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Definition: WAYLAID |
WAYLAIDImperative & past participle1. Of Waylay |
Date "WAYLAID" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1598. (references) |
Crosswords: WAYLAID |
| Specialty definitions using "WAYLAID": Lara ♦ Sancha. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "WAYLAID": Waylay. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I got waylaid by the sweetest Swedish Lapphund who kept me up half the night, and I'm afraid I'm still in bed! (Down with Love; writing credit: Eve Ahlert; Dennis Drake) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Truck loads of beer enroute to Chicago, which were waylaid and captured at Zion City, Ill. ... all bottles were destroyed.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Economic History | Togo | This set off public demonstrations, and, on January 25, members of the security forces fired on peaceful demonstrators, killing at least 19. In the ensuing days, several security force members were waylaid and injured or killed by civilian oppositionists. (references) |
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| "WAYLAID" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 77.78% of the time. "WAYLAID" 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 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 77.78% | 35 | 58,339 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 22.22% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Total | 100.00% | 45 | 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 |
ed lin waylaid | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "WAYLAID"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | lauerte auf (ambuscaded, bushwhacked), aufgelauert. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | aylaidway trecut şi participiu trecut de la waylay. (various references) подстерегать (lie in wait, waylay). (various references) pret y pp de waylay. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"WAYLAID" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: twayblade, walad, waylayed, Weyland. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "WAYLAID" (pronounced wā"lā'd) |
| 3 | -l ā' d | accolade, downplayed, fusillade, inlaid, marmalade, overlaid, parlayed, relayed, switchblade. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-i-l-w-y" | |
-2 letters: aliya, alway, daily. | |
-3 letters: away, dial, idly, idyl, lady, laid, wadi, wady, wail, waly, wild, wily, yald, yawl. | |
-4 letters: aal, aid, ail, ala, awa, awl, dal, daw, day, lad, law, lay, lid, wad, way, yaw, yid. | |
-5 letters: aa, ad, ai, al, aw, ay, id, la, li, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-d-i-l-w-y" | |
+5 letters: wallydraigle. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)57 41 59 4C 41 49 44 |
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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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