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Definitions: Vignette |
VignetteNoun1. A brief literary description. 2. A photograph whose edges shade off gradually. 3. A small illustrative sketch (as sometimes placed at the beginning of chapters in books). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "vignette" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Industry | A small decorative design or picture put on or just before a title page or at the beginning or end of a chapter. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Vignette (2 syl.) means properly a likeness having a border of vine-leaves round it. (French, "little vine, tendril."). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Synonym: VignetteSynonym: sketch (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Engraving | Illustration, illumination; half tone; photogravure; vignette, initial letter, cul de lampe, tailpiece. |
Ornament | Illustration, illumination, vignette. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Vignette |
| Specialty definitions using "vignette": mixed media. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "vignette": Vine, Vinette. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Vignette" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (headpiece), German (vignette). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Anniversary Vignette (1989) Macbeth (Polavision Vignette) (1978) Llisa Draws a Letter (Polavision Vignette) (1978) Lucia Chase (Polavision Vignette) (1978) Masks (Polavision Vignette) (1978) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Fine screen halftone reproduction of an early 19th Century engraving after the Gilbert Stuart portrait. The vignette below the main image depicts the 19 August 1812 action between USS Constitution, commanded by Captain Hull, and the British frigate Guerriere.Credit: NAVY. |  | Contemporary colored print, showing USS Olympia in the left foreground, leading the U.S. Asiatic Squadron in destroying the Spanish fleet off Cavite. A vignette portrait of Rear Admiral George Dewey is featured in the lower left.Credit: NAVY. |
 | Reproduction of engraved 17th century map of Pernambuco, Brazil, with vignette of sugar plantation].Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Proof for bank note vignette showing man with axe by fallen tree and U.S. coin by stump] / Rawdon, Wright, Hatch & Edson, New York.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Proof for bank note vignette showing five men making boots] / Rawdon, Wright, Hatch and Edson, New York.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Proof for bank note vignette showing cotton bales being hauled on wagon] / Baldwin, Bald & Cousland, N. York.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Proof for bank note vignette showing Afro-American men tapping sap from trees] / Baldwin, Bald & Cousland, N. York.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Proof for bank note vignette of men harpooning whale] / Rawdon, Wright, Hatch and Edson, New York.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Certificate of membership in the Second Regiment, Hudson Brigade, First Division, Hudson County State Militia, showing George Washington(?) on pedestal, Liberty(?) with sword and shield, eagle on cannon, and vignette of Washington leading troops before Ba.Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Vignette" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Vignette" is used about 30 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% | 30 | 63,341 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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| USA | Vignette Corpn |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
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Ending with "vignette": joint-vignette. | |
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| 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 "vignette"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | skicë në libra. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | скица (contour, cure, delineation, design, diagram, draft, draught, freehand drawing, object, outline, plan, plat, plot, schema, scheme, scream, skeleton, sketch, study), скицирам (adumbrate, delineate, line, outline, plan, plot, rough-hew, sketch, trace), винетка (flower), оформям като винетка, описвам накратко, литературен портрет, правя снимка до рамената. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | typografická ozdoba, medailónek (locket, pendant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | vignet (head of a page, headpiece), ornament. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | vignet (sticker), tolvignet (common fee, common user charge), Snelweg-vignet (common fee, common user charge), regionale vignet (common fee, common user charge), ornamentrandwerk, loofrandwerk, Eurovignet (common fee, common user charge). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | تصویر (Form, Hue, Image, Likeness, Picture, Portrait, Scenography), عکس (Photograph, Picture, Shot), شکل (Configuration, Figure, Form, Gravure, Hue, Image, Likeness, Medal, Rank, Schema, Shape). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | vignette. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Vignette (common fee, common user charge, typefounder's ornament, typographical ornament). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | βινιέτα (taklpiece). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | címke (docket, label, sticker, tab, tag, tally, ticket, tie-on label). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | vignetta (cartoon, illustration, postage stamp, postal figurine, typefounder's ornament), illustrazione (explanation, figure, illustration, image, picture). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | feeynaidaghey, feeynaid. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ignettevay vinheta (headquarters). (various references) vinietã (cut, floret). (various references) виньетка. (various references) vinjeta. (various references) viñeta. (various references) vinjetteringsbild, vinjett. (various references) skeç (sketch), süs çizmek, kitap süsü, etrafı silinmiş fotoğraf. (various references) вінь"тка, літературний портрет. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "vignette": vignetted, vignetter, vignetters, vignettes. (additional references) | |
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"Vignette" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: avionetta, Vanzetti, vegnete, vegnette, Viennetta, vigette, vigne, vignet, vignete, vignetted, vigniette, vinet, vingette, vingiette, vingnette. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "vignette" (pronounced vi'nye"t or vēnye"t) |
| 3 | -y e" t | yet, yett. |
| 3 | -y e" t | yet, yett. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-g-i-n-t-t-v" | |
-1 letter: vetting. | |
-2 letters: teeing, tentie. | |
-3 letters: event, evite, genet, genie, given, nieve, tenet, tenge, tinge, vegie, venge. | |
-4 letters: even, gene, gent, gien, give, nett, neve, nevi, nite, teen, tent, tine, ting, tint, vein, vent, vine. | |
-5 letters: eng, eve, gee, gen, get, gie, gin, git, nee, net, nit, tee, teg, ten, tet, tie, tin, tit, vee, veg. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-g-i-n-t-t-v" | |
+1 letter: revetting, vignetted, vignetter, vignettes. | |
+2 letters: brevetting, vegetating, vegetation, vignetters. | |
+3 letters: anteverting, eventuating, integrative, investigate, overbetting, overletting, oversetting, overtighten, overwetting, vegetations, vinaigrette. | |
+4 letters: augmentative, investigated, investigates, negativities, overtightens, overtreating, revegetating, revegetation, vegetational, vinaigrettes. | |
+5 letters: argumentative, augmentatives, interrogative, investigative, overtightened, photonegative, reintegrative, reinvestigate, revegetations, televangelist. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)56 69 67 6E 65 74 74 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)...- .. --. -. . - - . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010110 01101001 01100111 01101110 01100101 01110100 01110100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)V i g n e t t e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0056 0069 0067 006E 0065 0074 0074 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5675738071868671 |
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