Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
Definition: Easel |
EaselNoun1. An upright tripod for displaying something (usually an artist's canvas). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "easel" was first used: 1596. (references) |
Etymology: Easel \Ea"sel\, noun. [from Dutch expression ezel ass, donkey, hence, easel, or German esel; akin to English ass. See Ass.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Fine Arts | A support pasted on the back of a showcard to sustain it in a upright position for display. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
An easel can be full-height designed for standing by itself on the floor. Easels can also be shorter, designed for use on a table. The full-height easels typically have telescopic legs that collapse for ease of transport.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Easel."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Painting | Picture, painting, piece, tableau, canvas; oil painting; fresco, cartoon; easel picture, cabinet picture, draught, draft; pencil; drawing, water color drawing, etching, charcoal, pen-and-ink; sketch, outline, study. |
Pallet, palette; easel; brush, pencil, stump; black lead, charcoal, crayons, chalk, pastel; paint; (coloring matter); watercolor, body color, oil color; oils, oil paint; varnish; a, priming; gouache, tempera, distemper, fresco, water glass; enamel; encaustic painting; mosaic; tapestry. | |
Support | Board, ledge, shelf, hob, bracket, trevet, trivet, arbor, rack; mantel, mantle piece, mantleshelf; slab, console; counter, dresser; flange, corbel; table, trestle; shoulder; perch; horse; easel, desk; clotheshorse, hatrack; retable; teapoy. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Easel |
| Specialty definitions using "easel": CAMERA OPERATOR, ANIMATION ♦ photocopy operator, photograph enlarger, PHOTOSTAT OPERATOR, PROJECTION PRINTER, projection-camera operator ♦ RECTIFICATION PRINTER. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Well, I could explain it better, but I'd need charts and graphs and an easel. (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin.) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Pop Goes the Easel (1962) Gaston's Easel Life (1958) Pop Goes the Easel (1935) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Books |
|
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Easel" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 93.94% of the time. "Easel" is used about 165 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) | 93.94% | 155 | 25,240 |
| Noun (proper) | 5.45% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.61% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 165 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "easel": Easel picture ♦ Easel piece. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "easel": easel-based, easel-mounted, easel-pictures. | |
| 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 |
easel | 486 |
art easel | 90 |
artist easel | 74 |
easel display | 62 |
child easel | 37 |
painting easel | 32 |
kid easel | 22 |
wall easel | 22 |
presentation easel | 19 |
easel plan | 17 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "easel"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | këmbalec piktori. (various references) | |
Arabic | حامل مسند للوح, حامل لقماشة الرسام. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | триножник (tripod, trivet). (various references) | |
Chinese | "架. (various references) | |
Czech | stojan (horse, lamp holder, post, rack, stand), podstavec (base, foot, horse, Mount, pedestal, plinth, rest, support, trestle), malířský stojan. (various references) | |
Danish | bænk (banks, bench, tressle, work bench, workbench). (various references) | |
Dutch | schraag (bench, horse, pedestal, stand, tressle, trestle, wooden framework, workbench), rek (bench, cabinet, chassis, drag, elongation, equipment shelf, feeding rack, hay rack, rack, shelving, stable feeding rack, strain, straw rack, tressle, workbench), ezel (ass, bench, donkey, tressle, workbench), bok (bench, billy goat, buck, frame, goat, he-goat, lifting gin, male goat, sheer legs, sheers, support, tressle, trestle, tripod, workbench), bank (all-purpose commercial bank, bank, banking institution, bed, bench, hardpan, layer, library, pan, riffle, sand bank, sandbank, sandbar, shallow place, softpan, stratum, tressle, work bench, workbench). (various references) | |
Esperanto | stablo (bench, tressle, workbench). (various references) | |
Faeroese | borðstólur (bench, tressle, workbench), arbeiðsborð (bench, tressle, workbench). (various references) | |
Farsi | سه پایه نقاشی . (various references) | |
Finnish | alusta (backer, backing, base, basis, bearing, bed, bench, boat, carrier, chassis, coaster, feet, foundation, mat, mount, stand, subgrade(U.S.A.), substrate, substratum, support, tressle, underlay, workbench). (various references) | |
French | chevalet. (various references) | |
German | staffelei (bench, tressle, workbench). (various references) | |
Greek | στρίποδο (pedestal, stand, trestle, tripod). (various references) | |
Hebrew | חצוב" (tripod), סומכ". (various references) | |
Hungarian | festőállvány. (various references) | |
Indonesian | kuda-kuda (stillage). (various references) | |
Italian | cavalletto (bent, box, box horse, frame, gantry, gauntry, horse, pedestal, rack, ridge, stand, support, table, trestle, tripod, vaulting box). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | "架 , 架かる (to hang), イースター島 (ear-ring, east, East Coast, East End, East Side, Easter Island, eastern grip, Eastern League, EU, European Union, even, even par, evil, Goteborg, Gothenburg, Iran-Iraq, Jesus, Jesus Christ, yeast, yellow, yes, yes-man). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | がか (artist, painter, Song of Solomon), かかる (to affect, to be suspended from, to be the work of, to be trapped, to concern, to hang, to involve, to suffer from, to take), イーゼル . (various references) | |
Manx | tackish. (various references) | |
Norwegian | staffeli. (various references) | |
Papiamen | stal (bench, steel, tressle, workbench). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | easelay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | tranquilo (calm, cool-headed, deep-seated, even-minded, half-light, order paper, pacific ocean, passions, peaceable, peaceful, peacemaker, piping hot, placidity, quiescent, quiet, reposeful, rested, restful, sedate, self possessed, self-collected, settled, smooth, sober-blooded, still, stilly, tranquil, unconcerned, unperturbed, unruffled, unstirred), mesa (bench, board, desk, directorate, table, tressle, workbench), cavalete (bench, bridge, center, centering, centre, corbel, dog, easement, feather, form, gantry, horse, pedestal, rack, scaffolding, scantling, stand, stillage(Australia and South Africa), tressle, trestle, tripod, wooden framework, workbench), bastidor (bench, board, case, coulisse, embroidery frame, flat, pressboard, rack, tressle, wettingboard, workbench), banco (bank, banking institution, bed, bench, machine, sandbank, school of fish, seat, shoal, stool, tressle, work bench, workbench). (various references) | |
Romanian | şevalet (horse). (various references) | |
Russian | мольберт. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | stalak (go cart, stand), nogare (stand, trestle, tripod), štafelaj. (various references) | |
Spanish | caballete (bent, bridge, dropper, frame, hanger, horse, pedestal, ridge, ridging, stand, support, trestle, tripod, tripod stacker, wooden framework). (various references) | |
Swedish | staffli. (various references) | |
Thai | ขาตั้งกระ"านวา"รูป. (various references) | |
Turkish | ressam sehpası, şövale. (various references) | |
Ukranian | мольберт. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | giá bảng đen. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | asinus. (various references) |
| Dutch | 700-Modern | ezel. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "easel": easels. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "easel": teasel, weasel. (additional references) | |
Words containing "easel": ceaseless, ceaselessly, ceaselessness, ceaselessnesses, creaseless, greaseless, teaseled, teaseler, teaselers, teaseling, teaselled, teaselling, teasels, weaseled, weaseling, weaselled, weaselling, weaselly, weasels, weasely. (additional references) | |
| |
"Easel" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Azazel, Casell, eacl, Eaei, eagel, easal, Easey, easle, easo, Easom, Easteal, Eastell, eastem, eastex, eaze, eazel, eazle, edsel, edsul, Eersel, eeze, Eisl, eisle, Ejazul, enasle, eose, esal, esalen, esel, esetl, esil, esol, essal, essel, Eswl, etsel, Euseb, evase, Feisel, Ijssel, kessell, measel, oasal, Oissel, Qasemlu, sasol, veasel. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "easel" (pronounced ē"zul) |
| 4 | ē" z u l | weasel. |
| 3 | -z u l | appraisal, arousal, Basil, causal, chisel, counterproposal, damsel, dazzle, disposal, drizzle, embezzle, fizzle, frazzle, grizzle, guzzle, Hazel, menopausal, muzzle, nasal, nozzle, nuzzle, perusal, pretzel, proposal, puzzle, reappraisal, recusal, refusal, reprisal, sizzle, spousal, Wurzel. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: lease. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-l-s" | |
-1 letter: alee, ales, ease, eels, else, lase, leas, lees, sale, seal, seel. | |
-2 letters: ale, als, eel, els, las, lea, lee, sae, sal, sea, see, sel. | |
-3 letters: ae, al, as, el, es, la. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-l-s" | |
+1 letter: abeles, allees, aneles, asleep, eagles, easels, elapse, elates, larees, leased, leaser, leases, leaves, measle, please, reales, resale, reseal, sealed, sealer, sleave, sleaze, stelae, teasel, weasel. | |
+2 letters: aediles, ageless, alkenes, alleges, alleles, allseed, areoles, aweless, bailees, baleens, beadles, beagles, befleas, beleaps, celesta, cereals, cleanse, cleaves, dealers, defleas, delates, deleads, eaglets, earless, easeful, elapsed, elapses, elaters, elodeas, eluates, empales, enables, enamels, enlaces, enolase, enslave, euclase, exhales, eyelash, females, galeres, gelates, healers, lateens, latexes, laveers, leaches, leaders, leagues, leakers, leaners, leanest, leapers, leasers, leashed, leashes, leavens, leavers, leeways, legates, mallees, mealies, measled, measles, oleates, pelages, pleased, pleaser, pleases, presale, realest, realise, regales, relaces, relapse, relates, relaxes, release, repeals, resales, rescale, reseals, reslate, reveals, scalene, sclerae, sealers, sealery, seeable, segetal, selvage, sepaled, sequela, several, sewable, sleaved, sleaves, sleazes, spelean, stealer, teasels, teazels, teazles, telegas, useable, vakeels, vealers, weasels, weasely. | |
+3 letters: abseiled, aerogels, albedoes, alehouse, alertest, alewives, alexines, alienees, alieners, allegers, allseeds, alterers, amylenes, arbelest, ashlered, assemble, ateliers, athletes, aureoles, aversely, baseless, baseline, beakless, beamless, beatless, beefalos, behalves, beladies, beldames, beslaved, bleaches, bleakest, bleaters, cadelles, caleches, calipees, capelets, careless, celestas, cenacles, cervelas, chelates, cleaners, cleanest, cleansed, cleanser, cleanses, clearers, clearest, cleavers, coalesce, cypselae, dalesmen, dateless, dealates, debacles, declares, declasse, deflates, deglazes, delaines, delayers, deleaves, demersal, deplanes, desalted, desalter, desolate, detassel, devalues, earliest, earlobes, easterly, eatables, ecclesia, eelgrass, egalites, elastase, elatives, elegiacs, elevates, emblazes, emeralds, empalers, empanels, emplaces, emplanes, emulates, enablers, enclaves, enflames, enhaloes, enlarges, enolases, enplanes, ensample, ensilage, enslaved, enslaver, enslaves, epaulets, equalise, erasable, escalade, escalate, escarole, eschewal, espalier, especial, eternals, euclases, euglenas, evangels, exalters, examples, exclaves, eyeballs, eyeglass, eyestalk, faceless, fadeless, fameless, fealties, fearless, feasible, federals, fellates, fenagles, fetiales, filarees, flaxseed, fuselage, gabelles, galilees, gaselier, gasolene, gateless, gazelles, gearless, gelsemia, generals, gleamers, gleaners, haleness, halteres, hanseled, haverels, headless, heatless, heeltaps, idealess, idealise, kanteles, keelages, kleagles, labelers, laceless, lakeside, lameness, largesse, lateness, layettes, leachers, leadiest, leadless, leadsmen, leafages, leafiest, leafless, leaflets, leaguers, leakages, leakiest, leakless, lealties, leanness, leariest, learners, leasable, leathers, leaviest, leewards, legacies, legalese, legalise, legatees, limeades, lineages, loveseat, maleates, maleness, maneless, mateless, mealiest, mealless, measlier, meatless, melanges, meltages, mesoglea, metalise, mileages, nacelles, nameless, nestable, nuclease, oleaster, opalesce, oversale, paleness, palettes, palewise, parolees, peakless, pearlers, pedestal, penalise, percales, petrales, pleaches, pleaders, pleasers, pleasure, pleaters, pleiades, poleaxes, prelates, quezales, ravelers, realised, realiser, realises, realizes, realness, realters, realties, reclames, recleans, reflates, regalers, reglazes, relabels, relapsed, relapser, relapses, relaters, relaxers, relearns, released, releaser, releases, renewals, repanels, replaces, replates, repleads, resaddle, resailed, resalute, resample, rescaled, rescales, resealed, reslated, reslates, retables, reusable, revalues, reversal, saleable, salesmen, salience, salvagee, saveable, sealable, seallike, seamless, seamlike, seaplane, seashell, seatbelt, seatless, secalose, sedately, seisable, seizable, selenate, selfheal, selfsame, sellable, selvaged, selvages, sendable, sepaline, sepalled, sequelae, servable, severals, shedable, shoelace, sidereal, sizeable, skeletal, slavered, slaverer, sleazier, somedeal, spaetzle, spalpeen, spelaean, squalene, squealed, squealer, stealage, stealers, stellate, sublease, talesmen, tameless, tapeless, tasseled, tearless, teaseled, teaseler, telecast, telerans, testable, treacles, treadles, unleased, unsealed, valences, vaselike, vealiest, vesperal, wageless, wakeless, walleyes, waveless, wavelets, weaseled, weaselly, weigelas, welfares, yearlies. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 61 73 65 6C |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
|
| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
|
| 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)01000101 01100001 01110011 01100101 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E a s e l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0061 0073 0065 006C |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
|
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3967857178 |
| 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 |
Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
