersued, countryside, deconstruct, destruction, discounters, documenters, groundsheet, introducers, outdoorsmen, outdressing, outrebounds, outsprinted, outstridden, outwardness, profoundest, rediscounts, rotundities, roundtables, strikebound, subordinate, tenpounders, undercounts, undercrofts, undershoots, undershorts, undistorted, unstoppered, unsupported. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 6F 6E 73 75 72 65 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- --- -. ... ..- .-. . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01101111 01101110 01110011 01110101 01110010 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T o n s u r e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 006F 006E 0073 0075 0072 0065 0064 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5481808587847170 |
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