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Definitions: Velar |
VelarAdjective1. Of or relating to the velum. 2. Produced with the back of the tongue touching or near the soft palate (as `k' in `cat' and `g' in `gun' and `ng' in `sing'). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Note: Velar \Ve"lar\, adjective. [See Velum.]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: Velar |
| Non-English Usage: "Velar" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (velar), Portuguese (film editor, guard, keep, look after, scumble, veil, velar, wake, watch, watch over), Romanian (velar), Spanish (back, fog, keep vigil, mist, stop up, veil, velar, wait up, wake), Swedish (velar). |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Velar" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 86.11% of the time. "Velar" is used about 36 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 86.11% | 31 | 62,296 |
| Noun (singular) | 13.89% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 36 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "velar": oyster velar virus disease. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "velar": velar-raising. | |
Ending with "velar": non-velar, post-velar, pre-velar. | |
| 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 |
velar | 33 |
central library velar | 4 |
nasal theory velar | 2 |
vcl velar | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "velar"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | حلقي (annular, circular, guttural, throaty), غشائي (filmy, membranous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | веларен. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | velární hláska, velární, velára, zadopatrový (back). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | پرده ای (Membranous), ملازی (Uvular), کامی (Palatal), غشاءی (Membranous, Zonal(Ary)), اداشده ازشراع الحنک . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | vélaire. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | velar. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ουρανισκόφωνοσ (palatal), ουρανίσκου. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | וילו י (curtain like, velamentous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | veláris hang, veláris. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | velare (cloud, conceal, cover, dim, envelope, fog, mantle, mist, scumming, shroud, veil). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | coghooysagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | elarvay velar (film editor, guard, keep, look after, scumble, veil, wake, watch, watch over). (various references) velar, legat de palatul moale. (various references) велярный. (various references) velarni. (various references) velar (back, fog, keep vigil, mist, stop up, veil, wait up, wake). (various references) velar. (various references) yumuşak damakla ilgili, damaksıl. (various references) велярний. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "velar": velaria, velarium, velarization, velarizations, velarize, velarized, velarizes, velarizing, velars. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "velar": labiovelar. (additional references) | |
Words containing "velar": labiovelars. (additional references) | |
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"Velar" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: elar, evkaf, helar, Nelkar, valar, valaz, valr, vasar, veah, vear, veba, veca, veja, velad, velah, Velarde, velia, velir, vella, velo, velon, velor, velta, velux, veral, Verard, viar, villr, vizar, Vlah, Vuela, vula, vulbar, Zelor. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "velar" (pronounced 'Ve"lar'): Alar, Antisolar, Apolar, Astylar, Bifilar, bipolar, Bolar, Cellar, Circumpolar, Cyclostylar, Dipolar, dollar, Electro-polar, Encollar, filar, Gular, hilar, interstellar, lunisolar, medlar, Medullar, Mullar, Patellar, Poplar, Praemolar, Premolar, Rostellar, scalar, Stilar, Subcellar, Subpolar, Substylar, Supersolar, Temporomalar, unifilar, unipolar, Volar, Zinco-polar. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: laver, ravel. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-l-r-v" | |
-1 letter: aver, earl, lave, lear, leva, rale, rave, real, vale, veal, vela, vera. | |
-2 letters: ale, are, ave, ear, era, lar, lav, lea, lev, rev, var. | |
-3 letters: ae, al, ar, el, er, la, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-l-r-v" | |
+1 letter: carvel, claver, gravel, larvae, laveer, lavers, leaver, lekvar, marvel, ravels, reveal, salver, serval, slaver, travel, valuer, varlet, vealer, velars, verbal, vernal, versal. | |
+2 letters: allover, bravely, caravel, carvels, caviler, clavers, clavier, cleaver, gravels, gravely, halvers, haverel, klavern, laveers, layover, leavers, leavier, lekvars, levator, marvels, overall, overlap, overlax, overlay, palaver, prevail, raveled, raveler, ravelin, ravelly, reavail, removal, revalue, reveals, revisal, revival, rivaled, salvers, servals, several, slavers, slavery, travels, unravel, valeric, valuers, variole, varlets, vaulter, vealers, vealier, velaria, ventral, venular, verbals, verglas, vestral, virelai, virelay, vorlage. | |
+3 letters: absolver, acervuli, allovers, alveolar, aversely, caravels, cavalero, cavalier, cavilers, caviller, cervelas, cervelat, cervical, clavered, claviers, cleavers, coverall, cravenly, crevalle, deprival, deverbal, drivable, elevator, enslaver, flavored, flavorer, foveolar, graveled, gravelly, haverels, interval, klaverns, lavalier, laveered, lavender, laverock, lavisher, lawgiver, layovers, levanter, levators, leverage, levirate, livetrap, marveled, novercal, ovariole, overable, overalls, overcall, overglad, overhaul, overlade, overlaid, overlain, overland, overlaps, overlate, overlays, overleaf, overleap, overload, overplan, overplay, oversale, oversalt, overtalk, overzeal, palavers, precaval, prevails, primeval, provable, ravelers, raveling, ravelins, ravelled, raveller, reavails, relative, relevant, removals, reproval, revalued, revalues, revealed, revealer, revenual, reversal, reviewal, revisals, revivals, rivalled, salvager, servable, severals, shrieval, slavered, slaverer, tolarjev, traveled, traveler, travelog, trivalve, unravels, valerate, valerian, valkyrie, valorise, valorize, variable, variedly, varietal, varioles, varletry, vaulters, vaultier, velarium, velarize, venereal, ventrals, verbally, vernacle, vernally, vertical, vesperal, vestural, vexillar, villager, violater, virelais, virelays, visceral, vorlages, vulgarer, walkover. | |
+4 letters: absolvers, acervulus, adverbial, adversely, almsgiver, alveolars, averagely, avirulent, bolivares, boulevard, calvaries, cavaleros, cavaliers, cavalries, cavillers, cervelats, chevalier, clavering, coverable, coveralls, crevalles, curveball, daredevil, deprivals, derivable, driveable, elevators, enslavers, evaluator, everglade, favorable, flashover, flavorers, flavoured, graveless, graveling, gravelled, intervale, intervals, larvicide, lavaliere, lavaliers, laveering, lavenders, laverocks, lavishers, lawgivers, levanters, levatores, leveraged, leverages, levirates, leviratic, lifesaver, liveryman, livetraps, lucrative, marveling, marvelled, marvelous, nonverbal, ovarioles, overalert, overalled, overcalls, overclaim, overclean, overclear, overglaze, overhauls, overlabor, overladed, overladen, overlades, overlands, overlarge, overleaps, overleapt, overlearn, overloads, overpedal, overplaid, overplans, overplant, overplays, oversales, oversalts, overscale, overtalks, overvalue, overzeals, palavered, paloverde, palsgrave, pretravel, prevailed, prevalent, preverbal, previable, privately, ravelings, ravellers, ravelling, ravelment, reavailed, relatives, relevance, relevancy, removable, removably, reprieval, reprovals, retrieval, revaluate, revaluing, revealers, revealing, revelator, reversals, revictual, reviewals, revisable, revivable, revocable, revokable, rivalries, salvagers, savorless, severable, severally, severalty, slaverers, slaveries, slavering, tervalent, travailed, travelers, traveling, travelled, traveller, travelogs, traversal, trivalent, trivalves, universal, unraveled, unrivaled, valerates, valerians, valkyries, valorised, valorises, valorized, valorizes, variables, varicella, varietals, vectorial, vehicular, velarized, velarizes, venerable, venerably, ventrally, verapamil, verbalism, verbalist, verbalize, verdantly, verglases, veridical, veritable, veritably, vernacles, vernalize, versatile, versional, vertebral, verticals, vesicular, vesperals, vibratile, viceregal, victualer, villagers, villagery, violaters, vizierial, vocalizer, vulgarest, vulgarise, vulgarize, vulnerary, walkovers. | |
| 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)56 65 6C 61 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)...- . .-.. .- .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010110 01100101 01101100 01100001 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)V e l a r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0056 0065 006C 0061 0072 |
| 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)5671786784 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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