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Definition: Yagi |
YagiNoun1. A sharply directional antenna. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "yagi" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1901. (references) |
Synonym: YagiSynonym: Yagi aerial (n). (additional references) |
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| "Yagi" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Yagi" is used about 2 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 (proper) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "yagi" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Yagi | Last name | 1,000 | 15,610 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name |
| Japan | Yagi & Co., Ltd. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "yagi": Yagi aerial ♦ Yagi antenna. Additional references. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "yagi"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | yagi-antenne (Uda aerial, Uda antenna, Yagi aerial, Yagi antenna). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | Yagi-antenne (Uda aerial, Uda antenna, Yagi aerial, Yagi antenna). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | monielementtiantenni (Uda aerial, Uda antenna, Yagi aerial, Yagi antenna), jagiantenni (Uda aerial, Uda antenna, Yagi aerial, Yagi antenna). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | antenne Yagi (Yagi aerial, Yagi antenna). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Yagi-Uda-Antenne (Uda aerial, Uda antenna, Yagi aerial, Yagi antenna), Yagi-Antenne (Uda aerial, Uda antenna, Yagi aerial, Yagi antenna). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | κεραία YAGI (Uda aerial, Uda antenna, Yagi aerial, Yagi antenna). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | antenna YAGI (Uda aerial, Uda antenna, Yagi aerial, Yagi antenna). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | yagiay antena Yagi (Uda aerial, Uda antenna, Yagi aerial, Yagi antenna). (various references) antena yagi (Uda aerial, Uda antenna, Yagi aerial, Yagi antenna). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "yagi": yagis. (additional references) | |
Words containing "yagi": voyaging. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "yagi" (pronounced yÄ"gē) |
| 3 | -Ä" g ē | foggy, groggy, soggy. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-i-y" | |
-1 letter: gay. | |
-2 letters: ag, ai, ay, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-i-y" | |
+1 letter: gaily, yagis. | |
+2 letters: abying, baying, bigamy, cagily, digamy, faying, gaiety, gainly, gamily, gasify, glairy, grainy, haying, laying, maying, paying, raying, saying, yawing. | |
+3 letters: agilely, agility, allying, angrily, antigay, babying, baggily, braying, claying, draying, flaying, fraying, gainsay, gassily, gaudily, gauzily, gawkily, giddyap, gratify, gravity, graying, grayish, gynecia, hayings, highway, imagery, isogamy, kayoing, lazying, magnify, mangily, mayings, myalgia, myalgic, nylghai, okaying, ouguiya, playing, praying, pygidia, sayings, slaying, spaying, stagily, staying, stygian, swaying, syringa, taxying, varying, yacking, yaffing, yakking, yanking, yapping, yarding, yarning, yauping, yawling, yawning, yawping, yealing, yeaning. | |
| 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. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Names: Frequency 6. Names: Company Usage 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Bibliography |
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