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Definition: Eyelash |
EyelashNoun1. Any of the short curved hairs that grow from the edges of the eyelids. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "eyelash" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1824. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Medicine | A cilium growing on the margin of the eyelid. . . . cilium. An eyelash. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: EyelashSynonyms: cilium (n), lash (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Eyelash |
| English words defined with "eyelash": Cilia, ciliary, ciliate ♦ Eyewinker. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "eyelash": DECORATOR, MANNEQUIN. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "eyelash": Cnidocil. (references) |
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Screenplays | I lost my left eyelash! (The Out-of-Towners; writing credit: Neil Simon) | |
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Douglas Macarthur | That's the way it is in war. You win or lose, live or die -- and the difference is just an eyelash. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| "Eyelash" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Eyelash" is used about 21 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% | 21 | 76,261 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "eyelash": without batting an eyelash. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "eyelash": eyelash-fluttering. | |
| 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 "eyelash"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | qerpik (cilia). (various references) | |
Arabic | هدب الجفن, رمش (flash, flicker, flickering). (various references) | |
Aymara | chhipchi. (various references) | |
Blackfoot | kootokiaapinaan. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ресница, мигла (lash). (various references) | |
Chamorro | bábale' (moth). (various references) | |
Chinese | 睫毛. (various references) | |
Czech | oèní řasa. (various references) | |
Danish | oejenvippe (cilium). (various references) | |
Dutch | wimper (cilium). (various references) | |
Ecuadorian Quechua | ñahui millma. (various references) | |
Farsi | مژه , مژگان (Lash). (various references) | |
French | cil. (various references) | |
German | wimper (lash), Augenwimper (cilium). (various references) | |
Greek | βλεφαρίδα (eyelid, lash, winker). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ריס (lashing). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szempilla (lash). (various references) | |
Indonesian | bulu mata. (various references) | |
Italian | ciglio (brink, edge, eyelashes, lash), ciglia (cilia). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | アイボリー板紙 (eyelash curler, eyeline, guide dog, iris, iron, ironical, irony, ivory paper, Seeing Eye dog). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | アイラッシュカーラー (eyelash curler). (various references) | |
Korean | 속눈섭. (various references) | |
Manx | ferroogh. (various references) | |
Mohawk | okahrehta. (various references) | |
Norwegian | øyenvippe. (various references) | |
Papago | wuipo. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eyelashay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pestana (lash). (various references) | |
Romanian | geanã (bar, eye lash, lash). (various references) | |
Russian | ресница (lash). (various references) | |
Scottish | rosg (aincitement, an eye, eyelid). (various references) | |
Sepedi | ntahi (fly). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | trepavica. (various references) | |
Spanish | pestaña (flange, lash). (various references) | |
Swazi | lú-khophé. (various references) | |
Swedish | ögonhår (cilia, lash), ögonfrans (lash). (various references) | |
Thai | ขนตา (lash). (various references) | |
Turkish | kirpik (cilium, lash). (various references) | |
Turkmen | kirpik. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | вія (winker). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "eyelash": eyelashes. (additional references) | |
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"Eyelash" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Eeyaahh. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "eyelash" (pronounced ī"la'sh) |
| 3 | -l a' sh | backlash, backslash, whiplash. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-h-l-s-y" | |
-1 letter: shaley. | |
-2 letters: easel, hales, heals, heels, hylas, lease, leash, lyase, seely, selah, shale, shaly, sheal. | |
-3 letters: alee, ales, ashy, ayes, ease, easy, eels, eely, else, eyas, eyes, haes, hale, hays, heal, heel, hyla, lase, lash, lays, leas, lees, leys, lyes, lyse, sale, seal, seel, shay, shea, slay, yeah, yeas. | |
-4 letters: ale, als, ash, aye. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-h-l-s-y" | |
+2 letters: aldehydes, ethylates, eyelashes, hymeneals, methylase. | |
+3 letters: adhesively, bellyaches, epiphyseal, methylases, methylates, sleepyhead. | |
+4 letters: bellyachers, chalybeates, deathlessly, heartlessly, heartsomely, horseplayer, hyperplanes, hypersaline, hypersexual, mesenchymal, polychaetes, psychedelia, shamelessly, shapelessly, sleepyheads. | |
+5 letters: breathlessly, changelessly, cyclohexanes, exhaustively, heathenishly, hemodialyses, horseplayers, hyperrealism, hyperrealist, methylamines, myelopathies, paraldehydes, phylacteries, psychedelias, sclerenchyma, shamefacedly, softheadedly. | |
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