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Definition: Underbelly |
UnderbellyNoun1. Lower side: "the underbellies of clouds". 2. The soft belly or underside of an animal's body. 3. The quality of being weak or unprotected; "the soft underbelly of the Axis"- Winston Churchill. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: UnderbellySynonym: underbody (n). (additional references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Underbelly (1992) | |
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Health | You may see it in a variety of colors, from gray to reddish brown, depending on its age. The underbelly is always white and the tail has sharply defined white sides. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Underbelly" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Underbelly" is used about 45 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) | 100% | 45 | 50,900 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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Ending with "underbelly": soft-underbelly. | |
| 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 |
underbelly | 12 |
soft underbelly white | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "underbelly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
German | Unterbauch (underbellies). (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | υπογάστριο (abdomen, paunch). (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | sebezhető pont (soft spot, sore spot, spot), hastáj, hasalj, érzékeny pont (sore spot, spot, tender spot). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | erbellyunday sårbar del, buksida (ventral side), öm punkt. (various references) | ||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Underbelly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: underbel. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-e-e-l-l-n-r-u-y" | |
-3 letters: blender, blunder, bundler, dueller, elderly, reblend. | |
-4 letters: bedell, belled, bender, blende, bluely, bulled, bundle, burden, burled, burley, burned, byrled, dueler, duller, eluder, endure, enured, lender, nebule, nebuly, nudely, nulled, nurled, redeny, relend, rudely, rundle, unbred, unreel, yelled, yeller. | |
-5 letters: bedel, beery, belle, belly, bendy, beryl, bleed, blend, blued, bluer, bluey, brede, breed, bully. | |
| 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)55 6E 64 65 72 62 65 6C 6C 79 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. -.. . .-. -... . .-.. .-.. -.--. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01100100 01100101 01110010 01100010 01100101 01101100 01101100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n d e r b e l l y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 0064 0065 0072 0062 0065 006C 006C 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)55807071846871787891 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | "ερμανός, német, tysk |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, görög, grek |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | Ungar, Ούγγρος, magyar, ungrare |
Swedish | översättning, ordbok, lexikon | schwedisch, σουηδικόσ, σουηδικά, svéd, svensk |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, angol, engelsk |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Derivations 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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