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Definition: Scone |
SconeNoun1. 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) |
| Domain | Definitions |
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) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
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."
Crosswords: Scone |
| English words defined with "scone": drop scone ♦ griddlecake ♦ Scotch pancake. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "scone": Coronation Chair ♦ Jacob's Stone ♦ scone 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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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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| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 62.68% | 89 | 34,931 |
| Noun (singular) | 37.32% | 53 | 46,657 |
| Total | 100.00% | 142 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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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| 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 |
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 |
best recipe scone | 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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| 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 Bolinho. (various references) Пшеничная Лепешка, Лепешка. (various references) breacag (a pancake, pancake, thin cake). (various references) 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) 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) Mjuk Platt Kaka. (various references) ขนมปังสโคน (รสหวานเล็กน้อย). (various references) Saç Pidesi, Çörek. (various references) ячмінний Коржик. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Dutch | 700-Modern | schoon. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "scone": scones. (additional references) | |
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"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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "scone" (pronounced skō"n) |
| 3 | -k ō" n | cone. |
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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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 63 6F 6E 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... -.-. --- -. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100011 01101111 01101110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S c o n e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0063 006F 006E 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5369818071 |
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