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Definition: Topiary |
TopiaryNoun1. A garden having shrubs clipped or trimmed into decorative shapes especially of animals. 2. Making decorative shapes by trimming shrubs or trees. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "topiary" was first used: 1592. (references) |
Etymology: Topiary \Top"i*a*ry\, adjective. [Latin expression topiarius belonging to ornamental gardening, from topia (sc. opera) ornamental gardening, from the Greek expression place.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Ornament | Adjective: ornamented, beautified; Verb: ornate, rich, gilt, begilt, tesselated, festooned; champleve, cloisonne, topiary. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Topiary."
Crosswords: Topiary |
| English words defined with "topiary": Buxus sempervirens ♦ common box ♦ European box. (references) |
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Books | |
Consumer Goods | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Williamsburg, Virginia, Chiswell-Bucktrout. Topiary detail. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Topiary" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "Topiary" is used about 15 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 80% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 20% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 15 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "topiary": Topiary work. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "topiary": topiary-style. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "topiary"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | art qethjeje të kaçubeve. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | formning (forming, modeling, modelling, moulding, shaping), formklipning (pruning, shearing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | muoto-. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | topiaire, art topiaire. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κλάδεμα σχήματος. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | 'זום אמ ותי, ' ות וי. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | mûkertészeti, mûkertészet, formára vágó mûkertészet. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | arte topiaria. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | opiarytay topiário, jardineiro topiador. (various references) фигурная стрижка кустов. (various references) veština gajenja biljaka. (various references) topiario, poda artística. (various references) figurklippt. (various references) budama sanatı, ağaç budama sanatı. (various references) сад з підстриженими деревами, мистецтво фігурної стрижки садових дерев. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | topiarius. (various references) |
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Misspellings | |
"Topiary" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: tapiary, togidre, Toliara, topai, topair, topairy, topear, topia, topiairy, topiaried, topira, topirary, topitary, toppiery, topriary, toviere, toxicara, Tropicarr. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "topiary" (pronounced tō"pēe'rē) |
| 4 | -ē e' r ē | aviary, beneficiary, fiduciary, judiciary, pecuniary, subsidiary. |
| 3 | -e' r ē | actuary, adversary, ancillary, apothecary, arbitrary, bicentenary, Blackberry, blueberry, budgetary, capillary, cardiopulmonary, Cassowary, cautionary, cemetery, centenary, cometary, commentary, commissary, concessionary, confectionary, confectionery, Constabulary, contemporary, corollary, coronary, counterrevolutionary, cranberry, culinary, customary, deflationary, depositary, Dewberry, dictionary, dietary, dignitary, disciplinary, discretionary, disinflationary, diversionary, Dogberry, dromedary, dysentery, emissary, epistolary, estuary, evolutionary, exclusionary, expansionary, expeditionary, extraordinary, formulary, fragmentary, functionary, funerary, gooseberry, hackberry, hereditary, honorary, Huckleberry, illusionary, imaginary, inflationary, interdisciplinary, interplanetary, involuntary, itinerary, lapidary, legendary, library, literary, luminary, mercenary, military, missionary, momentary, monastery, monetary, mortuary, mulberry, necessary, noninflationary, nonmilitary, obituary, ordinary, paramilitary, pituitary, planetary, preliminary, primary, probationary, proprietary, pulmonary, quaternary, raspberry, reactionary, recessionary, revolutionary, Rosemary, salutary, sanctuary, sanitary, savagery, secondary, secretary, sedentary, semilegendary, seminary, solitary, stationary, stationery, statuary, strawberry, temporary, Tilbury, tributary, undersecretary, unitary, unnecessary, unsanitary, urinary, veterinary, visionary, vocabulary. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-o-p-r-t-y" | |
-1 letter: parity. | |
-2 letters: aport, atopy, atrip, party, patio, payor, ratio, tapir. | |
-3 letters: airt, airy, arty, atop, iota, pair, part, paty, pita, pity, port, prao, prat, pray, proa, rapt, rato, riot, ropy, rota, roti, ryot, taro, tarp, tiro, topi, tora, tori, tory, trap, tray, trio, trip, trop, troy, typo, tyro. | |
-4 letters: air, ait, apt, art, oar. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-o-p-r-t-y" | |
+1 letter: podiatry, polarity. | |
+2 letters: apriority, expiatory, patrimony, piscatory, profanity. | |
+3 letters: anisotropy, atrophying, bipolarity, depilatory, depositary, epistolary, expiratory, hypertonia, importancy, karyotypic, outpraying, patronymic, popularity, portraying, profitably, tropically. | |
+4 letters: antileprosy, antiphonary, antipoverty, applicatory, cardiopathy, coplanarity, corporality, cryptogamic, cryptomeria, explicatory, hydropathic, hypertonias, hypogastric, hypothermia, importantly, imprecatory, inculpatory, inspiratory, karyotyping, lithography, macrophytic, misanthropy, operability, operatively, parathyroid, paratyphoid, parfocality, patronymics, personality, petitionary, pictography, pictorially, polarimetry, portability, postprimary, predicatory, primatology, probability, prodigality, prokaryotic, proprietary, proximately, pyroclastic, respiratory, retinopathy, rhinoplasty, saprophytic, stipulatory, temporality, temporarily, tetraploidy, trophically, typographic. | |
| 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 6F 70 69 61 72 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- --- .--. .. .- .-. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01101111 01110000 01101001 01100001 01110010 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T o p i a r y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 006F 0070 0069 0061 0072 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)54818275678491 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Slideshow | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Translations: Ancient 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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