Scone

  

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Scone

Definition: Scone

Scone

Noun

1. Small biscuit (rich with cream and eggs) cut into diamonds or sticks and baked in an oven or (especially originally) on a griddle.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "scone" was first used: 1513. (references)

Note: Scone \Scone\, noun. cake, thinner than bannock, made of wheat or barley or oat meal. [Written variously, scon, skone, skon, etc.]. (Websters 1913)



Specialty Definitions: Scone

DomainDefinitions

Literature

Scone (pron. Skoon). Edward I. removed to London, and placed in Westminster Abbey, the great stone upon which the kings of Scotland were wont to be crowned. This stone is still preserved, and forms the support of Edward the Confessor's chair, which the British monarchs occupy at their coronation. It is said to have been brought from Ireland by Fergus, son of Eric, who led the Dalriads to the shores of Argyllshire. (See Tanist-Stone .)
"Ni fallat fatum, Scoti, quocunque locatum
Invenient labidem, regnare tenentur ibidem."
Lardner, i. p. 67.
Unless the fates are faithless found
And prophets' voice be vain,
Where'er is placed this stone, e'en there
The Scottish race shall reign. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Mining

High-grade tin requiring little or no dressing. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Scone

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A scone is a bread thicker than a bannock made of wheat, barley or oat meal. The pronunciation is under debate with about 2 to 1 in favor of rhyming with "on" versus "own". There are two different kinds of scone, the Commonwealth scone and the American Scone.

An American scone is something halfway between a cookie and a muffin that is generally considered to be inappropriate for Devonshire tea. The Commonwealth scone is more like an American "biscuit", which is itself not to be confused with the Commonwealth "biscuit", which is what the Americans call a "cookie". The Commonwealth scone is still doughier than the American biscuit, and frequently includes currants or dates. The Commonwealth Scone is the basis of Devonshire tea.

In some countries you will also encounter savoury varieties which may contain or be topped with combinations of cheese, onion, bacon etc.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Scone."

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Crosswords: Scone

English words defined with "scone": drop sconegriddlecakeScotch pancake. (references)
Specialty definitions using "scone": Coronation ChairJacob's Stonescone brick. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Scone" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (Scone), Swedish (Scone).

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Modern Usage: Scone

DomainUsage

Screenplays

For God's sake, man, she's 18, and you have the emotional stability of a blueberry scone. Just have at it, would you, and stop fluttering about. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

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Commercial Usage: Scone

DomainTitle

Books

  • Een Scone leeringe om salich te sterven : een Middelnederlandse ars moriendi (reference)

  • Throne of Scone (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

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Image Slideshow: Scone

Photos:
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Usage Frequency: Scone

"Scone" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 62.68% of the time. "Scone" is used about 142 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)62.68%8934,931
Noun (singular)37.32%5346,657
                    Total100.00%142N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Scone

Expressions using "scone": drop scone scone brick. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "scone": scone-crumbs.

Ending with "scone": silly-mid-scone.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Scone

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

scone recipe

173

scone

37

scone stone

20

scone mix

11

english recipe scone

9

palace scone

9

airport australia scone

7

scone pan

6

english scone

6

cinnamon recipe scone

6

pumpkin recipe scone

5

receipes scone

5

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4

calorie scone

4

scone australia

4

cheese recipe scone

4

fat low recipe scone

3

scone wall

3

cutter scone

3

berry blue scone

3
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Modern Translations: Scone

Language Translations for "scone"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

Kulaç (bun, crumpet, griddle cake). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏كعكة مسطحة, ‏كعكة مرققة. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

Тиква, "лава (Testa), 'ид Кифла. (various references)

   

Czech

  

Vdoleèek (muffin), Buchtièka. (various references)

   

French

  

Scone. (various references)

   

German

  

Teegebäck (muffins, scones, short cake, small cakes, tea biscuit, tea cakes). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

Τηγανίτα, ίτα. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ֲלוסק", ״קיק. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

Lángos. (various references)

   

Italian

  

Focaccina Da Tè. (various references)

   

Manx

  

scoon, sconnag. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

onescay

   

Portuguese

  

Bolinho. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

Пшеничная Лепешка, Лепешка. (various references)

   

Scottish

  

breacag (a pancake, pancake, thin cake). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

tanak (fine, finespun, gossamer, light, liny, scrannel, sleazy, slender, slight, tenuous, thin, weak, wispy), pljosnat kolač, glava (head, headpiece, knob, loaf, noddle, noggin, noodle, pate). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

Torta (cake, cookie, cross section, cross-section, disc, disk, dried cake, feeding cake, filter cake, gateau, lump, oil cake, oil-cake, oilseed cake, olive cake, pie, press-cake, residue, stem disc, tart, torte, transverse section), Bollo (bash, biscuit, boss, bun, crumpet). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

Mjuk Platt Kaka. (various references)

   

Thai

  

ขนมปังสโคน (รสหวานเล็กน้อย). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

Saç Pidesi, Çörek. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

ячмінний Коржик. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Scone

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Dutch700-Modern

schoon. (various references)

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Derivations & Misspellings: Scone

Derivations

Words beginning with "scone": scones. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Scone" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ascona, cccdna, Econe, Essonne, icone, ocone, sacon, Saconnex, saone, scane, Scanie, Schnee, schon, Schone, scien, scinde, sclone, scn, scnse, scode, scoe, scon, scond, sconed, sconer, sconey, sconge, sconk, sconner, scoon, scooner, Scoonie, scote, Scotnat, Scotni, scoun, scove, scrone, scund, scunne, Seconal, skane, Skione, sknee, skoe, slone, snone, soen, sonce, sone, sonne, soone, spone, syclone. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Scone"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "scone" (pronounced skō"n)
3-k ō" ncone.

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Anagrams: Scone

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: cones, onces.

Words within the letters "c-e-n-o-s"

-1 letter: cone, cons, eons, noes, nose, once, ones, sone.

-2 letters: con, cos, ens, eon, nos, oes, one, ons, ose, sec, sen, son.

-3 letters: en, es, ne, no, oe, on, os, so.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-n-o-s"
 

+1 letter: canoes, censor, centos, chosen, clones, codens, coneys, conges, conies, contes, copens, cosine, covens, cozens, crones, icones, nonces, oceans, oscine, ounces, ponces, recons, sconce, scones, second, socmen.

 

+2 letters: acinose, acnodes, ancones, beacons, beckons, bounces, buncoes, cajones, cenotes, censors, cession, cineols, cloners, coarsen, codeins, cognise, cohunes, coignes, coiners, cojones, colones, conches, concise, condoes, confers, confess, confuse, congees, congers, congest, congoes, conines, conkers, conners, consent, console, consume, contest, contuse, conveys, corneas, cornels, corners, cornets, cosines, counsel, coyness, crepons, cronies, deacons, docents, ecdyson, enclose, encodes, encores, eosinic, inclose, incomes, jounces, juncoes, mesonic, narcose, necrose, notches, notices, novices, obscene, octanes, orceins, oscines, pounces, reckons, recoins, sconced, sconces, scorned, scorner, seconde, secondi, secondo, seconds, section, senecio, sockmen, sonance, syncope, unclose.

 

+3 letters: acetones, aconites, acrogens, alencons, alnicoes, ancestor, beclowns, bicornes, binocles, bouncers, cabezons, calzones, canoeist, canoness, canonise, canopies, canzones, capstone, celadons, censored, centavos, centimos, centones, cernuous, cessions, chalones, chevrons, chinones, cholents, cholines, chopines, chorines, cineoles, clonuses, coagents, coarsens, cocaines, cockneys, codeinas, codeines, codesign, coenacts, coenures, coenurus, cognates, cognised, cognises, cognizes, cohesion, coinages, coinfers, coinsure, cointers, coldness, colleens, colognes, colonels, colonies, colonise, combines, commends, comments, communes, compends, concaves, conceals, concedes, conceits, concents, concepts, concerns, concerts, conchies, conciser, condemns, condense, condoles, condones, condores, conduces, condyles, conenose, confects, confides, confines, confused, confuses, confutes, congeals, congests, congress, conifers, coniines, conioses, conjures, connects, connives, connotes, conquers, conquest, consents, conserve, consider, consoled, consoler, consoles, consomme, conspire, construe, consumed, consumer, consumes, contemns, contends, contents, contests, contexts, contused, contuses, convects, convenes, convents, converse, converts, convexes, convokes, convulse, coolness, coonties, coreigns, corneous, cornices, corniest, cornuses, coronels, coroners, coronets, corpsmen, cosecant, cosigned, cosigner, cosiness, counsels, counters, countess, counties, cowbanes, cozeners, coziness, croceins, crooners, crowners, crownets, crunodes, cryogens, cyanosed, cyanoses, cyclones, cynosure, cytosine, decagons, decision, decrowns, diocesan, dornecks, ecdysone, ecdysons, echelons, eclosion, ecotones, enactors, enclosed, encloser, encloses, encoders, endocast, endosarc, enforces, enounces, ensconce, enscroll, ensorcel, escoting, excision, excitons, flounces, forensic, fornices, frounces, groschen, hedonics, helicons, hencoops, hyoscine, inclosed, incloser, incloses, incomers, incorpse, invoices, isocline, isogenic, jaconets, joyances, kneesock, knockers, lactones, lacunose, lections, lexicons, licensor, monocles, mucrones, nacreous, narcoses, necropsy, necrosed, necroses, necrosis, noctules, nonesuch, notchers, notecase, noticers, nucleons, obscener, offences, onscreen, opencast, oscinine, panoches, penoches, penstock, pinocles, potences, pouncers, pycnoses, rechosen, recision, recounts, recrowns, resorcin, romances, scenario, schnozes, schooner, scorners, scrounge, seconded, seconder, secondes, secondly, sections, seicento, senecios, sermonic, silicone, solvency, sonances, sonicate, soricine, stenotic, stockmen, sunchoke, syncopes, tacnodes, telsonic, tonetics, trounces, unchokes, unchosen, unclosed, uncloses, uncovers, unvoices.

 

+4 letters: absconded, absconder, accentors, accession, acroleins, aglycones, amelcorns, ancestors, anchoress, anchorets, anchovies, anecdotes, announces, anoretics, anorexics, arccosine, ascension, assonance, backbones, balconies, beckoners, becomings, bisection, bonifaces, bounciest, buncombes, buoyances, cabezones, campesino, cancerous, canephors, cankerous, cannelons, canoeists, canonised, canonises, canonizes, canonries, canoodles, canzonets, caponiers, caponizes, capstones, carotenes, caseation, catenoids, cavernous, ceanothus, cenobites, cenotaphs, censorial, censoring, centesimo, centroids, cessation, chaconnes, chaperons, chenopods, cheongsam, cheverons, chinbones, chlorines, cicerones, cinereous, ciphonies, cloisonne, closedown, closeness, closeting, coannexes, coarsened, coastline, coattends, cocineras, cockiness, cocounsel, codesigns, coenamors, coendures, coenzymes, coercions, coextends, cogencies, cognizers, cognomens, cohesions, coincides, coinheres, coinmates, coinsured, coinsurer, coinsures, coinvents, colanders, colicines, collagens, collinses, colonised, colonises, colonizes, comanages, combiners, comedians, comedones, comedowns, comingles, commences, commensal, commoners, commonest, communise, companies, complines, conceders, conceives, conceptus, concertos, concisely, concisest, conclaves, concludes, concourse, concretes, concussed, concusses, condensed, condenser, condenses, condolers, condoners, conducers, conelrads, conenoses, conepates, conepatls, conferees, confervas, confessed, confesses, confessor, confiders, confiners, conflates, confluxes, confreres, confuters, congeners, congeries, congested, conglobes, conjurers, connivers, conquests, conscribe, consensus, consented, consenter, conserved, conserver, conserves, considers, consigned, consignee, consisted, consolers, consommes, consorted, conspired, conspires, constable, construed, construes, consulate, consulted, consulter, consumers, contempts, contested, contester, continues, contrives, conveners, convenors, converges, conversed, converser, converses, conveyers, conveyors, convinces, convokers, convolves, convulsed, convulses, coparents, copestone, copresent, coprinces, corantoes, corkiness, corncakes, cornetist, corniches, cornicles, corniness, cornmeals, cornpones, coronates, corseting, cortisone, cosecants, coshering, cosigners, cosseting, cotenants, cotqueans, counseled, counselee, counselor, countless, countries, courantes, courtesan, cousinage, covenants, coverings, cowinners, coynesses, cozenages, crannoges, creations, creodonts, crescendo, cretinous, cretonnes, crimsoned, croceines, crossness, crownless, curbstone, cushioned, cutaneous, cyanogens, cymogenes, cynosures, cytokines, cytosines, deaconess, decisions, decongest, decurions, demoniacs, denounces, diocesans, doctrines, documents, downcomes, downscale, duecentos, ecdysones, echinoids, eclosions, economics, economies, economise, economist, ectozoans, eductions, ejections, elections, electrons, enclosers, enclosing, enclosure, encomiast, encomiums, encompass, encrimson, endocarps, endocasts, endosarcs, endoscope, endoscopy, enforcers, ensconced, ensconces, enscrolls, ensorcell, ensorcels, enzootics, epsilonic, erections, escorting, escrowing, eulachons, evections, evictions, exactions, excisions, exclusion, excursion, exocrines, facedowns, falconers, falconets, fencerows, flamencos, flections, florences, forensics, frescoing, gasconade, genocides, glycogens, gonocytes, gooseneck, hyoscines, inceptors, inclosers, inclosure, incorpsed, incorpses, incrossed, incrosses, infectors, injectors, innocents, insolence, inspector, intercoms, invocates, isochrone, isoclines, isogeneic, isooctane, jounciest, kinescope, kneesocks, larcenous, licensors, lichenous, luncheons, lycopenes, lysogenic, meconiums, miscoined, misreckon, mnemonics, monecious, monickers, monocytes, monoecies, monoecism, moonscape, necrosing, nectarous, neomycins, neoterics, neurotics, newcomers, nicotines, nocturnes, noncrimes, noncrises, nondances, noninsect, nonsecure, nonspeech, nonsuches, nosepiece, notecases, nucleoids, nucleoles, nucleolus, obeisance, obscenely, obscenest, obscenity, occidents, oceanauts, octangles, offscreen, oncogenes, opulences, ordnances, outdances, outrances, pecorinos, penoncels, penstocks, phenolics, phonemics, phonetics, picolines, pinecones, pinochles, plectrons, portances, potencies, precensor, precision, princoxes, procaines, proscenia, provinces, puncheons, rancheros, reactions, recension, recession, recisions, reckoners, reclusion, recognise, reconveys, recursion, renounces, replicons, rescoring, resection, resonance, resorcins, rockiness, romancers, scenarios, schnorkel, schnorrer, schnozzes, schnozzle, schoolmen, schooners, sclerotin, scoundrel, scrounged, scrounger, scrounges, scutcheon, secession, seclusion, secondary, seconders, seconding, secretion, sectional, sectioned, sectoring, seduction, seicentos, selection, semicolon, semitonic, silicones, snowscape, socketing, sonicated, sonicates, stockinet, stonechat, stonecrop, subdeacon, suctioned, sunchokes, syncopate, taconites, tectonics, tectonism, tenacious, townscape, trecentos, tricornes, trouncers, twopences, unclothes, unconfuse, uncouples, uncrossed, uncrosses, unfocused, veronicas, vinaceous, violences, voidances, volcanoes, zecchinos.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Scone


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 63 6F 6E 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...    -.-.    ---    -.    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01100011 01101111 01101110 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#99 &#111 &#110 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0063 006F 006E 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5369818071

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Translations: Ancient
11. Derivations
12. Rhymes
13. Anagrams
14. Orthography
15. Bibliography


  

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