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Definition: Unlaced |
UnlacedAdjective1. With laces not tied; "teenagers slopping around in unlaced sneakers". 2. Not under constraint in action or expression; "this unbuttoned and disrespectful age"- Curtis Bok; "unlaced behavior in the neighborhood pub". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "unlaced" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
Synonyms: UnlacedSynonyms: unbuttoned (adj), untied (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: laced (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Unlaced |
| English words defined with "unlaced": untied. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Unlaced (1992) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| "Unlaced" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Unlaced" is used about 3 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 tense) | 66.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 33.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
sims unlaced | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "unlaced"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | snel los te maken schoen met veter-of haaksluitingen (shoe which can be unlaced or unhooked rapidly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | chaussure délaçage ou dégrafage rapide (shoe which can be unlaced or unhooked rapidly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | schnürte auf, aufgeschnürt (untied). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | υποδήματα με σύστημα ταχείας απελευθέρωσης των κορδονιών ή των αγγραφών (shoe which can be unlaced or unhooked rapidly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | scarpa a slacciamento o sganciamento rapido (shoe which can be unlaced or unhooked rapidly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | acedunlay sapato que se desaperta ou se desata rapidamente (shoe which can be unlaced or unhooked rapidly). (various references) развязывать развязанный (untied). (various references) zapato que se desata o desabrocha rápidamente (shoe which can be unlaced or unhooked rapidly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Unlaced" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ulayed, unacted, unfaced, unglace, unliked. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-l-n-u" | |
-1 letter: candle, caudle, cedula, cuneal, lacune, lanced, launce, unclad, unlace, unlade, unlead. | |
-2 letters: acned, adunc, caned, cauld, clade, clean, clued, dance, decal, ducal, dunce, eland, laced, laden, lance, naled, ulnad, ulnae, uncle, unled. | |
-3 letters: aced, acne, alec, auld, cade, cane, caul, clad, clan, clue, cued, dace, dale, deal, dean, dual, duce, duel, dune, elan. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-l-n-u" | |
+1 letter: dulcinea, launched, uncalled, unplaced, unscaled. | |
+2 letters: acidulent, calendula, candlenut, canulated, dulcineas, euclidean, euclidian, nucleated, unclaimed, unclamped, unclasped, uncleaned, uncloaked, unlatched. | |
+3 letters: calendulas, candlenuts, carbuncled, clangoured, crenulated, culminated, documental, encapsuled, enucleated, granduncle, includable, inculcated, inculpated, ineducable, inoculated, peduncular, relaunched, unbalanced, unbleached, uncalcined, uncanceled, unciliated, undeclared, underclass, uneducable, unshackled, vulcanised, vulcanized. | |
+4 letters: binucleated, calumniated, candelabrum, denticulate, educational, elucidating, elucidation, fraudulence, geniculated, granduncles, inosculated, knucklehead, outbalanced, pedunculate, radiolucent, reductional, thunderclap, unallocated, uncalcified, uncalloused, uncataloged, unchanneled, unclarified, uncoalesced, unconcealed, undanceable, undecidable, unlocalized, unreclaimed, unscrambled. | |
| 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 6C 61 63 65 64 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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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 01101100 01100001 01100011 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n l a c e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 006C 0061 0063 0065 0064 |
| 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)55807867697170 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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