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Definition: Inch |
InchNoun1. A unit of length (in United States and Britain) equal to one twelfth of a foot. 2. A unit of measurement for advertising space. Verb1. Advance slowly, as if by inches; "He edged towards the car". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "inch" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
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Aerospace | Exactly 2.540 centimeters.Prior to July 1, 1959, the inch was 2.54005 centimeters although the conversion factor 2.540 has actually been in use in industry in the United States since 1933.Abbreviation in. (references) |
Mechanical Engineering | To adjust a moving machine part by small amounts, especially with the aid of a push-button control. Source: European Union. (references) |
Public Administration | British and American unit of length equivalent to 2, 54 cm. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
An inch is an Imperial unit of length. Sweden also briefly had a "decimal inch" based on the metric system: see below for more.
According to some sources, the inch was originally defined informally as the distance between the tip of the thumb and the first joint of the thumb. Another source says that the inch was at one time defined in terms of the yard, supposedly defined as the distance between Henry I of England's nose and his thumb. There are twelve inches in a foot, and three feet in a yard.
Historically, the inch has referred to several slightly different units of length, used in different parts of the world. Today there are two units called the "inch" still in use, both being largely confined to the United States. Other countries, which previously had their own separate definitions of the inch, have converted to using the metric system instead. When the inch being referred to is not specified, it almost always means the international inch.
The international inch is defined in terms of the metric system of units to be exactly 25.4 mm. This definition was agreed upon by the U.S. and the British Commonwealth in 1958. Prior to that, the U.S. and Canada each had their own, slightly different definition of the inch in terms of metric units, while the U.K. and other Commonwealth countries defined the inch in terms of the Imperial Standard Yard. The definition adopted was the Canadian definition.
However, the U.S. continued to use its previous national definition of the inch for surveying purposes. This inch, known as the U.S. survey inch, is defined so that 1 metre is exactly 39.37 survey inches. 1 survey inch equals approximately 25.40000508 mm, or 1.000002 international inches. Whilst the difference between the two units is only approximately two parts per million, the difference between the two units makes a significant difference of many meters when the unit is used to define measurements made on the scale of distances of thousands of kilometers.
The thou (pronounced "thow" as in thousandth, not "thou" as in the pronoun) is a unit sometimes used in engineering equivalent to one-thousandth of an international inch, and thus defined to be 25.4 μm. Use of the thou is now generally deprecated in favour of the use of SI units.
The unit is sometimes denoted by a quotation mark (ex. 30" = 30 inches).
See also: imperial unit, Gry.
Sweden
In the 19th century, Sweden devised a way into the metric world. First, in 1855-1863 the existing "working inch" was changed into a "decimal inch" which was 1/10 foot or approximately 0.03 meters. Proponents argued that a decimal system simplifies calculations, but having two different inch measures turned out to be so complicated that in 1878-1889 it was agreed to introduce the metric units.
External link
- Online conversion to international system.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Inch."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
INCH | English | Institute for Contemporary History of the Orange Free State | Information, History & Folklore |
| NPI(needles per inch) | English | Gauge | Industry |
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Synonyms: InchSynonyms: column inch (n), in (n), edge (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Length | Line, nail, inch, hand, palm, foot, cubit, yard, ell, fathom, rood, pole, furlong, mile, league; chain, link; arpent, handbreadth, jornada, kos, vara. |
Smallness | Small quan modicum, trace, hint, minimum; vanishing point; material point, atom, particle, molecule, corpuscle, point, speck, dot, mote, jot, iota, ace; minutiae, details; look, thought, idea, soupcon, dab, dight, whit, tittle, shade, shadow; spark, scintilla, gleam; touch, cast; grain, scruple, granule, globule, minim, sup, sip, sop, spice, drop, droplet, sprinkling, dash, morceau, screed, smack, tinge, tincture; inch, patch, scantling, tatter, cantlet, flitter, gobbet, mite, bit, morsel, crumb, seed, fritter, shive; snip, snippet; snick, snack, snatch, slip, scrag; chip, chipping; shiver, sliver, driblet, clipping, paring, shaving, hair. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | Look Buttermaker, you're not my father and I'll not move an inch to play baseball for you anymore (The Bad News Bears; writing credit: Bill Lancaster) Leo, the baby is an inch long (Charmed; writing credit: Colman deKay) It's got a cop motor, a 440 cubic inch plant, it's got cop tires, cop suspensions, cop shocks (The Blues Brothers; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd ; John Landis) You really need to have every square inch of your ass kicked (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) Inch High, Private Eye. (Inch High, Private Eye; writing credit: Finn Karlsson) | |
Lyrics | Walk a mile just to move an inch (Duck And Run; performing artist: 3 Doors Down) Let all of it out right now as and expose every inch in front of them (Crowded Elevator(Scream 3 Soundtrack,Make Yourself Import); performing artist: Incubus) Get the CD, twelve inch vinyl, get the tape (Guilty Until Proven Innocent; performing artist: Jay-Z) Through a three inch speaker (All You Wanna Do Is Dance; performing artist: Joe) I'm gonna give you every inch of my love, (Whole lotta love; performing artist: Led Zeppelin) | |
Clever | Inch by inch, life's a cinch. Yard by yard, life is hard. (references; author: unknown) People who want by the yard, but try by the inch, should be kicked by the foot! (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001) Private Eye Inch High (1973) One Inch from Victory (1944) Every Inch a Hero (1915) Within an Inch of His Life (1914) | |
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 | Mice were injected with mouse sarcoma cells amd treated 3 days later when many micro-metastatic tumor foci were evident in the lungs. Lungs on the left were treated with saline. The lungs on the right were treated with lymphokine activated killer (LAK) cells plus recombinant interleukin-2. Greater than 250 sarcoma metastases are seen in the lungs of saline treated mice. This number is significantly reduced to less than 12 in mice receiving LAK cells plus recombinant interleukin-2. Normal mouse lung is 1 inch long. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | Steve Amstrup of USFWS with large sedated polar bear - Ursus maritimus. Bears were measured and tagged for future study. This sedated male was ready for the WWF with a 45 inch neck and weighing about 1400 pounds. Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals). |
 | Twelve inch repeating circle (bottom) and heliotrope (top) Fig. No. 27, Report of Superintendent ... 1866. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Thirty inch theodolite Fig. No. 26, Report of Superintendent ... 1866. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | North Inlet - Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Grass shrimp, Palaemonetes sp., about an inch in size as adults, are important links in salt marsh food webs. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |  | JOHNSON-SEA-LINK's six inch thick acryllic sphere holds pilot and observer. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |
 | Scientist Frank Porto at the tape drives of the then new National Environmental Satellite Service (NESS) mass data storage system, the SDC TBMII. This system was used to archive all of the TIROS-N and NOAA-6 digital data on standard two- inch video tape. Credit: NOAA in Space. |  | This fast growing climber is a fairly common tender perennial species that produces two inch, pinkish blue flowers in mid to late Summer. They provide quick covers for lattice, trellis, arbor and chain-link fence, and are a favorite food source for butter. Credit: Dot Paul. |
 | Fire ants will do anything to resist attack by the tiny phorid fly measuring only about one-sixteenthe of an inch. A highly specific natural enemy, the female pierces a fire ant's head and releases an enzyme that later decapitates it. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Sanford Porter.. |  | A female Catolaccus grandis wasp homes in on a boll weevil larva. This 3/8 inch parasitic wasp, a native of Mexico, inserts her ovipositor through the plastic film covering the individual rearing cell and immobilizes the larva. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |
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| "A moth is born 4" by Kd Kelly Commentary: "This moth had just come out of his cocoon, it took about an hour for his wings to dry and straighten out. he is sitting on a two x four. on the four inch side. big bug." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Author | Quotation |
Author Unknown | It's the last inch that counts. |
Confucius | A lost inch of gold may be found, a lost inch of time, never. |
| An inch of time on the sundial is worth more than a foot of jade. | |
Fuller | The frost is God's plough which he drives through every inch of ground in the world, opening each clod, and pulverizing the whole. |
Henry Brooks Adams | Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuse himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels. |
Martial | You ask what a nice girl will do? She won't give an inch, but she won't say no. |
Walt Whitman | To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle. Every cubic inch of space is a miracle. |
William Lloyd Garrison | I am in earnest -- I will not equivocate -- I will not excuse --I will not retreat a single inch --and I will be heard! |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | Somebody measures it, and finds one of the proportions an eighth of an inch wrong |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The English battalions, desperately assailed, did not yield an inch. |
Absalom and Achitophel | John Dryden | For every inch that is not fool is rogue |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | The water would rise inch by inch, covering the grass and shrubs, covering the trees and houses, covering the monuments and the mountain tops |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Pa placed another twig an inch above the water and settled back to watch |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | Flimnap, the Treasurer, is allowed to cut a caper on the straight rope, at least an inch higher than any other lord in the whole empire |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | There may be thirty or forty of them to a square inch. |
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Health | These lesions consist of groups of abnormally swollen capillaries and usually measure less than an inch in diameter. (references) | |
If you only find nits more than 1/4 inch from the scalp, the infestation is probably an old one and does not need to be treated. (references) | ||
If crawling lice are not seen, finding nits within a 1/4 inch of the scalp confirms that a person is infested and should be treated. (references) | ||
Business | Market share will continue to increase in the next five years, with 3/4 inch pre-finished products taking more market share. (references) | |
Efficient exploitation of these deposits involves drilling, production and reinjection wells, a system for reinjecting gas into the ground at high pressure (5,000 pounds per square inch), a processing plant (2,000 MMSCFD), two large pipelines (600 Km each), a fractionating plant (100 MBPD), storage facilities, air pollution equipment and a marine terminal. (references) | ||
Sales presentations must focus on the bottom line – appeal to the consumer translating into sales for the tour operator – and be supported by hard data. Tour operators, to remain competitive, pare their margins closely, and make every square inch of catalog space work for them. Before they will agree to feature a new destination or product in their catalogs, they must be assured that doing so will produce sufficient revenue to justify inclusion. (references) | ||
Economic History | Panama | Advertising prices: US$11.50 per columnar inch, each page 6 columns of 21 inches. (references) |
Honduras | During the 2001 marketing year, total imports are expected to inch upward to 160,000 MT. As usual, the United States should remain Honduras' main source for wheat, both through commercial channels and donations as well. (references) | |
Trade | Singapore | Repackaged foods must be labeled to show (in English) the appropriate designation of the food content printed in capital letters at least 1/16 inch high; whether foods are compounded, mixed or blended; the minimum quantity stated in metric net weight or measure; the name and address of the manufacturer or seller; and the country of origin. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | TENACITY, n. A certain quality of the human hand in its relation to the coin of the realm. It attains its highest development in the hand of authority and is considered a serviceable equipment for a career in politics. The following illustrative lines were written of a Californian gentleman in high political preferment, who has passed to his accounting: Of such tenacity his grip That nothing from his hand can slip. Well-buttered eels you may o'erwhelm In tubs of liquid slippery-elm In vain -- from his detaining pinch They cannot struggle half an inch! 'Tis lucky that he so is planned That breath he draws not with his hand, For if he did, so great his greed He'd draw his last with eager speed. Nay, that were well, you say. Not so He'd draw but never let it go! |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | We've slashed the small business loan form from an inch thick to a single page. |
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| "Inch" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.20% of the time. "Inch" is used about 1,870 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) | 99.2% | 1,855 | 4,591 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.48% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.16% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.16% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,870 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "inch" 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 |
| Inch | Last name | 200 | 35,537 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "inch": acre inch ♦ allow one inch for the margin ♦ bargain by inch of candle ♦ be within an inch of ♦ bits per inch ♦ by a fraction of an inch ♦ column inch ♦ contest every inch of the ground ♦ cubic inch ♦ decimal inch ♦ dots per inch ♦ every inch ♦ every inch a solder ♦ Excommunication by inch of candle ♦ give an inch and take an ell ♦ give an inch and take an mile ♦ give him an inch and he'll take a mile ♦ give him an inch and he'll take an ell ♦ he would not yield an inch ♦ inch along ♦ inch by inch ♦ inch forward ♦ inch in ♦ Inch of candle ♦ Inch of water ♦ inch out ♦ inch rule ♦ Inch stuff ♦ miners inch ♦ miner's inch ♦ not see an inch beyond one's nose ♦ not yield an inch ♦ pounds per square inch ♦ quarter Inch Cartridge ♦ sale by inch of candle ♦ square inch ♦ tracks per inch ♦ turns per inch ♦ water inch ♦ within an inch ♦ within an inch of. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "inch": inch-and-a-half, inch-and-a-half-long, inch-board, inch-by-inch, inch-deep, inch-high, inch-long, inch-of-pinch, inch-perfect, inch-pinch, inch-saving, inch-thick, inch-wide. | |
Ending with "inch": eight-inch, five-inch, four-inch, half-an-inch, half-inch, inch-by-inch, nine-inch, one-inch, quarter-inch, seven-inch, six-inch, ten-inch, three-inch, twelve-inch, twenty-inch, two-inch. | |
Containing "inch": eighteen-inch-high, eight-inch-diameter, eight-inch-long, four-inch-high, four-inch-wide, half-inch-thick, one-inch-long, one-inch-to-one-mile, six-inch-tall, ten-inch-wide, three-inch-long, twenty-inch-wide, two-and-a-half-inch-heel, two-inch-long, two-inch-square, two-inch-thick. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
nine inch nail | 2,513 | 18 inch rim | 89 |
20 inch rim | 659 | cm convert inch | 88 |
lyrics nine inch nail | 348 | conversion inch millimeter | 83 |
inch | 302 | convert inch to millimeter | 79 |
hedwig and the angry inch | 253 | 22 inch wheels | 79 |
22 inch rim | 228 | 12 inch | 76 |
lose inch | 186 | mr 18 inch | 75 |
20 inch wheels | 181 | black inch | 74 |
inch and cm | 181 | 26 inch rim | 74 |
24 inch rim | 178 | inch meter | 71 |
centimeter inch | 173 | 7 dvd inch player portable | 65 |
centimeter inch conversion | 148 | foot inch | 65 |
mm inch | 146 | 13 inch mr | 64 |
convert centimeter to inch | 144 | 17 inch rim | 61 |
inch centimeter | 135 | conversion inch metric | 55 |
inch millimeter | 128 | 24 inch wheels | 54 |
convert inch mm | 118 | 14 inch | 54 |
13 inch jonah | 107 | ford 9 inch | 54 |
conversion inch mm | 104 | by inch lynch | 53 |
cm conversion inch | 90 | 20 inch chrome rim | 53 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "inch"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | inç. (various references) | |
Arabic | قيد أوغل, تقدم ببطء (crawl, limp), جزيرة (island, isle), إنش, بوصة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | вмъквам се (creep in, steal in), педя (span), инч. (various references) | |
Chinese | 英寸 . (various references) | |
Cornish | mesva. (various references) | |
Czech | palec (big toe, cog, in, thumb), coul (in). (various references) | |
Danish | indstilling i ryk (jog), tomme, engelsk tomme. (various references) | |
Dutch | duim (thumb). (various references) | |
Esperanto | colo. (various references) | |
Faeroese | tummi. (various references) | |
Farsi | مقیاس طول برابر45/2سانتی متر, اینچ . (various references) | |
Finnish | tuuma (idea, thought). (various references) | |
French | pouce. (various references) | |
German | Zoll (customs, customs duty, Duane, duty, toll, tribute). (various references) | |
Greek | ίντσα. (various references) | |
Hebrew | להתקדם לאט לאט, אינטש. (various references) | |
Hungarian | hüvelyk. (various references) | |
Indonesian | inci, cun (kiss). (various references) | |
Irish | orlach. (various references) | |
Italian | pollice (tappets, thumb, thumbs). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 吋 , インダス文明 (egghead, India paper, Indian, Indian jewellry, Indian summer, Indiana, Indianapolis 500-mile race, Induscivilization, integer, integrate, integrated, integration, Intel, intellectual, intelligence, intelligence service, intelligence test, intelligent, intelligent building, intelligent city, intelligent terminal, intelligentsia, Intelsat, intensity, intensive, intentional, interactive, interior, interior adviser, interior coordinator, interior craft, interior design, interior designer, interline leads, International Telecommunications Satellite Organization, Inturist, pornographic videos). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | いんち (arrest, custody, seal stamp pad), インチ . (various references) | |
Korean | 인치. (various references) | |
Manx | oarlagh. (various references) | |
Norwegian | tomme. (various references) | |
Papiamen | dùim (thumb). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | inchay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | polegada. (various references) | |
Romanian | staturã (figure, height, make, stature), deget (digit, finger, Mark, toe), cantitate de precipitaţii (precipitation), înainta treptat, înainta centimetru, înãlţime (altitude, elevation, eminence, height, highness, lift, loftiness, pitch, summit, superiority, top). (various references) | |
Russian | дюймовый, дюйм дюймовый, дюйм. (various references) | |
Scottish | òirleach (an inch). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | inč, palac (big toe, thumb), dužine inča. (various references) | |
Spanish | pulgada (in). (various references) | |
Swedish | tum. (various references) | |
Turkish | inçlik (inched), inç (inches), yavaş yavaş hareket ettirmek, az miktar (dribblet, driblet, drop, few, fewness, little, Mickle, modicum, shade, smallness, suggestion, suspicion, tinge, trifle, twopence). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | невелика відстань, повільно рухатися, дюйм. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | từng bước về mọi mặt, tí một, một tí (fig, hairbreadth, hair's breadth, rag, trifle), một chút xíu, hoàn toàn (all, all right, all-in-all, altogether, backbone, clean, completely, consummate, due, full, fully, heartily, hilt, hollow, out-and-out, outright, perfectly, profound, purely, quite, regular, sheer, stark, thorough, thoroughly, undivided, utter, utterly, wholly), gần (by, closely, hard, near, near-by, nearly, next, proximate, verge, well-nigh). (various references) | |
Welsh | modfedd. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | uncia, unciarum, uncias. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "inch": inched, inches, inching, inchmeal, inchoate, inchoately, inchoateness, inchoatenesses, inchoative, inchoatively, inchoatives, inchworm, inchworms. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "inch": bullfinch, chaffinch, chinch, cinch, clinch, finch, flinch, goldfinch, greenfinch, grinch, hawfinch, microinch, painch, pinch, squinch, unclinch, winch. (additional references) | |
Words containing "inch": brainchild, brainchildren, bullfinches, chaffinches, chincherinchee, chincherinchees, chinches, chinchier, chinchiest, chinchilla, chinchillas, chinchy, cinched, cinches, cinching, cinchona, cinchonas, cinchonine, cinchonines, cinchonism, cinchonisms, clinched, clincher, clinchers, clinches, clinching, clinchingly, finches, flinched, flincher, flinchers, flinches, flinching, goldfinches, greenfinches, grinches, hawfinches, linchpin, linchpins, microinches, painches, pinchbeck, pinchbecks, pinchbug, pinchbugs, pincheck, pinchecks, pinched, pincher, pinchers, pinches. (additional references) | |
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"Inch" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: anch, Binch, dinch, Engh, enh, enk, Ginchy, hinch, Hinich, Iachr, ich, ichs, icm, icn, Icoh, icq, Icsh, iicx, Imcv, inah, inche, incho, Inchoh, inchs, Inci, inco, incr, Incs, Inh, inhe, inoc, inoch, inoh, Inscr, inth, ioc, irch, Ischgl, kinch, Kinich, minch, mnch, nc, nch, nech, Nich, nicht, nicv, ninch, Onich, tinch, Uncf, zinch. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "inch" (pronounced i"nkh) |
| 3 | i" n kh | cinch, clinch, Finch, flinch, grinch, Lynch, pinch, synch, winch. |
| 2 | -n kh | avalanche, bench, blanch, branch, brunch, bunch, clench, conch, counterpunch, crunch, drench, entrench, french, goldfinch, hunch, launch, lunch, Munch, punch, quench, ranch, relaunch, retrench, scrunch, stanch, staunch, stench, tench, tranche, trench, workbench, wrench. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: chin. | |
| Words within the letters "c-h-i-n" | |
-1 letter: chi, hic, hin, ich. | |
-2 letters: hi, in. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-h-i-n" | |
+1 letter: chain, china, chine, chink, chino, chins, cinch, finch, niche, pinch, winch. | |
+2 letters: aching, canthi, chaine, chains, chinas, chinch, chined, chines, chinks, chinky, chinos, chints, chintz, chitin, chiton, chopin, clinch, cochin, eching, echini, enrich, ethnic, flinch, grinch, hyenic, hypnic, inarch, inched, inches, lichen, niched, niches, painch, phonic, richen, snitch, unchic, urchin, zechin. | |
+3 letters: acanthi, aphonic, archine, arching, baching, benthic, birchen, bronchi, caching, cashing, chafing, chagrin, chained, chaines, charing, chasing, chawing, chewing, chewink, chicane, chicano, chicken, chidden, chiding, chiffon, chignon, chiming, chimney, chinchy, chining, chinked, chinned, chinone, chinook, chintzy, chitins, chitlin, chitons, chlorin, choking, choline, chopine, chopins, chorine, choring, chorion, chowing, chronic, chuting, cinched, cinches, ciphony, cithern, cithren, cochins, conchie, coshing, cushion, duncish, echidna, echinus, echoing, elenchi, enchain, etching, ethnics, finches, fuchsin, gnathic, gnocchi, hacking, hedonic, helicon, hircine, hocking, hyaenic, ichnite, inching, itching, jacinth, kachina, kitchen, leching, lichens, lychnis, machine, miching, nephric, niching, nitchie, ochring, ouching, peching, penuchi, phocine, phonics, phrenic, pinched, pincher, pinches, rhonchi, richens, ruching, sphenic, spinach, squinch, sthenic, technic, thicken, thionic, unchain, unhitch, urchins, winched, wincher, winches, xanthic, zecchin, zechins. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Fiction 11. Quotations: Non-fiction 12. Quotations: Speeches | 13. Usage Frequency 14. Names: Frequency 15. Expressions 16. Expressions: Internet | 17. Translations: Modern 18. Translations: Ancient 19. Abbreviations 20. Acronyms | 21. Derivations 22. Rhymes 23. Anagrams 24. Bibliography |
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