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Definitions: Tenderloin |
TenderloinNoun1. A city district known for its vice and high crime rate. 2. The tender meat of the loin muscle on each side of the vertebral column. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tenderloin" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1880. (references) |
Synonyms: TenderloinSynonyms: combat zone (n), undercut (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Tenderloin |
| English words defined with "tenderloin": beef tenderloin, beef Wellington ♦ Chateaubriand ♦ filet, filet de boeuf en croute, filet mignon, fillet ♦ ill-famed, infamous ♦ notorious ♦ pork tenderloin, porterhouse, porterhouse steak ♦ T-bone steak, tournedos. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Tenderloin (1928) A Rose of the Tenderloin (1909) What They Do to Respectable Men in the Tenderloin (1900) Tenderloin at Night (1899) | |
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Economic History | China | Two main markets exist for imported beef muscle-meat cuts: the first, accounting for 60 percent of beef muscle-meat imports, are lower end cuts (short plate and chuck eye roll) used for Chinese hot pot; the second are table cuts such as rib-eye, sirloin and tenderloin. (references) |
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| "Tenderloin" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Tenderloin" is used about 3 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) | 66.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (singular) | 33.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "tenderloin": beef tenderloin ♦ piece of tenderloin ♦ pork tenderloin. 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 "tenderloin"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | lagje e ndyrë (gutter), filetë (chump, fillet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | قطعة طرية من لحم الخاصرة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | филе (filet, fillet, loin, saddle, undercut). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 里脊肉. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | moerbrad, mørbrad (filet-mignon, fillet, fillet mignon, fillet steak), filet (brass rule, filet-mignon, fillet, fillet mignon, fillet steak, rule, sirloin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | filet mignon (filet-mignon, fillet mignon, fillet steak), filet (brass rule, fillet, fine cord, rule, slice, string, tailpiece, thread, vein). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | گوشت پشت مازو. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | sisäfilee (filet-mignon, fillet, fillet mignon, fillet steak). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | filet. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Filet (filet, fillet, fillet steak, piece of tenderloin, steak). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | φιλέτο (beef filet, brass rule, filet mignon, fillet, rule, undercut), ψαρονέφρι. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | בשר אחורים. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | vesepecsenye (sirloin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | punta di filetto (filet-mignon, fillet mignon, fillet steak), filetto (border, brass rule, fillet, rule, screw thread, snaffle, thread). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | テロ対策 (10, 99.99999999%, anti-terrorist, temper, tempera, temperament, temperate, tempo, temporary, temporary worker, temptation, tempura, ten, ten key, ten nines, tendency, tenderloin steak, ten-gallon hat, tense, tension, tension people, tensor, tent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | テンダロイン , テンダーロイン . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | enderlointay lombo (back, fillet, loin, sirloin, striploin), filet-mignon (filet-mignon, fillet mignon, fillet steak). (various references) muşchi (fillet, moss, motor, muscle, muscularity, musculation, musculature, sinew, sirloin, thews). (various references) филей (sirloin), городской район (aldermanry). (various references) zabavljanju, kraj grada poznat po poroku, goveđa pečenica. (various references) solomillo (sirloin, striploin), filet-mignon (filet-mignon, fillet mignon, fillet steak). (various references) fläskkarre, file (filet, fillet, netting). (various references) เนื้อสันใน. (various references) sığır filetosu (sirloin, undercut), domuz filetosu. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "tenderloin": tenderloins. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-i-l-n-n-o-r-t" | |
-1 letter: interlend, internode. | |
-2 letters: deletion, dolerite, entoiled, indenter, indentor, indolent, intender, interned, loitered, nonelite, oriented, redolent, rondelet. | |
-3 letters: dentine, donnert, eloined, eloiner, endnote, enteron, erodent, interne, intoned, intoner, lenient, lentoid, leonine, redline, relined, reoiled, retiled, retinol, tendril, tenoned, tenoner, ternion, trindle. | |
-4 letters: denier, denote, dentil, dentin, dieter, dinero, dinner, donnee, dotier, editor, endite, endrin, entire, entoil, etoile, indene, indent, indole, intend, intern, intone, intron, ironed, lender, lenten, lieder, lierne, linden, linnet, linter, loiter, neoned, nereid, neroli, norite, oleine, online, oreide, orient, redone, reedit, reined, relend, relent, relied, reline, rennet, rented, retied, retile, retine, retold, rident, rioted, rodent, roiled, rondel, ronnel, tender, tendon, tenner, teredo, tiered, tinder, tinned, tinner, tirled, toiled, toiler, tonier, tonner, triene, trined, triode. | |
-5 letters: deter, diene, diner, donee, donne, doter, droit, drone, edile, eider, elder, elide, elint, elite, eloin, ender, enrol, enter, erode, idler, indol, inert, inlet, inned, inner, inter, intro, irone, lento, leone, lined, linen, liner, lirot, liter, litre, loden, loner, nerol, niter, niton, nitre, nitro, nonet, noted, noter, oiled, oiler, olden, older, oldie, olein, oriel, redon, relet, relit, renin, rente, reoil, retie, riled, teind, teloi, tenon, tenor, terne, tilde, tiled, tiler, tined, tired, toile, toled, tondi, toned, toner, tonne, treed, treen, trend, tried, trine, triol, trode, trone. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-i-l-n-n-o-r-t" | |
+1 letter: tenderloins. | |
+3 letters: interinvolved, nondeliberate, overindulgent. | |
+4 letters: indemonstrable, nonresidential, renationalized. | |
+5 letters: inconsiderately, internucleotide, noncredentialed, overconfidently. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 65 6E 64 65 72 6C 6F 69 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- . -. -.. . .-. .-.. --- .. -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01100101 01101110 01100100 01100101 01110010 01101100 01101111 01101001 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T e n d e r l o i n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0065 006E 0064 0065 0072 006C 006F 0069 006E |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)54718070718478817580 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Derivations 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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